Sheriff Duane Dwayne

Sheriff Duane Dwayne is the sheriff in Harvest, aided by his subordinate Deputy Loomis. He's a regular attendant of Edna's Diner, going in at noon every day and enjoying one of her pies.

Personality
While coming across as jovial (even saying to Steve that he's playing along with his supposed amnesia), Dwayne has a short temper: he regularly catches Loomis pleasuring himself on the jail mattresses, and beats him as punishment. Despite this, he is respected by many citizens of Harvest, including Edna Fitzpatrick, who sees him as a kind man.

True to his portly size, Dwayne has an unhealthy obsession with food - especially pies. If Steve discovers the body of Karin after she has died, Dwayne will say he'll tell Edna after lunch, out of fear she'll close her diner and hence deprive him of food. During the investigation of Stephanie's supposed murder, Dwayne is seen in a constant state of eating Mrs. Pottsdam's pies.

Although he's Harvest's law enforcement officer, Dwayne rarely does any actual crime solving. He shows indifference to any real police work: when Steve asks if he's dusted a piece of evidence for fingerprints, he replies nonchalantly, "Who can make out all those purty lines any how?" He doesn't seem to care about what befalls some of the townsfolk: when Johnson's Tucker is scratched, Dwayne shrugs off that he was asking for it. Even when he does police work, he seems incredibly inept: when a bloodied spinal column is found on Stephanie's bed, he declares it a death by natural causes, since "you can't live without a spinal chord - nothing unnatural about that."

If Steve commits murder, Dwayne will ask him how it felt, and reveal a hidden love for taking someone's life.

History
Dwayne grew up in Harvest, and longed to join the Lodge even as a boy. He never became a member, which he blames on his teachers and clergy.

He became a co-owner of WHAR with Lance McKnight, whom he regularly dines with at Edna's Diner. In the hopes of benefiting the TV station, Dwayne hired Postmaster Boyle to burn down the Sentinel Newspaper. Afterward, he hid the evidence and declared the case unsolved. Afterward, he began to blackmail Boyle for his involvement in the crime; Dwayne had been doing so for six months by the time of the events in Harvester.

Quotes

 * "Hello, Steve. Let me introduce myself. I'm Sheriff Duane Dwayne, and this here is Loomis."
 * "That's a place you don't wanna wind up, boy. We've got a "three strike's and you're out" rule here in Harvest. You get arrested the third time, you never get outta jail alive. So don't go committing any crimes, boy. Amnesia or no, I'll lock you up pronto!"
 * "You're either Harvester or Harvest, boy. Remember that."
 * [Regarding killing:] "It's something, right? To see them twitch all over, peel back their eyelids, if you're fast enough, and watch the dark angel just reach right through the pupils and yank out the light inside. They're never more alone than when that happens. You can't share in it... you can only watch... and try to keep from smiling."
 * "You see what happened to my... to Harvest's TV station?"

Trivia

 * Repetitive Name: "Duane Dwayne"
 * If you kill Mr. McKnight and head over to Sheriff Dwayne and admit that you murdered him, Sheriff Dwayne will let you go.
 * He is likely a parody of the character William O. "Bill" Gilespie, from the 1968 film and 1988 TV series In the Heat of the Night.