Dean Gilmour, Lieutenant, serves as the Los Angeles County Coroner. In a rambling interview, he talks about the difficulty of locating human remains in the rubble left behind in the aftermath of the riot. He also reflects more broadly on survivors’ need for closure and resolution after a loved one’s death. Gilmour’s thoughts on closure resonate with the play’s bigger questions regarding how to internalize and move on from the riots which created so much fear and unrest in the city and, ultimately, didn’t result in all that much change.
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Dean Gilmour Character Timeline in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
The timeline below shows where the character Dean Gilmour appears in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Human Remains
Smith interviews Dean Gilmour, Lieutenant and Coroner for Los Angeles County. Gilmore is a friendly man who speaks slowly....
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Gilmour ruminates about how the missing people’s families—and humanity more broadly—need closure and ceremony to move...
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Gilmour rambles on about which deaths are and are not attributed to the riots. He talks...
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