Subject: Re: one stone at a time, ma'am
From: dpray@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (Dipankar Ray)
Date: 1990-11-24, 21:40
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Reply-to: dpray@volcano.Berkeley.EDU (Ice)

pouncy@campus.swarthmore.edu writes:
> >4) What's now left for the 'Ben-did-it' people?

After 11/10 and 11/17, very very little.

> >a) The OAM has pointed at him and during his jail visit he stated
> >that BOB was very close but not here NOW.

The OAM hasn't pointed at Ben.  And, though I don't recall the OAM's exact
words, yes, Leland wasn't with Ben at that moment.  Although he really
should have been, as Ben's usual mouthpiece.  Lucky break for BOB.

> >b) Would Leland have hung out with low-life like Jacques and Leo 
> >on the night of Laura's murder? More Ben's types surely?

Remember.  Cooper and Albert's theory is that Laura and Ronnette went to
Jacques' cabin with Jacques and Leo.  Not the mysterious Third Man.  He came
later, after both Jacques and Leo had left, and led the two girls away from
the cabin, and ended up with them in the train car.

> >c) Why indeed has Leland become more careless after forty years of
> >meticulously planned acts of evil?

Who knows?  If Ben-did-it, ask the same question.  Same answer.  So what?

> >Doesn't BOB want to get Leland caught as others have suggested?

Maybe.  Maybe not.  We don't know yet.

> >d) Is BOB\Leland a one man crime wave in Twin Peaks responsible for almost
> >every act of violence except the brutal assassination of Waldo?

And the murder of Bernard Renault, and the burning of the mill, and the
murder of Andrew Packard, and ...

Leland is not the lone perpetrator of crime in TP.  Is Ben?  No.  So what?

> >Did he kill Theresa Banks,

Appears so.

> >stab Laura,

Killed her?  Appers so.  Stabbed her?  No.  Laura wasn't stabbed.

> >bludgeon Maddie,

Gee.  You missed the 11/10 episode?  No wonder you're still Ben-did-its.

> >assault Ronette,

In the train car?  Appears so.

> >shoot agent Cooper,

Probably not.

> >smother Jacques,

Missed that episode too?

> >attack Jacoby,

Maybe.  Maybe not.  We don't know yet.

> >stain Ronette's IV bag,

Maybe.  Maybe not.  We don't know yet.

> >drive a two-armed man to self-mutilation,

No.  God is the culprit there.

> >drug Sarah Palmer,

Who says she was drugged?

> >and hang poor Harold Smith?

Probably not.

The path continues...
- Carl Johnson