Subject: Re: AGH! 26 Jan episode
From: mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin)
Date: 1991-01-28, 18:38
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <15328@milton.u.washington.edu> jespah@milton.u.washington.edu (Kathleen Hunt) writes:
> >
> >Given what the Air Force pilot said to Coop in the diner, you think Major
> >Briggs is going to be committed to an asylum by the government?  Against
> >his will, I mean.  From what the pilot said about "drugs in the name of
> >confidentiality" I think the government's going to try to drug Briggs into
> >silence.

I took that part differently. I think the Air Force guy's veiled reference
means that the USAF is going to use drugs to help Briggs *recover his
full memories* of the so-called "close encounter"--in order to prevent
Briggs from allowing those memories to resurface in an *uncontrolled
environment*.

I think this explains why the preview shows Coop invoking his 
federal connections to get Briggs loose--I look forward to next week's
episode to see if he pulls this off.


--Mike




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