Guide page: "Arbitrary Law"
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The "Bravo" Log Lady Introduction -
Overview -
Backplot -
Unanswered Questions -
Analysis -
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From a piece of Laura's secret diary, Cooper discovers he and Laura shared the
same dream, with her message in it leading him to her killer; Catherine tricks Ben into signing
away the mill; Lucy, Andy and Tremayne confront each other over her pregnancy.
Production number: 2009
Original air date: December 1st, 1990
Written by Mark Frost, Harley Peyton, and Robert Engels
Directed by Tim Hunter
"So now the sadness comes--the revelation. There is a depression
after an answer is given. It was almost fun not knowing. Yes,
now we know. At least we know what we sought in the beginning.
"But there is still the question: why? And this question will
go on and on until the final answer comes. Then the knowing is
so full, there is no room for questions."
- Leland Palmer is dead. (See Ray Wise's Comments ). "BOB" has moved on.
- The Giant has returned Cooper's ring, after Laura's message in the "Red Room" finally reaches
him.
- Harold Smith left Donna a page of Laura's secret diary. Mrs Tremond and her grandson have vanished
without a trace; it appears that they were never actually there.
- Catherine has regained control of her mill from Ben Horne, and has abandoned her disguise as
"Tajamora".
- What actually happenned to Leland?
- Where is BOB now?
- We can assume that "BOB" killed Leland as a final act of violence before he left: "You watch
Leland remember! But not for long!" Does this mean that "BOB" was planning to kill Leland, or
that Leland would not be able to survive without "BOB" anyway? Another possibility is that "BOB"
left Leland as we see him stading beneath the water sprinkler, and that it was Leland who killed
himself when he remembered what he had done to Laura, Maddie, Theresa and Sarah, and all the other
people whose lives had been disturbed by "BOB"'s actions.
- Was it "BOB" or Tremane's cigar that set off the sprinklers?
This is a typical piece of Twin Peaks ambiguity. "BOB", the spirit of "fire", whose departure
from Leland, his host of many years, coincided with the starting of the sprinkler system seems
perfectly capable of causing metaphorical fire. However, for those who attempt to suppress the
supernatural elements of the serise, Tremane's smoke could equally have done the job. Perhaps it
was the water that finally "quenched the fire of "BOB"" in Leland?