Subject: Re: Reasons why Teresa, Laura and Maddy were killed (was re: 2nd viewing)
From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Date: 1992-09-03, 12:31
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <BtzCM0.G47@acsu.buffalo.edu> v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey) writes:
>> >>Saw the movie for a second time last night.  Spoilers...


> >     Anyway, I am not quite sure why Leland/BOB kills Teresa, but 
> >     the blackmailing Leland angle is a good one... but why would
> >     BOB care if Leland was being blackmailed?  It's no big deal to
> >     him/it.  

It depends how much Teresa really knew about Leland/BOB.  She might have
just been blackmailing Leland about his sleeping around et cetera.  That
would be enough to make Leland want to kill her, especially if egged on
by BOB.  (It does seem interesting that BOB can only make people do things
that they already have some desire -- however repressed -- to do.  One of
the reasons for Leland killing Maddy certainly seemed to be him not wanting
her to leave.)

But do we really know it was LELAND she was blackmailing?

Teresa had the ring.  This meant that she too had contact with the Lodges.
Could it be that she knew about BOB being in Leland, and also that BOB was
overstepping some rule of the Lodge?  We know that there was some kind of
split between MIKE and BOB (maybe BOB was keeping all the pain and sorrow
for himself or something), and perhaps Teresa was going to turn BOB over
to some REALLY bad dudes in the Lodge.

Hence, the murder.  Hence, the letter under the fingernail.  Hence, the
entire sorry story gets started.

How's that?


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