Leland (played by Ray Wise) is an attorney, with his primary client being local businessman Ben Horne. He is well-known and respected in the town of Twin Peaks. Together with his wife Sarah and his daughter Laura, his family seems to be perfect. When Laura is murdered, however, Leland’s psychological foundations begin to crumble, and it is gradually revealed that extreme dysfunction, including Incest, lies beneath the Palmer family's idyllic surface.