Subject: South America: Agent Jeffries + J. Justice Wheeler (was re P Jeffries)
From: v075q5fr@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Scott J Gorcey)
Date: 1992-10-04, 16:08
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

>>> >>> Also, how in the world can there be a comparison with Jeffries and John 
>>> >>> Justice Wheeler...? I noticed someone mentioned this, but as far as I saw, he
>>> >>> was just a throwaway character to fill up space and get Audrey laid.

     Am I rmembering wrong, or did original plotting call for Coop
     to fall in love with Audrey while nursing her back to health
     after her captivity at One Eyed Jack's?  

     Coop sees a parallel to Caroline in this situation, except
     he was able to SAVE Audrey.  He won't let her go, he doesn't
     care how old she is.  
     Windom Earle also sees this as a parallel to Caroline, and
     makes plans to render Coop's new love as dead as his old
     (Remembering that Caroline was Earle's wife when she and 
     Coop fell in love).  
     Around the time John Justice Wheeler and Audrey went at
     it in the plane - with Pete and the trout standing guard -
     COOP and Audrey would have consummated their relationship.
     Shortly thereafter, Earle kidnaps Audrey to use as his gift of
     Fear and Suffering (not yet Garmonbozia, if we are to believe
     Earle's connection to this) at Glastonbury.

     Neither Annie Blackburn nor John Justice Wheeler would have
     been introduced if one Kyle MacLachlan hadn't refused to
     play love scenes with Sherilyn Fenn - not because of anything
     personal but because Fenn's character was a minor.

     So, in the end, it would have been "How's Audrey?"  
     Much richer ring to it, I think, than that other...  :-)

>> >>The only reason I can think of that would make people connect these 2
>> >>characters is that Jeffries was supposed to be living somewhere in South
>> >>America, and J.J. Wheeler had to leave Twin Peaks because his business
>> >>associate in South America was murdered and Wheeler had to go back and take
>> >>care of things.  Anyway, I think I'm remembering this right.  Draw your own
>> >>conclusions (I haven't drawn any).

     Which doesn't preclude Lynch incorporating BOTH Annie and Wheeler
     into the scheme of things now.  There could be a connection of
     some kind in South America between Jeffries and Wheeler - except
     that the theatrical release, with those intercutting scenes of
     Jeffries in the South American hotel cut out, seems to suggest
     that Jeffries is a prisoner in the Lodge or something like that.

     I wouldn't argue against a projection that, if Wheeler is 
     connected to the supernatural things (he IS an environmentalist,
     after all), he and Jeffries probably know the same people 
     in South America.  But - which side of it is Wheeler on?
     He's looking to PROTECT the trees and the pine weasels...
     Jeffries is looking to STOP THEM.  

     Anyway, the connection is rather dubious (!) and probably
     doesn't matter in the slightest (except one more thing: Billy
     Zane is of rather larger caliber at this point, as an actor,
     than guest-starring for a few episodes on a then-obscure
     television series... unless Lynch said "Do it, this will
     tie in for a much larger role later if what I think is 
     going to happen happens."  ...Hmm. 

>> >>Holly

> >Well, you know, Jeffries' accent sounded more Southern US than South 
> >American. Where did you hear he was from there? And why would J.J. Wheeler be
> >working with an apprentice FBI agent? Jesus, I don't know... the mystery 
> >continues.

     Bowie was doing a southern accent, definitely.  He wasn't
     FROM South America.  You can't be an FBI agent unless
     you are a US citizen, in the first place.  
     The script includes some intercutting during the sequence
     Jeffries turns up coming out of the elevator at FBI
     Philadelphia Bureau.  Jeffries is at a hotel in
     South America somewhere - he apparently has been
     staying there for quite some time, as the staff knows
     him by name.  He suddenly vanishes, and turns up in
     the elevator.


                 Shortly  thereafter, the health of  Annie
                 Blackburn still in question, the behavior
                 of Special Agent  Dale Cooper was noticed
                 __________________________to have changed.
                                              Scott Gorcey.            

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