Subject: Re: My Father Killed Me
From: halcyon!hikaru@seattleu.edu
Date: 1991-08-27, 15:26
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

furesz_t@wums2.wustl.edu writes:

> > As others have mentioned recently, I do think we should look at the
> > possibility that Ben killed Laura.  The line as others have pointed
> > out that Coop heard in his dream is "My father killed me."  Not
> > Leland or Leland Palmer killed me but my father.  In the land
> > of Peaks one should never assume that LEland is LAura's father.  I
> > believe the secret bio hints at the fact that Ben is Laura's father.
> > Remember the line about someday I am gonna tell the world about 
> > Ben.  Most jump to the conclusion that LP and Ben were lovers but
> > what about the chance that he was her father (also add into the mix that
> > he probably fathered Donna).  What do others think?

Well, "I'm going to tell the world about Benjamin" was, I believe, 
referring to his ownership of One Eyed Jacks. Ben admitted that he was 
sleeping with her, and he doesn't seem to be the type for incest.

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