Hank Jennings
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Hank Jennings was a character on the ABC series Twin Peaks. He is married to Norma Jennings. In the first few episodes, Hank is serving time in prison, and is due for parole, which he soon gets.
A career criminal, albeit a more professional one than Leo Johnson, Hank ends up being hired for a number of shady dealings, firstly by Benjamin Horne, and then by Jean Renault. In particular, he is responsible for shooting Leo, after Leo has set fire to the Packard Mill, but does not manage to kill him, only to send him into a coma. After this, he is part of the "friendly takeover" of One Eyed Jacks. Unfortunately for Hank, Leo had been attacking Bobby Briggs with an axe at the time, and Hank is unaware that Bobby is a witness.
He has a difficult relationship with Josie Packard, who owes him a sum of money. He makes them "blood siblings" by the pricking of thumbs. However, one of Josie's associates from Hong Kong comes and sorts him out.
Hank violates parole in a number of different ways, not only by committing crime, but also by going over the Canadian border, and by being involved with the Dead Dog Farm stake out.
He also has a difficult relationship with his wife, for example, he uses her good faith to get him a job at the Double R Diner. He tries to get an alibi from his wife, Norma, by blackmailing her while she visits his cell at the police station. Norma wants a divorce to marry Big Ed Hurley, so Hank replies "you give me my alibi, and I'll give you a divorce". When he tells her, that she is Big Ed's "whore", she says "I'd rather be his whore than your wife." Big Ed and Norma have been having a relationship since high school but are both married to other people. When Hank decides to punish Big Ed, he has the misfortune to run into the superhumanly strong Nadine Hurley (Ed's wife), who instead gets a hold of Hank and beats him to a pulp. Hank spends the remainder of the series on crutches.
Hank is bad to the bone, and when pretending not to be, he puts on a nice-guy persona which manages to convince some people.
It is told by Sheriff Harry S. Truman that Hanks was once one of the Bookhouse Boys, and in fact, "one of the best". How that is possible with all we know about him is never revealed.
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