In episode 29, Cooper is walking along a corridor in the Red Room, and Leland Palmer (or his Doppelganger?) pops out and says: "I did not kill anybody."

Well, he jolly well did! As I recall, he killed about 4 people all together.

So why on earth is Leland denying it now? Can anyone explain this to me, please? Thanks.

I suppose he denied it,cause he really didn't want to kill anybody,his body and mind were inhabited by BOB and Leland didn't realise what he had done,he didn't remember after that,so maybe he just wanted to excuse himself to Cooper or kind of,or maybe to make him even more confused.

Beware of BOB

When I call out no one can hear me,when I whisper he thinks the message is for him only..my little voice inside my throat,I always think there must be something that I've done or something I can do...But no one no one comes to help,he says,a little girl like you...

Yep, he really didn't kill anyone. BOB did. As for why is he saying that. This and a few more encounters in the black lodge sequence kind of remind me of a dream(nightmare). In a dream, random images pop up in your mind and you make the quickest associations. Perhaps David just wanted to confuse us with his twisted vision without losing sense at the same time.

This episode is a damn fine piece of art.

This isn't right... There's something wrong here...

This isn't right... There's something wrong here...

Thanks for your ideas on this.

Someone said it is Leland's doppelganger laughing at Leland's situation. I find this very convincing. There is a kind of evil laughter about "Leland" in this particular scene. I think the real Leland is absolutely devastated by what BOB has forced him to do. He really feels full of guilt and sheer anguish, so he wouldn't be laughing about it. So, this is the doppelganger of Leland, from the Black Lodge.

I like the question about Leland killing Jacques. It's ambiguous. It could be just Leland getting revenge on the person he thought killed Laura. On the other hand, it could be BOB influencing him and then fabricating the motive when the police find out and question him...

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 Yea, whatever

 Fred, about the hospital - that could be, but if you think about it, BOB has no motive to kill Reno... so I'll pass on this. 

This isn't right... There's something wrong here...

Is pissing me off your purpose in life? If you haven't noticed BOB don't just go arround the streets of TP picking random victims. Teresa attracted him, so did Laura and Maddie. As mike said he feeds on pleasure, pain and suffering from the victims. BOB had NO connection to Reno. He didn't experience fear nor anything... He surely didn't attract BOB. Leland simply went there, mad for vengeance(temp. insanity perhaps) and suffocated him. There's no reason for BOB to take revenge for the murder he comitted or any other motive...

since when does BOB need a motive.. ffs, man...

This isn't right... There's something wrong here...

Are you sure he only killed Teresa because she was blackmailing him? Remember how Leland says "You look just like my Laura" + Teresa had the ring. I´m sure there was more to the killing that the blackmail...

Now. The Renault muder. I´m really not sure. I´ve always thought it was Leland. I´m sure he was influenced by BOB. He made him cabale of murder. But his motive?

Oh. Btw. Amen to MrsTremonds post!

Ditte

My own answer is that Leland killed Jacques, not BOB (to the degree that they can be considered separate; I largely agree with MrsT that the realities portrayed don't entirely overlap). But I'm only about 80% convinced of this, mostly because of the evidential value of the Leland's Doppelganger scene.

One thing is clear -- if it was BOB (or "Evil Leland", to integrate the metaphor) who killed Jacques, then Leland's confession was BOB also. And it makes that scene even more interesting than it already is, the thought that he's actually psyching them out there in the interrogation room -- not to mention the scene with Judge Sternwood, and others I know I'm forgetting...

Doesn´t he start saying that he smells it at the hospital and then remembers the smell in the park? And then Cooper says "okay, let´s get back to the hospital" or something...

This is actually a great clue to the viewers that Leland is the killer (Laura´s) because we already know that Leland killed Jacques. Jacoby smelled the masked man in the park who was watching Maddy... To me it seems like a clue...

So great point, Fred. This was BOB´s work...

Ditte 

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I don't remember the actual dialogue but the script for the episode says: 

COOPER
Do you smell anything? Burned engine oil?

JACOBY
No. I smell engine oil in the park.

I'm with smokey that it's up to the viewer to decide, is not an accident that they decided to leave this matter ambiguous... But to me the answer is quite clear judging the evidences. BOB was not a brutal beast who killed without thinking, he wanted to remain in Leland, didn't want him to get caught. That's why he put the animal hair (from Ben's office) in Maddy, why he phoned Laura from Ben's office, why he laughed when he was informed Ben was arrested... He wanted Coop and co. to get another suspect and that's why he killed Leland and left the vessel when he was arrested. The scenario of BOB killing Jacques (a suspect) makes no sense to me judging his future actions and that's enough for me.

Something else, I think that the scorched engine oil smell doesn't only indicate BOB's presence, but BOB being furious or disturbed... In the traincar, in the traffic jam, when Maddy was killed, when Jacoby was attacked,...

Ah, but Jacoby doesn't actually say "no"!

He says there was a peculiar smell -- not Jacques "voiding his bowels" -- but when Coop prompts him on the scorched engine oil, his response is to jump tracks and say "there was engine oil at the park" without a yes or no answer to the hospital... I'm 93% certain of it.

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Yes, I knew the dialogue wasn't like that on screen but I wasn't sure. Thanks Jamie... As I said they probably wanted to leave things ambiguous.

Leland says he couldn't remember what he had done when BOB was gone so if BOB was Jacques killer I think Leland wouldn't remember all that... Yes, I know that there's the possibility that he's BOB when he's arrested, questioned and in the trial, but I doubt it. He's Leland all those times... When he's arrested he's having memories of the summers in Pearl Lakes, when he's questioned he's sad talking about screaming cells, grief, etc. and in the trial or in other scenes with Sternwood he seems very Leland...

I don't think Leland has any control over BOB, who has been inside him since he was a child. That's why when we have to consider all the actions Leland did in the series and the film we must consider that BOB is always there; sometimes he's in the shadows, letting Leland to surface, but is always there. That's why while I don't agree () those who think BOB killed Jacques or that Leland did under BOB's influence have a point...

Mrs Tremond, that was a good one! A superb conclusion to the rather pointless argument between those who say of course BOB existed! because of this, this, this and this (that we see in the films) and those who prefer BOB is just a symbol, the evil that men do.
Obviously he is both.
 

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