Subject: Re: sheriff finding out about laura
From: lister@portia.Stanford.EDU (Dan Karp)
Date: 1990-08-16, 14:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <23711@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> kristyp@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Kristy Patterson) writes:
> >In article <90227.194138R2Y@psuvm.psu.edu> R2Y@psuvm.psu.edu (Robin) writes:
>> >>Has anyone else noticed that when Pete calls up the sheriff after finding 
>> >>Laura's body he says something like "she's dead".  Unless Lynch cuts Pete's 
>> >>telling that he found Laura Palmer (which seems awfully important to mention 
>> >>here) the sheriff already knows who is going to be dead.  Is this stretching
>> >>it too far?
> >
> >But Pete doesn't know.  If you'll remember, the police showed up, Andy took
> >pictures of the body face-down, from all angles, and THEN they turned it over
> >and found out who it was, at which point the doctor says "My God!  It's Laura"
> >or something to that effect, and the sheriff says something like "Laura 
> >Palmer."  So it seems that Pete didn't know it was Laura Palmer, so he 
> >couldn't tell the sheriff, and the sheriff didn't know until they uncovered 
> >the face.

(Sorry if I mis-remember, as I'm seeing Twin Peaks for the first time as it
   is re-run over the summer)

What puzzled me about Pete Martell's discovery of Laura's body is that, when
   he called Sheriff Truman with his discovery, the Sheriff never asked who
   exactly was "dead; wrapped in plastic."

This could be another instance of bits being omitted to preserve the mood
   (see the earlier discussion on whether Sheriff Truman actually told
   Mr. Palmer, "Laura's dead."), but it seems rather odd that Harry would rush
   off to the mill without even asking the identity of the corpse.

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