Subject: Re: Leo/Leland (was: Re: Can we trust what Leland says?)
From: richardh@hpopd.HP.COM (Richard Hancock)
Date: 1990-11-27, 02:51
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

/ hpopd:alt.tv.twin-peaks / cewallace@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Chris Wallace) / 11:03 pm  Nov 26, 1990 /

By the way, on a Leland/BOB note, could someone who has the ORIGINAL 2-hour
series pilot on tape answer a question for me?  Now I may be completely
wrong about this, but I seem to recall that when Leland was told about
Laura, all Harry (Hawk?) said was something like, "Leland, it's about Laura..."
and immediately Leland breaks down, saying, "My daughter...she's dead!"

It's just that I don't remember anyone telling him that she was dead!  I mean,
she could have been arrested, or in a car accident, etc...  How did Leland
know??  It's been a very long time since I saw the original...can
anybody clarify this for me??

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I don't agree that it was obvious from the pilot that Leland killed Laura (this
theory was espoused recently on rec.arts.tv). Watching the pilot again, I think
any father in Leland's position would have inferred that Laura was dead.

Remember that he had just received a phone call from Sarah, in which she was
extremely concerned about Laura's whereabouts.

Richard.