Leo Johnson, played by Eric Da Re, is a trucker who also moonlights as Twin Peaks's primary source of narcotics (which he obtains from the Renault Brothers and traffics over the Canada–US border). Sheriff Truman has never been able to obtain evidence of his criminal dealings. Leo is married to Shelly Johnson, a waitress at the town diner. Sadistic and volatile, he regularly beats and rapes her for both real and imagined transgressions, ranging from her infidelity with high school football player Bobby Briggs to his dissatisfaction with the way she washes the kitchen floor.
In the course of the series, Leo becomes one of the primary suspects in the murder of Laura Palmer. As it turns out, Leo was simply present while Laura was murdered by Killer Bob. While under investigation, Leo is hired for his criminal skills by Ben Horne, who tasks him with burning down the Packard Saw Mill with his business rival Catherine Martell inside so that Horne can simultaneously kill his competition and destroy the only obstacle to his obtaining the valuable Mill land. Leo decides to use the situation to solve his own marital discord, abducting and brutally raping Shelly and then tying her up inside the mill shortly before setting fire to it with a time bomb. Catherine foils his plans by freeing Shelly and helping her escape. When Leo returns home after setting fire to the mill, he discovers Bobby in his house looking for Shelly. Leo tries to kill him with an axe, but is shot by Hank Jennings, who was hired by Ben Horne to kill Leo in order to cover Ben's tracks.
Leo spends most of the second season in a vegetative state, cared for by Shelly and Bobby, who take him in as part of a scheme to commit insurance fraud. Their plan backfires when it turns out that Leo's home care is far more expensive than they had anticipated, and the pair are left destitute. To vent their frustration, they take to abusing Leo and flaunting their relationship in front of him.
Near the end of the season, Leo regains some of his cognitive abilities and attacks Shelly and Bobby. Wounded during a struggle, he staggers into the woods, where he is abducted by escaped mental patient (and former FBI agent) Windom Earle. Earle enslaves the barely coherent Leo by fitting him with a shock collar and forcing him into submission. Leo spends the remainder of the series as a semi-mute drone, serving as Earle's henchman. In the third-to-last episode Leo frees another of Earle's captives, Major Garland Briggs, believing Shelly's life to be in danger after Earle posts a photo of her on his cabin wall. In the series finale, Earle leaves Leo for dead, rigging a cage of tarantulas above Leo's head, with a string affixed between Leo's teeth; if Leo lets go of the string, the cage will drop on his face, releasing the agitated tarantulas.
Although Leo's fate is not disclosed in the 2017 series, The Final Dossier reveals that he was shot to death by an unknown assailant. His autopsy is performed by Albert Rosenfield, who suspects that Leo was killed by an individual with an FBI background, implied to be either Windom Earle or Cooper's doppelgänger.
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