Naw. He was preoccupied and a little careless, certainly at fault.  Perhaps there was something subconcious a work- he would've liked to kill Hank, but there was no one around to express his rage at- hence the accident.   I don't think he cared about her 'til he realized how pathetically devoted she was to him, and was there for him when he had given up on true love.

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Agreed. And really, it's a huge stretch to even try and paint Big Ed as a killer of any kind and Nadine's accident as a botched murder attempt. I think this is a case where someone is just looking for things to form a theory on rather than work with what's there. Sometimes an accident is just an accident...

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

It's kind of like during the rocks and bottles scene, when Coop throws the rock and it richochets off of a tree then hits Andy square in the head. Same thing happened with that piece of buckshot. Excepy Andy didn't lose an eye.

Poor Ed...poor Nadine.

I like the idea, LauraLover. Even someone as innocent as Ed having a darker side. Subconsiously, he might want to kill her back then.

I mean, who wouldn´t? She´s a pain in the arse for christ sake!!!!

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Nope.  ;)

And also, before people start bashing Lelandloves Laura's theories anymore, I think it's fair to say that she does have a valid point.  And even if she is just looking for things to pick at, so what?  It gives us something fresh to discuss doesn't it?  That is hard to do when you're discussing a show that's been dead 14 years.  I think her intuition is spot on.

Not only did Everett Mcgill play a killer in People Under the Stairs, but he also played an evil killer priest in this weird Stephen King film about a wheelchair.  (The name of which escapes me at the moment but it begins with an "S")

Also, if anyone is interested in checking this out, there is indeed a script on GlastonberryGrove.net which was written and Ed was actually the killer..... 

"watch out for my cousin.."

Man, if I had a nickel for every time I secretly prayed for the death of a significant other when the affair was on the rocks...

QUOTE: QUOTE:Am I the only one who keeps thinking of this pair together in "The People Under The Stairs"? Not only did Everett Mcgill play a killer in People Under the Stairs, but he also played an evil killer priest in this weird Stephen King film about a wheelchair. (The name of which escapes me at the moment but it begins with an "S")

Silver Bullet. He was a werewolf.

We're all about new theories here. Just don't expect to be taken seriously if you pull something incredible out of your arse with absolutely no evidence to back it up. Theories for the sake of theories won't fly.

I certainly think you could argue that it was an unconscious desire, but as everybody else says, it couldn't have been premeditated, because of Ed's general character, the way he recounts the story, and his actions following the incident.

PS - the way Albert reacts to that story is one of my favourite funny moments of the whole show! The man actually cries with laughter - priceless!

Cooper: Poor Ed

Truman: Yeah

Rosenfeld: Yeah

Thicker skin, hun...thicker skin. Otherwise you might as well avoid discussions here because it's not often that everyone agrees with what anyone says.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Yeah, I can understand that.  Hope you're not scared off or anything now. We like new folks!

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

My reasoning tells me that the idea of Ed wanting to kill Nadine is absolutely non-sense, considering how he cares about her and how he is... However, as I said in my thread that theory has always intrigued me, as a small possibility, like if Ed thought about it for just one moment or better yet, that he considered what would have happened if she had died and that if that really was a bad thing. Again, "Lost" comes to mind... When Locke makes Boone think Shannon has died and when he asks him what he felt, he says "Relief"...

The same thing here... It wasn't a planned murder and Ed is not a killer, but is something that maybe was there in his subconscious when that event happened. And I bet he would have felt relief, if only a bit, if she died... But as have been said correctly there's no evidence to support this, just speculation, like in the case of funny or not so funny little "theories" not to be taken serious like Pete spying Audrey and JJW having sex, Audrey actually losing his virginity in OEJ or the Horne Bros. losing theirs with Louise Dombrowski... And what was Dell Mibbler thinking when he saw such a pretty girl like Audrey tied in front of him???

In TP anything is possible. Do you know what's in the characters minds all the time? Because I don't... Did Leo know that someone was there with him and the boys in the woods? Why Hawk stopped to follow the OEM in the morgue? What about the strange look in Mj. Briggs face when Sarah phones Betty?

"watch out for my cousin.."