Leland’s confession
‘Arbitrary Law,’ Episode 209

BOB has completely taken over Leland at this point and confesses to the murders, adding in a dose of creepy by revealing he knows about Cooper’s murdered love, Caroline. As BOB flees Leland’s body, he tells Cooper and Sheriff Truman (Michael Ontkean), “When I go, children, I will pull that ripcord, and you just watch Leland remember… just watch him.” Then Leland is back and he remembers all of the horrible things he’s done, which the show has previously implied includes not only killing his daughter Laura, but also years of abusing her, and Leland cries and cries as he dies on the floor of the sheriff’s station.