In Twin Peaks Part 4 on Showtime, Dougie Jones gets a complementary limousine ride home from the Silver Mustang Casino after hitting 30 Mega-Jackpots and winning $425,000. This brief driving scene was actually shot in the same neighborhood where Dougie Jones’ home was located in Southern California. The scene is similar to other driving scenes in Twin Peaks, such as the Drive to Deer Meadow or Ray Monroe driving Mr. C. Thanks to the magic of editing, it feels like they drive farther than they actually do. Let’s explore!
WHERE IS THE LIMO RIDE FROM SILVER MUSTANG CASINO TO JONES’ HOME LOCATED?
You may recall that Dougie Jones’ home is located on Lancelot Court in Las Vegas, Nevada. In reality, the home is located at 25140 Huston Street in Stevenson Ranch, California. It’s the home with a red door as seen in the bottom left side of the image above.
The Jones’ home and neighboring houses were constructed around 2003 in the Crescent Moon subdivision of the planned Parkside Stevenson Ranch Community. I found a newspaper clipping in The Signal from April 20 that year describing the new area. Greystone Homes constructed 67 houses with four bedrooms, three baths and from 2,310 to 2,729 square feet of interior living space.
Sold for approximately $400,000, the houses featured Greystone’s innovative “Everything’s Included” (EI) program. Many standard features in the homes were included such as slab granite countertops, microwave oven in the kitchen, dishwasher, refrigerator and built-in select-cleaning electronic oven.
According to the Behind the Curtain footage from the Twin Peaks: From Z to A Collection, the limo scene was shot on January 25, 2016. The image above has Naomi Watts seeing David Lynch as the crew prepares the location for the shoot.
LIMO RIDE FROM SILVER MUSTANG CASINO TO JONES’ HOME
The scene opens with Dougie sitting in the back of the limo clutching his bag of money from the Silver Mustang. That’s image “1” above on the overview map.
The scene was shot further down the street from the Jones’ home. Notice the light pole next to the tree. It’s the only one like it on Huston Street.
The scene eventually cuts to a view of the back of the Limo Driver (played by Jay Larson). Out the front window we can see a street with a light pole at the end of it. It appears they are actually on Oliver Way, which is around the corner from Huston Street.
The scene cuts back to Dougie, which was shot while on Huston Street. Notice the unique mailboxes seen outside the window.
Cutting back to the view outside the front window, the limo is seen turning left from Huston Street onto Oliver Way. No wonder the Limo Driver couldn’t find Dougie’s home – he already drove past it.
The home with the four windows on the white garage is located at 25017 Oliver Way. The scene continues through the turn with additional houses passing by.
Here’s a better look at the home at 25017 Oliver Way.
The home at 25023 Oliver Way – notice the stone front which matches the home in the episode.
The home at 25029 Oliver Way also has a white garage with windows.
You can see the two trees tied together and the green electric box in front of the homes located at 25029 and 25037 Oliver Way.
After completing the turn, we see the back of the Limo Driver again as the car is facing toward Gale Drive. The white mailboxes were the clue to finding this spot.
Meanwhile, we cut back to Dougie Jones still holding his bag of cash. The reaction scenes were actually shot on the other side of Gale Drive from where the previous scene took place. The Limo Driver will turn left onto Huston Street in the scene.
As the turn is being made, the scene returns to looking at the back of the driver while he is still on Oliver Street.
Most likely, there were multiple takes for this entire driving sequence. First, the crew capture Kyle MacLachlan’s reaction shots and lines as Dougie Jones. Then the crew capture the back of the limo driver scenes, before capturing any scenes of the homes from outside the car. When editing, they pulled the best scenes which accounts for it being out of order. Most viewers probably won’t even recognize the location changes.
The scene returns to Dougie now on Huston Street. Again, those white mailboxes were so helpful with identifying the locations.
My favorite find was the white van that the limo passes by on the way to Dougie’s house. You can see the same van parked IN THE SAME SPOT on this Google Street View image from 2011.
The Limo Driver finally spots Dougie’s “red door” and stops the car to point.
With that, we have arrived home … and to the end of this story.
