Subject: Re: Laura and J-Crew
From: sherman@oak.math.ucla.edu (William Sherman)
Date: 1990-09-11, 19:06
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: sherman@math.ucla.edu (William Sherman)

In article <35579@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> riacmt@ubvmsa.cc.buffalo.edu writes:
> >What about Josie?  Her name wasn't on the board.  In any case,

Yes, it was.

> >it is likely that Laura DID see Jacoby and Leo on the night
> >she died, even though neither killed her.  Could it be that

She certainly saw Leo (and it wasn't just to say hello), but
I doubt that she saw Jacoby (although Jacoby followed her to
the mill road before losing sight of Leo's Corvette).  And
how do we know Leo didn't really do it after all?  The only
reasoning I've heard so far is that Leo would be 'too
obvious'.  Leo's still the chief suspect, as far as I'm
concerned.

> >"Laura" found out that Josie had her husband killed and was
> >blackmailing her?  That might also explain how she got (was
> >going to get) the money for the cocaine deal with Leo.  

I thought that this was from Bobby and Mike.  See their conversation
in their cell.  The amount they discussed was equal to the amount
that Cooper & Truman found in her safety-deposit box.

> >Remember when Cooper and Truman go to see Josie to ask her some
> >questions?  She said that Laura said (something like):  "Now
> >I know what it must have felt like to lose your husband."

If Laura was blackmailing Josie about this, I doubt very much
whether Josie would say that to them.  What could she have to lose
by not telling?  And we know that she's perfectly willing to
keep secrets from Harry.

> >And remember the wounds on Laura's body?  Like little "pecks" or
> >holes.  Sometimes logs (from lumber mills) have little holes
> >like that made in them as they are "gripped" and sent down
> >the line to be made into boards.

Albert says that they're bird bites.  Waldo strikes again.  Albert
may be a jerk but he's an expert.  I believe him.

> >I say "Laura" (note the quotation marks) because I too believe
> >that Laura and Madelain swapped places.

I'm getting very skeptical of this theory.  If Madeleine was really Laura,
I think that her father, mother, best friend and secret lover would
be able to tell.

> >The theory above would also be consistent with the notion that
> >the Oriental fellow in the hotel is associated with Josie and
> >fired the shots at Cooper.  Perhaps Cooper was getting too close
> >to finding out things about Josie.  Maybe, too, the Oriental 

I don't think he's close at all.  Cooper is suspicious of her,
but is willing to trust Harry's positive opinion of her (see
Coop & Harry's conversation immediately before going to O.-E. J.'s)

> >fellow is an officer of the law like Cooper and has tracked
> >Josie to Twin Peaks.  It is possible that this last husband
> >was not the only one she bumped off before taking the fellow's
> >entire estate.

I believe that one.  He's a detective.  Josie's got a mysterious
past.

> >Trust me!  Josie may turn out to be the most rotten apple in the
> >bunch!!

We already know that she's no angel.  Confirmation will be forthcoming
in the next (final) episode.

I hope this posting doesn't sound like I'm picking on the person
who wrote the original one.  It just seemed that there was a lot
to respond to, and I had some time to kill.


 Bill Sherman sherman@math.ucla.edu
"Show that the median, hce che ech, interecting at royde angles the
parilegs of a given obtuse one biscuts both the arcs that are in
curveachord behind."    Joyce, _Finnegans Wake_