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"Who's Laura Palmer?" -Beverly Paige Part 7 picks up with Jerry Horne (David Patrick Kelly) extremely stoned in the woods.  He calls his brother, Ben (Richard Beymer), and tells him his car was stolen and he doesn't know where he is. Hawk (Michael Horse) shows Sheriff Frank Truman (Robert Forster) the pages he found in the bathroom door.  They are pages from the diary of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee).  They describe a dream Laura had about Annie Blackburn (Heather Graham), who told Laura that the good Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) was trapped in the Lodge.  Hawk suspects the pages were hidden by Leland Palmer (Ray Wise) and that someone else left the Black Lodge in place of the good Cooper.  Frank tries to bring his brother, Harry (Michael Ontkean), in on the case, but decides not to when he learns how sick Harry is.  Instead, Frank calls Dr. Hayward (Warren Frost) who explains that Cooper was acting very strange and that he may have visited Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) a

 "How did you get inside my head?" -Charlie Davis I don't love the placement of the double boot episode here.  I'd really like at least one normal episode between the Mergatory and the double boot just so we get a better understanding of the full tribe dynamics.  That said, I still really enjoyed this episode and watching some of these dynamics play out.  There's plenty to talk about here, so let's get into who played well and who sucked. Who Played Well: Hunter was put into a potentially disastrous situation by being the only Nami in the orange group.  However, he managed to get in with the Yanu group and make it through the vote while also managing to hold onto his Idol. Kenzie had a strong episode starting with a very nice human moment where she helped Ben through his panic attack.  She also won Immunity and knocked Tim out of the game.  Since she has a closer connection Ben than Tim, this was the right call for her.  On that same note, Ben having that mome

 "We are living in a dark, dark age, and you are part of the problem." -Janey-E Jones As Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) continues to stare at a statue of a lawman, a police officer gets him back to the Jones household.  Janey-E (Naomi Watts) is starting to get concerned with Cooper's behavior and plans to take him to see a doctor.  That all changes when an envelope showing Dougie Jones (Kyle MacLachlan) with Jade (Nafessa Williams) is delivered to the house.  Janey-E is furious with Dougie and when the people who sent the envelope call, she agrees to meet with them the next day. Mike (Al Strobel) appears to Cooper to try and get him to wake up.  Then small beams of light appear on Cooper's case files and Cooper follows the light with a pencil and marks up all the files.  At work the next day, Bushnell Mullins (Don Murray) dismisses the scribblings at first, but then realizes that they reveal something to do with one of his other employees, Anthony Sinclair (Tom Sizemor

 "I'll send her ass back to Canada." -Q Burdette That was a solid Mergatory episode!   It had a nice dash of chaos, but it was never hard to follow and their wasn't any production interference to make the episode feel gimmicky.  Just like last week, there were two key names being tossed out and good reasons to get rid of both.  All that was left was for us to guess who was going.  Again, this is what an average episode of Survivor should be.  Let's take a look at who played well and who sucked. Who Played Well: Hunter, Tevin, Kenzie, and Q all managed to win Immunity and Tiffany picked the correct team to win, which earned her Immunity as well.  All five of them are set up nicely going forward, especially since they were able to take out a member of Siga.  Hunter also managed to get his hands on an Idol.  Plus I like the way Q talked to Maria before talking to Tim about the Journey 6 alliance.  It made him rightly skeptical of Tim.  I do think he is playing a litt

 "Is that a mini-Kong?" -Bernie Hayes As Kong explores the Hollow Earth searching for his family, he uncovers an ancient foe of Godzilla that threatens to plunge the world into a new ice age.  A group of humans do their best to help Kong and Godzilla set aside their differences to come together and defeat the Skar King. What Works: The most important part of these movies has always been the bouts between the gigantic monsters and that is exactly where this movie shines.  The showdowns are a ton of fun with some bonkers and over-the-top action.  It's exactly what you want to see in a movie with both King Kong and Godzilla.  It's epic, badass, and occasionally hilarious.  In one scene, Kong uses a smaller ape as a weapon and it's the most I've laughed at a movie all year. Tom Holkenborg returns from Godzilla vs. Kong to do the music, and it's a high point of the movie.  He uses a lot of synth, which really works for the film.  This is a case where I think th

 "I'm here forever!" -Jeff Probst This was probably my favorite episode of the season so far.  It was really exciting to finally see another tribe go to Tribal Council, especially a tribe like Siga, which has gotten along very well up to this point.  This is what the average episode of Survivor should be: two people are on the chopping block and there are valid reasons to get rid of both of them, with Tribal Council being intense as we try to guess who is going.  You don't need much else.  Now, let's get into who played well and who sucked. Who Played Well: Starting on the Nami tribe, I like that Hunter went for the Beware Advantage.  I think he's right about being a huge threat going into the merge and he needs every weapon he can get his hands on.  He also agreed to go along with Q's alliance.  He doesn't have to mean it, but he has his options open now.  He did lose his vote by failing the Journey Challenge, but overall I would say he is net positiv