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Twin Peaks has so many links to Mark Fuhrman’s association with Laura Hart as an aspiring screenwriter and his role as the first lead detective in the Bundy murders that I can’t list them all in two or three chapters. I don’t even have room for all of the relevant pictures. That was true with Matlock and it’s true with Moonlighting and Remington Steele, the two other TV series we’re going to wrap up this book with in the next four chapters. A whole book might not be enough for them. The best I can do is hit some of the high points and urge you to look for the other connections yourself when you get a chance to follow the series on TV.

Once again, what we’re doing here is mapping the brain of a man who got most of his ideas for a double homicide and a frame-up from film and television. We are proceeding on the premise that relevant name, word and image associations wherever any of us encounter them have corresponding links in the brain and inevitably show up in our words and actions from time to time. The more meaningful the encounter the more likely it is that we will display the associations in one way or another each time we make the connection. Not showing it will be the chore.

The operative word is "relevant." What’s relevant to one person is not necessarily relevant to another. It depends on our objective and subjective circumstances. It depends on who we are physically, intellectually and emotionally. It depends on what we’ve experienced, what we like and don’t like, what we can and can’t do well, what we aspire to and how we see ourselves sexually, socially, professionally, theologically and philosophically. Those are a hell of a lot of particulars in one person to match to all of the films, videos and TV programs that you see in the Fuhrman collection.

To see what someone else sees you have to know what’s important to that person in a given situation and look at it from that individual’s unique point of view. To see what Mark Fuhrman said he saw in O.J.’s Ghost tape you’d be better off watching High Spirits, Othello, Scissors, or Twin Peaks with Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer and her identical twin cousin Maddy Ferguson. Ditto for what he said about a heap of other things. In some cases you don’t have to look too closely to see the influence.

The spoof of Ghosts in The Naked Gun 2 ˝ leads directly into the scene with O.J. as Nordberg, Leslie Nielsen as Frank and George Kennedy as Ed on a yacht next to a dock with O.J. wearing a black knit cap. Robert Goulet as the mastermind of a group of villain, having a secret meeting with his associates in crime, shows them a two-minute commercial with key elements from Mark Fuhrman’s interrogation of Kato Kaelin that led directly to his discovery of the Rockingham glove.

This is how Fuhrman describes his discovery on the narrow path behind the bungalow where O.J., "the killer" supposedly ran when he got out of his truck and dropped the leather glove in a panic: "…as I remembered they had a steep, single-pitch roof. I looked further along the path and noticed a dark object. At first I thought it was dog droppings, but as I walked closer, the object began to resemble an old gardening glove."

Now back to where we left off with O.J. as Nordberg in The Naked Gun 2 ˝….

When we see O.J. again he is getting out of a van without his cap. You see Leslie Nielsen as Frank right after that wearing a black knit cap, black boots and a pair of black leather gloves. In a continuation of that scene, O.J. is on a telephone pole (a log) wearing work gloves and a blue hard hat. He looses his balance and the hat falls off. While that’s going on Frank shoots a grappling hook over the steep slope of a roof with a narrow, flat walkway on the crest and snares a killer dog by its leather harness. As he pulls himself up by the rope he pulls the dog up with him. They meet on the walkway running the length of the roof and the dog gives chase to Frank running along the crest in a panic.

In Twin Peaks Leland Palmer is wearing latex gloves when the evil spirit of Bob takes over his body and he kills Maddy as a substitute for his daughter Laura. Before and after the killing he sees himself in the mirror as the murderer Bob. Like Laura and her Aunt Sarah, Maddy had moments of psychic illumination. Unless Fuhrman had something to do with the bloody glove on Rockingham, he, too, had to be psychic to find it after he sought out the photographer to take the picture of him pointing to its match on Bundy. The fact that five characters in Twin Peaks had psychic abilities that fell short of their ability to identify the killer resonates like a tuning fork with Mark Fuhrman and the Bundy murders.

One psychic is a lawman like Fuhrman. One is the mother of a murder victim like Juditha Brown, who, like Fuhrman, has German blood. Two are murder victims, like Ron and Nicole. One of the victims shares Mark Fuhrman’s initials MF. The other has the same first name as his writing partner Laura Hart. One psychic has name links to the package Fuhrman found in the Bronco and a high-ranking female police officer he said "sucked and fucked her way to the top." Moreover, by circulating rumors that he was sexually involved with Nicole (who had a reputation for performing oral sex) and felt deeply responsible for her murder by failing to protect her, he made himself psychic-proof as a murder suspect.

Fuhrman’s knack for making all of the big discoveries that led to O.J. Simpson’s arrest also requires a psychic explanation – unless O.J. was framed and Fuhrman masterminded the frame-up. The notion that he was ever involved with the investigation by chance in any capacity with his record for hatred of mixed couples and his aggressive eagerness to make "the big arrest" defies the laws of probability by a considerable margin.

This brings us to the blood link in Twin Peaks and a woman’s premature phone call about the deaths on Bundy. Twin Peaks and Detroit, where RoboCop 2 is set are on the Canadian border like Buffalo, New York. We know that close proximity to Canada means something to Fuhrman because of how he described his retirement home in Idaho. By "blood link" I mean blood relatives in the Fuhrman collection like Stella Stevens as Ann in Slaughter and her son Andrew as a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman in Death Hunt. Dan O’Herlihy is Andrew in Twin Peaks. His son Gavin is a mounty. We have already established the Cain connection in RoboCop 2 to Fuhrman’s search of Rockingham. The premature call gets us to Bundy. Belinda Bauer as Dan O’Herlihy’s protégé Julie Faxx calls the brain transplant team from Cain’s hospital bedside while he is wide awake and looking at her, to tell them that he has expired. Then she cuts off his oxygen supply.

Denise: Nicole’s mother Juditha Bauer Brown had a key roll in the investigation on Bundy because of the prescription glasses she "lost" in the restaurant where Nicole ate her last meal. Before I started working on Iago in Brentwood it occurred to me that the glasses on Bundy were too important to the idea that Ron Goldman was an incidental victim, as opposed to a carefully selected target, to have ended up there by chance. If O.J. was framed the glasses had to have been stolen and purposely left outside of the restaurant where they could be easily found. Through the process of elimination I learned that the only person who could have taken them was Denise Bauer Brown, Nicole’s dark-haired sister.

Denise said that she saw O.J. wearing Bruno Magli shoes – the brand of shoes than Nicole wore. The killer’s Bruno Magli Lorenzos were differentiated from a similar pair called Lyons by their higher heels. Thus, the emphases in the Fuhrman collection on men and women in women’s high-heel shoes, especially on square tile floors.

In Twin Peaks, Cooper gets into trouble with Clarence Williams III as Roger Hardy (Link Hays in The Mod Squad with Peggy Lipton as Julie, and the pimp who gets framed with a planted bag of cocaine in The Last Innocent Man) of the FBI’s Internal Affairs. Hardy suspends Cooper for his unauthorized rescue of Sherilyn Fenn as Ben Horn’s daughter Audrey from an illegal Canadian gambling house, dope den and brothel named One-Eyed Jacks on a complaint of a corrupt mounty in the pay of Audrey’s kidnapper. One-Eyed Jacks is owned by Ben Horn. Dale gets help from David Ducovny as a DEA agent he worked with before named Dennis Bryson. Dennis now wears women’s clothes and makeup, a dark brown wig, and women’s high-heal shoes. He calls himself Denise. With photos from Audrey who got them from Bobby Briggs, Denise clears Dale and sets up the kidnapper and the mounty on the take for arrest. Norma Jennings’ new stepfather, who is also her husband Hank’s old cellmate, is the kidnapper’s weak link. Denise gets to him by confronting him at his table in the RR restaurant.

Now, consider this scene in the RR restaurant. Keep two thing in mind: 1) RR means, "railroad." Laura Palmer was killed in a railroad boxcar, as in Boxcar Bertha with Barbara Hershey who shares Mark Fuhrman’s birthday. 2) Juditha Brown wore tinted prescription glasses. The railroading of O.J. Simpson began with a woman in restaurant putting her glasses in an envelope and giving them to Ron Goldman, who also wore prescription glasses, but wasn’t wearing them when he died….

Maddy Ferguson looks enough like her cousin Laura to be her identical twin sister. After setting up Dr. Jacoby to think that Maddy, wearing a blond wig, was Laura, Maddy and Laura’s best friend Donna Marie Hayward meet in the RR restaurant to discuss the fallout of their "resurrection" ploy. James is in jail, Dr. Jacoby is in the hospital. Before Maddy and Donna can figure out what to do next. Norma interrupts them with a note in an envelope that leads to their discovery of Laura’s secret diary. Meanwhile, Maddy gives Donna sunglasses that belonged to Laura. When see sees how they transform Donna into the glamorous beauty they both saw and envied in Laura Maddy "loses" her own prescription glasses by taking them off and breaking them in half.

With the makeup that Denise wore in court her resemblance to Nicole was remarkable. With the makeup she wore on TV interviews after the civil trial verdict the resemblance was nothing short of striking. A blond wig was all she needed to impersonate Nicole in any situation where both sisters weren not known well or witnesses couldn’t see her well enough to tell them apart. She could even pass a photo I.D., which could have been necessary for her to gain access to Nicole safe deposit box.

Hard evidence and testimony from a combination of credible sources suggest that Denise did just that. In the box was Nicole’s secret diary, news clippings of O.J.’s so-called abuse and photos of Nicole’s "battered" face that Denise said she took after the New Years Day incident in 1989. The self-life of the Polaroid film that the photos where taken on was one year. The date on the film was 1979. That was the year that O.J. said Nicole auditioned for a part in one of his movies and the bruises and swelling on her face were makeup. Nicole’s cousin Rolph Bauer who worked for three years as the Simpson’s live-in gardener at Rockingham (remember Fuhrman’s account of finding the Rockingham glove) said that Nicole’s father took the picture "a long time ago." He said that he never saw O.J. abuse Nicole but he was present when O.J. yelled at her for sharing cocaine with him, complaining about how much money it cost. Rolph was German. He was married to O.J.’s Mexican housekeeper Maria. She was with the Simpsons for four years. She never saw O.J. abuse Nicole, either.

Laura Palmer had two diaries. She kept one of them in her room and gave her secret diary to a secret friend who raised orchids (Mr. Endicot in In the Heat of the Night) and never left his home. When Special Agent Dale Cooper broke open the diary that Sheriff Truman’s Deputy Hawk found in Laura’s bedroom, he read a passage dated February 23, the night Laura died. It mentioned asparagus (you know what that means in the Fuhrman collection) and, "Nervous about meeting J tonight." Taped to a page dated February 5 (Mark Fuhrman’s birthday) was a key to a safe deposit box in a plastic bag containing traces of cocaine. In the box sat five thousand dollars in cash and a magazine with a picture of Ronette Pulaski and Leo Johnson’s truck. In Laura’s secret diary She wrote about Bob (her father) raping her since she was a little girl. She also wrote how stupid she thought James was, how little Donna Marie Hayward knew her and how much Leo Johnson’s rough treatment of her turned her on. She wrote, "He really lights my fire."

To fully appreciate the Scissors connection here you should remember that Sherilyn Fenn is Laura in Fatal Instinct (’93) and Billie in Dillinger (’91). You don’t have to, but it helps… Angie the incest/attempted rape victim in Scissors (’91) has another significant link to Twin Peaks (’90) with Billy’s pig puppet and the tangled machinations of her father and his sleazy brother Jerry. Ben and Jerry Horne have Catherine’s two sets of books for the Packard Mill, one showing a profit and the other showing a loss. As they debate the pros and cons of which set of books to burn, native Detroiter David Patrick Kelly (Dropshadow in Wild at Heart) as Jerry is eating a smoked cheese pig. The only thing he’s certain about is that his pig is not going in the fire.

In Diary of a Hitman (’91) set in Pittsburgh, Sherilyn Fenn as Jain offers Forrest Whitaker as Dekker a "blowjob" in exchange for her life and the life of her baby. Sharon Stone is her sister Kiki. These loose associations to Sharon Stone, Scissors and incest, get much tighter when you see how Ben and Jerry (yes, they do eat ice cream together) make another tough choice. They flip a coin to decide who will be the first to have sex with the new girl at One-Eyed Jacks across the border from Twin Peaks. They do not know that she is Ben’s daughter Audrey.

The Ben and Jerry’s ice cream link in Twin Peaks to Nicole Simpson manages to include the cup of ice cream on Bundy and Nicole’s preference for performing oral sex. It does this by way of Sherilyn Fenn as Audrey Horne and Dana Ashbrook (Nicole was the runner-up in a "Miss Dana Point" beauty pageant) as Bobby Briggs. In a scene outside of her father’s office at the Big Northern after she saves Bobby from being tossed out of the hotel, Bobby asks her if he can do anything for her. She tells him that she would like some ice cream. When he asks whether she wants a cup or a cone she thinks about it for a few seconds and, with a pointed look on her face she says something that tells you she isn’t really talking about ice cream. She say, "Cone…I like to lick."

Audrey’s preference for performing oral sex gets reinforced when she cons her way into One-Eyed Jacks to investigate Laura’s murder. To demonstrate her special talent she plucks a cherry out of a cocktail glass, eats it and ties the stem in a knot – with her tongue. She evades her father’s advances by hiding behind a mask. Before she went to One-Eyed Jacks she wrote a note to Dale Cooper telling him where he could find her. He never read it because Josie shot him before he could get to it.

Audrey Horne doesn’t know that she and Donna Marie Hayward have the same biological father and Dr. Hayward is Donna’s stepfather. When she asked Donna if she knew what One-Eyed Jacks was, Donna said that she thought it was a movie with Marlin Brando. It is.

One-Eyed Jacks (’61) with Marlin Brando as Rio, Karl Malden as Dad and Hank Warden as Doc gets its name from a bank robber-turned-sheriff named Dad Longworth in the Old West and his partner and best friend Rio. Trapped on a wind-swept desert bluff with only one horse between them and the Mexican police closing in, Rio flips a coin to see who will take the horse and bring back fresh ones. Shoeless Dad escapes with the horse and the gold from the robbery and never goes back. Rio gets sent to a brutal Mexican prison. When he escapes with a new partner they meet Ben Johnson as Bob who wants the fugitives to join him in robbing another bank in a border town. Rio agrees when he learns that Dad has parlayed their stolen bank loot into a respectable position in the town and is now the sheriff. Dad has shown only one side of himself to the people of the town (a one-eyed jack). Rio has shown only his good side (another one-eyed jack) to his partner’s Mexican wife Maria and his stepdaughter Louisa so he can seduce and abandon Louisa for revenge.

Pina Pellicer, who plays Dad’s stepdaughter in One-Eyed Jacks, appears in only one other English-speaking role. In a 1963 episode of The Fugitive with David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man accused of murdering his wife, she’s Maria. These are some of the links to One-Eyed Jacks and The Fugitive in Twin Peaks. In The Fugitive, Doctor Kimble’s relentless pursuer is Lt. Gerard. The one-armed man who killed his wife is Fred Johnson. In Twin Peaks, Bob’s relentless pursuer is a one-armed shoe salesman named Philip Michael Gerard.

Audrey’s reason for trying to crack the Laura Palmer murder case at One-Eyed Jacks was to impress Dale Cooper. He refused to get involved with her because of another woman he got involved with in Pittsburgh (Sherilyn Fenn as Jain in Diary of a Hitman) who died because of that involvement. Like Mark Fuhrman’s third wife, her name was Caroline. She was murdered by her husband Windom Earle, who was Dale Cooper’s partner in the Pittsburgh office of the FBI. You see Caroline only in the last episode of Twin Peaks when Dale steps into a nightmarish world of symbols called the Black Lodge to rescue his new love, Annie Blackburn. In the black lodge, the woman with Annie’s face doesn’t know who Annie is and her face interchanges with Caroline’s. The last person he sees in Caroline’s place is Windom Earle who kidnapped Annie from a Miss Twin Peaks beauty pageant in the guise of the Log Lady.

Among the contestants in the Miss Twin Peaks beauty pageant were Audrey Horne, Shelly Johnson and Laura Palmer’s best friend Donna Marie Hayward.

Cocaine addict Faye Resnick billed herself as Nicole’s best friend. She knew enough about Nicole and O.J. to pose as "Nicole," a divorced mother of two who called a woman’s abuse center and said that she was being abused by her famous ex-husband. At the age of 16 (Donna Hayward and Laura were 17) Faye won the Miss Hayward, California beauty pageant. In her book, Nicole Brown Simpson: The Private Diary of a Life Interrupted, she said that she, Nicole and Ron Goldman had plans for opening their own restaurant or coffee shop. She also made so much of the idea that Nicole as well as other women in Brentwood performed oral sex the way most people shake hands that she dubbed the practice "the Brentwood salute."

If Faye Resnick (Miss Hayward) got any of her ideas for her book from Laura’s best friend in Twin Peaks you would expect to see a fellatio link to Laura and Donna as well as something associated with Nicole (Miss Dana Point) and a salute. You do. One of those associations comes shortly after Donna’s meeting with Maddy Ferguson in the RR restaurant. Lara (Cara?) Flyn Boyl as Donna visits James Hurley in the Twin Peaks jail wearing Laura’s sunglasses and behaving in an overtly sexual manner that is out of character for her but consistent with Laura. Bending her head down slightly to James’ hand wrapped around a bar of is cell, she performs the closest thing to a simulation of fellatio on his finger that 1990 network television would allow.

Another character in the series does something like this besides Donna’s half-sister Audrey Horne. It’s an older woman that James meets when he runs away from Twin Peaks following the murder of Maddy Ferguson. She, to, wears sunglasses – to hide the black eye her rich, abusive husband gave her. Unlike Donna and Audrey, she is a blond. The woman and her lover, posing as her chauffeur (who wears black leather gloves), plot to kill the husband and to frame James for the killing. Donna tracks James to her town and runs into the woman in a bar. The blond, a woman in her mid 30s, like Nicole, is nursing a lollypop – sensuously.

If you are focused on a woman with any resemblance to Nicole in Twin Peaks performing oral sex you can see connections to her that you otherwise wouldn’t see.

In the pilot episode of Twin Peaks Bobby Briggs is in the RR Café with Shelley Johnson behind the counter when a waitress comes in late for work. Bobby says, "I thought you Germans were never late." She says she had car trouble. Shelly jokes that she was too busy "tuning up the old man." The woman giggles and Shelly suggest with a raised eyebrow and a smile that she was late because she got "another helping of knockwurst." The waitress giggle again. In a later episode something as innocent as Shelly and Norma wiping the dust from a plastic ice cream cone display after Leo Johnson gave Shelly a beating in a jealous rage takes on a sexual meaning. You can see it only if you look as it as you would look at the symbolism in a dream and see Norma as Peggy Lipton Jones, the ex-wife of Quincy Jones, a famous black man, and Faye and Nicole in a threesome with a white man. On the night of Nicole’s death, Faye had arranged for a threesome with Nicole and Ron Goldman.

Now we have nearly all of the elements for a composite picture of Nicole Simpson and the incidents leading up to her murder as described by Faye Resnick and Mark Fuhrman. This is where the "salute" comes in.

The Gettysburg battlefield where General Robert E. Lee suffered his first defeat in the Civil War is well known for its ghosts – including a ghost in the woods. Fuhrman’s reference to Ghost in Murder in Brentwood takes us a long way to Ben Horne who sees himself as General Lee during a psychotic break. Dr. Jacoby has determined that the best way to bring him back to reality is to help him work through his delusion as a symbolic way of regaining the control over his life that he lost when his Ghostwood project went belly-up. Jacoby reenacts the surrender that ended the war, with Lee and Grant in a reversal of roles. Dana Ashbrook, dressed as a Confederate private blows a bugle as Jacoby, dressed as Ulysses Simpson Grant, arrives to surrender his forces to the South. Instead of saluting, they shake hands. Audrey (two "Brentwood salute" connections) is on hand as a Southern bell along with her Uncle Jerry, who is playing the part of her father. Ben does not recognize them as his daughter and his brother until the surrender ceremony is nearly complete and he recovers his senses with the impression that his psychotic episode was a dream.

We have already established the idea of role reversals with Lee and Grant, not to mention Dennis and Denise so it should be no stretch for you to see the Miss Dana Point beauty pageant contestant Nicole Simpson in the name Dana. Similarly, I don't think I have to say any more about Ben and Jerry or the double meanings of the ice cream in reference to Nicole Simpson and the night she died. But if you want a closer connection to Nicole with Dana Ashbrook and Sherilyn Fenn, let me recommend a scene before the surrender pageant where Audrey persuades Bobby to help save her father from insanity. Any doubt about role reversals and a sexual relationship between them that began with her request for an ice cream on a cone gets washed away in her choice of words when Bobby say's, "What about Shelly?" Audrey replies, "What about her? From now on I'm the one you have to suck up to."

As near as I can tell, the scene with Grant surrendering to Lee is the epicenter of the many fellatio links to Nicole and the name "Lee" in the Fuhrman collection. In that scene Dr. Jacoby wears glasses with one amber lens and one dark one, almost like an eye patch. I’m pretty sure that the eye patch links (the lens missing from Juditha Brown’s glasses) grow out of Everett McGill’s role as Rev. Lowe the werewolf, in Silver Bullet (’86) and Quincy Jones’ former girlfriend Nastassia Kinski as Susie-the-bear in The Hotel New Hampshire (’82). They make their way back to Twin Peaks with Everett McGill as Ed Hurley in love with Peggy Lipton as Norma Jennings but married to Wendy Robie as one-eyed Nadine Butler Hurley. You see them together in an awkward situation where Nadine, suffering from amnesia and thinking she is a 17-year-old girl, finds Ed and Norma in bed – and apologizes to Norma for beating up Norma’s husband Hank.

If you think that Fuhrman could have missed the Susie-the-bear link to Quincy Jones in Twin Peaks, you might change your mind when you see Norma and Ed whispering to each other on the phone. Norma is in the kitchen of her café. Ed is in his filling station garage with Nadine in the background shouting unreasonable orders to him. Next to Ed is a life-sized wooden carving of a bear. In Silver Bullet when a self-appointed posse is hunting Everett McGill as a werewolf, one of the hunters steps into a bear trap (O.J. in The Naked Gun). The hunt ends with the werewolf beating a man to death with his own baseball bat. A girl looking for a man with one eye finds the splintered bat in Rev. Lowe’s garage. Then she sees him with a patch over one eye. In Twin Peaks, when Ed hangs up the phone you see Nadine with a patch over one eye.

The numerous one-eye links in the Fuhrman collection should come as no surprise to you if you can remember Sammy Davis Jr., a famous black singer, musician, dancer, impressionist and actor who lost his left eye in a 1954 car accident. A photo of him after the accident shows him with a white bandage and a black patch over the bandage. Not only did he marry the blond Swedish actress May Britt in 1960, she starred in the movie Murder Inc. (’60) with Peter Falk, another actor with one eye. Moreover, before Sammy Davis Jr. married May Britt, he had an affair with the blond sex goddess Kim Novak. He also converted to Judaism (Ron Goldman’s religion) and stared in the 1965 Broadway musical Golden Boy, about a black boxer with a white lover Golden Boy is loosely based on the life of the 1915 World Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson. That’s right, Sammy Davis Jr. was a one-eyed Jack.

This should give you a little more to chew on with respect to Shelly Johnson, the waitress in Twin Peaks and her husband Leo Johnson who ran drugs across the border from One-Eyed Jack’s. Ronald Goldman suffered many knife wounds. The one that killed him was the thrust to his midsection that severed his aorta – which happens to be the way Cooper’s former parter Windom Earl kills his victims. But the one that caught my attention was the thigh wound that came close to Goldman’s femoral artery. Few people other than those trained in deadly hand to hand combat would ever think of attacking that area of the body to kill.

We have seen women attacking men or defending themselves with a butcher knife against a threatening man in too many movies to count. All of them have something in common with Fuhrman’s story of Nicole picking up a butcher knife to defend herself against O.J. Shelly Johnson goes a step farther in Twin Peaks. In a three-way death struggle with Leo Johnson trying to kill her and Bobby Briggs, she picks up a butcher knife and stabs him in his left thigh.

When you think about that death struggle with Shelly and Bobby against Leo in Twin Peaks you should note something relevant about the name Shelly in two Fuhrman collection movies we’ve looked at before. One of them is A Double Life (’47) with Ronald Coleman as an actor who confuses himself with Othello, the character he’s playing on stage. He meets a blond waitress in the restaurant where she’s working. She takes him to her apartment where his role as Othello overcomes him and he kills her in a jealous rage. The waitress is Shelly Winters. In Night of the Hunter (’64) Robert Mitchum is a self-styled preacher and Shelly Winters is the widow of a bank robber with two children, a boy and a girl. He marries her and slits her throat from ear to ear with a Stiletto.

Gerard, the one-armed man in Twin Peaks sold boots to Leo Johnson and Andy Brennan. That was the clue that led Agent Cooper to Gerard as the man who could tell him about the evil spirit Bob. Cooper learned in a vision that there was a clue at Leo’s. He thought it was the cocaine that he and Sheriff Truman found with a new pair of boots under a wooded plank. The real clue was the tread pattern of the boots and the brand name that matched Andy’s. The real clue for us is in the story Mark Fuhrman tells of his appearance at Rockingham and the splintered wood in front of the Bronco with rusty nail holes from a pile of wood that used to be a picket fence. His story includes a plastic bag, a shovel, a small amount of blood, a panicky run and leather gloves. In Twin Peaks that story begins with Miguel Ferrer as Albert.Rosenfield.

Albert is a world class jerk. Nearly everything he has to say to and about Sheriff Truman and Deputy Andy Brennan is a put down. He is also the best forensic scientist Dale Cooper knows. That’s why he asked for Albert in his investigation of the Laura Palmer murder.

During his stay in Twin Peaks Albert gathered a great deal of valuable evidence, including the origin of the powder marks on Josie’s leather glove. But he has alienated the entire Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department and rattled Andy Brennan to the point that he doesn’t know how to act. While Cooper, Harry and Deputy Hawk are inside Leo’s place gathering clues, Albert and his team of FBI scientists pull up in a white Ford sedan. Andy is outside moving leaves around with a stick when he sees who it is who has just driven up and he runs in a panic toward the house, dropping the stick in front of the white Ford as he goes. He gallops past Sheriff Truman’s Bronco, which appears at first to have its front end buried in a pile of wood, and he steps on the plank that snaps and flips up to give him a bloody nose.

Rarely do you see Andy without his leather gloves on his hands or stuffed in the pocket of his jacket. This time is no exception. When the board hit him, you can see the gloves in his pocket as he staggers around for an inordinate amount of time trying to recover his senses. You can also see the rusty nails in the plank. The amazing thing is that he never goes down when he has clearly been knocked senseless and his effort to stay on his feet makes him look like a drunken sumo wrestler squatting and stomping his feet before engaging his opponent. It is quite evident that if he did have an opponent, he would not be able to defend himself.

The Bundy murder scene was littered with evidence of a violent struggle and the wounds to Goldman’s throat told the best forensic scientist in the country that he had been on his feet for an inordinate length of time. That is, it was an long time for a man engaged in a violent struggle with a knife-wheedling assailant. For a man who had been knocked senseless before he was cut, the time it took him to go down makes more sense.

Albert, watching Andy’s ludicrous display, naturally has a smart-ass remark to make, "And it’s another great day in law enforcement history," he says. By this time Harry Truman and Dale Copper have come out to the porch to see what’s going on. Next to Harry is a shovel. Next to the shovel is a spare tire like the one on the back of O.J.’s Ford Bronco. Harry asks Andy if he is Ok, to which Andy with a stupid grin on his face can only grunt incoherently and shake his head in an attempt to clear it. Cooper, by the way, is wearing a striped tie like the one Fuhrman wore when he went to Bundy and Rockingham on the 13^th.

Harry spots the items under the plank and tells Albert that he may be more right than he knows. With a latex glove on his hand, Dale Cooper reaches into the hole exposed by the now missing plank, pulls out a boot and checks the heal and sloes, noting the brand name. This is what Mark Fuhrman did with Kato Kaelin when he interviewed him and gave him a sobriety test. He said that the shoes were similar but too small. He also said that Kato appeared to be high on something… The other thing Cooper finds in the hole is cocaine a plastic bag.

Meanwhile, Andy is still stomping around and rocking from side to side like a drunk trying to maintain his balance for a sobriety test. Behind him is Albert and the men who got out of the white Ford with him. Behind them is the white Ford. Would it surprise you to see a fair-sized rock somewhere in the picture?

…I didn’t think so.

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