Subject: Who died and Donna's birth certificate
From: pitchon@paradyne.com (Howard Pitchon)
Date: 1992-06-02, 05:25
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

         Re: Who died and Donna's Birth Certificate

         Possible Reasons I. Hayward  appears as Mother's Maiden  name 
         on Donna's birth certificate:
              Hayward is her maiden name,  and Doc took her name  when 
         they married (liberated guy!)
              Hayward  is  her  maiden  name,  and  coincidentally she 
         married someone whose last name was Hayward.
              They were related before thay married (gross!).
              Script screw-up.
              Doc Hayward has married his adopted daughter.

         I'm sure there are a zillion other scenarios.

         Who died:

         Consider  that  this  was  the  last episode, so Lynch really 
         could have killed off everyone if he wanted.  

         The  decrepit bank clerk was  indeed wearing glasses when the 
         bank exploded.  Since he was on his way out of the vault, ie. 
         probably near Audrey,  I think Pete,  Andrew, Audrey and  all 
         bank personnel are history, man. Don't you think that this is 
         why   Audrey finally  was de-virginized?  Even Lynch couldn't 
         handle the waste of someone as vital as Audrey dying chaste.

         Doc does  appear in the last scene to examine Cooper/Bob, but 
         this  is not conclusive evidence  that he didn't accidentally 
         murder Ben Horn. Think about the blood on Ben's head:
              Maddie gets her head bashed in-she's dead.
              Leland/Bob smashes  its head  while in  custody. Bob  is 
         released. Leland is dead.
              Cooper/Bob  smashes  its  head  in  the last ever scene. 
         Cooper  is  dead  or  trapped  in  the  black lodge. (I think 
         trapped.) 
              ie.  The  smashed  forehead  is  pretty symbolic in this 
         series and since Bob is in Cooper, now, I think Ben is dead.
              Perhaps  Doc's out  on bail,  or there  hasn't even been 
         time to report the crime, or given his position in this small 
         community,  it's just assumed that  it was accidental. If you 
         live in  a small  town, I  think you'll  agree that  they are 
         often as corrupt as Washington, DC!
              Also, given the  information on Doc's temper in the last 
         episode, and the fact that Donna's mom is not in a wheelchair 
         in the  photos in the attic, maybe Doc  put her there when he 
         found  out that she and Ben  were doing the horizontal mambo. 
         If he did, he didn't get jail time for that, so....
              Also: When Annie  comes back from  the black lodge,  she 
         has  blood  all  over  her  face,  but  I can't see a smashed 
         forehead when I freeze the action. So, is that  Annie, or her 
         shadow-self? If it's her shadow-self, she and Cooper/Bob will 
         certainly make Twin Peaks' mortality rate higher than that of 
         Cabot  Cove,  ME!  If  it's  really  her,  she  could go on a 
         spiritual   quest  to  save  Coop.   She  certainly  has  the 
         background for spiritual investigation.  How's Annie?

         My final  Theory: Lynch  and the  cast were  pissed off at TV 
         politics  enough to  kill off  enough characters  that the TV 
         whore-execs would  never be able to revive the show. Is there 
         really any place on network TV for Twin Peaks when No Brainer 
         Full-House-type shows are top rated?