Subject: Re: Thoughts on the 5/123 finale
From: guest@mango.CES.CWRU.Edu (Guest User)
Date: 1990-05-24, 11:22
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Here's a theory, based on what me and a few friends worked out...

First:  we think that Leland's was having an incestuous affair with
Laura.

Second:  We know that Laura had sex with THREE men the night she died - 
Leo, Jacques, and the third man, the killer.

Third:  Leland has been degenerating as the series progressed - kind of like
in Macbeth.  

Fourth:  Leland killed Jacques.

Fifth:  As a lawyer, Leland may well have known the details of Teresa Banks'
murder the year before, even down to the letter under the fingernail.

So:  Leland was the third man to have sex with Laura the night of her death,
and in fact was the one who killed her.  He killed Jacques to eliminate one
of the witnesses to the murder.  And I'll bet he knew that Hank was going to
get Leo (Leland's a lawyer, remember...maybe he defended hank in the first 
place, before he went to jail?)

This theory wraps up a few loose ends: the letter under the fingernail?  If
we assume that Leland knew about Teresa Banks, we can guess that he planted 
the "R" under Laura's fingernail to make it appear that there was a 
connection.  Same for all the ritualistic stuff surrounding the killing.

Why did he do it?  Several reasons.  He was ashamed of what she'd become, he
was afraid others might find out about her sordid secret life (and he might 
even be IMPLICATED HIMSELF in that sordid life, as a lawyer), and maybe he
wanted to set up Leo and Jacques to be rid of them, for whatever reasons...

So, what do y'all think?