Subject: New products (*SPOILERS* to 1st new episode)
From: jgp@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Pellman)
Date: 1990-09-13, 01:13
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Available this week:

- "Twin Peaks" soundtrack album, containing the instrumental music heard on
  the show, plus several Julee Cruise songs.  Music by Angelo Badalementi,
  lyrics by David Lynch.

- A paperback book, "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer", written by David
  Lynch's 22-year-old daughter, Jennifer.  According to an article in today's
  paper, Jennifer knows who the killer is, and "though the 184-page book is
  billed as containing definitve clues that lead to Laura's killer, it's not
  easy going.  Like the TV series, which ended its first season without
  disclosing the murderer, the book is crammed with red herrings, confusing
  twists, and oblique references."
  
  Will readers know who killed Laura, Jennifer was asked.  "The careful reader
  will know the clues and who the killer is," she replied.

- Along with "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer", Simon & Schuster has just
  released a 60-minute audio tape: "Diane ..." The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent
  Cooper.  You should be able to find it at any bookstore carrying "The Secret
  Diary of Laura Palmer".  Performed by Kyle MacLachlan, it includes all of the
  recordings Cooper made to Diane in the TV series, plus additional recordings
  which fill in other events we have seen or summarize the action in the show.

  It has many humorous moments (and a brief appearance by Lucy!), but the most
  interesting information comes at the end of the tape, when we hear Cooper's
  recordings AFTER he is shot.  Presumably these are things we will find out in
  the first episode of the new season.  I've summarized the most significant
  items below.  There are *SPOILERS* ahead, so if you don't want advance
  information, delete this message NOW.


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- Recorded via voice activation after being shot:

  - He was wearing a bulletproof vest "per Bureau regulations when working 
    undercover".

  - Things he regretted/would like to do: - have cracked the Lindbergh 
                                            kidnapping case
                                          - make love to a beautiful woman
                                          - visit Tibet
                              
- Summary given from hospital at 9:15 next morning:

  - Doc Hayward says he will live a "full normal life".  "Should be a new
    experience in and of itself."
  
  - "Leo Johnson checked in at approximately 5 AM, suffering a single gunshot 
    wound to the upper chest.  Condition critical."

  - "Jacques Renault apparently checked out a short time later, due to murder."

  - Pete Martell and Shelly Johnson are suffering from 2nd degree burns and 
    smoke inhalation.
  
  - Catherine Martell is missing, "possibly a victim of the fire."

  - Josie Packard is also missing.
  
  - Nadine is in serious condition.
  
- Summary of events at the cabin, as he now knows them:

  "At or about 1AM on the night of the murder, Leo Johnson, Laura Palmer,
  Jacques Renault, and Ronnette Pulaski arrived at Jacques' cabin together.
  The four of them were heard passing by the cabin of the Log Lady.
    
  "Upon reaching the cabin, they partied, drugs and liquor were consumed, Laura
  was tied up and had sexual relations with both Leo and Jacques.
  
  "Waldo, Jacques' bird, was let out of his cage, and attacked Laura.
    
  "Leo and Jacques fought.  Jacques went outside and passed out.  When he
  came to, Leo and the girls were gone.
  
  "What none of them knew was that a third man was outside watching.  He was
  heard passing by the Log Lady's cabin.
  
  "I believe that Leo then left alone, leaving Laura tied up, at which time the
  third man entered the cabin.
  
  "Several things support the notion that Leo was not involved in the actual
  murder, the strongest of which is that on the night of the Teresa Banks
  murder, Leo Johnson was in jail in Hungry Horse, Montana, on assault charges.
  
  "The third man then took Laura and Ronnette to the train car on foot.  Once
  inside, he killed Laura--a process that took him over an hour--during which,
  suffering from a severe blow to the head, Ronnette escape unobserved.
  
  "Five miles down the tracks from the train car, Deputy Hawk found a
  blood-soaked rag and several scraps of bleached paper.  The blood on the rag
  matches that used to write the note in the train car:  FIRE, WALK WITH ME.
  
  "The blood was not Laura's or Ronnette's, and it wasn't Jacques' or Leo's
  either.  It was a rare type: AB negative, and it belongs to the man who wrote
  that note--the third man, the killer."