[He should've pulled that one. If he were going to tell her, he should've led into it a little better, made it a little softer. And yet even as he stands there solemnly, watching her react to it, he doesn't regret it, precisely. She should be horrified. Not because she deserves to be punished with the knowledge that there's another body added to the count, but because dammit, these kids, they're dying and for what, for what, and somebody ought to be horrified but that's not Albert's job. Albert's job is to get the answers, catch the murderers. He can't weep for any of these kids because if started with even just one he'd never stop.
But it does make him angry, and it's going to bother him for a long time. He's going to carry the memories of Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson with a particular weight to them, the same one that some other victims have piled on before them (whose names and faces he remembers, when they'd had names and faces remaining to attach) — because if not for that incident, Ben Horne and Doc Hayward and Harry's fists and Cooper's deadly calm, if not for that he would've caught it. He could've had the killer sooner.
It means he didn't do the job the best he could've, and that leaves him feeling like he's failed them, these girls, these kids, because they got justice but it was a hollow sham of what it could've been.]
Yeah. She came to town to visit. Helping out your folks, I think it was.
no subject
But it does make him angry, and it's going to bother him for a long time. He's going to carry the memories of Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson with a particular weight to them, the same one that some other victims have piled on before them (whose names and faces he remembers, when they'd had names and faces remaining to attach) — because if not for that incident, Ben Horne and Doc Hayward and Harry's fists and Cooper's deadly calm, if not for that he would've caught it. He could've had the killer sooner.
It means he didn't do the job the best he could've, and that leaves him feeling like he's failed them, these girls, these kids, because they got justice but it was a hollow sham of what it could've been.]
Yeah. She came to town to visit. Helping out your folks, I think it was.
[His voice turns a little softer.]
The two of you could've been twins.