From: jblum@lucy.umd.edu (Jon Blum)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Re: Things that still haunt me about twin peaks.
Date: 7 Apr 92 05:49:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Apr6.181303.17264@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> David Southwood writes:
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>1.  Who was the man standing behing Leo during the drug sale? Ben Horne?

My guess: Jacoby.  It's revealed several episodes later that he was
following Leo from the pilot on -- this must have been another part of
his investigations.

>2.  After agent cooper was shot, all the really bizarre stuff started
>happening with the giants and midgets.  Maybe Cooper is still lying on
>the floor dreaming the episodes from 8 on.

I was really afraid that was going to happen in the final minutes of the
final episode, when Coop wakes up in bed after the Black Lodge encounter...
You do remember, he starts bleeding in the Lodge, and that could have
been his gunshot wound "breaking through into his reality"...

>3.  Who beat Jacoby up in the park?

BOB through Leland, according to Mark Frost.

>6.  Lucy get's a call from a person who will not tell her his name in the
>movie, who is this person???

I assume you mean in episode #2002 -- for which scene I can think of
two explanations.  A) it's Leland calling, since in the scene before he
realizes he's seen BOB.  B) it's a bit of pure padding.

>7.  The Owl passes over the car wreck at the end of episode 15.  I assume
>this is Josie's car, and this is the point where Bob somehow influences
>her doings from then on.

BOB's been influencing her all along.  Thomas Eckhardt is tied to him --
remember the flames reflected in his sunglasses in #2014? -- and he's
been around since before the beginning of the show.

>8.  Did they mayors brother really die of a sexual O.D. ????

No, he was killed when BOB possessed his wife and set fire to him while
he was covered by massage oil.  NOT.

>9.  What the hell does 'Little Nick' have to do with anything????

Absolutely nothing.  Padding to fill out episodes and give Dick and
Andy something to do.  Kinda like the Milford plot.

>13.  What is the purpose of that Jack guy??? Just to bop Audrey and
>leave????

I think during the third season, had it been made, Audrey would have
found herself to be pregnant.  That's the point.

>15.  Who visited Ben Horne in the 2nd to last episode.  From the spooky
>musical cue, it is either the Black Magician or the White Magician)

Or Josie.

>16.  The extremely odd repetitions that occur.  Beginning of episode
>1, Josie is seen putting on lipstick in front of the mirror.  This happens
>again later (around episode 22).
>Helga comes into the diner in the first episode.  'Been Jump starting the

Think "It is happening again".  TWIN PEAKS is all repetition and duality --
Laura / Maddy, BOB and Bobby, two diaries, et cetera.  Plots and character's
states tend to cycle back to an origin point -- cf. Josie harking back to
her first "mysterious" look.  Also, this set up the ultimate "Happening
again" -- BOB getting a new host (and preparing to start another cycle
of killings).

>17.  And spookiest of them all...  The red drapes in Dorothy Valenz apartment
>are shown blowing by the window before Dorothy and Jeffrey have sex.  And
>yes they are shown twice.  It was on purpose.  Lynch is probably a cult 
>member trying to screw all of our minds into jello.  n 

To say nothing of the red drapes in One-Eyed Jacks, or the blue velvet ones
in the title sequence of a certain other movie.  I guess color scheme is
important somehow, but that's beyond me at the moment.