Subject: Re: Slimy Leland & Pilot Preview (Re: Continuation of Cooper)
From: wz7x@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Date: 1990-09-17, 16:23
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Herb Kunze writes: 
> >   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.

Leland may have pulled a Jack Ruby.  He could have killed Jacques so that 
Jacques would be unable to defend himself from the murder allegation.  Thus, 
Leland may be hoping that the investigation will stop at Jacques.  Jacques
may have only known as much as he told Cooper.

Paul Iverson