Subject: Re: Thoughts on the 5/123 finale
From: bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein)
Date: 1990-05-24, 11:24
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.twin-peaks: 24-May-90 Thoughts on the
5/123 finale Darryl Cate@m2.csc.ti.co (1859)

> > For one thing, I *still* don't know who killed Laura, and
> > putting all the clues together doesn't help at all.  

> > - Which of the suspects would have kissed Laura after
> >   washing his/her hands ?  Leland seems the likeliest for
> >   this, but it doesn't explain the letters under the nails.

I agree that Leland is probably the hand-washer/Laura-kisser.  As for
the letters under the nails, who knows?  I find it interesting, though,
that Teresa Banks had her first initial under her nail, and Laura had
*Ronette's* first initial under her nail.  Perhaps Leland responded to
the Flesh World ad, thought he was getting Ronette, couldn't tell it was
Laura (she was hooded?), and placed an `R' there (just as he placed a
`T' under Teresa's nail a year before)?  Sounds far-fetched, I know.

> > - Who disposed of the body ?  Why was it done so inefficiently ?
> >   I mean, found the next day.

My friend Mike McInerny, a TP virgin who read my summary and watched the
finale last night, came up with an interesting theory, on which I've
elaborated a bit:

    Leland goes nuts in the log cabin when he sees Laura.  He injures
    her badly.  Leo spirits Laura and Ronette away in his Corvette
    (leaving the unconscious Jacques and the raving Leland behind), but
    en route to wherever, Laura dies.  Leo wraps her body and leaves her
    near a train.  Ronette protests and Leo beats her up; Ronette runs
    off (down the train tracks).  Leo is about to follow her (possibly
    to finish her off, since she could implicate Leo in Laura's death),
    but someone is coming.  Leo splits.  The *Log Lady* arrives and
    finds Laura's body.  She pulls Laura into the boxcar of the train
    and, being somewhat kooky, performs a ritual.  She places Laura's
    necklace atop a mound of dirt and leaves the "Fire, walk with me"
    note (Margaret has a thing about fire and the devil).  Later,
    perhaps Leland finds Laura and gives her a burial at sea (er,
    river), and she washes up by the mill.

There are at least a dozen variations on this basic scenario, and
several different ways to order the sequence of events and even the
people involved, but does anyone like the way this premise sounds?

> > Of course Cooper had on his flak jacket.  

Whew.  Thank goodness :-).

> > On, to one *long* summer.

I heard *that*.

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