Subject: Re: Conjectures and Questions
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1990-05-25, 14:45
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <9926@yoda.chips.com> bmay@yoda.UUCP (Brad May) writes:
>> >>Conjectures:
>> >>
>> >>1.  The man who beat up Jacoby is the same man who shot Cooper.  At
>> >>least, the clothing looked the same.  
> >
> >We saw the full body of Jacoby's attacker.  (After one viewing) he looked
> >too heavy set to be Bobby; he looked more like Leland to me than any other 
> >character.  One problem: why would Leland bring a ski mask if he were just 
> >following Madeleine around?

On single-framing through the attack on Jacoby, it's still very difficult
to figure out who the masked man is, but my guess is Leo. Leland has
bushy eyebrows, whereas the masked man doesn't seem to have any. Leo
doesn't have much in the way of eyebrows that I recall.

Incidentally, is it my imagination or is that mask rather strange? It's
like it's much too small for the person wearing it. The eyeholes extend
way above the eyes, there's a hole for the nose, but none for the mouth.
I haven't worn one of these in years, but don't they generally have a
hole for the mouth, and cover the nose?

> >We never see the full body of Cooper's attacker.  I'm not a gun expert, but
> >the gun looked very distinctive, not at all like Shelly's or Catherine's.

The gun is definitely not the same one either of them had. Catherine had
a chromed revolver, Shelley had a chromed automatic (looked like a
Beretta .380), whereas the shooter's gun was a small-caliber blued
automatic with a silencer. It looked like a Hi-Standard .22 to me, but
looking down the barrel makes it a bit difficult to tell.

> >Also, look at the shooter's hand.  It looked small to me, like a woman's,
> >and was gloved, which people have noted is often used to hide gender.  

It didn't look small to me. There really isn't anything that provides
a scale, but the hand is completely wrapped around the grip of the pistol
and the trigger finger extends pretty far on the other side of the gun.
It's either a fairly large hand or a very small gun.

> >Last,
> >Cooper appeared to recognize the person at the door.

Was it recognition, or surprise that it wasn't room service?

> >My guess is Josie.  Think of the conversation with Hank: "You want a lot
> >for your money; I want a lot for my time."  I take this to mean his time in
> >jail is a big sacrifice for $90,000 and he wants Josie to do something for
> >him to make up the "difference".  That is to kill Cooper, who he is afraid
> >will figure it out and send him back to jail. Hank also says (not verbatim)
> >"Now what if you discover that there are circumstances [an FBI agent nosing
> >around on another case] that could result in ... 20 years being snatched
> >away from you."  He must really have something on Josie to blackmail her
> >into killing somebody!

Give me a break. Josie pays Hank to kill her husband for her and he's
going to expect her to kill someone for him? Be real. If she were capable
of killing someone, she'd kill Hank, solving a whole slew of problems
at once. But she isn't, which is why she hired Hank in the first place.

Hank is telling Josie that, because of the possibility that the investi-
gation into Andrew Packard's death may be reopened and he may be 
convicted of that murder and sent to jail for 20 years or more, he
wants more money than the $90,000 she's paid him.

Clear?

-- Dave Mack