in either episode eight or nine, Lucy receives a call from someone, and the conversation, who is this, if you don't tell me your name I will have to hang up, is one sided and it doesnt seem as though we ever get an answer as to who that was calling for Truman.

Any ideas or did I just miss something completely?

Originally thought it was Josie, but not too sure.. 

Thanks 

Wasnt that when Bobby called pretending to be Leo? Telling her that James Hurley was an Easy Rider.

No, that was an entirely different phone call. She actually thought she was talking to Leo on that one.

The scene takes place in between when Doc takes Shelly to see Leo (in the hospital) and when Audrey finds Emory at OEJ's and threatens him.

Here's a transcript of the phone call:

"Hello, Twin Peaks sheriff’s station. Who may I say is calling, please? *pause* I’m sorry I can’t connect you with Sheriff Truman unless you tell me what your name is. *pause* You won’t? *pause* I’m sorry but I can’t connect you with Sheriff Truman unless you tell who you are. *pause* I’m terribly sorry but I’m going to have to hang up now."

~ Amanda

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

I can't wait until season 2 comes out so I will know the answers too.

My picks for that phone call...Thomas Eckhardt, or his henchman guy...or extreme longshot Windom Earle

My picks for that phone call...Thomas Eckhardt, or his henchman guy...or extreme longshot Windom Earle

There was a discussion of this is the magazine Wrapped in Plastic once. One of the magazine's readers suggested the following:

Leland/BOB see the police sketch of BOB and recognises him as the man he saw by the house in Pearl Lakes when Leland was a kid. Leland is in control at this point, and he phones the Sheriff's Station. When Lucy asks who is calling, this causes confusion because BOB is trying to take control of Leland. So Leland/BOB will not reveal his/their name! Then Lucy hangs up.

Of course, later on, Leland goes to the Station in person, and manages to suppress BOB long enough to tell Truman, Cooper and co. that he (Leland) has seen BOB near Pearl Lakes years ago.

(Hope the above makes sense. It was somewhat difficult to explain.)

I always reckoned it was Leland, because it happens so quickly afterward.

I don't agree that BOB took possession though, because he does go to the station and tell them anyway..but if he rings them and then realises he is talking to Lucy he hangs up because he doesn't want her to know it is him.  As she is just a gossip anyway :)

Good point, it could very well have been Leland/BOB?

It was, well, it is what I always thought...Mike Gerrard calling to set up an appointment to sell Sheriff Truman some shoes.

Always been intrigued about this too - I like the Leland theory best. Don't see why Gerrard wouldn't leave his name....

I agree with the Leland theory too... I remember I used to think it was Bobby, but just because in a following scene he says to Shelly he "phoned and told them I was his cousin"; but of course he's talking about the insurance company...

I guess I didn't pay attention the first time I saw it...

http://twinpeaks.elwiki.com/Phone_call_to_Lucy

The only question I have, is why wouldn't Leland leave his name when he called? Other than the fact that maybe BOB took him over to stop him, but if that is true, then why didnt he do that when Leland eventually told Cooper and Truman at the station?

Perhaps there was an internal struggle between Leland and BOB. Leland starts to make the call, but then BOB stops him, and won't reveal who is calling.

Later on, Leland becomes stronger, and goes over to the Station in person. BOB realises it would not be wise to struggle against Leland in front of Truman and Cooper. Any strange behaviour, mood swings or indecisiveness on Leland's part might arouse suspicion. So BOB allows Leland to speak at this point, albeit grudgingly.

(Of course, even later on, when Leland is dancing with a golf club, under BOB's influence, in the Hotel foyer, Truman and Coop do become suspicious about his behaviour and think that something might be wrong. So this is BOB's mistake: causing Leland to act in this mad, chaotic way!)

I always thought this could be AUDREY calling from ONE EYED JACKS.

Isn't this the episode where she calls COOPER right afterwards?

So, I figured she was calling the sherrif's station and still playing her little girl secret agent game, so not to leave her name.  Seems like something she would do.

That could work. Although i imagine that she'd rather be seeking Coop to chat with than Harry.

I watched the episode again and Audrey hasn't made it to the phone yet.

I have no idea who that is.  Kinda weird.

Actually, now that some time has passed, I like the idea that it's Josie, trying to get in touch with Harry. She is away is Seattle, and just wants to talk to him and explain where she is. (Well, she is not being entirely truthful with people. She is pretending to be away on a shopping trip.) As someone said, Audrey usually wants to talk to Cooper. Josie usually wants to talk to Harry.

(The Leland/BOB theory is starting to seem unconvincing to me. As someone said, Leland just walks into the sheriff's dept later on, and tells Truman and co about the man he knew at Pearl Lakes, so why would he withold his identity on the phone?)

 So, I think it is Josie on the phone. She and Harry are keeping their relationship secret, so she doesn't want Lucy to find out. Yes, it all makes sense!

I think i'm with Fred on this one.  Josie seems like the most logical caller.

I'm in the camp that says there was no who there, it was probably just written to be vaguely menacing without the idea that it was any one particular character.  Perhaps an opening to pop someone in to later, when subsequent story events found it useful to do so.

But based on what we have of the show, the Josie angle is the only one that has a potential ring of truth to it for me, so on that account alone it's my preferred theory. 

But Josie wouldn't ring Harry in the Sherriff's station.  And if she did which I highly doubt, she would ring his extension.  She knows Lucy is the receptionist so why on earth is she going to ring him at work?  She knows better.  Plus let's not forget she has a sawmill to run and Harry has a station to run during the day so they are both gonna be too busy.  I'm sorry, but that just doesn't seem logical to me at all. 

I still think it was Leland. 

I can't recall evidence from any other episode that they had that kind of phone system at the Sheriff's Station.  And I can see Josie calling there if she was desperate to talk to Harry.  Admittedly it's not a perfect fit, but the Josie story still works better for me.  After all, why wouldn't Leland make up a fake name?  It's easy to imagine Josie being afraid to identify herself but also being too freaked out to manage the effort of a false identity.  Meanwhile, there's no motive for Leland to hide his identity from Lucy when he's presumably just about to talk to Harry, unless he's about to offer some anonymous info, in which case he just would have told Lucy, who he'd expect to be less likely to recognize his voice.

I don't know who it was but surely so many ppl's voices Lucy would recognise. Josie's accent would surely be a dead give away if it was her, wouldn't you say?

It was actually a conspiracy plot by the executives at ABC to hook us in to another exciting episode of Twin Peaks if you could figure out its new night and time. No, that's not it!!!

I'll have to get back to you on that

It was me, sorry, got the wrong number