Subject: small glitch?
From: berggren@saturn.ucsc.edu (Harry Berggren)
Date: 1990-12-05, 11:47
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

<<Including this message for vanhoek-who can't post from
<<her site (berggren@saturn.ucsc.edu):

I haven't seen anyone else point this out before: Doesn't
it seem a little odd for Cooper to suggest to Ben that he
should bring Leland Palmer along to the police station as
his lawyer?  I mean, of course he did it as a ruse to get
Leland down there--but it doesn't seem like a very good 
ruse, since Ben was accused of killing Leland's daughter.
Or do you think Cooper was counting on the fact that 
Leland was too BOBbed-out to notice the glitch in his
thinking?  (Since BOB seemed to be inhabiting Leland
pretty continuously, the scene with Leland saying he 
would like to work on arranging bail immediately--for
his daughter's accused murderer!--would presumably be
BOB's best effort at playing lawyer.)  What do you
think--the writers weren't entirely on the ball, or
Cooper was counting on BOB not to be entirely on the
ball?

KvH