Subject: Slimy Leland & Pilot Preview (Re: Continuation of Cooper)
From: hekunze@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Date: 1990-09-16, 19:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Craig Hotchkiss writes:
> > Logic:  Leland knows that Agent Cooper can easily deduce who killed Jacques 
> > because he was at the police station and asked about suspect to Harry and the
> > other doctor.  

  I have been trying to convince my local fellow TP viewers that Leland is
  not necessarily deranged, but quite sane in his actions to cover up the
  fact that he had sex with his daughter.  

  I think that Leland was the Heavy Breather that beat up Dr. Jacoby at the
  gazebo.  As you recall, he was sitting on his sofa in the dark when
  Maddy left the house imitating Laura.  It's quite possible that Leland
  followed her.

  Leland acted quite sanely in killing Jacques.  He deliberately tied off
  Jacques' free hand to avoid any struggling, a sign of good planning.  
  The question is: did he kill Jacques because of Jacques' implied
  involvement in his daughter's death?  Or did he kill Jacques to silence
  him because Leland himself was somehow involved in this can of worms?
  I suspect that the second case is possible.  Perhaps Leland was actually
  at Jacques' cabin when Laura was involved in an orgy (from Laura's 
  secret diary).  The graveyard scene kind of implied that there was 
  something incestuous going on, too.  

  In any case, assuming that silencing Jacques was his motive, he may 
  have pannicked and begun to think that Jacques may have already spilled
  the beans to Cooper.  Hence, he went over to the Great Northern and
  figured to put Cooper out of his misery.  

  For a while, I thought that Leland may have actually been Laura's killer,
  and that somehow he'd be the physical link to the dreamy BOB, but that
  seems rather unlikely after reading the secret diary.

  The pilot episode preview was also rather intriguing.  Whilst killer
  BOB's visage fades in and out of near-focus, an as yet unseen (dream?)
  character says:

  "Three have seen him, yes."    Okay.  There's Mrs. Palmer in her vision,
                Cooper in his dream where Mike mentions him,
 and Laura (who has seen him, from the secret
 diary).

  (Or did he say, "3. Many have seen him, yes" or something to that effect?
   I didn't tape this, so I'm going on what I scribbled down while it was
   happening.  Perhaps he was enumerating the final item on his list of
   three things he was going to tell Cooper.  He did start with "I will
   tell you three things...".)
 
  "But not his body."            Mrs. P and Cooper haven't, and it's hard to
 say whether Laura dreamed him or not from
 her diary.  She may have only seen him in
 hallucinations & dreams.  
  "One only, known to you."      Huh?  So, one person has actually seen 
 BOB's body and Cooper knows him?  I suppose
 this fourth person has not had a vision or
 dream of BOB and, hence, can be ingored in
 the first sentence.
  
  In any case, we get from this that BOB is, in fact, a bona fide physical
  person (or the dreamy killer BOB is linked to an actual person).  
  I don't know what to make of it yet, but it's gonna be one hell of a pilot.
  
  Herb...