Subject: Ronnette's Flashback of Killer BOB
From: hekunze@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Herb Kunze)
Date: 1990-10-02, 08:32
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

After reading posts saying that BOB looked a bit like Leland (or Albert!)
I went through the final scene of the pilot at slow speeds varying from
1/4 speed to frame-by-frame and have some interesting results.  

First off, BOB looks exactly like Frank Silva, the actor who has always
played BOB.  I found no real resemblance to any other TP character.

Second, and perhaps more strange and perhaps even interesting, I noticed
something amidst the superposed images at the beginning of Ronnette's
flashback.  I ran the VCR in slow-motion from the moment the railway
car appears on screen.  If you recall, the first interior scene has
BOB squatting on the floor next to Laura's prone body.  There's a flash
of light and then a sequence of BOB running towards the viewer is
superposed on the railway interior, ending in a flash as BOB snaps  
his mouth shut.  In the slow-motion mode (or better yet, frame-by-frame)
you can see that the running image of BOB is running through a doorway 
with a wood frame and you can even make out the shape of objects on the
wall coming off the doorway.  If you rewind the tape a mere minute or
two to the point when we first enter the hospital for this scene, there
is a shot down the main hallway in the hospital (that leads into other
hallway shots).  The framed doorway in that hospital shot, complete
with neighbouring walls and fixtures is the same doorway that BOB
comes running through in Ronnette's dream.  Jeez, I didn't think that
an explanation of this would be so complicated - I guess you'll just
have to try it if you can; it'll be difficult without special effects
on your VCR.  What does this mean?  I'm not sure.  Any ideas?  Right
after BOB's mouth snaps shut, we return to the scream-filled innards
of the train-car.

Finally, in watching this scene several times and before noticing the
doorway thing, I was almost ready to believe that "killer" BOB came
running to the train-car *after* Laura had reached the point of no
return and tried in vain to keep her alive!  All his screaming seems
to be heavily laced with grief and those pounding down motions may
actually be attempts to keep her heart beating.  My roommates seem
to like this idea anyway.

Hopefully we'll get some clues on this on Saturday.  But in the mean
time, does anybody have any insight?

                                                          Herb...