Subject: Re: Sarah and Leland's revelation
From: austern@ux5.lbl.gov (Matt Austern)
Date: 1990-08-16, 00:15
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <107244@tiger.oxy.edu>, eclipse@oxy (Lynn Alyn Tanner) writes:
> >Hi, guys. About Leland and Sarah's revelation that Laura was dead, I
> >think that David Lynch did an excellent job in building the tension and
> >not bluntly revealing the facts. My interpretation is that, while Leland
> >was still saying "Maybe she's out with Bobby. . ." and Sarah has just
> >exhausted her last possibility(maybe she went with Leland. . .), the
> >realization that something is terribly wrong hits Sarah first (Mother's
> >intuition?) and quickly spreads to Leland.

There's a line in one of Agatha Christie's novels (Which one?  I have
no idea.) in which Hercule Poirot explains how he solves a murder: he
gets to know the victim.  Once he understands well enough who the
victim was, and why it was inevitable that he died, he says that the
victim himself will reveal the name of the killer.

It's already clear in the first episode, and becomes even clearer
later on, that Laura's death was inevitable because of who she was and
what she was involved in.  (The clearest expression of this, I think,
is the conversation in the penultimate episode between Jacoby and
Bobbie.)

Did Laura's parents understand anything about who she was, or did they
think she was a sweet, clean-cut teenager?  I think that they must, at
least, have had suspicions; if that's so, then their terror becomes
much easier to understant.

(Additionally, Sarah Palmer really is psychic.  Her vision at the end
of the first episode is an indication of that, and certain later
events can be explained no other way.)
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