Episode 1: "Tricks" - September 1969
Featuring: Glenne Headly (Darliene), Freddie Jones (Lou), Harry Dean Stanton (Moe)

Edited by Mary Sweeney
Executive Producers: Monty Montgomery and David Lynch
Produced by Deepak Nayar
Written by Barry Gifford
Directed by David Lynch

Summary:
A man named Moe brings a hooker back to his hotel room (603 of course) for some fun. Things are tense, but soon Moe gets into things. Just after Moe pays Darliene, Lou shows up. Moe is upset that Lou is there. Lou starts chatting with Darliene and tells her about driving through Iowa with his late wife Phylicia. Moe gets pissed that Lou is talking about Phylicia. Moe tells Lou about a movie actress who recently died that had the same birthday as Phylicia. Darliene mentions she was a cheerleader in high school. Moe begs Lou to leave. Darliene performs a cheer, then collapses from being so stoned. Lou has sex with her while Moe watches. Afterwords, she tells Lou more of her life history. Lou leaves to use the bathroom while Darliene gets dressed. Moe mentions that Phylicia was a cheerleader as well, and that she was his wife, not Lou's. Darliene tells Moe she thinks this is all some weird game they like to play. Moe and Lou get upset and try to attack Darliene. She barely escapes when the maid shows up. Moe and Lou talk some more in the room. Lou slips a wallet into Moe's jacket pocket as they talk. Lou leaves and tells Moe not to wait too long before leaving. A while later, the police show up looking for Lou. The pick up Moe's jacket and find the wallet with all of Lou's stuff in it as well as a fake ID with Lou's name but Moe's picture. They arrest Moe for the murder of Phylicia.

Comments:
The story doesn't make a lot of sense, but Harry Dean Stanton and Freddie Jones' performances are outstanding.
How did Lou and Moe meet in the first place?

Episode 2: "Getting Rid of Robert" - June 1992
Featuring: Griffin Dunne (Robert), Deborah Unger (Sasha), Mariska Hargitay (Tina), Chelsea Field (Diane).

Edited by David Siegel
Executive Producers: Monty Montgomery and David Lynch
Produced by Deepak Nayar
Written by Jay McInerney
Directed by James Signorelli

Summary:
The bellboy escorts Sasha to her room where she's going to meet her boyfriend Robert, something they've apparently done many times in the past. While waiting, Sasha gets a call from her friends Tina and Diane who are downstairs. They come up to the room. Tina shows Sasha her new antique fireplace poker and gives her a book. Tina and Sasha discuss marriage: Tina sees no need for it but Sasha is obsessed with getting married. Tina tells Sasha she shouldn't ruin a good thing, not having to see Robert very often but having access to his money. Sasha tells her that Robert is being unfaithful to her while he's in L.A.. She knows this because she has the code for his answering machine. They all listen to his messages. They ask Sasha what she's going to do about it. The maid comes and accidently nearly hits Sasha with the wine bottle cork. Sasha gets upset and tries to call the manager. Tina quickly usher's the maid out the door. They reherse what Sasha's going to do when Robert shows up. They also discuss sex and past relationships. Sasha lets on that she's seeing someone new, Tom Walsh. Unfortunately, Tina and Diane tell her that he just got married yesterday. It comes out that Tina used to go out with Robert years ago. Robert arrives. Tina and Robert talk about old times. Robert tells everyone about his current successes. The maid brings more wine and Sasha tries to attack her again. Tina and Diane leave. Robert tells Sasha they should stop seeing each other. Sasha gets upset and wants an explaination. Robert tells her it's because she's not a nice person, she's a bitch and then starts to spell it out for her: B is for bad, I is for egomanic (close enough), T is for terrorist, C is for cunt. Robert stops before actually saying C, but Sasha knows that's what he was going to say. She then proves just how nice she really is by hitting him over the head with the fireplace poker. The maid walks into the room while Sasha is trying to move Robert's body. Robert is seriously hurt and the maid tries to help him. Sasha tells Robert he really hurt her with his words. As he lies there bleeding, she tells him she doesn't understand how he could say she's not nice. Robert apologizes for what he said and Sasha makes the maid leave. Robert and Sasha make up.

Comments:
This the most normal of the three episodes, and also the only one not done by Lynch/Gifford.
Sasha and her friends are all pretty phony. Notice how Diane gives out her phone number in front of Robert and is sure to mention that it's listed.

Episode 3: "Blackout" - April 1936
Featuring: Crispin Glover (Danny), Alicia Witt (Diana).

Edited by Toni Morgan
Executive Producers: Monty Montgomery and David Lynch
Produced by Deepak Nayar
Written by Barry Gifford
Directed by David Lynch

Summary:
There's a blackout in NewYork city. A man named Danny had gone out to get some food for his wife and is returning. The Bellboy helps Danny back to his room (603 again). They find his wife sitting in the dark with her hands over her eyes. The bellboy leaves them with some laterns and goes. Danny and his wife talk. It turns out that she has a mental problem because of her son's death two years ago (he drowned), and they are in New York to see the doctor. Diana talks about seeing the "city of lights." The doctor calls to check up on them. Diana collapses with a fever. Just then, the lights come back on and they look out the window to finally see the city of lights.

Comments:
The episodes is basicly just two people talking. If anyone other than Gifford/Lynch has done this, it would have been a disaster.
Alicia Witt gives an outstanding performance as Diana, going between reality and crazyness.

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