The WORST episodes of Twin Peaks
Every episode of Twin Peaks ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Twin Peaks!
The body of a young girl is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. Eccentric FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul. Season 3 - also known as Twin Peaks: The Return - is set 25 years after the events of Seasons 1 and 2.
#1 - Wounds and Scars
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/28/1991
Harry sinks into a deep depression after Josie's death. Josie's body holds more questions then answers. Norma's troubled sister, Annie, arrives in Twin Peaks. Wheeler and Audrey hit it off. Cooper's stalemate angers Earle. Eckheardt's assistant, Jones, leaves a puzzle for Catherine. Windom Earle visits Donna. The Log Lady and Major Briggs share similar tattoos and go to Cooper with them. The Miss Twin Peaks contest is coming up, and Norma wants Shelly to enter. Cooper meets and is taken with Annie. Ben holds a Save the Pine Weasel fashion show that goes wrong. Jones slips into Harry's bed.
#2 - Slaves and Masters
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1991
The police look for James in the Marsh murder. Bobby and Shelly tell Truman Leo escaped and Bobby reveals that he saw Hank shoot Leo the night the mill burned. Albert returns to Twin Peaks with information on Windom Earle, and ends up looking at Josie for the murder of Jonathan and the attempted murder of Cooper. Nadine ‘breaks up' with Ed. Dr. Jacoby, Audrey, Bobby and Jerry try to end Ben's fantasy life. Donna and James escape from the Marsh home. Pete offers to help Cooper force a stalemate with Earle. Earle holds Leo as a slave. Shelly comes back to work. Eckheardt tells Catherine he wants Josie back. Earle leaves a 'present' and another omnious message for Cooper.
#3 - Double Play
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1991
Windom Earle has taken his first victim in the deadly chess game. Audrey tells Bobby they have to save Ben from his Civil War fantasy. Leo awakes and attacks Shelly, but Bobby is able to fend him off. Doc Hayward offers the true story of Little Nicky's past. Cooper reveals his rivalry with Earle: they were partners when Cooper fell in love with Caroline, Earle's wife. Earle went mad, killing Caroline and wounding Cooper. Mr. Marsh is killed. Donna confronts Evelyn. After a heated confrontation Mayor Milford and Lana end up lovers. Andrew Pakcard reveals himself to Pete, and tells him Josie has been working for his old enemy Thomas Eckheardt. Cooper suspects Josie in the murder of Jonathan. Eckheardt arrives in Twin Peaks, and Leo Johnson finds himself in the company of Windom Earle.
#4 - The Black Widow
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1991
Ben takes Bobby under his wing in a hope to destroy Hank and Jean. However, Ben's mental state is starting to crack. Cooper starts to look at buying real estate. Major Briggs's supervisor reveals that Briggs was studying transmissions from the woods. Andy and Dick learn of Little Nicky's troubled life. James meets Malcom, the chauffer for the Marsh family. Dougie Milford dies on his honeymoon, and the major blames Lana. Cooper finds drugs at Dead Dog Farms. Dick thinks Nicky is trying to kill him. Evelyn starts an affair with James. Ben begins to reenact the civil war. Audrey produces photos that may save Cooper. Hank catches Ed and Norma in an embrace. Denise and Cooper enlist Ernie Niles to ensnare Jean Renault. Major Briggs returns as mysteriously as he had vanished.
#5 - The Condemned Woman
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1991
Truman puts Hank in prison for the attempted murder of Leo, while Hank points the finger at Josie for the murder of Andrew Packard. Albert reveals that Josie shot Cooper. Ben enlists John Justice Wheeler to help him stop the Ghostwood plans. Earle sends a poem to Donna, Shelly and Audrey. Ben decides to "save the pine weasel." Norma learns her sister Annie is coming to town. Ed proposes to Norma. James leaves Twin Peaks. Caught in her own web of deceit, Josie murders Eckheardt, but is caught by Cooper and Truman. She confesses to shooting Cooper, but before they can act, Josie dies in Harry's arms. As she passes away, Cooper has a vision of BOB and the Little Man. Josie's soul is trapped in a door pull.
#6 - Part 12
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/30/2017
An old FBI case gets new recruits after many years while well-known residents of Twin Peaks face problems.
#7 - Checkmate
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1991
Major Briggs has no memory of the place he was taken, but now has an odd tattoo on his neck. Andy and Dick break into Little Nicky's files. Mike and Nadine begin an affair. Shelly and Bobby's love is strained. Evelyn asks James to kill her husband. Hank attacks Big Ed, but is beaten by Nadine. Ben slips deeper into his fantasy life. When the drug bust goes bad, Cooper is taken hostage by Jean Renault. Leo Johnson comes back to life. After physical and mental torture by Renault, Cooper is saved by a quick thinking Bryson and Truman. Later that night, an explosion and blackout empties out the police station, and when Cooper and Truman return, they find a gruesome scene let by Windom Earle.
#8 - Variations on Relations
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/11/1991
Cooper and company find the mysterious petroglyph. Windom Earle befriends a rock and roll youth, and tells him tales of places called the White and Black Lodge. Pete helps Catherine open the first puzzle box. Lana wants Milford to rig Miss Twin Peaks. Annie and Cooper go for a nature walk. Cooper finds the poem Earle sent to the girls. He tells Harry it's a poem he once gave to Caroline. Major Briggs agrees to look into Earle's Project Bluebook work. Cooper deduces Leo Johnson is working with Earle. Shelly, Lucy, Donna, Nadine, Lana and Audrey enter Miss Twin Peaks. Mike tells Bobby about Nadine's special bedroom talents. Cole says goodbye to Shelly. Donna wants to know what is going on between her mom and Ben Horne. Treymayne hosts a wine tasting party. Windom Earle leaves his next victim and a terrifying promise for Cooper: "Next time, it will be someone you know."
#9 - Masked Ball
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1990
Mrs. Briggs talks about her husband's disappearance into the woods. Nadine is put on the wrestling team, where she falls for Mike Nelson. James is hired by a mysterious wealthy woman named Evelyn Marsh. Dick takes on an orphan named Little Nicky. The case against Cooper will be handled by DEA Agent Denis (Denise) Bryson. Hank tells Ben that Jean Renault has taken over One Eyed Jacks. Windom Earle contacts Cooper with an omnious message. Dougie Milford weds Lanna Budding. Josie asks Catherine for protection. Andrew Packard comes out of hiding, very much alive.
#10 - The Path to the Black Lodge
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/18/1991
Bobby and Shelly reaffirm their love. Cooper calls Shelly, Donna and Audrey together to warn them about Earle. Briggs shows Cooper a tape of Windom Earle making a report on his quest for the Black Lodge. Donna discovers pictures of her mom and Ben Horne. Wheeler is called away on an emergency. Leo worries about Shelly. Doc Hayward tells Ben to stay away from Eileen. Townsfolk have strange tremors in their hands. Pete has a vision of Josie. Windom Earle takes Major Briggs captive. Andrew and Catherine open the next box, only to find another one inside. A drugged Briggs tells Earle how to open the lodge doorway. Big Ed is able to break up with Nadine and ask Norma to marry him. Audrey and Pete chase after Wheeler…Audrey and Wheeler make love before he leaves. Cooper takes Annie dancing, and convinces her to run for Miss Twin Peaks. The Giant visits Cooper with a warning. Windom Earle discovers the cave painting is a map. BOB reappears.
#11 - Part 8
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/25/2017
Coop's doppelganger faces a life or death situation. In 1945, a bomb is dropped and modern man's evil is epitomized.
#12 - Part 5
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/4/2017
Coop is still trapped as Dougie, going through the motions, as his doppelganger schemes in jail. Meanwhile, new information on Major Garland Briggs turns up.
#13 - On the Wings of Love
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/4/1991
Harry is attacked by Jones in his sleep. Audrey and Wheeler begin a relationship. Gordon Cole returns with a report that Windom Earle worked with Major Briggs on Project Bluebook. Cole reinstates Cooper in the FBI. Earle plans to kill the winner of Miss Twin Peaks. Donna spies Eileen Hayward paying a mysterious visit to Ben Horne. Gordon Cole believes Shelly can cure his hearing loss. Annie recognizes the two tattoos are coming from Owl Cave. Earle visits Audrey. Cooper, Truman, Hawk and Andy visit Owl Cave. Cooper learns Annie has had a difficult life and offers to help her. Earle uncovers a petroglyph in Owl Cave.
#14 - Part 6
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/11/2017
Gordon Cole instructs Albert to meet with an old contact. Hawk makes a discovery involving 'the missing piece' that will help him find Coop. Janey-E fixes Dougie's gambling debt, while Coop is still struggling to put what he knows about his past and the Black Lodge into words. Tragedy strikes after a drug deal takes place.
#15 - Part 10
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 7/16/2017
The Mitchum brothers find out more about Dougie Jones. In Twin Peaks, Richard Horne's committing horrible acts, and Hawk gets more clues from the Log Lady.
#16 - Part 13
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 8/6/2017
Dougie comes home bearing gifts while Anthony is sent on a risky mission, Evil Cooper wants revenge.
#17 - Dispute Between Brothers
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1990
Leland is laid to rest and Sarah Palmer tries to accept all that has happened to her family. Dr. Jacoby returns from Hawaii. Cooper prepares to leave Twin Peaks. Mayor Milford objects to his brothers engagement to a younger woman. Hank and Ernie meet with Jean Renault. Jacoby has Ed enroll Nadine in High School. Audrey and Cooper say goodbye, and Cooper tells her about the death of a woman he loved. Bobby plans to take advantage of Ben's ruin. Cooper is made a Bookhouse Boy. Agent Rodger Hardy arrives to suspend Cooper for his illegal entrance into Canada and his involvement in the murders at One Eyed Jacks. Norma's mother reveals herself to be the critic who wrote a scathing review of the Double R. Josie returns to Truman. Major Briggs vanishes in a bright light while fishing with Cooper.
#18 - Laura's Secret Diary
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/20/1990
Leland confesses to killing Jacques Reanult. Andy wants to take a new sperm count test. Rumor spreads that a food critic is coming to Twin Peaks. Jean asks Ben to set a trap for Cooper in exchange for Audrey's life. Cooper agrees to Ben's requests, unaware of the trap. Harold Smith reads from the diary to Donna. Josie returns to Twin Peaks. Cooper asks for help from the Bookhouse Boys, and Harry comes through. Donna and Maddy plot to steal the diary. Judge Sternwood arrives for the trials of Leo and Leland. Dick Tremayne makes a shocking offer to Lucy. The Asian man comes after Josie and Hank.
#19 - Part 3
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/28/2017
Cooper calls for help; Agents Gordon Cole, Albert Rosenfield and Tammy Preston investigate the glass box murders.
#20 - Part 9
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/9/2017
More about Dougie Jones comes to light after an attempt on his life. Meanwhile, Gordon Cole discovers connections to Cooper concerning a Blue Rose case and Major Garland Briggs.
#21 - Part 18
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/3/2017
Cooper and Diane drive 430 miles. Cooper attempts to help a troubled woman he believes to be Laura Palmer.
#22 - Miss Twin Peaks
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 6/10/1991
Windom Earle sets his sights on the Miss Twin Peaks contest. Lucy chooses a father for her baby. Leo is punished when he frees Major Briggs. Cooper unlocks the key to entering the Black Lodge. Annie and Dale make a commitment to each other. Catherine and Andrew find a mysterious key. Donna confronts Ben Horne. The Miss Twin Peaks contest ends in chaos. Windom Earle kidnaps Annie. Andy deciphers the Owl Cave puzzle.
#23 - Part 15
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/20/2017
Big Ed and Norma have a relationship breakthrough. Evil Cooper tries to reconnect with an old friend, while Dougie Jones reaches an electrifying discovery.
#24 - The Man Behind the Glass
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1990
Ronette is attacked in her hospital bed by an unseen person. Jean Reanult, brother of Jaqcues and Bernard, plans to blackmail Ben Horne for the release of Audrey. Donna meets with Harold Smith, a shut-in who had befriended Laura. Albert and Truman have a strange confrontation. Lucy reveals that there's been another man in her life, Dick Treymane (Horne's Department Store, Men's Fashions). Shelly decides not to testify against Leo. Leland offers a clue in the search for Killer Bob. The One-Armed Man leaves Cooper the giant's final clue. Nadine wakes from her coma a changed woman. Jacoby leads Cooper and Truman to Jacques's killer. Donna discovers the secret diary of Laura Palmer.
#25 - Traces to Nowhere
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/12/1990
Agent Cooper enjoys the comforts of the Great Northern Hotel; Bobby Briggs and Mike Nelson are released from jail; Doctor Hayward hands over the autopsy report on Laura Palmer; Cooper and Truman interview Josie Packard; Audrey Horne and Donna Hayward vow to solve Laura's murder; Sarah Palmer has a vision of a grey-haird man; Doctor Jacoby conceals important information.