Subject: How did Coop arrive so fast?
From: dupree@hpclpa.HP.COM (Chuck Dupree)
Date: 1990-09-18, 19:28
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

After reading the TP timeline, I was wondering if anyone else has
remarked on the small amount of time between 

1) Pete finding Laura's (?) body, and

2) Cooper arriving in Twin Peaks.

The body was found around sunrise.  The month is March, so sunrise
isn't terribly early.  Cooper arrives in TP at 11:30 or so, according
to the timeline (which I believe is correct).  That leaves about five
hours, give or take a little, during which the locals must examine the
evidence and determine that there is a murder, and that it involved
the crossing of state/national boundaries.  The body itself does not
seem to provide this evidence.  

Have I missed something, or did Cooper show up surprisingly fast?
Does anyone know where he was based?  Could he have made it to TP in
that amount of time?

Could the murderer be COOP?????  Or is he part of a plot to keep the
drug-runners going?  Or to get the mill land?

Probably all these are red herrings (or mistakes, even), but it keeps
one wondering.  Which is the point, after all.

- ced

P.S.  I recommend the Secret Diary to those who can stomach the heavy
material in it.  The writing's okay (rather than great), but the mood
is every bit as eerie as the show.  The diary does contain references
to heavy drug use, sadomasochistic sex and so on.  But it also gives
some interesting insights into the psyche of Laura.  After reading it,
I could be convinced that Laura was partly or largely responsible for
her own death.  

Unless BOB and DAD (=Leland) are related.  Perhaps Leland was jealous
of Ben's power over Laura?  After all, Laura's pony *really* came from
Ben, not from Leland...