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Citizens
Wally Brando
Wally Brando
Played by: Michael Cera
The son of Andy and Lucy Brennan, born during the Time Skip.- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: "My shadow is always with me..."
- Cool Bike: Much like James, he's a biker.
- In the Blood: If Dick is his biological father, he's certainly inherited his quirk of always affecting an unusual accent.
- Loony Fan: He seems to be completely obsessed with Marlon Brando. He speaks almost exclusively in a Marlon Brando Godfather voice and even renamed himself "Brando".
- Mondegreen Gag: Brando says that Lewis and Clark were the first "Carpathians" to see the Northwest of America. Oddly, it says "Caucasians" in the subtitles.
- Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: It is never made clear if his biological father is Andy or Dick. Word of God says that Dick tried to get in touch with Wally once but Wally ignored him.
- Who's Your Daddy?: He looks like Andy and Lucy's kid, but in his first and only appearance so far he definitely gives off a Dick Tremayne vibe with the interesting fashion sense and weird self imposed accent.
Rebecca "Becky" Burnett
Rebecca "Becky" Burnett
Played by: Amanda Seyfried
Shelly's and Bobby's daughter. A young woman in Twin Peaks who ends up marrying a really sketchy and flaky guy named Steven.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: "She's with the wrong guy!"
- The Dog Bites Back: Finally snaps and goes after her husband with a gun.
- Drugs Are Bad: While The Return is not quite as moralizing as the original run, we're still treated to seeing Becky getting high and acting loopy.
- Generation Xerox: She inherited her mother's taste for marrying lazy sleazeballs.
Billy
Billy
An unseen figure referenced by several residents. Most notably, he's having an affair with Audrey Horne
- Ambiguous Situation: Who is Billy? Is there more than one Billy? Is the Billy Audrey knows even real?
- The Ghost: Never appears onscreen, but is namechecked repeatedly.
- Uncertain Doom: Several anecdotes mention Billy sustaining serious injuries. Unless they were being hyperbolic, it's possible Billy died offscreen.
Alice Tremond
Alice Tremond
Played by: Mary Reber
A resident of the house otherwise occupied by the Palmer family.
- Last Episode, New Character: She's in fact introduced in the last scene of the series.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Her last name is connected to known residents of the Black Lodge. However, she herself appears to be fully human. Nevertheless, she bought the house from the Chalfonts, who may or may not be the same people as the Tremonds and who are known as Reality Warper agents of the Lodge.
- Reality Warper: If not consciously acting on behalf of the Black or White Lodge herself, she certainly occupies the Palmer house as a result of their meddling.
Criminals
Red
Red
Played by: Balthazar Getty
A neurotic gangster with a penchant for odd magic tricks.
- Affably Evil: Will calmly threaten to saw open your skull and eat your brains right before he shows off his nifty coin trick.
- All Girls Want Bad Guys: Especially if their husband is a pillar of the community and too much of a good guy to do anything about Red's apparent homewrecker status. Shelly can attest to this, much to Bobby's disdain.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite his eccentricities, he's a competent and intimidating criminal.
- Expy: Like Mr. Eddy in Lost Highway, he definitely has a Frank Booth lite thing going on.
- Impossibly Awesome Magic Trick: Uses an odd coin trick to bewilder and intimidate rivals and potential recruits.
- Wicked Cultured: Really, what other gangbanger besides Red would talk about a Rogers and Hammerstein play while making convincingly sharp threats on your life?
Steven Burnett
Steven Burnett
Played by: Caleb Landry Jones
Becky's husband. Established to be an unemployable drug addict who can somehow afford designer drugs and a car.
- Addled Addict: He and Becky's main date activity seems to be getting high out of their gourd on designer drugs. His lack of day-to-day functionality is shown during his disaster of a job interview.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: Becky falls for Steven, a flaky drug addict who drives around Twin Peaks in his Cool Car and can't find a job.
- Domestic Abuser: His insistence on getting his wife high and addicted and his stubborn refusal to contribute to society definitely mark him as this. And then his insistence on screaming out and threatening to beat Becky for not being enough of a breadwinner to support him while he's unemployed.
- Driven to Suicide: Shoots himself offscreen in Part 15.
- Meaningful Name: "Burnett" doesn't sound that much different from "Burn Out."
- The Slacker: His laziness, only exacerbated by substance abuse, shows up all too clearly in his job interview with Mike Nelson's company.
- Troubled Abuser: Not as apparent as most examples, but still present. In addition to being a really terrible husband to Becky, he seems to struggle with his own demons culminating in a mental breakdown where he commits suicide.
Richard Horne
Richard Horne
Played by: Eamon Farren
A sleazy relative of Ben, Jerry, and Audrey Horne.
- Accidental Murder: A bad day interacting with Red leads to one. Whoops.
- The Aggressive Drug Dealer: Much like Leo Johnson in the first season.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: At least until they make the switch from "rebellious smoker" to "groping rapist."
- Asshole Victim: Nobody will cry a tear about him being killed off by energy surges in Episode 16.
- Ax-Crazy: He's violently unstable and prone to fits of explosive rage, and is in all likelihood a sociopath.
- Bastard Bastard: He's the illegitimate son of Audrey Horne, and to say the least an extremely unpleasant person with zero redeeming qualities.
- Berserk Button: Resents being called "kid" and generally not being taken seriously.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Initially fancies himself as a high-roller, but is quickly put in his place by older, more experienced criminals like Red and Coop's doppleganger.
- Black Sheep: Seems to be hated by the rest of his family, judging by the fact that his grandmother immediately demands that he leave after he pulls into her driveway. Given his behavior immediately after that, it's more than justified.
- Child by Rape: All but confirmed in Part 16 by his father, the doppelganger.
- Country Matters: Calls his grandmother this after breaking into her house, choking her out, and robbing her. Are you starting to get the idea of this guy yet?
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Ends up being electrocuted into nothingness, screaming in agony as he dies.
- Destroy the Evidence: Bribes Chad to withhold the letter sent by Miriam to the Twin Peaks' Sheriff's Department telling them she witnessed his Accidental Murder of a child. Chad withholds the evidence, but doesn't destroy it, possibly so that he has blackmail material on Richard for later if Richard double crosses him.
- A Dick in Name: Much like the other "Richard" (not the one in The Return) in the series, this guy is a dick.
- Dirty Coward: Is easily intimidated by anyone who isn't a child, old woman, smaller young woman, or obviously not-dangerous.
- Enfant Terrible: Strongly implied to have been just as much of a bad guy early on in life as he is by the time of The Return.Ben Horne: That boy was never right!
- Generation Xerox: The Hornes are established as one of Twin Peaks' most entitled families, and he is no exception.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Seeing how his father, Cooper's Doppelganger, is not of this world, he sort of is this.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: He reacts poorly when things don't go his way, and generally displays a very impulsive, violent personality.
- Hate Sink: Richard Horne is the sociopathic son of Audrey and a sleazy drug dealer, or rather a being from the Black Lodge, a place of evil beings who feed on human suffering. Richard establishes himself as a prick by threatening a girl with rape in public. Later after accidentally running over a child, Richard attempts to brutally murder a witness and bribes a cop into deleting evidence. He then brutalises and robs his own grandmother before calling her the c-word. Richard also displays indifference when his boss gets killed by Cooper's doppleganger.
- It's All About Me: When he runs down a child with his car, his only thought is how to evade capture by the cops.
- Jerkass: He's a very unpleasant person who cares only about himself, to the point where his response to committing Accidental Murder is to wonder how to get out of paying for it.
- Never My Fault: He blamed the child for running out into the street when he hit him.
- Offing the Offspring: Killed off by his father, Mr. C, who then confirms him as his son.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: We know this guy is scum when he starts groping a woman at the bar and demands to have sex with her whether she wants it or not.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Much like Ben Horne, but taken up a notch. Pays a hefty bribe to continue smoking in a non-smoking area.
- Sir Swears-a-Lot: Tends to let loose whenever he gets angry, which is often.
- Smoking Is Cool: His rebellious nature attracts a nearby young woman over to his table. He then proceeds to act disturbingly rapey.
- Smug Snake: He acts tough, but when he's up against real serious criminals like Red, he's easily cowed and intimidated.
- The Sociopath: No empathy for anyone, is Ax-Crazy, and will happily brutalise his own family as well as run down a kid whilst high on cocaine.
- Who's Your Daddy?: He is confirmed as the offspring of Cooper's doppelganger and Audrey Horne.
- Would Harm a Senior: He chokes and robs his own grandmother.
- Would Hit a Girl: Beats a local school teacher near to death after she threatens to go to the police to report him for manslaughter, and then shows up at his grandmother's house to hit her and then rob her! Not a nice guy.
- Would Hurt a Child: Doesn't really try to stop or even slow down when a child is crossing the street, and when he hits and kills him his main concern is for the police attention it'll bring him.
The Great Northern
Beverly Paige
Beverly Paige
- Played by Ashley Judd
An employee at the Great Northern Hotel who helps Ben Horne investigate strange occurrences.
- Awful Wedded Life: Her husband is dying of cancer as well as being a Crazy Jealous Guy.
- May–December Romance: Ben is extremely attracted to her and she's attracted to him despite a thirty year age difference between the actors. Averted when Ben Horne turns her down when she makes a romantic move.
- Naïve Newcomer: Beverly has no idea what an incredibly weird town she's come to live in.
- Nice Girl: Everything shows her to be a pleasant and personable individual.
Freddie Sykes
Freddie Sykes
- Played by Jake Wardle
James Hurley's friend, a night security guard at the Great Northern. At first pleasant and unassuming, but has a substantial role in defeating the series' Big Bad.
- Almighty Janitor: He's a night watchman at a hotel, but apparently has a great destiny to fulfill and has super strength.
- Big Damn Heroes: Twice in the same episode. First he punches open his cell door, which hits Chad in the face just as he's prepared to shoot Andy, and later he shatters BOB.
- The Chosen One: Chosen by the White Lodge to be the one to destroy BOB for good.
- Clingy MacGuffin: He mentions that when he tried to remove the glove initially, he started bleeding so he keeps it on all the time.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: His piledriver strength results in him leaving his cell at the police station to pummel the living daylights out of BOB.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: Freddie wears a green glove that gives him superhuman punching power. It's difficult to not think of this as a take on Hulk Hands
◊. - Hero of Another Story: Freddie lived in London before he was sucked into a void, where the Fireman told him to buy his super-powered glove and move to Twin Peaks to meet his destiny.
- Intergenerational Friendship: With James.
- Nice Guy: Quite good-natured and friendly.
- Power Fist: His right hand is permanently grafted to a gardening glove with, as the Fireman told him, "the power of an enormous piledriver."
- Super-Strength: His glove is strong enough to send two men to intensive care with just a small tap to the head.
- Unlikely Hero: He's an ordinary bloke from Britain who wasn't even born during the original series, doesn't work in law enforcement like some of the other protagonists, isn't interested in saving the world nor shares the spiritual inclinations of characters like Briggs and Cooper. Eventually, he punches out BOB through pure brute force gifted to him by the White Lodge.
