Richard Horne

I have thought about this for a while, can't seem to figure it out. Why did David Lynch choose to make his own character deaf? Does it mean that he doesn't understand/hear things as others do? What do yall think?

Does anyone else think that Jack could be the father? Audrey and he apparently had sex in his plane the day he left for Brazil. Yet this is not even mentioned as a possibility. Also why is Jack not in either the dossier complied by the Major or the one by Tammy Preston?