the first 30 minutes

did we know that Bobby killed someone

It was mentioned in the pilot. Nothing beyond that is revealed in the movie, though there are some nice hints lying around in the series. Maybe it never comes up again in the new episodes, or maybe somthing about Bobby's activities during the intervening time will give more hints. I think in 1989 he was headed for an unwanted stint in the military after his graduation (and already knew it).


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"We have to enlist by 3 this afternoon."
--Bobby Briggs, Twin Peaks

I'm pretty sure Agent Cooper was meant to be in the entire first 30 minutes, but because of scheduling conflicts Lynch brought in Chris Isaak as the agent who disappears before Coop was brought in to investigate.

Anyway I like it, we get to see a bit of the investigation of Teresa Banks, who is only briefly mentioned on the show, and then I kind of get chills when we're finally in Twin Peaks and the theme kicks in.

As for David Bowie, he ended up in the Lodge somehow and briefly escaped is what I gathered from that. Still not entirely sure what the point was but I don't mind it.

I believe Bowie's character Jeffries was alive when he showed up in Philadelphia. He explains that he found a ring at the fabled Judy's in Seattle and he saw Bob and Mike and followed them to the residency above the store where Mike had claimed he and Bob lived. They must have overtaken them because he had the ring. I have no idea how he got away temporarily or how he was in Seattle and was also staying at a hotel in Buenos Aires. I think maybe kind of the same thing that happened to him also happened to Agent Desmond, because the last time we see him he is picking up the ring from under the one trailer. Then, when Coop visits the trailer park ""Let's rock" is written on the windshield of Desmond's car.
As far as Bobby goes, I don't remember his killing that mule being mentioned in the pilot at all. Only in a couple of scenes in FWWM (when he kills the guy, and the scene in the school hallway [of which I'm not certain if it's a deleted scene] where Laura once again jokes around, saying Bobby killed Mike), and one deleted scene where he complains to Laura that he killed the guy for baby laxative. Bobby just covered him in a thin layer of dirt and he and Laura left him there. It was never mentioned in the actual series, so I'm assuming it was an open-close case since the guy was probably a known criminal or under suspicion of drug trafficking and they had no witnesses or evidence. That, or he was never found. And with Laura's murder a few days later, the focus, with exception to trying to catch Bernard Renault by the sheriff's department, was mainly concentrated on catching Laura's killer.