Windom Earle
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Windom Earle is a villain in the American TV series Twin Peaks. He is a former FBI agent, and was also a partner of Agent Dale Cooper at one point. He mainly features in the second series. The character was played by Kenneth Welsh. Cooper says of Windom Earle "his mind is like a diamond: cold, hard and brilliant."
He is an evil genius and a master of disguise, well-versed in esoterica from all parts of the world, including the "dugpas" who are said to be ancient sorcerers from Tibet, who were dedicated to pure evil.
Earle claims to have killed his wife Caroline, the love of Cooper's life. He also has a fascination with the Black Lodge, whose secrets he is trying to unlock, as well as black magic. A homicidal psychopath, he kills a number of people throughout the series. Major Garland Briggs states that Earle was involved in Project Blue Book, as was Briggs; however, their investigation in which Earle was involved was directly related to Twin Peaks and not the usual UFO investigations.
He is obsessed with chess and this also plays a role in some of the episodes, when he decides to use real people as the pieces. When he had worked with Cooper, they played a game every day. Cooper enlists the help of Pete Martell, a genius chess player, to stalemate the game with as few pieces lost as possible.
At one point, Earle leaves a plaster mask of Caroline on Agent Cooper's bed, with a tape recorder underneath. At another, he shuts down the town's power station causing chaos. He also hides a bug within a bonsai in Twin Peak's Sheriff's Department, which Sheriff Truman thinks is from Josie Packard.
Towards the end of the second series, Leo Johnson becomes Windom Earle's slave, and is controlled by an electric dog collar. They capture Major Garland Briggs, and Earle interrogates him fairly unsuccessfully using Haloperidol. Major Briggs does, however, end up revealing that fear opens the gate to the Black Lodge.
Earle chooses, "three Queens" (Audrey, Donna and Shelly") for a "gathering of the Angels", by giving them each a third of a poem, (If thou kiss not me by Percy Shelley) and arranging for them to meet in the Roadhouse. However, in the end he uses Annie Blackburn for "queen" after she wins Miss Twin Peaks, and takes her into the Black Lodge.
Earle appears to be killed by BOB in the Black Lodge, when he attempts to take Cooper's soul. BOB says that Earle cannot ask for souls, but he will take Earle's.
[edit] Quotes
- (To Leo) "We're all love's fools, but you will learn, as I have, the value of hate."
- "I haven't felt this excited since I punctured Caroline's aorta"
- "It's your move!"
- "The only thing Columbus discovered was that he was lost."
- "You would have appreciated the dugpas, Leo. Ancient sorcerers bent on evil."
- (About dugpas) "They express themselves in darkness for darkness without leveling motive."
- "This place I speak of is known as the Black Lodge. And I intend to find it."
- "Where will my spirit wake? What life am I given after my life? This grave question has plagued man's sorry conscience for eons. And you, lucky boy, have the answer... now."
Windom Earle is also a band based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring Stephan MacLeod, Greg Boone, and Matt Packman. Windom Earle website
| Twin Peaks |
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Main Characters |
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Andy Brennan | Bobby Briggs | Donna Hayward | William Hayward | Ben Horne | Audrey Horne | Ed Hurley | James Hurley | Norma Jennings | Shelly Johnson | Catherine Martell | Pete Martell | Lucy Moran | Josie Packard | Leland Palmer | Harry Truman |
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Recurring Characters |
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Annie Blackburn | Garland Briggs | Denise/Dennis Bryson | Gordon Cole | Windom Earle | Thomas Eckhardt | Maddy Ferguson | Tommy "Hawk" Hill | Jerry Horne | Nadine Hurley | Doctor Lawrence Jacoby | Hank Jennings | Leo Johnson | The Log Lady | Man from another place | Evelyn Marsh | Andrew Packard | Sarah Palmer | Albert Rosenfield | The Renault brothers | Harold Smith | Dick Tremayne | BOB |
