Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Major Briggs's wife tells Cooper and Truman that her husband has vanished before, although she cannot disclose the details of his work. Cooper connects this disappearance to the strange light he saw at their campsite. His disciplinary inquiry continues, and he accepts that he acted outside bureau rules while denying any criminal wrongdoing. Gordon Cole sends support and announces that the DEA is assigning an old colleague to investigate the drug accusations. Denise Bryson arrives and begins looking into Cooper's belief that he has been framed. Cocaine is found in his car, but the discovery strengthens Denise's suspicion that someone is engineering the case against him.
Hawk describes the White Lodge and its shadow, the Black Lodge, where a traveller must confront a double. Cooper also receives a threatening chess recording from Windom Earle. James meets Evelyn Marsh and accepts work repairing her husband's car, settling into a room above the garage. Ben retreats into childhood home movies as Hank tells him he has lost control of One Eyed Jacks. Josie explains her fear of Thomas Eckhardt to Truman, then seeks Catherine's protection. Catherine agrees only if Josie becomes her maid. After Josie leaves the room, Andrew Packard appears alive, revealing that he and Catherine intend to use her to draw Eckhardt back to Twin Peaks.