I like the Dougie storyline, also.
My only complaint is that the show needs more Wally Brando. 😉
Like the proverbial hole in the head.
Or, for any Robert Rankin fans:
With the chuffing corner up, it does.
I also like the Dougie storyline. It was completely unexpected. It has been unpredictably funny, aggravating, stupid, puzzling, etc. Just wait until we are all crying along when the inevitable heartbreak hits this storyline.
Which is where I think the part title - "There's some fear in letting go" comes from, and especially because I'm convinced that is when Dougie Coop will have the mother of epiphanies realising he's Special Agent Dale Cooper based on the dial in the pink / lilac room starting with 3 and changing to 15. These, until I'm proven wrong (highly likely) refers the parts, in 3 you'll change, in 15, you'll change back.
Don't forget another portal, #6 the electric pole...seen in episode 6 (probably Chester Desmond disappeared in this portal in FWWM).
If I understand, in episode 15 Dougie is going to return to portal #3 (the electric plug in Rancho Rosa, seen in episode 3).
Dale Cooper is going back in episode 15 ? How ?
The answer in 8 days !