Cooper calls for help; Agents Gordon Cole, Albert Rosenfield and Tammy Preston investigate the glass box murders.
Cooper lands in a metal building where two women appear to protect him from an unseen entity. Cooper's doppelganger becomes sick while driving and crashes. Cooper finds a portal and swaps places with another doppelgänger, Dougie Jones, who just had sex with Jade, a Las Vegas prostitute.
In the Black Lodge, MIKE tells Dougie that he was manufactured for a purpose that has been fulfilled. Dougie turns into a tiny gold bead and MIKE takes his ring. Cooper is found in a disoriented state by Jade, who mistakes him for Dougie and drops him off at a casino. As he wanders in a state of confusion, he plays slot machines indicated with hallucinatory images of the Black Lodge, winning megajackpots every time.
At the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department, Hawk, Andy and Lucy are unable to discern what is "missing". At the FBI headquarters in Philadelphia, Agent Tamara Preston is debriefing Gordon Cole and Albert Rosenfield when Cole receives a phone call stating that Cooper has been found in South Dakota.