Subject: Re: 11/17.
From: csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack)
Date: 1990-11-19, 21:10
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1990Nov19.190623.519@mdivax1.uucp> mdivax1!bb30c!jbrindle (Jennifer Brindle) writes:
> >In article <16466@csli.Stanford.EDU> alper@csli.Stanford.EDU (Ted Alper) writes:
> >
>> >>2) Mike either DID something in his fight against BOB or will be thought
>> >>   by the police to have done something nasty. The escape and recapture-
>> >>   near-the-falls (near maddy's body) ought to have some future 
>> >>   significance. Then again, maybe not.
> >
> >I think there is a great deal of significance to that.  I think that Leland/
> >BOB knows that MIKE is after him and since he overheard Truman yelling to
> >Cooper that they found Gerrard near the waterfall, he decided to try to
> >frame him by placing the body near the waterfall too.  Whaddyathink?

If so, BOB is a dimwit. Placing the body anywhere with the intention
that it be found guarantees that Leland gets nailed on his story
about dropping Maddy off at the bus station. And since Gerard was in
custody both at the time of Maddy's murder and when her body was
discovered, with only a few hours missing at midday, and since Truman
and Cooper have him sniffing up Ben's pantleg for BOB spoor *after*
they recaptured him, it seems unlikely to me that they'll assume he
had anything to do with Maddy.

There is something very bizarre about MIKE's BOB-detection ability: it
doesn't seem to work worth a damn. When he has his fit in the GN, there's
no evidence that Leland/BOB is anywhere near (in fact, isn't he at home
learning that Maddy plans to return to Missoula the next morning?), but
when L/B is doing his Fred Astaire number in the lobby, we hear nary a
peep from him, although he's being held in the same building. He's sound
asleep, aside from a slight stump twitch. 

-- Dave Mack