Subject: Re: List_are_ they dead? :):)
From: boyajian@ruby.dec.com (The Film Fan Man)
Date: 1991-09-19, 23:43
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <5821@beguine.oit.unc.edu>, Ken.Saintjohn@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Ken Saintjohn) writes...

}                  WARNING! POSSIBLE SPOILER FOLLOWS!

} Very nice list Dave! Excellent reference material. I do however
} have one observation:

}} Andrew Packard             [Josie's husband] [dead]   Dan O'Herlihy
}} Pete Martell           [Catherine's husband] [dead]   Jack Nance
}} Thomas Eckhardt             [Josie's mentor] [dead]   David Warner
}} Audrey Horne                                 [dead]   Sherilyn Fenn

} You sure about this? :-)

} I'm not at all convinced that the death of these characters has
} been fully established Dave.

Well, there's no guarantee that they are dead, but given what happened
at the bank, I think it's justifiable to assume that they are dead in
the absence of evidence otherwise. Which doesn't mean that they *are*
dead. Just that what evidence we have suggests it.

As for Eckhardt, well, Jones *did* mention to Catherine that she was
getting ready to bring Eckhardt's body back home. Since his collapse
was witnessed by Cooper (and Harry as well, but given what happened to
Josie immediately after, Harry's mind probably wasn't functioning
properly for a while), it's completely reasonable to assume that
Eckhardt's body was examined on the spot and determined to be dead,
and that an autopsy was performed (as is SOP when a crime is involved).

For Jones' remark about Eckhardt's "body" to be a lie, it would mean
that Doc and Coop would have to be co-conspirators in that lie. *Not* a
reasonable assumption.

Of the four, Eckhardt would be the one that we can believe is not only
really dead, but most sincerely dead.

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