It features series regulars Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Ray Wise and Richard Beymer; and guest stars Chris Mulkey as Hank Jennings, Miguel Ferrer as Albert Rosenfield, David Patrick Kelly as Jerry Horne.

Twin Peaks centers on the investigation into the murder of schoolgirl Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), in the small rural town in Washington state after which the series is named.

In Twin Peaks, after the burning of the Packard Sawmill arranged by Leo, Shelly Johnson (Mädchen Amick) is confirmed to have survived while Catherine Martell (Piper Laurie) remains missing.

[6] During their breakfast together at The Great Northern Hotel, Dale Cooper explains to a visibly uninterested Albert Rosenfield (Miguel Ferrer) Buddhist Tibetan history and traditions.

Albert then proceeds to update Cooper over the progress made on their investigation during his absence, including that Jacques Renault was not strangled but smothered with a pillow, that the mill was definitely arson and that Leo Johnson is the most likely suspect and that Ronette Pulaski (Phoebe Augustine) woke up from her coma, but has not spoken yet.

The corn disappears from the tray, and it reappears in the hands of a little boy (Austin Jack Lynch) whom the woman refers to as her grandson "studying magic.

At the Sheriff's office, Andy reports to Lucy (Kimmy Robertson) that he was diagnosed as sterile when applying for a donation to the Tacoma Sperm Bank, and asks how she can have a child.

At the hospital, Dr. Hayward (Warren Frost) shows to a shocked Shelly Johnson (Madchen Amick) her husband Leo (Eric Da Re), telling her that his brain may be damaged.

Blackie tells Audrey, “Miss Horne, you don’t know what trouble is, not by a long shot.”[7] "Episode 9" was written by Harley Peyton and directed by David Lynch.

Club, Keith Phipps noted that the episodes "sows a lot of seeds for future harvest", particularly citing the references to Windom Earle, Harold Smith and Garland Briggs' UFO work.

Phipps praised the scene in which BOB appears to Maddy, calling it "one of those images that capture what the show does well" but criticised Audrey's plotline, giving the episode as a whole a B+ rating.

[12] DVD Talk's Jamie S. Rich gave a mixed response and commented that "side stories take a lot of the spotlight in the first half of the second season and suggest that Twin Peaks might have had a longer life as a regular cliffhanger serial had they abandoned the need for the series through-line.