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| “ | Through the dark of futures past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds, fire walk with me! I'll catch you with my death bag. You may think I've gone insane, but I promise I will kill again! | „ |
| ~ Killer Bob speaking as Leland Palmer. |
Killer BOB, usually referred to as simply BOB, is the main antagonist of the Twin Peaks franchise. In the 2017 revival he is the host of Dale Cooper's doppelganger Mr. C. He is a demonic entity who feeds on fear and pleasure. He possesses human beings and then commits acts of rape and murder in order to feast upon his victims.
In the original series, he was portrayed by the late set dresser Frank Silva, and when possessing Leland Palmer, he was portrayed by Ray Wise, who also portrayed Leon Nash in RoboCop and John Nelson in Criminal Minds.
In Twin Peaks: The Return, Silva returned to portray him in archival footage, but he later returned as a doppelganger of protagonist Dale Cooper called "Mr. C". As Mr. C, he was portrayed by Cooper's actor Kyle MacLachlan, who also portrayed Cliff Vandercave in The Flintstones, King Claudius in the 2000 film adaptation of Hamlet, Calvin L. Johnson in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Donald Love in Grand Theft Auto III, Isaac Izzard in The House with the Clock in its Walls, and Earl Raymond Diggs in Tales From the Crypt.
Personality[]
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Biography[]
Origin[]
Killer BOB is a demonic entity from the Black Lodge, a realm of pure evil which exists on an alternate plane of reality. According to legend, he is a dark spirit who existed long before humanity. However, later flashbacks show that he was either born or released into the physical world following a 1945 nuclear test in White Sands, New Mexico, when the image of BOB was seemingly regurgitated from a white figure (likely the demonic entity known as Judy/Jowday).
For the next several decades, he spent most of his time on Earth possessing human beings, although he also travels in the form of an owl. While possessing humans, he commits horrible crimes to elicit pain, fear, and suffering from those around him; these feelings, which Black Lodge residents refer to collectively as "garmonbozia" act as a form of nourishment. Physically, garmonbozia takes the shape of creamed corn. Creamed corn is referenced in the series when Laura Palmer's best friend Donna takes over Laura's "meals on wheels" route and accidentally serves the Tremonds (the little boy with the white mask and the old lady) creamed corn. In the prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, MIKE accuses Leland of stealing the corn he had canned "above the store". Secondly, garmonbozia refers to "pain and suffering". BOB, and possibly MIKE or other inhabitants of the Lodge, feed on garmonbozia as it is mentioned by name and/or description throughout the series and movie by MIKE, BOB, the Tremonds, and The Man from Another Place.
BOB spent several years with MIKE, murdering people to feed off of their fear and pain until MIKE had a religious epiphany and cut off his own arm. BOB then lurked around the Great Northern Hotel for 40 years. When Leland Palmer was a boy, a man named Robertson - BOB's latest human disguise - lived in a white house near his grandfather's summer house at Pearl Lakes. He taunted Leland, asking "do you wanna play with fire, little boy?" BOB told Leland that he wanted to play, and then "opened" Leland and went inside him; it is also implied that he sexually abused the boy.
Twin Peaks (1989-1991)[]
Dale Cooper first learns of BOB's existence in a vision, in which he encounters another entity named MIKE. In this vision, Cooper learns that BOB was in life a serial killer who raped and murdered young women with MIKE as his accomplice; MIKE eventually repented, removing his left arm in order to be rid of the tattoo that he shared with BOB. At the beginning of the second season, one of BOB's intended victims, Ronnette Pulaski, awakens from a coma induced by her torture at BOB's hands, at which time she identifies BOB as Laura's killer. Cooper and the Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department canvass the town with wanted posters of BOB, using Andy's sketch; Leland Palmer, Laura's father, identifies the man in the poster as "Robertson", and says that he lived near his grandfather and used to taunt Leland when he was a child.
"You wanna play with fire, little boy?"
It is later revealed that BOB is, in fact, possessing Leland, and has been possessing him ever since Leland first met him as a child at his grandfather's house. Under BOB's influence, Leland molested, raped, and finally murdered his own daughter. Cooper later determines that BOB is possessing Leland, and lures him into a trap, in which BOB responds with taunting Cooper before forcing Leland to commit suicide. In his dying breaths, Leland states when he was a child he saw BOB in a dream and invited him inside, before stating that he never knew when BOB was in control of his body.
After Leland dies, Cooper engages in a philosophical debate with Sheriff Harry S. Truman and Albert Rosenfield over how real BOB was, and whether or not BOB was in fact a physical incarnation of Leland's repressed personal demons. Although the men cannot agree on a unifying idea, they do come to the conclusion that BOB is a manifestation of "the evil that men do".
BOB uses Dale's doppelganger as a host.
Following Leland's death, BOB takes the form of an owl in the woods outside Twin Peaks. In the final episode, Cooper ventures into the Black Lodge to apprehend his former partner, rogue FBI Agent Windom Earle, who is attempting to harness the power of the Lodge for himself. When Earle tries to strike a bargain with Cooper in which Cooper will sell his soul to Earle in exchange for Earle not murdering Cooper's lover, Annie, BOB appears, causing time in the Lodge to reverse to the moment before Cooper agreed to sell his soul. BOB informs Cooper that the Black Lodge is his domain, and thus Earle has trespassed by coming into it and demanding Cooper's soul for himself. As a punishment, BOB kills Earle, taking Earle's soul for himself. Cooper attempts to flee, but BOB traps Cooper in the Lodge, exiting in the form of a doppelganger of Cooper. The series ends with a maniacally laughing BOB examining his new body in a mirror.
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)[]
25 years later, BOB is still inside of Cooper's doppelganger, who at this point is operating as a career criminal. Over the years, he has become a powerful crime boss with a far-reaching network of assassins and operatives under his command. However, he still revels in causing pain and suffering, needlessly tormenting and killing people, including his own underlings. He also rapes Cooper's secretary Diane after taking advantage of her trust to get information out of her, then traps her in the Black Lodge too and creates a doppelganger of her under his control to infiltrate the FBI. It is implied that he raped Audrey Horne as well, or at least took advantage of her sexually, since he got her pregnant with a child, Richard, who grew up to be a psychopathic criminal in his own right.
Cooper's doppelganger is destined to return to the Black Lodge with BOB at a specific time, but he avoids doing so through the use of another doppelganger of Dale Cooper known as Dougie Jones, who is sent to the lodge in his place while the real Cooper is returned back to reality. After the doppelganger is imprisoned having crashed his car and been found in possession of a machine gun and a dog's leg, he observes himself in the mirror and his face briefly appears as BOB's once again, confirming that the demon is still inhabiting the body of Cooper's doppelganger.
The doppelganger looks at the reflection of BOB in the mirror.
BOB manages to escape from the prison with an associate named Ray, who betrays the doppelganger and shoots him dead. Woodsmen (mysterious entities from the Black Lodge) surround the doppelganger's body and remove an orb containing BOB's head. After the doppelganger is revived, BOB is returned to his body. He kills Ray and meets up with his son Richard. Seeking to find another demonic entity known as Judy/Jowday, he follows a series of coordinates that Ray had given him, which lead to a location in the wilderness. Suspecting another trap, he has Richard go there first, where Richard is electrocuted and disintegrated.
BOB then gets Judy's real coordinates from Diane's doppelganger, leading him back to Twin Peaks. However, this also turns out to be a trap; instead of being taken to the destination he was seeking, he is instead teleported to the Twin Peaks police station by the Fireman, an entity from the White Lodge (a realm of pure goodness and love, diametrically opposed to the Black Lodge). While he waits in Sheriff Frank Truman's office, the real Cooper calls in, and secretary Lucy Brennan realizes the doppleganger is a fake. She shoots him dead, and BOB escapes the body in a glowing orb. Just then, prisoner Freddy Sykes engages BOB in a fight, attacking the orb with a supernatural glove given to him by the Fireman. Freddy pummels BOB through the ground hard enough to open a hole to Hell, then knocks the orb into the stratosphere, shattering it into pieces that fall into the pit of fire and finally destroying BOB once and for all.
In the Black Lodge, Cooper's doppelganger is shown trapped in a chair and engulfed in flames.
VICTIMS[]
Murder victims:
- Leland Palmer (raped, possessed, eventually forced to kill himself)
- Laura Palmer (repeatedly raped, eventually murdered)
- Teresa Banks
- Jacques Renault (possibly, it's unclear if Leland killed Jacques on his own or under BOB's influence)
- Maddy Ferguson
- Josie Packard (took her soul and trapped it in the Great Northern Hotel)
- Windom Earle (took his soul)
- Leo Johnson (implied)
- Major Garland Briggs (implied)
- Phyllis Hastings
- Jack
- Darya
- Renzo
- Ray Monroe (murdered him and trapped his soul in the Black Lodge)
- Richard Horne (indirectly; he was ordered to go to the coordinates and killed by a trap meant for BOB)
Others:
- Ronette Pulaski (tortured)
- Dale Cooper (trapped in the Black Lodge)
- Audrey Horne (raped and impregnated)
- Diane Evans (interrogated, raped, trapped in the Black Lodge)
Killed on BOB/Mr. C's orders:
- FBI agent in Colombia
- Betty (killed by a car bomb)
- Lorraine (killed by Ike "the Spike" Stadtler)
- Warden Dwight Murphy (killed by Hutch and Chantal)
- Bill Hastings (killed by one of BOB's demonic woodsmen)
- Duncan Todd (killed by Hutch and Chantal)
- Roger (killed by Hutch and Chantal)
Quotes[]
| “ | You wanna play with fire, little boy? | „ |
| ~ BOB to a young Leland. |
| “ | Head's up, tails up, run you scallywags. Night falls, morning calls, I'll catch you with my death bag. You may think I've gone insane, but I promise, I will kill again! | „ |
| ~ Bob's first lines. |
| “ | That's a "yes". | „ |
| ~ BOB confessing to the murder of Laura Palmer as Leland. |
| “ | Leland, Leland, you've been a good vehicle and I've enjoyed the ride. But now he's weak and full of holes. It's almost time to shuffle off to Buffalo! (...) Leland's a babe in the woods, with a large hole where his conscious used to be. When I go children, I will pull that ripcord and you watch Leland remember. Watch him! | „ |
| ~ Bob before leaving Leland's body. |
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Trivia[]
- In Traces to Nowhere, Sarah Palmer sees a vision of BOB while hugging Donna. The vision consists of BOB crouching at the foot of Laura's bed. In the script, the vision featured a long, empty hospital corridor, with BOB running down it towards the camera at full speed. The scene, as scripted, was indeed filmed, but deemed too "freaky" by Lynch and never used, except for a brief clip of it during Ronette's dream of Bob during the second season opener.
- BOB's actor Frank Silva was a set designer on Twin Peaks, and was cast after he accidentally trapped himself by moving a dresser in front of the door. When told of the incident, creator and director David Lynch had an image of Silva stuck in the room and thought it could fit into the series. After filming him crouched at the foot of Laura's bed, Lynch liked Silva's presence so much that he decided to make him part of the series. This footage was reused as Sarah Palmer's vision of BOB.
- Frank Silva passed away on September 13, 1995 at the age of 45. For the 2017 revival series, Twin Peaks: The Return, CGI and archive footage are used to implement BOB into several scenes, with one being when the doppelganger of Dale Cooper looks into the mirror and his face slowly changes to become BOB's. The second episode of the The Return is dedicated to Frank Silva.
- As Twin Peaks was one of the main inspirations for the animated series Gravity Falls, BOB may be the influence for Bill Cipher, the main antagonist of the show. The characters bear many similarities.
- After Dale Cooper changes the timeline by saving Laura, it is unclear what becomes of BOB in this new timeline. According to the novel The Final Dossier (in which Laura simply "disappeared" rather than being murdered), it is revealed that Leland had killed himself a year following her disappearance. Whether or not this is BOB's influence is unknown.
External Links[]
- Killer BOB on the Twin Peaks Wiki
- Killer BOB on Wikipedia
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BOB (Mr. C) | Windom Earle | Leo Johnson | Jowday | The Arm | Richard Horne | Woodsmen |