[What he meant was probably something closer to, why didn't I get there in time, but the answer he gets is chilling anyway. Given the choice between the two, he'd rather take too far to help than too stupid to notice there's something wrong.
He'd notice if there were something wrong with Cooper, wouldn't he? Everybody noticed there was something wrong with Leland Palmer, even if nobody knew precisely what. Damn small-town yokels had just chalked it up to hysteria over his kid.
What's he chalking it up to, if he hasn't noticed that something's wrong with Cooper?]
Okay. So I can't stop you from getting in, is that what you're saying? But I can do something about after. When he's pretending to be you.
[And it's his pure straightforward cynicism that leads him to the obvious conclusion first — probably the one Cooper's been wanting him to draw all along.
He's not asking to be saved. He's asking to be stopped.
And if for some reason Albert can't do both, then he's well aware which one Cooper's asking him to choose.]
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[What he meant was probably something closer to, why didn't I get there in time, but the answer he gets is chilling anyway. Given the choice between the two, he'd rather take too far to help than too stupid to notice there's something wrong.
He'd notice if there were something wrong with Cooper, wouldn't he? Everybody noticed there was something wrong with Leland Palmer, even if nobody knew precisely what. Damn small-town yokels had just chalked it up to hysteria over his kid.
What's he chalking it up to, if he hasn't noticed that something's wrong with Cooper?]
Okay. So I can't stop you from getting in, is that what you're saying? But I can do something about after. When he's pretending to be you.
[And it's his pure straightforward cynicism that leads him to the obvious conclusion first — probably the one Cooper's been wanting him to draw all along.
He's not asking to be saved. He's asking to be stopped.
And if for some reason Albert can't do both, then he's well aware which one Cooper's asking him to choose.]
Annie Blackburn. Harry'll know who she is?