Subject: Bank Blast
From: idddev@well.sf.ca.us (Innovative Data Design)
Date: 1991-06-24, 14:57
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

There will never be an answer to what happened with the 
bank explosion, but if there were, it could easily run 
like the cliffhanger resolutions in the old matinee 
serials (such as Republic Pictures "Zombies of the 
Stratosphere"), in which a sure-death calamity (like 
a car going over a cliff, the driver unconscious) is 
revealed in the next episode to be only part of what 
happened (driver actually wakes at the last second, 
throws himself clear). 
 
For example, episode 3001 could open with Pete's & 
Andrew's faces being briefly lit by a flashbulb 
attached (for some reason) to the bomb, before they 
turn and dash out, pausing to free Audrey with the 
bolt-cutters Pete had brought in case there was something 
hard to open inside the safe-deposit box. Cut to those 
three, along with the whole bank staff, exiting the building 
and running away across the parking lot. Medium shot 
as all stop, sheltering from the coming blast in the 
lee of an armored truck. Audrey asks, "Is everybody
okay?"

The group answers with murmured affirmatives. Dell 
says "I just wish I hadn't left my other glasses 
on the windowsill by the artificial rubber tree."
 
Then the bank blows up. 
 
Would this be a narrative cheat? Sure, but it would
also be a clever homage to the Golden Age of American
Film.
 
       Angus MacDonald; idddev@well.sf.ca.us
Opinions expressed in this message are solely my own.