"Pilot" is the first episode of Twin Peaks, which originally aired on April 8, 1990. It was written by Mark Frost and David Lynch, and directed by Lynch. It deals with the discovery of popular high school student Laura Palmer's body.
In the feature-length pilot episode, the small town of Twin Peaks, Washington is gripped by the murder of 17-year-old homecoming queen Laura Palmer, whose naked corpse is found wrapped in plastic. The eccentric and unorthodox FBI Agent Dale Cooper arrives in town to help Sheriff Harry Truman and his deputies solve the crime. Meanwhile, Laura's family and friends struggle to come to terms with her death, and wonder how it might have come about.
An alternate version of the pilot was aired in Europe as a stand-alone television movie. This version is identical to the U.S.-aired version up until the last several scenes, when the killer of Laura Palmer is revealed. Here, Killer Bob is depicted merely as an ordinary serial killer; at the end of the movie, he...
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