Suicide or Murder

Harold Smith, was one of the more mysterious and complex characters in the T.V. series Twin Peaks. Thought by other to have killed himself in season two episode 15, when his body was found by officer Hawk, hanging from the ceiling of his green house. Every one assumes he takes his own life due to the physiological problems associated with him, but I propose the idea that he was murdered.
Think about it, in the film Fire Walk With Me we’re introduced to Harold through Laura. She confides in him all her secrets in one of his living journals including all the secrets of Bob, but she tells him that Bob does not know about him. So it is say to say that since Harold is a hermit and does not venture from his home Bob would not have seen him while in his owl form. So Harold much like the Log Lady is protected while in his own home. This protection was violated in the series when Harold is tricked by Donna Hayward to follow her out side. she tells him her feelings and then playfully runs out side soon as he crosses the door to follow he collapses in what appears to be fear as if he felt bobs presences. Much like Philip Gerard who can sense bob in the air around him I believe that Harold fells this same presence. Remember Bob promised to kill again, so what if the victim is the unlucky Harold? As Reece Goodwin writes "we have two logical arguments which suggest that Harold Smith was killed by BOB. Add this to the facts that he swore he would kill again, and that BOB had not finished spelling out his name under people's fingernails, and the pieces gradually begin to fall intoplace. But what would they have discovered if they had looked under poor Harold's fingernail...?"

by Charles Roy