Subject: Re: Twin Peaks - Season Finale - Everybody dies and we all go home.
From: arens@ISI.EDU (Yigal Arens)
Date: 1990-05-24, 16:09
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <6354@scolex.sco.COM> hannan@sco.COM (Rosebud...) writes:
> >
> > In article <873@Intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU>, bgingric@intrepid.ECE.UKans.EDU (Barry Gingrich) oozed:
> > ==> 
> > ==> Leo:      Shot by Hank, looks like he died.  The Invitation to Love bit
> > ==>           again was apropos.
> >
> > i don't think leo DIES.  andy says, on the phone after cooper
> > goes to answer the door to "room service," leo's been shot.
> > (not killed).  i'm certain he would have said, "leo's dead,"
> > if he was.

I'm not so sure.  For their inquiry into Laura Palmer's case, it is
certainly important to know if Leo is alive or dead.  However, from
their point of view as law officers the fact that Leo was *shot* (as
opposed to died in a car accident or from a heart attack) is very
significant.  It means someone did the shooting, and it means more
investigations.  So it would make reasonable sense for a Andy to
choose to emphasize the deliberate nature of the death, as opposed to
the outcome alone.

Of course, it's still possible that Leo did not die.  But I don't
think the words used on the phone prove so.
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