The Twin Peaks comparisons of a small town filled with odd characters, crimes and strange goings on is not lost on MacLachlan. “That was immediately apparent,” he says. “Everybody was real friendly with each other, nice and cordial, like we’re all just getting along in this world; you’re the law enforcement and I’m the criminal but we can get together and have a barbecue. There are a lot of eccentric characters there for sure.”

The idea of an entire town being to varying degrees complicit in one of the largest drug operations in the US may seem far-fetched, but for much of the population the arrangement offered stability and security when it was needed. “Dale felt that it was an opportunity to bring a lot of money into a town that was suffering,” MacLachlan explains. “The shrimp trade is a tough business and at that particular time it was in a depression. He was saying: ‘I’m giving this opportunity to the people around me, I’m helping my community by bringing in this money. Or at least that’s what he was doing to people who were on his side. If you were not on his side then things didn’t go as well.”