Subject: Re: Uncle Leland
From: robertj@Autodesk.COM (Young Rob Jellinghaus)
Date: 1990-11-30, 14:42
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <1990Nov29.234402.12604@alembic.acs.com> csu@alembic.acs.com (Dave Mack) writes:
> >I think we're losing focus a bit here. The important question isn't "Can
> >BOB switch hosts," it's "Who killed Laura Palmer." The assertion that
> >BOB has been in Leland since childhood and *cannot* switch hosts means
> >that Leland/BOB killed Laura as well as Theresa Banks.
> >
> >I will accept this if you can give me a plausible answer to one question:
> >why did Leland's hair turn white on the night he killed Jacques Renault?

Because BOB was _not_ in control when Leland killed Jacques.  When BOB takes
control, Leland is mostly submerged; BOB's host has little memory of what
BOB does.  BOB was in control when Leland killed Theresa Banks, Laura Palmer,
and Madeleine Ferguson; but it was _Leland_ who killed Jacques.  And the
strain of committing murder for the first time (since he had no memory of
the earlier murders) was enough to turn his hair white.

> >I contend that BOB took over Leland on the night Leland murdered
> >Jacques - the act of murder allowed BOB entry - and that this is
> >why Leland's hair turned white and he suddenly developed a sunny
> >disposition.

My explanation for the sunny disposition goes a little further afield.  If
we assume that Leland has some fragmented memories of what BOB did to Laura
with his body, we have a possible explanation for his insane degree of grief.
Leland was truly driven to the edge in the week after Laura's death; haunted
by the ghost of a realization that he killed his daughter.  This is why he
was so ready to kill Jacques; he desperately wanted to feel as though the
murderer of his daughter was dead, to end his ongoing internal torment.  And
when he killed Jacques, he also killed part of himself--that part which was
making him grief-crazed.  By killing Jacques, he sublimated that guilt, and
hence his sunny disposition--and snow-white hair.

Of course, BOB had great fun living through all this--riding dormant inside
Leland while Leland put himself through hell.  And now that Leland is a
murderer himself, BOB is having more fun than ever before!

> >Dave Mack
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