The Secret History of Twin Peak - Mark Frost

* Ben Horne at the Great Northern
But the larger question remained: Would the injury to Ben’s daughter serve as a further
wake-up call to make him more the man his daughter longed for him to be? She’d nearly
died delivering that message to him, and her life hung in the balance. Only time would
tell if he listened. 6
1 Kind of quaint, isn’t it, how news was still being disseminated in print during these last days before the Internet. If it
weren’t for all the murders and explosions and dizzying double-crosses, I’d be tempted to say it seemed like a more
innocent time—TP
2 As the last of the old-growth forests were harvested, the lumber industry around Twin Peaks had been declining for
years. Soon after, Catherine abruptly closed the Packard Mill—the town’s largest employer throughout the 20th century
—after a fire, strangely, gutted its central facilities. As the town’s largest employer, the mill’s closing dealt a devastating
blow to the local economy.
A few weeks after the fire, Catherine sold the mill and its associated properties to her former paramour, Benjamin
Horne, and his investors in the Ghostwood Development, the plan he’d been pursuing for years.
3 Based on what it cost him personally, the price Horne paid for the mill was a lot higher than the amount on the check
—TP
4 This “anonymous tip” must have been the source of the rumor mentioned in the Post article that something “big” was
about to happen at the bank—TP
5 Verified. According to Jacoby’s subsequent patient files, Ben Horne did “surrender at Appomattox” and find his way
back to health —TP
6 Chronologically speaking, this is one of the latest events that the Archivist references in the dossier. One possible
theory is that something may have happened to our “correspondent” soon after this point. Making efforts to discover
what that might have been—TP