Hawk searches for something in the woods while Cooper learns that his fate in the Black Lodge may not be sealed after all.
Bill Hastings's wife, Phyllis, accuses him of having an affair, while Phyllis has been having an affair with Bill's lawyer, George. A ghostly entity occupies another cell. Phyllis is murdered at home by Cooper's doppelganger.
Attempting to obtain information through Darya, Ray, and another associate, Jack, Cooper's doppelganger perceives that his associates have turned on him. He murders Jack and Darya, learning that the three were hired to kill him. He reveals that he is due to return to the Black Lodge, but has a plan to avoid this.
In the Black Lodge, Cooper encounters Laura and Leland Palmer, MIKE, and an evolved form of The Man from Another Place, now a skeletal tree with a featureless head. It tells Cooper that he cannot leave before his doppelganger has returned, but the tree's doppelganger intervenes. The floor of the Black Lodge gives way and Cooper falls into the glass box in New York, then into space.
In Twin Peaks, Hawk continues his investigation into the Log Lady's cryptic words, and James Hurley shares a nostalgic moment with Shelly Johnson at the Roadhouse.