Maybe I am wrong, but when reviewing episode 22 of season 2, Eckhard calls Josie. When he puts down the phone, the woman who is accompanying him speaks I think Russian...but what does she say???

(sorry for my bad English, I am from Flanders...)

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

 hahah oh my christ that's the hardest i've laughed at a non-booth post on this forum. "africaans!?! go back to klingon language camp you JERK!"

(that was my exact reaction when i first read the word so don't feel bad mayray)

Why the writers felt the need to give some kind of background to that brief and lame character? It certainly looks like they were hinting at something we'd know in the future about Jones; going to the trouble of having a couple of lines in that language, the mention of the consulate... The South African connection in season 3 sounds so awesomely interesting... Yawn!

On the realz. They couldn't have made Jones a Nubian princess AND had Agent Hardy, Internal Affairs, as a Scary Black Man. They would have looked like racist crackers. But I think you can count the "people of color" in TP on one hand. Maybe 2. Kind of embarrassing.

(EDIT: Unless you count the wrestling team. Mike and Nadine are the only white people on it.)

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I've just made it this far in my re-watching of the series.  The Jones character definitely seems like a loose thread.  I assume the puzzlebox was some "if I die..." instruction, but Eckart seemed so confident that I have a hard time imagining he would spend the time on those contingencies. 

And the scene in bed with Harry made no sense at all. Was she going for some creamed corn there?  Maybe there would be some lodge connection that would be developed in the future.

If anyone can point me to theories/discussions of Josie's lodge connections, I would appreciate it.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

YES!!! This didn't occur to me until last time around. Thomas found out Andrew was alive, like, 5 minutes before he died. NO way he could have planned the rouse to kill him with the box.

And Harry asks why Thomas would want him dead, Cooper answers-- confidently-- "sexual jealousy." Better question would be: why the hell would Jones fight this post-mortem prick-waving battle on his behalf?

Totally stupid, yet I suspend disbelief and am entertained by it.

Ben:  "We've laid in a gala reception for your fair-haired boys tonight.  All of Twin Peaks' best and brightest."

Jerry: "We're holding it in a phone booth?"

You don't get it... Jones was a robot, as in "Ash is a goddamn robot!!"... She was programmed to do Eckhardt's will even after his death and the South African consulate is involved, they've been making replicant bitches for a long time... Evelyn, Blackie's sister, Vivian, even Louie (the Annoying Nexus 6 model)...

That's the only explanation for such plot-driven, empty characters... At least I hope it is...