Subject: Re: "You shot Mike"
From: carl@class.gsfc.nasa.gov (Carl F. Hostetter)
Date: 1992-09-09, 14:55
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <18lee3INNt18@agate.berkeley.edu>, sally@anableps.berkeley.edu
(S. A. Wilson) wrote:
> > 
> > In article <las283INN3r6@news.bbn.com> clements@bbn.com (Bob Clements) writes:
> > SPOILER
> > 
>> > >
>> > >As far as I've seen, nobody has yet figured out why Laura says
>> > >"You shot MIKE" after Bobby shoots the deputy.
>> > >
>> > >When I heard that line, I thought she was saying "You shot Mike",
>> > >not "You shot MIKE".  I.e., she thought Bobby had killed their
>> > >high school classmate Mike, the future close friend of Nadine,
>> > >and not the metaphysical enemy of BOB.
>> > >
>> > >At that point in the timeline did Laura know anything about MIKE?
>> > >
>> > >Not that it makes much more sense referring to Mike...
>> > >
>> > >Bob Clements, K1BC, clements@bbn.com
> > 
> > 
> > I thought that she thought it was Mike, Snake (wasn't that his nickname),
> > because she was pretty funked-up (to quote Blackie). But also, Bobby
> > and Mike were partners in dealing. Just before that Laura convinced
> > Bobby to get here more cocaine...this stuff was for her, not to deal.
> > Bobby then goes directly to Jacques, and does not deal with Leo, his
> > normal supplier. Jacques sets him up with another supplier, the deputy
> > from Deer Creek.  Bobby makes sure that Mike is not invovled. Anyway,
> > when the deal comes down, Laura is unware of all this, and assumes
> > that it is Mike who appears in the woods, since he is partners with
> > Bobby. This, plus as I said, she was pretty funked-up made her think
> > that the deputy was Mike. I don't think it had anything to do with
> > the Lodges and all....I was just another one of thus darkly humorous
> > scenes...almost like the car accident scene in WaH.
> > 
> > 
> > Sally--

Correct me if I'm wrong (it's the end of a long day, and I've only seen the
movie once), but didn't the deputy deliver the drugs in a football? And
weren't Mike and Bob teammates? Maybe that added to Laura's drug-induced
confusion.

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