Subject: Who shot Cooper?
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Date: 1990-10-04, 13:30
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

  Q: Why was the person who shot Cooper wearing a mask?

  A: Because he or she did not want to be identified by Cooper.

  Q: But wasn't Cooper supposed to be dead?

  A: No.  The idea was to incapacitate him.  The assailant knew
     Cooper was wearing a bulletproof vest.  If it hadn't been for
     the tick, he wouldn't have been seriously wounded.

  Q: Who shot Cooper? 

  A: It had to be somebody who knew about the vest, which would
     suggest a participant in the stakeout.  Harry Truman is a 
     good suspect because (1) He just seemed to have too much
     emotion when he asked Cooper if he got a good look at the
     gunperson. (2) He seemed to be reaching for his gun in the
     scene where he rushes out of Leo's apartment to see Andy and
     Albert.

     Unfortunately, Harry Truman seems well over the 5 feet 10
     Albert specifies as the gunperson's maximum height.  The
     same applies to Ed Hurley and Hawk.  Andy was on the phone.

     Maybe I'm overlooking somebody, but Josie, acting on in-
     structions from Harry, is the best I can think of.  Lucy
     is another possibility, but I can't think of any motive.

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