Subject: Animal in the train car scene
From: sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell)
Date: 1990-10-02, 00:08
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

Did anybody notice the unidentifiable animal in the railcar scene
at the end of the last episode?  

Close to the end of the scene, there is a long pan down Ronette's body, 
(i.e., Ronette in the railcar, not lying in the hospital bed) from head 
down to belly.  You hear a heavy breathing sound, with a slight mixture
of moaning, such as a person makes when they're falling asleep.  But
this not a human moan, it the moan of some very large beast.  The
camera pans up to what we must assume is Bob's hand...but what is his
hand resting on...?  It *looks* like the giant snout of an animal,
and the damn thing shudders in time to the breathing!  (Actually, on
the left side of the 'snout' you can see something that resembles
a human nose, but nothing else there looks like it could be a face.)
Next, the scene turns black and we find ourselves looking at Bob,
and he starts screaming...but it's not just his voice alone, there
are other people and perhaps animals screaming.

Animal sounds, heavy breathing, chorused voices standing for one voice...
these are all devices Lynch/Frost use to evoke scary, ritualistic
environments, so I may be imagining things...but I'm sure that I see
that 'snout' moving in time to the breathing sound!

Greg Sandell

p.s. Someone mentioned being able to see Leland's face in the Railcar.
I've freeze-framed through every frame in that scene, and I don't know
what he's talking about.  A few frames do catch Bob's face in a strange
way, but nothing like Leland's face.


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* Greg Sandell (sandell@ils.nwu.edu)              Evanston, IL *
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