The return of “Twin Peaks” always has been about Special Agent Dale Cooper’s return its quaint, mysterious town. It’s been his journey back from the Black Lodge where he was trapped by his doppelganger more than 25 years ago that kicked this season off with his long, strange electrified trip through power outlets in Hour 3. It’s been the one clear and logical throughline that this season has provided us with, while we reach for scraps of hints and clues toward whatever solutions or answers we can find.

Dougie Jones, however, has likely been the most frustrating aspect of the show to many longtime fans and even newcomers. Every time he is reacquainted with hot coffee and cherry pie, we hope and dream to see him snap back to his old self before being desperately let down. And after last week’s electrical nightmare where Sunset Boulevard’s “Get Gordon Cole!” came through the TV speakers and sparked the great idea in Dougie’s head to stick a fork in a electrical socket, we thought maybe we’d never get him back. After all, David Lynch is the man with no easy answers. The man who actually seems to prefer to give you no answers at all. He actually left the original run of the show on ABC after the network forced him to reveal Laura Palmer’s killer, which he never intended to do. But Dale Cooper is back, “100 percent!”

His awakening is triggered by the appearance of Philip Gerard as a strange tone plays Bushnell out of the room. The same strange tone that was heard earlier in the episode, which I’ll get to in a bit, and the same strange tone that’s been playing in Ben Horne’s office. The one that he and Beverly have been looking for. The moment in and of itself is pure joy. It’s probably the single most effective moment of the entire series thus far. And Dale Cooper hasn’t lost a step.

Philip Gerard lets him know that his doppelganger is still out there and hands him the Owl Cove ring, presumably to place on DoppelDale to send him back to the Black Lodge. He also tells Philip Gerard that he needs him to make another tulpa and hands him a lock of his own hair. He’s going to do whatever it takes to get him back into the Black Lodge. And we don’t have long to find out if and how he succeeds in doing so. He then makes Bushnell hand him some finger sandwiches, get the doctor to check his vitals and contact the Mitchum brothers to get their jet fueled up for the trip to Spokane, Washington. Bushnell lets him know that the FBI is looking for him, and he replies in the best way imaginable, “I am the FBI.”

It’s a strange to see Dougie Jones start behaving like a regular human being toward the people he’s regularly been speaking with after all this time. They do take notice, but they don’t react differently towards him. They don’t seem shocked. They simply give an off-the-cuff remark. “Dougie seems talkative today, doesn’t he?” Before he flies off to Spokane with the Mitchum brothers, he takes Sonny Jim and Janey E aside and tells them that he has to go away for awhile. Janey E knows it’s not Dougie and Sonny Jim worries that he’s not his dad. Dale assures him that he is his dad, and that he can’t wait to walk through that big red door again, for good. It’s a moment of goodness from the Dale Cooper we know and love.

This is all taking place while Hutch and Chantal wait outside Dougie’s home to kill him. They see the FBI show up looking for him and leave, and they see the Mitchum brothers pop in to stock the place up with food.

Then an accountant shows up and tries to enter his driveway, but Chantal and Hutch’s van are in his way. They tell him to beat it, he pulls out a gun and kills them both, all while the FBI watches. It’s quite a random, exciting, hilarious and extremely weird way for them to go. It should be noted that everyone who has attempted to kill or harm Dougie has failed, and failed miserably.

In the episode we also see the DoppelDale taking Richard Horne to the location of two of the three coordinates he received. Jerry Horne’s watching from the treeline elsewhere, high as a kite, looking through the wrong side of his binoculars. DoppelDale tells Richard to go to the top of this rock, where the transmitter’s signal is sending him. When he gets there, he is electrocuted. It was a trap set by someone to take out DoppelDale. This scene also kind of confirmed that DoppelDale is in fact Richard’s father, but it doesn’t seem to matter to much.

In Buckhorn, Diane receives a text that terrifies her. “: – ) ALL.” is all it says, and she responds with a series of seemingly random numbers. She walks to the office where the FBI agents are working in a slow, terrifying way after checking that her snub nose is in her purse. While meeting with Gordon, Albert and Tammy, she begins to recall the time she met with Cooper four years after he disappeared. She says that he raped her and that she is not herself. She is hysterical and pulls a gun out before being shot many times by Albert and Tammy. Diane was a tulpa, a seed, just like Dougie Jones. Where or what happened to the real Diane is still a mystery, but many theories point to the many discrepancies between DoppelDale’s texts and her texts received to determine her whereabouts. I think they are just more than likely continuity errors. But this forces us to reexamine our relationship with the characters we’ve met. What if there are more tulpas? We’ll find out next week, maybe.

Then after a performance in the Roadhouse by Eddie Vedder, Audrey and Charlie finally make it to the Roadhouse, where it is announced that it’s time for Audrey’s iconic dance. She begins dancing in the middle of the Roadhouse to her iconic tune with the whole crowd watching. A fight breaks out and she runs to Charlie begging him to get her out of there. Her reality shatters and she appears in front of a small mirror in a white room, perhaps she’s still in a coma.

Things to look out for:

• We have two episodes left and one two-hour finale to get through them, how much will be resolved?

• How and will the green handed man impact the finale? How will Red?

• Where is Audrey and what is she dealing with exactly??

• Will we get some answers about this strange tone people keep hearing?

• Will Julee Cruise be the final appearance at the Roadhouse?

Assistant Lifestyle editor and television and film critic Jordan Musheno’s review of “Twin Peaks” will run every Thursday in Showcase.