Subject: Re: Australian TP fan...more questions!
From: jblum@lucy.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Date: 1992-06-08, 10:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <17715.2a335a92@levels.unisa.edu.au> 9207987h@levels.unisa.edu.au writes:
> >1. I am a bit confused about the Mike and One Armed Man (Gerad?) story...the
> >OAM when possessed by Mike tells Cooper "when Bob and I were killing
> >together..."...Who exactly is Mike?? I thought he was meant to be a "good" guy,
> >that is the opposite of Bob? What purpose was he meant to play??

MIKE and BOB were two spirits who used to celebrate in their evil together,
according to Coop's dream at the end of the second 1-hour episode, but MIKE
"saw the face of God, [and] was changed".  You can't really see this, but
BOB had a tattoo on his arm saying "Fire Walk With Me"; the OAM said he took
his entire arm off, presumably to remove his similar tattoo.  Now he's a
good guy.

Similarly, Mike Nelson and Bobby Briggs were two high-school punks who used
to deal drugs together, but in that same second one-hour episode, Mike says
he's through dealing drugs and splits with Bobby.  Now he's a good guy.
Chew on that for a while.

> >2. I have read in the newsgroup that Mike also "possessed" Ben...was this when
> >Ben was "crazy" and playing armies etc.? If so, why??

Just speculation, nothing to get excited about...  I think if the show had
been renewed, we'd discover that MIKE had either entered him at the end of
the Civil War plot, or in the final episode when he got his head bashed.

> >4. Exactly how many episodes were made??

First season: the two-hour pilot and seven one-hour episodes.  Second season:
a two-hour premiere and 21 regular episodes.