Cooper takes black coffee at the Packard house.

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Dale Cooper

Black as midnight on a moonless night.

— Twin Peaks · 1990

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Cooper gives a small preference the language of a landscape. His seriousness about coffee is part of his curiosity about everything around him.

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In Traces to Nowhere, Pete offers coffee to Cooper and Truman at the Packard house. Cooper answers a question about how he takes it with a description as precise as it is theatrical. His delight in everyday rituals survives alongside the murder investigation.

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