"Part 1", also known as "My Log Has a Message for You",[b] is the first episode of the third season of the American mystery television series Twin Peaks.
Images from the pilot are shown, including a girl running away and screaming and the portrait of Laura in the school's trophy case.
In Twin Peaks, Dr. Jacoby (Russ Tamblyn) receives a shipment of shovels from Joe (Joseph M. Auger).
In New York City, Sam Colby (Benjamin Rosenfield) watches an enormous glass box connected to various machines.
At the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Station, Lucy Brennan (Kimmy Robertson) sits at the receptionist's desk.
Buella (Kathleen Deming) enters, and the doppelgänger asks for Darya (Nicole LaLiberte) and Ray (George Griffith).
In an apartment complex in Buckhorn, South Dakota, Marjorie Green (Melissa Bailey) walks her dog Armstrong down the hall.
When the dog starts to bark in front of the door of Ruth Davenport (Mary Stofle), Marjorie notices a foul smell, and calls the police.
Upon entering the apartment, the officers walk into the bedroom to see a severely damaged head lying in bed, her body under the covers.
The two of them pull the sheet off the body, revealing a severed female head atop a decapitated male corpse.
In Twin Peaks, Margaret Lanterman (Catherine Coulson), visibly ill, calls Deputy Hawk (Michael Horse).
At the Buckhorn Police Station, Constance calls for Detective Macklay upon finding a match for the prints retrieved at the crime scene: they belong to William "Bill" Hastings (Matthew Lillard), the local high school principal.
Macklay arrests Hastings at his home, which angers Bill's wife Phyllis (Cornelia Guest) as they were supposed to host a dinner party that night.
At the Twin Peaks Sheriff Station, Hawk brings Andy Brennan (Harry Goaz) and Lucy to the conference room, where he conveys Margaret's message.
Hastings says he barely knew Davenport, the school librarian, and that the last time he saw her was a couple of months earlier, but his story contains a 40- to 50-minute gap on the day of Ruth's murder, on which, he adds with hesitation, he took his assistant Betty home after a meeting.
Additionally, a heavily edited version of the song "American Woman" by Muddy Magnolias is used to underscore the entrance of Cooper's doppelgänger.
The initial broadcast was watched by 506,000 viewers in the United States,[3] a low number by the standards of premium cable networks.
[16] The critics' consensus reads, "'Part One' suggests Twin Peaks hasn't left any of its singularly unsettling power during the show's long layoff — and proves this is one series revival not motivated by empty nostalgia".
Ultimately, she called the premiere "plenty watchable", but added that "there are a few elements that don't go down as easy as damn good coffee.
Club's Emily L. Stephens gave the episode an A, writing that the "comfort" of the original Twin Peaks is "entirely eschewed", praising the Glass Box subplot as "a remark upon the creation and the consumption of television and film" and calling the episode an "unfiltered Lynchian vision, unfettered from the structures of soap operas, police procedurals, or thrillers that gave shape to the first few original outings into Twin Peaks.