That last point IS valid but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt just because of general Twin Peaks weirdness. There are things we don't know about Becky that could be the reasons he is sneaking around. We really don't know much about either of them, outside their violent drug-fueled relationship.Wonderful & Strange wrote:The body language of Stephen and Gersten is pretty obvious, IMO, and the call that Becky received is obviously about him cheating (why else was she enraged?). If they weren't cheating, then why did they hide from Becky? And if it wasn't cheating, then why didn't Lynch and Frost raise that possibility when Becky has the family meeting?
There really should be no confusion here except that people are supposing that nothing in Twin Peaks is ever what it seems just because the supernatural aspects have a sublime quality. But we know this isn't true. Quite often, especially in affairs of the heart, Twin Peaks is very straightforward.
In fact, I can't remember a single affair in the show that wasn't an affair.
There are two ways you could interpret events:
1. Stephen and Gerstner are having an affair. Someone rings Becky to tell her they've seen Stephen go into Gerstner's room. The couple may see Becky coming, they may be in another part of the building. After Becky fires her gun into the door they linger at the bottom of the stairs, worried that Becky has almost found them out.
2. Stephen and Gerstner have some sort of other relationship. Someone rings Becky to tell her they've seen Stephen go into Gersten's room (both Becky and friend assume Stephen is having an affair). The couple may see Becky coming, they may be in another part of the building. After Becky fires her gun into the door they linger at the bottom of the stairs, worried because someone has just fired multiple shots upstairs.
I agree, it's still probably the first. But the second is no stretch of possibility.
I wonder if the neighbour is the friend that rings Becky up?