Twin Peaks (S1E03) - Mike - Fire walk with me

[@dirkdeigler]

I still get goosebumps every time MIKE recites this

[@liamsmith2183]

God same here

[@laylover7621]

This is the single greatest tv moment imo. The first three episodes being a tragic but grounded murder mystery, and then absolutely out of nowhere, they hit you with this, immediately followed by that first Red Room scene. That's where twin peaks goes from great drama to something from another world

[@MildlyHumorous-cq1nn]

I wouldn't go that far to call this greatest moment in TV. Even twin peaks itself has better moments but i understand your perspective.

[@psyifinotic]

Rest easy, Al Strobel. Thank you eternally.

[@Henbot]

Honestly would love to have been around 90s time when this stuff first hit. Be hilarious to watch such a crazy thing hit people so publicly

[@MrJimmyTide]

Considering this was a dream sequence, they might've been able to swallow it more easily. Once the Black Lodge and other surreal elements started to merge with the "real world", that's when they probably started losing their shit. Think about it. The earlier episodes were probably right up some old grandmothers' alleys if they were into "Murder She Wrote" and things like that. This was probably the closest thing to an acid trip they'd experience if they avoided that shit in the 60's.

[@spookytoebeans]

@@MrJimmyTide I watched Twin Peaks on acid, it was insane

[@Vingul]

@Chic 'N' Stu don't

[@DanzoKun]

@Chic 'N' Stu oh lawd lol

[@Bronco541]

this is the only time in the entire series we get to hear Bob talk normally isn't it?

[@MrMagoo-ll8cx]

He has a line in episode 17 of The Return. He also talks to Bad Coop sometime earlier in The Return when Bad Coop looks into a mirror and his face morphs into Bob.

[@adambesley4455]

There was the bit in season 2 after Josie's death he taunts Cooper and that dialogue wasn't reversed.

[@benjaminconnor2411]

CallMeBronco yes and it was an extended pilot made for international screenings aka a ‘movie’ to show those and gain interest , they cut this from the series but it’s the true ending of the pilot

[@Vingul]

@@benjaminconnor2411 they didn't cut it from the series, they used those bits in another season 1 episode, I'm pretty sure.

[@DanzoKun]

@@benjaminconnor2411 I specifically remember it in a different expisode; I just cant remember which one.

[@rosegarden-dv6lx]

This scene is so iconic. It lives rent free in my brain

[@watchoutforsnak3s]

Everyone in the comments already pointed out why this scene is so great. Al Strobel's cryptic monologue, the eerie radioactive crackling, Bob threatening the audience, and the fact that it was the end of the show made it one of the best scenes in the series.

[@michaelhudson2912]

"I took the entire arm off" Only an insane person could write something like this lol. I love Lynch.

[@Spursfan20mb]

@@michaelhudson2912 big ass smile on his face as he says it too lmao

[@Drakengard82]

I just realized the background sound when BOB speaks is the same they hear in the hotel in Return. Took me a while lol.

[@r3b3lvegan89]

That’s a great catch, which really helps the time travel aspect come full circle along with the other story segments

[@rorschach1]

Who knew 25 years later this would make explicit sense

[@patgogan7324]

We just got a fucking origin story in episode 8 The Birth of BoB

[@Frungi]

X33mmm, “explicit” means they put it right out there in front of you, plain as day. In other contexts, it can also mean adult language or themes (like sex). But here, it just means that season 3 made this speech make a ton more sense. Kind of the opposite of what angryniggah said it means.

[@dannyhicks8653]

It still barely makes any sense any of it,sure is awesome though,I just feel bad for Cooper,his life was utterly ruined in that damn black lodge,his amazing friendship with the sheriff destroyed,his youth taken away,didnt even officially come back to his old self even outside of the black lodge until the last episode,and even then he once again went to some strange hellish parallel dimension he is likely trapped in,not a happy ending at all for poor Agent Cooper.I wonder if there will be or even should be a season 4,I thought season 3 was awesome,sort of tetering back and forth between random nothingness/brilliance/adequate television/and genius all mixed together.But I still just wish we had gotten him back sooner and that he could have made an impact as the old agent cooper,now god only knows where he is or if hel ever be the same again,absolute madness is how id describe season 3 overall lol.Sure was something to watch though,like some 18 hour long crazy ass art project,only mostly good art not that modern art garbage,it actually felt kinda similar to the Phantasm series at time especially part 1 and 4.really streange and bizzare but I enjoyed it very much overall and it should be up for a shit ton of awards really.

[@Vingul]

@angryniggah explicit actually means the opposite of what you said.

[@r3b3lvegan89]

You clearly didn’t understand the series. And that’s not my opinion

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

Incredible acting.

[@dogchopz]

Intensely good acting betwixed between intentionally bad acting for the romantic soap opera effect. Such a genius formula at work here from lynch and frost

[@r3b3lvegan89]

Not so much a “soap opera” effect as much as it’s a literal dream sequence. Totally different perception

[@cruffatin]

​@@r3b3lvegan89 I think they mean twin peaks in general - there's an intentional over acting backed with the soaring music or stylish jazz music to give an impression of a soap or romantic dramas in lots of the normal dialogue, then you have heavy duty shit like this dropped between. Really brilliant

[@clairepeter-budge2197]

Textbook example of atmosphere and its power

[@CielBlanche]

"CATCH YOU WITH MY DEATH BAG" - bob, 1989

[@elichaitman3294]

*1990

[@cherriesvenom]

@@elichaitman32941989 mate the events of laura’s death and cooper coming were in 89

[@thenoble39]

Excellent eerie atmosphere amd the sounds at the start......damn

[@lowe-quay-shush]

The 'One Armed Man's' original scene: small/non speaking. Lynch loved his voice- more weird scenes followed...

[@FiguraMolenMedia]

This series has wowed me...

[@hippiecheezburger5457]

I can’t believe it was on ABC, this scene is so like demonic and evil, Mike is creepy af like what does it even mean?

[@monolithgeometry3221]

One of the reasons Lynch is so great , he made network execs and millionaire film investors wet themselves, on occasion

[@r3b3lvegan89]

That’s not even close to true, they were practically drooling wanting to know who killed Laura and they forced him to either reveal the killer or cut the series and David left for a bit. Yes it blew their minds but back then people understood imagination and stories and no it’s really not that scary or demonic, it’s just called mental conditioning and trauma

[@petersenior5432]

After watching this movie, I have a theory: There is a thing called "firewalking" where you walk over hot coals. Those that are "spiritually pure" feel no pain. To pass through the white lodge into the black lodge, you must be spiritually pure. "Firewalking" would mean that by going to the black lodge, you are inhabited by a demon/spirit/ghost thing such as Bob or Mike.

[@kimmolaine8069]

I tend to think "Fire Walk With Me" is an empowering chant to the lodge inhabitants, not to be used by the living. Laura and Cooper chanted it often and they got into trouble. Agent Earle foolishly thought he could control the power of the lodge.

[@PaperadiGomma123]

They explained in S3. Fire walk with me is a magical chant that calls upon the power of the lodge and is used by spirits to travel between the two worlds (reality and the lodge) using electricity.

[@benjaminconnor2411]

Peter Senior and the reason cooper got trapped in the lodge is because he had imperfect courage (I️.e. sacrificing himself for Annie ) he wasn’t spiritually pure

[@666cfc]

"Fire, walk with me" is a chant used by BOB, MIKE and other entities from the Black Lodge to cast spell on people they want to inhabit(Laura, Leland). It's a variation on the "Dance With The Devil" theme, but Lynch would never use such an overused term, so he created his own spell. And we know from his previous and post-Twin Peaks movies that fire symbolizes exactly that in his work.

[@Ken2234]

@@666cfc but fire has so many meanings. To fire walk is abstract, it all depends on the soul that is put through the fire walk. In the bible it says gods children are put through the furnace of affliction and these entities represent that test. Bob tempted leland and leland let him in, opening the door for more. Laura, whos name represents victory and strength was put through these afflictions and didn't allow for Bob to continue in a vessel granting her access to the white lodge. I am unsure of her fate as she took a ring before being "sacrificed" Isaac style but no angel to save her unlike Ronette who prayed and was saved in her hour.

[@TheHonoredMadman]

I mean it like it is, like it sounds

[@becamicusack3598]

The opening scares me so bad, and I think it might always scare me.

[@AnthonyT2342]

Frank Silva was phenomenal, especially considering he wasn't even an actor. He was a crew member, and his face accidentally got caught in the mirror while the pilot was being filmed. Lynch decided to run with it, and thus was the birth of BOB.

[@jb2einziger]

One awesome thing I never noticed before, specifically of interest to fans of Silent Hill 2, the red squares around the town you use to save, someone mentioned in a recent video on the remake that they were rewatching twin peaks and you can see behind BOB that there’s a red squares just like the ones from SH2 ! Could be a random coincidence but I know team silent were heavily influenced by a lot of David lynchs works so might have some relevance 😂 I just rewatched this and never noticed it in the scene before 😂

[@TheHonoredMadman]

Mike is one my favorites

[@tomaszbaczek9650]

This is, hands down to David Lynch, the most amazing scene in the history of the entire television. Al Strobel is, honest to God, an acting genius in this. I know it sounds crazy but it isn't. Hear me out... Al Strobel is an acting genius. He only played in plays surrounding Eugene, Oregon which at a time had roughly 120,000 people living. He magically appeared (seemingly out of nowhere) to play Mike. Frank Silva is not an acting genius, but he genuinely plays well here. A "catch you in my death bag" catchphrase is something wonderful to achieve. Of course, David Lynch is a genius, he constructed the whole scene along with cinematographer Frank Byers. The poem and the way Al Strobel recites it is something otherworldly, confusing and spiritually active. I love this scene.

[@Gustavo-nd3cx]

I took the entire arm off XD

[@tingel155]

Jon Snow this scentense is so creepy

[@GmodPlusWoW]

And the arm became a being in its own right. But who was the devilish one? Could it be... Judy? Probably wouldn't be too far from the truth, if you ask me. After all, if Phillip Gerard is to be believed, the tattoo on his arm said "Mom". For all we know, Judy could have marked MIKE in the same way that BOB was marked.

[@Onigirli]

I am the evolution of the arm. And my voice soundsss like.... thiss

[@MrJimmyTide]

@@Onigirli I remember his voice when he killed Eddie Valiant's brother. ;)

[@DanielBurapavong]

RIP, Al Strobel.

[@antoinehuster8996]

0:10 Cooper remember the unofficial version...

[@ЮрійРибаченко-р5ч]

Twin peaks SUPER.👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@borisb1620]

with magician he means the child with the white mask, and the magician was leland as a child. Which makes sense because at that age Leland met BOB. Mike says the magician is between teo worlds, black lodge and white lodge

[@MrJimmyTide]

Where did you hear Leland and Pierre were one in the same? I can't find that on the TP wiki.

[@rainmaree559]

Poetry

[@BFBrown3]

One chance out between two worlds..

[@kimmolaine8069]

chants

[@Rclibertine]

Kimmo Laine isn't it both?

[@kimmolaine8069]

probably now, but the script / poem said "chants"

[@marcd73]

*chants

[@plasmaarmelund]

Looks like they reused footage from the pilot in this sequence

[@andrewkind2820]

What exactly does he mean by "the face of God"?

[@TheSharpeful]

He means it like it is... like it sounds.

[@daridane5603]

I have no more doubts about it. In this speech he says: "...longs to see one CHANCE out between two worlds..." , in the season 2 speech he says:"...longs to see; One CHANTS out...". In the first case we have a single phrase with the adjective "one", in the second one two different sentences with "one" as a pronoun. Both versions are very cryptic and obscure but perfect for the show and coherent with the entire Lynch filmography.

[@kimmolaine8069]

in the script it was always "chants"

[@daridane5603]

Sorry, but this isn't true. The "international ending" of the pilot episode (from which this scene is, later incorporated in episode2) have no script at all. The script ends with the vision by Sarah Palmer on the couch. The final scenes in the hospital basement (with the BOB speech) and in the Red Room were largely improvised under Lynch supervision. When Mark Frost write the script for ep2 they decide to incorporate a shortened version of the dream sequence at the end of the episode, so he write down a scene already shoot by Lynch. That part is, in fact, a transcription! That's the beginning of this great controversy! In the script of episode 2 Mark Frost write "one CHANCE out...", then, one year later, in the scripts for episodes 6 and 9 of season 2 (when the one-armed man/Mike and the possesed Leland repeats the line) the co-writers Harley Peyton and Bob Engels writes "one CHANTS out..."

[@666cfc]

Please stop with this nonsense. It's "chants out", as in "sings out", cause that is what you do with spells. You chant them out, you don't "chance" them out.

[@grelm1322]

@@666cfc One chance out : One chance to escape

[@666cfc]

@Fnordles Read the whole chant the way it is written further down in comment section and think about it as a whole. Remember Lelland telling about his meeting with Bob as a kid, throwing matches at him and saying: "Wanna play with fire, boy?" "Fire, Walk With Me" is an invite, not a way out.

[@underthefallenstars2788]

BOB isn't scary here st all. What a relief.

[@spriteapple6053]

Through the rizzness of Ohio past, the sigma longs to see. One chance out between two gyatts, Caseoh goon with me. We edged among the sigmas. I think you say: "grimace shake". We edged above it. I mew it like it is, like it mogs. I too have been rizzed by the skibidi one. A goonsesh on my left pingas. Oh, but when I saw the gyatt of Pomni, I was edged. I mogged my entire pingas off. My name is Kai Cenat, his name is Ishowspeed. Kai Cenat! Kai Cenat! Can you jelq me? Edge you with my kek gyatt! You may think I've gone cringe, but I promise I will mew again!

[@dyllnye1239]

Only time ive felt true psychic damage after reading something

[@oiyoushutit8670]

Oh nah now we got twin peaks brainrot 💀💀

[@frankyduran3809]

is that the same Laura sound bite that plays at the end of the return?

[@Homecore]

Yes That's creepy

[@wweraw4895]

0:06 what is this?

[@shaneypoo2022]

Nevermind it's the towel by the black lodge entrance where hawk found the diary pages

[@johnstratton8678]

What a bunch of PUNTER's. 1:49

[@natewatson6962]

kubrick, is that you?

[@natewatson6962]

@Ozan Arayiz O

[@natthomson6339]

Is Coop the magician?

[@richardtoplitsky322]

Bob is sceary kind of like feddy or a jason

[@spatzhawk]

TIL Bob = Bob Iger

[@TheLastHylianTitan]

what does that mean? "fire walk with me"?

[@EnderSpy358]

They say it means you're touched by "the devilish one"

[@TheHonoredMadman]

He means it like it is, like it sounds

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

days of future past? lol

[@MrJimmyTide]

The X-Men long to see...

[@rellman85]

The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future

[@r3b3lvegan89]

Except for twin peaks was decades ahead of any X-men film…..good try tho

[@RossBayCult]

The feminist dukes of the conspiracy charge that not enough members are women. BOB would agree to that. Indeed HE would say “there will never be enough women…but at least the ones we have are ALL WOMAN.”. And BOB? BOB is all man.

[@cmatista1]

…wasnt bob trying to possess laura?

[@targrazery]

You need get Iaid, virgin