Subject: Re: Why Hank Shot Leo, was Re: The Final Episode, Season I From: saustin@bbn.com (Steve Austin) Date: 1990-09-17, 18:28 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks twain@blake.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes: > >Oh, just kidding around. That's a very good question, actually. Don't > >you think it has something to do with Hank covering his complicity in > >the conspiracy to burn the mill? Hank is on parole, Leo knows that Hank > >is involved in the plot. Last I heard, conspiracy to commit a felony > >was reason enough to revoke someone's parole. But Leo worked for Hank. In the previous episode, when Hank got out of jail one of the first things he did was to beat up Leo and (retrospectively) warn him "I asked you to mind the store, not open up a franchise." The obvious business was the drug running operation, but I'm not sure if that was the "franchise". Hank is in business with Jose - one wonders what the business is. Presumably Leo was "for the chop" for a pretty long time and it looks like the bosses are Hank and Jose, since Jose has connived to get Ben to hire Leo to burn the mill. Since Ben specified that Leo was to make arson obvious, presumably one layer of the multiple double cross was that Leo get posthumous credit for it - thus leaving nobody for the insurance agencies to talk to. Also, the "helthy" set of books will help lower the suspicion of an insurance fraud. I wonder what status Ben has. He is obvously a baddie, but I don't know whether he is using Jose or being used - or whether they are co-parteners. Steve Austin