In 1990, the television series Twin Peaks, directed by David Lynch, was launched in the United States. The plot is based on the murder of a young girl named Laura Palmer in the fictional town of Twin Peaks on the Canadian border. A high school student, a beauty queen, the only daughter of a successful lawyer, was found dead on the shore of the lake. Since then, the provincial town and a large audience for 16 episodes wondered - who killed Laura Palmer?
"Owls are not what they seem." Twin Peaks
At first, it seemed that the secret of the shocking crime lies in the personality of the girl herself. Behind a brilliant appearance and charming manners hid a restless soul. The investigating FBI agent Dale Cooper and Sheriff Truman gradually find out that Laura ran away at night from home, used drugs and had a promiscuous sex life with elements of violence.
The phrase "Who Killed Laura Palmer" has become a kind of slogan for the series.
The course of the investigation also strips away the masks from the other inhabitants of Twin Peaks. Behind the facade of a quiet, measured life, love and criminal passions are boiling. All townspeople live double lives, except for the crazy, who, in an atmosphere of general suspicion, seem more normal than anyone else. Laura's grief-stricken parents are left alone in an empty creepy house and behave strangely.
Evil from the woods
Gradually, the mystical component of the plot comes to the fore. The evidence found suggests that the girl was struggling with something mysterious and scary in her life. Ancient legends of Indian tribes are heard, and they feature an evil spirit that has settled in these forests.
The closer Agent Cooper and the Sheriff get to the solution, the more terrifying the audience becomes. The investigation establishes that Laura Palmer was killed by her father, lawyer Leland Palmer. How a loving father could beat, rape and kill his daughter becomes clear as soon as Leland's second nature is revealed.
Even as a child, Leland subdued an evil spirit, which in the series is called BOB. Since then, the boy was possessed by an ancient evil and could not resist it, and BOB in Leland's body committed crimes. BOB wanted to take possession of Laura's body and soul, but the girl fought to the end and died, thus defeating evil.
Series director David Lynch wanted the killer's name to remain unknown. But screenwriter Mark Frost and the broadcaster’s executives feared that this would disappoint viewers and, as a result, drop ratings.
After death
The series does not end with the solution to the detective story, but the motives of the other world begin to prevail in it. Leland dies and evil is freed. Who will become his new incarnation is decided in the last episode, filmed by David Lynch himself. The controversial denouement of the series caused a lot of discussion and emotion. However, she completes this outstanding television project with dignity.
