The Secret History of Twin Peak - Mark Frost

*3* Andrew Packard revisited
The document excerpted below, author unknown, was found in the Bookhouse. 1
A lifelong bachelor, who’d always played the field while devoting his life to business,
Andrew in 1983 did something completely out of character: he lost his heart to a young
Asian woman during a business trip to Hong Kong. Andrew traveled there on a two-week
state-sponsored trade mission to sell hardwood to emerging Eastern markets. He returned
with a blushing bride, and nearly a child bride at that.
Josie Packard. Her passport claimed she was from Taiwan, but she was born and raised in
an orphanage in a provincial region of mainland China. Her marriage license states she
was only nineteen at the time of their betrothal. Since she claimed not to speak English,
no one in Twin Peaks ever knew too much about her, which wasn’t helped by her
spending most of her time alone. The only friend Josie made here was Pete Martell, who
shared not only their large and empty house but also a lack of daily structure. (Pete’s
“management job” at the mill, for which he was well paid, had by this point become
ceremonial.)
Not long after she arrived, Pete made it a pet project to teach English to Josie. She got
fluent so quickly, anyone more curious than Pete would have asked whether she knew
more than she was letting on from the get-go. The same thing happened when he tried to