Special Agent Dale Cooper

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Kyle MacLachlan
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Special Agent Dale Cooper Quotes

	Season 2 / Episode 12: - The Black Widow Special Agent Dale Cooper: [looking at real estate photos] What is this? Irene Littlehorse: I thought I'd taken that out. That property is called Dead Dog Farm... and it's worse than it sounds.
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Masked Ball FBI Agent Roger Hardy: Agent Cooper, it's showtime. You've heard the charges. What do you wish to present as your defense? Special Agent Dale Cooper: I have no defense. I am completely confident that in the rightness of my actions. Some of it occurred outside of Bureau guidelines, and I will pay the price for that. But I am innocent of any criminal wrongdoing. If they wish to charge me, I will defend myself in a court of law. FBI Agent Roger Hardy: Dale. There's a right way and a wrong way to do this. And the first thing we expect is for a Bureau man to stand up for himself. A man who can't, who doesn't even try, well, he may be packing feathers where his spine is supposed to be. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Roger. I know the moves I'm supposed to make. And I know the board. FBI Agent Roger Hardy: So? Special Agent Dale Cooper: I've been doing a lot of thinking lately. And I've started to focus out beyond the edge of the board. On a bigger game. FBI Agent Roger Hardy: What game? Special Agent Dale Cooper: The sound the wind makes through the vines. The sentience of animals. What we fear in the dark and what lies beyond the darkness. FBI Agent Roger Hardy: What the hell are you talking about? Special Agent Dale Cooper: I'm talking about seeing beyond fear, Roger. About looking at the world with love. FBI Agent Roger Hardy: They're liable to extradite you for murder and drug trafficking. Special Agent Dale Cooper: These are things I cannot control.
	Season 2 / Episode 11: - Masked Ball Special Agent Dale Cooper: Have any of you fellows head of a place called the White Lodge? Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: Where did you hear that? Special Agent Dale Cooper: Well, it was the last thing Major Briggs said to me before he disappeared. Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: Cooper, you may be fearless in this world. But there are other worlds. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Tell me more. Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self. My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Dweller on the Threshold. Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: But it is said that if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Arbitrary Law Special Agent Dale Cooper: Gentlemen, two days ago a young woman was found murdered by the same individual I believe responsible for the death of Laura Palmer. I have reason to believe that the killer is in this room. As a member of the Bureau, I spend most of my time seeking simple answers to difficult questions. In the pursuit of Laura's killer, I have employed Bureau guidelines, deductive technique, Tibetan method, instinct, and luck. But now I find myself in need of something new, which, for lack of a better word, we shall call... magic. [thunder] Benjamin Horne: Would you like us to hum? A Tibetan chant, perhaps? [laughs] FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: I think it's going terrifically well. Don't you?
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Arbitrary Law Special Agent Dale Cooper: Did you kill Laura Palmer? Leland Palmer: [in Bob's voice] That's a "yes". Special Agent Dale Cooper: How about Maddy Ferguson? Leland Palmer: What do you think? Special Agent Dale Cooper: I'm asking you. Leland Palmer: No really, what do you think? Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Answer the question. Leland Palmer: Well, yeah gee wiz, I guess I kinda, sorta did. I have this thing for knifes. Just like what happended to you that time in Pittsburgh, Cooper!
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Arbitrary Law Leland Palmer: [in Bob's voice] Leland, Leland, you've been a good vehicle and I've enjoyed the ride. But now he's weak and full of holes. It's almost time to shuffle off to Buffalo! Special Agent Dale Cooper: Does Leland know what you've done, Bob? Leland Palmer: [as Bob] Leland's a babe in the woods, with a large hole where his conscious used to be. When I go children, I will pull that ripcord and you watch Leland remember. Watch him!
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Arbitrary Law FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: The short answer is, this is the work of the same ghoul who killed Laura. More fan mail: the letter 'O' under Maddy's ring fingernail. There were strands of fur clutched in her right hand. Special Agent Dale Cooper: What kind of fur? FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: White fox. The strands were laced with formaldehyde. A dead animal, stuffed. Sheriff Harry S. Truman: I'll make phone calls. Leland will know how to get ahold of Maddy's family. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Harry, don't make any calls. I need 24 hours. Sheriff Harry S. Truman: For what? Special Agent Dale Cooper: To finish this.
	Season 2 / Episode 3: - The Man Behind the Glass FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: We sent a portrait of your long-haired man to every agency from NASA to DEA and came up empty. This cat is in nobody's database. Special Agent Dale Cooper: A man that four of us have seen here in Twin Peaks. FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: [smiling] Sure. Oh, by the way, you were shot with a Walther PPK. It's James Bond's gun, did you know that?
	Season 2 / Episode 3: - The Man Behind the Glass Special Agent Dale Cooper: [very serious] Fellas, let's stand together for a moment. It's time I mentioned something. Now, I'm not sure, but I believe I was visited by a giant. Twice. In my room. He left me three clues. The first had to do with Jacques Renault in a body bag. It came true almost immediately. The second was, "The owls are not what they seem." The third was about a man who points without chemicals. Sheriff Harry Truman: [perplexed] You were visited... by a giant? Special Agent Dale Cooper: [nods yes] FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: Any relation to the dwarf?
	Season 2 / Episode 3: - The Man Behind the Glass Special Agent Dale Cooper: R, B, T. Harry, I believe that these letters and the Giant's clues are in some way related to this long-haired man. Mrs. Palmer saw him in a vision. She called this morning to say that Maddy had seen the man twice in the past two days, both times in a vision. I've seen him in my dreams. Sheriff Harry Truman: And Ronette. Special Agent Dale Cooper: She saw him physically at the train car. Sheriff Harry Truman: Right. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Four of us have seen him in different forms. This path is a psychic link that will lead us straight to him. Sheriff Harry Truman: So, what did this giant sound like? I mean, did he have a big, blooming voice or what? Special Agent Dale Cooper: No, no. He spoke softly, distinctly. FBI Agent Albert Rosenfield: And you gave him the beans you were supposed to use to buy a cow? Special Agent Dale Cooper: No, Albert, I gave him my ring.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - The Last Evening Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Do you believe him? Special Agent Dale Cooper: He's too stupid to lie.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - The Last Evening Special Agent Dale Cooper: [Talking to tape recorder] As you can hear from the ambience sound around me, and I notice with some relief, that the icelandic group staying on my floor has either checked or passed out.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Realization Time Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Coop, I need to talk to you about Josie. She's been afraid, very afraid. Special Agent Dale Cooper: About what? Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Ben Horne and Catherine Martell. They've been seeing each other on the sides, it's been going on for years. Josie just found out. She thinks that they are going to try to burn down the sawmill, and somehow get rid of her too. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Do you belive her? Sheriff Harry S. Truman: Well, I know that Ben Horne wants that land around the sawmill for Ghostwood Developments, and Josie won't sell. So, yeah. I believe her. Special Agent Dale Cooper: Well, how much do you know about Josie? Where she's from? Who she was before she came to Twin Peaks? Sheriff Harry S. Truman: What are you getting at? Special Agent Dale Cooper: The truth Harry. Because that's my job.
	Season 1 / Episode 7: - Realization Time Special Agent Dale Cooper: Audrey, you're a high school girl. I'm an agent of the FBI. Audrey Horne: So, do you want me to leave or what? Special Agent Dale Cooper: What I want and what I need are two different things, Audrey.
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Zen, or the Skill to Catch a Killer Special Agent Dale Cooper: Nothing beats the taste sensation when maple syrup [claps his hands] collides with ham.

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