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| “ | I will squeeze the sh*t out of you, bitch! You c**ksucking bitch... and I'll cornhole that piece of sh*t! NOW GIVE ME SOME F***ING MONEY! | „ |
| ~ Richard Horne while strangling his grandmother Sylvia. |
Richard Horne is a major antagonist in Twin Peaks: The Return. He is a sociopathic drug dealer who is the son of Audrey Horne and Dale Cooper's doppelganger.
He was portrayed by Eamon Farren, whom series creator David Lynch cast without an audition.
Biography[]
Background[]
Most of Richard's background is left a mystery. What is known is that he is the son of Audrey Horne, who was a good friend of FBI agent Dale Cooper. It was later confirmed that his father is Dale Cooper's evil doppelganger, who raped and impregnated Audrey while she was in a coma.
Twin Peaks: The Return[]
On one evening at the Roadhouse, Richard smoked underneath a "no smoking" sign. He was asked to stop by an employee, but off-duty Deputy Chad Broxford told him he would handle it. Richard then covertly passed Chad a wad of cash inside his empty cigarette pack. A girl from the next table, Charlotte, asked him for a light. Richard requested her join him in his booth. As soon as she did, he aggressively began groping her and threatened to rape her. The outcome of this situation was left ambiguous.
Some time later, Richard met with gangsters led by Red, who planned on using Twin Peaks as a spot for running "sparkle" down from Canada. He sampled the product and promised that it would be easy to traffic into town. Red pulled out a dime and flipped it, it hung in the air spinning far longer than it should have, then suddenly appeared in Richard's mouth, then back in Red's hand. As Richard drove away, he began screaming furiously at having been called "kid" repeatedly by Red. During this, he illegally sped into the oncoming lane and ran a stop sign, killing a young boy, witnessed by Twin Peaks resident Miriam Sullivan. He then went to a field belonging to a local farmer and wiped the boy's blood off of his truck's grill.
Richard showed up at Miriam Sullivan's trailer, who told him that she had sent an incriminating letter to Sheriff Truman. He rushed inside and savagely beat her, then called Chad, telling him to intercept the letter. Richard went to his grandmother, Sylvia Horne, for money, but she refused. Enraged, he beat her and her mentally handicapped son (and Richard's uncle) Johnny until she gave him the combination for her safe. He emptied the safe and took her purse, totaling thousands of dollars. Richard left the state, hiding out with a criminal organization at the Farm in Montana. There, he joined a group of men watching a camera feed of Ray Monroe's death at the hands of Dale Cooper's doppelganger.
He followed Cooper to a convenience store in the nearby woods, aiming a gun at him and remarking that he recognized him as an FBI agent from a photograph his mother used to own. Cooper asked who his mother was, to which he responded "Audrey Horne". Hearing this, Cooper distracted him, then quickly disarmed and threw him to the ground. Cooper invited him to get in the truck, saying that they would have time to talk on the way.
Richard drove with Cooper to a field near Twin Peaks, which matched two of the three coordinate sets Cooper had acquired from Ray Monroe, Phillip Jeffries, and Ruth Davenport. The spot was on a large rock a ways up a nearby hill. Cooper, claiming he was too old, told Richard to take a tracking device and locate the exact spot for him. Richard climbed onto the rock and followed the device's beeps. Just as it became a constant tone, Richard began lighting up like a torch as he was electrocuted, screaming, and then apparently disintegrated. Cooper watched Richard die, and said, "Goodbye, my son."
Trivia[]
- Before Twin Peaks: The Return, Eamon Farren previously appeared in Chained, a film directed by Lynch's daughter, Jennifer.
- Richard, along with BOB, Windom Earle, and Dale Cooper's doppelganger, is one of the most evil characters in the Twin Peaks franchise.
- In both appearance and behavior, he bears a striking resemblance to Frank Booth of Blue Velvet, also directed by David Lynch.
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BOB (Mr. C) | Windom Earle | Leo Johnson | Jowday | The Arm | Richard Horne | Woodsmen |