From: jblum@hamlet.umd.edu (Hi ho -- Kermit the Frog here...)
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
Subject: Comments on FWWM script summary
Date: 4 Sep 92 19:46:17 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1992Sep3.165652.1595@scubed.com> stevens@scubed.com (Jeff Stevens) writes:
Spoiler sightings...


A thousand thanks to the person who posted the script summary of FWWM.
(Ten thousand thanks to someone who would post the complete uncut script,
but we can't have everything...)

Anyway, a bunch of details caught my eye.

>It involves the death of Teresa Banks.  Opening scene: "Teresa Banks' body
>wrapped in plastic floating through Hells Canyon, drifting along in Wind
>River."

No TV getting smashed.  Odd.

>there
>is a mound of dirt, a golf ball (Leland liked golf)

No golf ball in the final version.  Hmm.  Also, the Jefferies scene comes
after Desmond's disappearance.  I'm surprised that the summary doesn't so
much as mention the Tremonds.

>She wakes and looks next to her.  "She  discovers Annie
>Blackburn lying in bed with her."  She has blood around her mouth and she
>says, "My name is Annie.  I've been with Laura and Dale.  The good Dale is
>in the lodge and he can't leave.  Write it in your diary."  Aniie disappears
>and the ring is in Laura's hand.

See?  It _IS_ Annie!  Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah!  :-)

>Laura and Donna hitch up with a few truckers.  They see Ronette Pulaski
>and Bob's voice tells Laura that Donna is going to get into the situation.
>Laura is afraid for Donna and tries to get her out of there.

WHOA.  This is new.  Wonder if this ties in with Leland's near-attack on
Donna in 2009?

>Leland has flashback to when he was involved with Teresa with
>Flesh World Magazine.  Teresa figures out that Leland is Laura's father
>(probably why he killed her).  Laura has flashback and begins to put the
>pieces together.  Leland has flashback to when he killed Teresa Banks.

So this was explicit in the script, and only implied on screen?

>"Last night": Laura says she hates asparagus at dinner.
>She goes to see Bobby.  Laura goes home and snorts a line or three.  James
>calls at 9:30.

So all this happened as it was told in the pilot.  Even the asparagus.
Personally I thought the "Goodnight, sweetheart" line they used was much
more heartbreaking -- totally missed by non-fans, but for those like me
who had just rewatched the pilot it sends chills up your spine.

>Leo puts a One Eyed Jacks $1000
>poker chip in her mouth.

Good, they didn't miss that.

  Leland appears.  Jacques decks Leo.  Leland
>grabs bottle and knocks out Jacques.  Leo takes off.

Still no shirt.  Sigh.

>Log Lady is off in woods listening.  "She hears]
>distant screams.  The camera moves down her leg to reveal her tattoo, beet
>red and burning."

Why oh why did they cut this?

>Gerard listens to the sounds
>of murder inside the car.  Laura screams.  Knife enters flesh.  Bob screams.
>Bloody knife goes through the air.  Leland screams.  Gerard laughs and says,
>"That's his own daughter you're killing."

Is this the action of a reformed spirit?...

>Gerard and TMFAP speak together "Bob, you're
>not going home without me.  I want all my garmonbozia (corn)."

"You're not going home without me"???  Hmm...  theories, anyone?

>Cooper: Where am I? And how can I leave?
>MFAP: You are here and there is no place to go...But home!

"There's no place like home"?  What is this, Wild at Heart???  :-)

>Hospital Room-night
>Annie: My name is Annie.  I've been with Laura and Dale.  The good Dale is
>in the lodge and he can't leave.  Write it in your diary.
>The nurse listens and takes Teresa's/Laura's ring off Annie's finger.  She
>leaves and puts the ring on herself.

Now what on earth does that mean?  Is this another form of "it is happening
again"?

>Black Lodge/Red Room - Laura is sitting in a chair.  As the end credits
>begin...
>We move in to see that Laura is sitting in Cooper's lap in the same chair.

And that's it?  Has anyone noticed the two BIG things missing from the
script?

No monkeys.  AND NO ANGELS.

No ascent to heaven scene either.  Maybe the producers felt the movie was
too bleak as it stood, and added on a "happy" ending later?...

Also -- did the script specify that the Red Room where Laura and Coop was
is the Black Lodge?...

Somehow, it figures.  After reading the script, we only have more questions.