Ben Horne
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Benjamin Horne (played by Richard Beymer) is a fictional character on the 1990-1991 primetime ABC series Twin Peaks. A fervent capitalist, his business schemes lead Twin Peaks to a number of potential disasters. He is the father of Audrey, who he tends to leave to her own devices, and Johnny who is severely mentally handicapped. He has a very close relationship with his brother Jerry. He is married to Sylvia, who is not featured in the series very much.
As well as running the hotel, and the local department store, Horne also runs a brothel called "One Eyed Jacks", that is a major location for several plotlines throughout the series.
As the series begins, Ben is having an affair with Catherine Packard Martell, owner of the Packard Mill, and it appears they are planning to burn it down. However, this relationship is purely physical/exploitative, and Catherine comes back to haunt Ben.
Things soon to begin to unravel for Ben as the second seaon progresses. Following Audrey's abuduction by Jean Renault, Ben was forced to deal with the knowledge his daughter was aware of his more illegal business practices. Then he was held in custody for the murder of Laura Palmer (whom Audrey learned he was in love with, and with whom he had a sexual relationship), as well as learning his old friend and legal counsel Leland Palmer (Laura's father) was actually responsible for the crime. And then having to deal with the continued mainipulations of Catherine, Ben suffered a severe nervous breakdown. As a result, he comes to believes he is fighting the American Civil War in which the South emerges victorious, a delusion that takes the combined efforts of Dr. Lawrence Jacoby, Audrey, his brother Jerry, and Bobby Briggs for him to ultimately snap out of. Following this, he becomes an environmentalist (that is implied at being a front for ruining Catherine Martell's plans for the Ghostwood project), but overall he does appear to making a genuine effort to "be good".
As the series draws to a close, Ben suggests to Donna Hayward that he might in fact be her biological father, a suspicion that had been slowly growing in Donna's mind. This immediately draws him into conflict with Doc Hayward, and Donna's mother, Eileen Hayward. Both men come to blows in the Hayward family home in the last episode, with Ben suffering a severe blow to the head on a fireplace as a result of the violent confrontation. The full extent of this injury, and even if it was indeed fatal, is unclear. {| class="toccolours" align="center" margin: 0 0 1em 1em; width: 25em;" |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! style="background: #BADBAD; text-align: center; font-size: larger;" | Twin Peaks |- style="vertical-align: top;" | align=center | Episodes | |- style="vertical-align: top;" ! style="background: #BADBAD; text-align: center; " | |- style="vertical-align: top;" | align=center | Agent Cooper | Laura Palmer | Sheriff Truman | Donna Hayward | Audrey Horne | The Log Lady | Man from another place | Albert Rosenfield | Deputy Brennan | BOB | Lucy Moran | Leland Palmer | Sarah Palmer | Doc Hayward | Ben Horne | Jerry Horne | The Renault brothers | Josie Packard | Catherine Packard Martell | Pete Martell | Major Briggs | Bobby Briggs | |- style="vertical-align: top;"
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