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“Quit trying to hold on so tight. I’m gone. Long gone.”

[Video Transcript:]

An outtake from Twin Peaks. Agent Dale Cooper (played by Kyle MacLachlan) and Sheriff Harry Truman (played by Michael Ontkean) are sitting in a car at night, during a stakeout. Cooper is carving a piece of wood to pass the time. The two discuss a secret society known as The Bookhouse Boys. At the end of the scene, David Lynch praises the pair for chemistry.

Cooper: "So what's the story behind this Bookhouse anyway?"

Harry: "Jake Morrissey owns the Bookhouse and the Roadhouse. The Bang Bang Bar - anybody calls it the Roadhouse." 

Cooper: "And these motorcycles, that some kinda gang?"

Harry: "Well, not really exactly a gang uh- or... we go way back."

[Cooper glances at Harry, a small grin on his face as he returns to his carving]

Cooper: "You're part of the Bookhouse."

[Harry smiles at him in return]

Harry (flirtatiously): "Whyncha whittle on that for a while?"

[Cooper's grin widens, and he briefly looks back at Harry]

[Kyle MacLachlan - breaks character and looks directly at the camera, as if waiting for instructions.]

David Lynch: "What a beautiful, beautiful thing! Cut it." 

“Quit trying to hold on so tight. I’m gone. Long gone.”

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There is a sadness in this world.