The Cooper Tapes - extended

[whatif]

I was thinking about the Cooper Tapes to Diane the other day and was considering going back and adding Coopers additional Diane dialogue from the Episodes that follow the Cooper Tapes. I was wondering if anyone knew at what point the tape version stopped and the Episodes took over. I think it was somewhere in the second season. I was also thinking of adding background music to them.

I would probably go to FWWM and put the Deer Meadow lines first. I'll have to see how much is there. Also, I think I might include one of the commercials that was available as well where Coper gives Diane a blow by blow of recent events.

Please give me some feedback and let me know what you all think.

[Jerry Horne]

Great idea. Here is a link to one. I'm hoping someone can mp3 this or save the video somehow in case the vid gets pulled. I believe the tape ends with the end of episode 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agcMGFGk ... de-24.html

You can download the mp3 of the tapes for free here:

http://www.kafard.com/html/davidlynch.html

Select Twin Peaks then go to the bottom of the page.

[whatif]

Thank you Jerry! Great site by the way. I'll probably get started on this in the next week or so. I still need to do some research on how often Coop picked up his tape recorder past Episode 8. Also, I might even try re-transferring the tapes to my computer to see if I can get a cleaner copy.

I may need help ripping the youtube to mp3.

[whatif]

One other thing. I was going to glastonberrygrove.net to try and check out some of the great transcripts they have over there and found it to be GONE! Does anyone know anywhere else that I can go to pick up the transcripts to the TV Show?

[Annie]

You can download the mp3 of the tapes for free here:

http://www.kafard.com/html/davidlynch.html

Thanks Jerry--great site! I saw "Room to Dream" mentioned on there--my computer is not up to par right now, so I'm asking if that's the same as the free DVD? There were a bunch of people who didn't get it and had wanted it last year.

[dugpa]

One other thing. I was going to glastonberrygrove.net to try and check out some of the great transcripts they have over there and found it to be GONE! Does anyone know anywhere else that I can go to pick up the transcripts to the TV Show?

Check your mail.

-B

[Azemaria Jones]

Great idea. Here is a link to one. I'm hoping someone can mp3 this or save the video somehow in case the vid gets pulled. I believe the tape ends with the end of episode 8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agcMGFGk ... de-24.html

You can download the mp3 of the tapes for free here:

http://www.kafard.com/html/davidlynch.html

Select Twin Peaks then go to the bottom of the page.

Here, I save the youtube video and extract the sound in MP3:

The MP3 is here

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3ACGIH85

The vid is here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A0VNMFXH

[Jerry Horne]

Azemaria Jones - Thank you so much! You are probably the first person ever to mp3 that! Great Cooper narration! Thanks again

[human germ]

thnax for the cooper tapes download link! downloaded the thing and will burn it to disc soon...

[whatif]

OK. I have got all the excerpts that I could find using transcripts that dugpa sent me (Thanks Dugpa!) and filled in the gaps with Episode Scripts.

I'll have it all edited by the weekend and I will post it somewhere.

Here is what I have come up with. Entries are from transcripts of the Episodes except where noted. If I missed anything, please let me know:

FWWM: (From Script)

Diane, it's 4:20 in the afternoon. I am
standing here at Wind River where they
found the body of Teresa Banks. Diane,
this case has got a strange feeling for
me. Not only has Agent Chester
Desmond disappeared but this is one of
Cole's Blue Rose cases. The clues that
were found by Agent Desmond and Agent
Stanley have lead to dead ends. The
letter below the fingernail gives me the
feeling that the killer will strike again.
But like the song says, "...who knows
where or when".

Episode 9:
Diane, I received some very bad news today. Windom Earle has vanished. The disappearance of my former partner is extremely troubling. I also learned that Audrey Horne is missing. Audrey's absence touches me in ways I could not predict. I find myself thinking not of clues or of evidence but of the content of her smile.

Episode 12:
Diane, 6:42 am, approximately.
I dreamed I was eating a large, tasteless gumdrop.
I awoke to realize that I was aggressively munching on one of my Ear Pillow silicone ear plugs. Hence the tastelessness.
Perhaps I should keep a closer eye on my afternoon coffee consumption.
Uhmm, a persistent soreness in the rib area which I'm treating each morning with fifteen extra minutes of yoga discipline. After which, thankfully, the pain retreats to a cul-de-sac in a distant suburb of my conscious mind.
I'm going to begin today with a headstand.
Ohh, Diane I am now upside down.
Ahh, mind becoming porous.
Slowly our view come into focus.
The day's task coming into focus, objects growing clearer.
Diane, the Giant was right. I did forget something.

I've gone North.
Jack might have
the answer.
,Love Audrey

Episode 14: (From Script)
Diane, it's 5:45 pm, I'm in the conference room with the
remains of Laura Palmer's diary. A great deal of it has
been destroyed, many of Laura's secrets along with it.
Much of what I've been able to decipher supports the
contention of the one-armed man; there are repeated
references to "Bob". He was a threatening presence in her
life from early adolescence. There are intimations of
abuse, molestation. On a regular basis. He is referred
to, on more than one occasion, as a friend of her father's.
And I've just uncovered this entry, dated less than two
weeks before her death.
(reads from diary)
"One of these days I'm going to tell the world about
Ben Horne. I'm going to tell the world who Ben Horne
really is."

Episode 15:
(2 entries)
Diane, 10:03 am, Great Northern Hotel. Sheriff Truman and I have just been with the one-armed man or what's left of him. In another time, another culture he may have been a seer, a shaolin priest. In our world he's a shoe salesman and lives among the shadows.

Diane, its 11:05 pm, I'm in the room at the Great Northern Hotel. There's not a star in the sky tonight. Ben Horne is in custody. The trail narrows Diane. I'm very close but the last few steps are always the darkest and most difficult.

Episode 18: (From Script) There was only one brief mention to Diane in the Episode however, the killer was when I checked the Online Script, I found a Diane Deleted Scene that would have wrapped up quite a bit.

Deleted Scene
Diane, I am standing at the window of my room at the
Great Northern, looking down at the wedding of Dougie
Milford and his youthful bride. The ceremony appears
quite simple; the groom, commencing his fifth marriage,
has apparently honed the procedure down to the bone.
The reception will be starting shortly and a good deal of
alcohol will undoubtedly be consumed in order to
accomodate our culturally prevelant rally discomfort with
mystery and ritual.
(turns from window, sets down recorder, begins
to dress, speaks while peering in mirror)
Diane, I anticipate your question. I am not down among
the revelers because my mind is burdened with questions:
what's become of Major Briggs? What is the true
significance of the White and Black Lodge? Has the
Major, clearly a man of no small spiritual advancement,
perhaps been attempting to make contact with some
element of these places in his top-secret work? Briggs is a
man of clear eye and deep thought; he sees right through
the illusory texture of this world and fluently reads
beneath it. You might meet a handful like him in a
lifetime. But if what Hawk has related to me about the
Black Lodge is true, even a man of Briggs' considerable
fortitude would be tested to his ultimate limits.
(sits down on the bed)
In an even darker corner of my thoughts is my old partner,
Windom Earle, the man who, prior to his utter mental
and emotional collapse, burned with a brilliance I doubt
I will ever see the equal of. Add to that the things I've
witnessed here at Twin Peaks: the tremendous evil forces
that linger on the periphery of this genuine, spirited little
town. The darkness Laura Palmer submitted to. The
vortex that swallowed and consumed Leland Palmer ...
Diane, as a human being learns and matures, one's
experiences grow proportionately more rich and
mysterious. Perhaps the questions I now seek answers to
lie beyond the old perameters. Beyond my life at the
bureau.

All we get is:

Diane, when I've got a bit more time, remind me to tell
you about Agent Bryson ...


Episode 19:
Diane I'm holding in my hand a nationally distributed newspaper. My opening move responding to Windom Earle's opening move was printed in the personal columns per my instructions, but I've already received his response to this ... yesterday. He anticipated my response to his opening move perfectly. He's toying with my Diane. I wonder where he is, what he's planning. Meanwhile I've spent the past two days without badge and gun the best way I know how; occupying both body and spirit. Looked into some real estate, what the local agent charitably refers to as a fixer upper. None the less its the kind of place where a man might make a home, raise a family. Which is something, in spite of my past, I still hope I'm able to do. However, as is the case here in Twin Peaks, even this bucolic hideaway is filled with secrets. Secrets that may be connected to my trouble at the bureau and the cocaine that was found in my automobile. Agent Hardy's deliberations will soon be completed and if I'm not adequately able to defend myself there's a very real possibility of imprisonment.

Episode 25: (Script)
Diane. Wednesday night, late. Have just returned from from
a place called Owl Cave. How I got there is a long and
complicated story, but I will try to recount it
accurately. It all began with a pair of matching
tattoos...

Episode 28: (Script)
Diane, it's 1:15 PM. I've just concluded my second
meditations of the day in lieu of sleep. I am completely
refreshed and struck again by the realization that we all
live at a fraction of our potential. We've been working
round the clock on the cave hieroglyph. I know the
answer is in that crude etching and I am now convinced
that Windom Earle is searching for the same thing we are,
and for diametrically opposite reasons. If I'm correct in
my assumptions about the power of that unholy place ...
God help us if he gets there first.

I want to make specific mention of Annie Blackburne.
Diane, she is a completely original human being. Her
responses are as pure as a child's. To be honest, I haven't
felt this way about anyone since Caroline. It's taken
meeting someone like Annie to realize how gray my life
has been since Caroline's death, how cold and solitary -
A knock on the door. Cooper rises to answer it.
Although occasionally there is something to be said for
solitude.

So my question is where should I place the 2nd Season Recap? I am thinking right before the Episode 19 entry as there is a mention in the recap to Earles deadly chess game. Anyone care to transcribe it?

I should have it done by the weekend and I'll post mp3s of it. I am a bit disappointed as you lose a lot of the narrative from the Deleted Scene and also from the Audrey rescue. It also makes a sad change from Audrey's smile to Annie the "completely original human being".

A penny for your thoughts.........

[Dr. Jacoby]

I believe it was 2:47 pm when Cooper went through the remains of Laura Palmer's Diary in Episode 14.

[They-Shot-Waldo!]

Shame about the jump from liking Audrey to Annie, and if I'm not mistaken, there's no reference to Diane how Laura's murder investigation was wrapped up. If you want to put a bookend to it, how about have a quick "*click*... how's Annie...(cackle)*click*" as if the possessed Cooper is messing with the tape recorder or somewhat!

[whatif]

Great minds think alike! I was planning on doing that but leaving it as a surprise. Maybe I can rework some of Coopers conversations into Diane entries. I am thinking it would be great to resolve the Laura Palmer plot as well as the Audrey at OEJ plot. Any suggestions?

[Jerry Horne]

Deleted Scene
Diane, I am standing at the window of my room at the
Great Northern, looking down at the wedding of Dougie
Milford and his youthful bride. The ceremony appears
quite simple; the groom, commencing his fifth marriage,
has apparently honed the procedure down to the bone.
The reception will be starting shortly and a good deal of
alcohol will undoubtedly be consumed in order to
accomodate our culturally prevelant rally discomfort with
mystery and ritual.
(turns from window, sets down recorder, begins
to dress, speaks while peering in mirror)
Diane, I anticipate your question. I am not down among
the revelers because my mind is burdened with questions:
what's become of Major Briggs? What is the true
significance of the White and Black Lodge? Has the
Major, clearly a man of no small spiritual advancement,
perhaps been attempting to make contact with some
element of these places in his top-secret work? Briggs is a
man of clear eye and deep thought; he sees right through
the illusory texture of this world and fluently reads
beneath it. You might meet a handful like him in a
lifetime. But if what Hawk has related to me about the
Black Lodge is true, even a man of Briggs' considerable
fortitude would be tested to his ultimate limits.
(sits down on the bed)
In an even darker corner of my thoughts is my old partner,
Windom Earle, the man who, prior to his utter mental
and emotional collapse, burned with a brilliance I doubt
I will ever see the equal of. Add to that the things I've
witnessed here at Twin Peaks: the tremendous evil forces
that linger on the periphery of this genuine, spirited little
town. The darkness Laura Palmer submitted to. The
vortex that swallowed and consumed Leland Palmer ...
Diane, as a human being learns and matures, one's
experiences grow proportionately more rich and
mysterious. Perhaps the questions I now seek answers to
lie beyond the old perameters. Beyond my life at the
bureau.
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I wonder if they filmed this?

[Jerry Horne]

Whatif - how's it going with your project?