The Who Killed Laura Podcast Ep 14 - Its Happening Again

The Who Killed Laura Podcast

Welcome and thank you for joining us again for another episode of the Who Killed Laura Podcast. This time we’re covering a pretty important episode, the revelation of Who Killed Laura Palmer (not that we’re going to stop doing this podcast now that that particular mystery is solved).

The episode is written by Mark Frost and directed by David Lynch, and is the last time we’ll see this particular credit. Lynch will direct the series finale with Frost sharing a writing credit with the other two regulars, Harley Peyton and Robert Engels.

A blown intro by Chris leads into a pretty heady Log Lady Intro in this one, touching on both The Bible and Buddhism.

David Lynch appears again as Agent Gordon Cole, the guy with bad hearing and not much else. Harold Smith commits suicide, or was it murder? And was it with his own superfluous suspenders? Is the little magician kid who looks like a young Lynch involved? So many questions (posted by us, not the show per se).

Twin Peaks goes for the rare licensed music use with Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”

Leo Johnson with food dribbling down his chin vs. dead naked teenager wrapped in plastic: which do you find more disturbing? Discuss.

Audrey Horne returns, dressed to kill interrogate, which leads to dad Ben brought in for questioning due to her revealing his deeper connection to Laura as mentioned in her diary.

Soup o’ the Day at the RR Diner is Split Pea & Lamb. Coffee is only two bits. Shelly will have to quit waitressing to take care of Leo full-time, while Big Ed has to deal with Nadine thinking she’s a teenager back in high school again.

We start to get into something, then put a pin in it for later, as we get into Tojamura screwing over Ben and Ben’s rather amusing attempts to evade capture. Tojamura reveals his/herself to Pete Martell in an unexpectedly sweet scene.

Julee Cruise, who sang the Twin Peaks theme song, “Falling,” which hit #11 on the U.S. Pop charts, #7 in the UK and #1 in Australia. She performed the song live, filling in at the last minute for Sinead O’Connor when she refused to appear on the episode of Saturday Night Live guest-hosted by then-controversial comedian Andrew Dice Clay. Cruise previously worked with Lynch and composer Angelo Badalamenti on the song, “Mysteries of Love,” for the film, Blue Velvet, composed when the This Mortal Coil cover of Tim Buckley’s “Song to the Siren” proved too expensive to license for the film. Lynch and Badalamenti would compose the entirety of Cruise’s first album, Floating into the Night, which hit #74 on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums list. Aside from one track, her second album, The Voice of Love, was another Lynch/Badalamenti collaboration, drawing in part from their musical play, Industrial Symphony #1. Cruise continued a solo career separate from Lynch and Badalamenti on subsequent albums, as well as becoming a short-term member of the B-52s and making other theatrical and television appearances, such as Psych’s episode parodying Twin Peaks, entitled Dual Spires.

The remainder of the podcast is taken up with the astonishing, brutal revelation of who killed Laura Palmer (and who’s now killing Maddy Ferguson), a brilliantly filmed sequence shocking for its day and still disturbing today, as well as what the revelation and prior scenes suggest about the cycle of abuse visited upon Laura and perhaps Leland before her, and how she sublimated it.

We realized later Leland is not really saying, “Over my dead ass!” but we liked it and left it in.

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