A list of the characters receiving head injuries so far this season:
Bill Hastings
Johnny Horne
The two people attacked by the woodsman in the radio station
Garland Briggs
Ruth Davenport
Miriam Sullivan
The couple on the couch by the glass box
Rodney Mitchum
Jack, unless it was just a massage.
Anyone else?
Phyllis Hastings was shot in the head too
The two accidents seem to imply head trauma - Dougie & James. And the many cases of brain damage or temporary derangement because of drugs. Bushnell doesn't appear to have any boxing side effects.
Not just in this series, but the entire Lynch oeuvre. Off the top of my head (pun intended)
-The decapitation in Eraserhead
-Bob Ray Lemon getting his skull caved in in Wild at Heart
-Bobby Peru shotgun mishap in Wild at Heart
- The Yellow Man in Blue Velvet
-The severed ear in Blue Velvet
-The deaths of Laura Palmer, Maddy Ferguson and Theresa Banks in TP
-The "coffee table" head trauma in Lost Highway
-Dick Laurent/Mr Eddy's messy desert demise
-"Rita" and her concussion in Mulholland Drive
and probably many more that I can't remember.
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