Hannibal LecterA census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
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Hannibal LecterWell, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming?
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Hannibal Lecter[on telephone]I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner. Bye.
Clarice StarlingDr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?... Dr. Lecter?...
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Hannibal LecterFirst principles, Clarice. Simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature? What does he do, this man you seek?
Hannibal LecterNo. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?
Hannibal LecterI will listen now. After your father's murder, you were orphaned. You were ten years old. You went to live with cousins on a sheep and horse ranch in Montana. And...?
Clarice Starling[tears begin forming in her eyes]And one morning, I just ran away.
Hannibal LecterNo "just", Clarice. What set you off? You started at what time?
Clarice StarlingNo. First I tried to free them. I... I opened the gate to their pen, but they wouldn't run. They just stood there, confused. They wouldn't run.
Clarice StarlingI don't know. I didn't have any food, any water and it was very cold, very cold. I thought, I thought if I could save just one, but... he was so heavy. So heavy. I didn't get more than a few miles when the sheriff's car picked me up. The rancher was so angry he sent me to live at the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman. I never saw the ranch again.
Catherine MartinOkay... okay... okay. Mister, if you let me go, I won't - I won't press charges I promise. See, my mom is a real important woman... I guess you already know that.
Hannibal LecterYou know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FBI.
Clarice StarlingYou see a lot, Doctor. But are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself? What about it? Why don't you - why don't you look at yourself and write down what you see? Or maybe you're afraid to.
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Hannibal LecterTell me, Senator: did you nurse Catherine yourself?
Hannibal LecterFive foot ten, strongly built, about a hundred and eighty pounds; hair blonde, eyes pale blue. He'd be about thirty-five now. He said he lived in Philadelphia, but he may have lied. That's all I can remember, mum, but if I think of any more, I will let you know. Oh, and Senator, just one more thing: love your suit!
Hannibal LecterLook for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse. Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.
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Clarice Starling[Hannibal Lecter has escaped]He won't come after me.
Hannibal LecterAnd you think if you save poor Catherine, you could make them stop, don't you? You think if Catherine lives, you won't wake up in the dark ever again to that awful screaming of the lambs.
Hannibal LecterMemory, Agent Starling, is what I have instead of a view.
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Jack CrawfordStarling, when I told that sheriff we shouldn't talk in front of a woman, that really burned you, didn't it? It was just smoke, Starling. I had to get rid of him.
Clarice StarlingIt matters, Mr Crawford. Cops look at you to see how to act. It matters.
Hannibal LecterDo you think that Jack Crawford wants you sexually? True, he is much older but do you think he visualizes scenarios, exchanges, fucking you?
Clarice StarlingThat doesn't interest me Doctor and frankly, it's, it's the sort of thing that Miggs would say.
Ardelia MappIs this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter."
Hannibal Lecter"Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center." Sounds charming.
Clarice StarlingThat's only a part of the island. There's a very, very nice beach. Terns nest there. There's beautiful...
Hannibal Lecter[cuts her off]Terns? Mmh. If I help you, Clarice, it will be "turns" with us too. Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. Not about this case, though. About yourself. Quid pro quo. Yes or no?
[pause]
Hannibal LecterYes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting.
Dr. Frederick ChiltonI am going to show you why we insist on such precautions. On the evening of July 8th, 1981, he complained of chest pains and was taken to the dispensary. His mouthpiece and restraints were removed for an EKG. When the nurse leaned over him, he did this to her.
[pulls out photo]
Dr. Frederick ChiltonThe doctors managed to reset her jaw more or less. Saved one of her eyes. His pulse never got above 85, even when he ate her tongue.
Jame "Buffalo Bill" GumbYeah, I may've... no I read about her in the newspaper. Um, Mrs. Lippman had a son though, maybe he could help you. I got his card in here someplace. Do you wanna come in while I look for it?
Clarice Starling[draws her gun]Freeze! Put your hands over your head and turn around! Spread your legs! Spread your legs! Put your hands in the back... thumbs up - FREEZE!
[Gumb runs off]
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Dr. Frederick ChiltonDo not touch the glass. Do not approach the glass. You pass him nothing but soft paper - no pencils or pens. No staples or paperclips in his paper. Use the sliding food carrier, no exceptions. If he attempts to pass you anything, do not accept it. Do you understand me?
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Clarice Starling[to Hannibal Lecter]Your anagrams are showing, Doctor. Louis Friend? Iron sulfide, also known as fool's gold.
Jack CrawfordI remember you from my seminar at UVA. You grilled me pretty hard, as I recall, on the bureau's civil rights record in the Hoover years. I gave you an A.
[cut to Clarice's first trip to the psychiatric prison]
Dr. Frederick ChiltonOh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset.
Clarice StarlingHester Mofet. It's an anagram, isn't it, Doctor? Hester Mofet, "The rest of me". "Miss the rest of me," meaning that you rented that garage?
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PilcherWhat do you do when you're not detecting, Agent Starling?
Clarice StarlingBut I thought the "yourself" reference was too hokey for Lecter, so I figured he's from Baltimore, and I looked in the phone book, and there's a "Your Self Storage" facility, right outside of downtown Baltimore, sir.
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Roden[Upon learning where the Death's-Head Moth came from]You mean this is like a clue from a real murder case? Cool!
Pilcher[to Clarice]Just ignore him, he's not a PhD.
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Hannibal LecterAdvancement, of course. Listen carefully. Look deep within yourself, Clarice Starling. Go seek out Miss Mofet, an old patient of mine. M-o-f-e-t. Go now, I don't think Miggs could manage again quite so soon, even though he is crazy.
Dr. Frederick ChiltonA pretty young woman to turn him on. I don't believe Lecter's even seen a woman in eight years. And oh, are you ever his taste. So to speak.
Clarice StarlingCatherine, I'm gonna get you outta there, but right now you listen to me. I've gotta leave this room, I'll be right back.
Catherine MartinNO! DON'T YOU LEAVE ME HERE YOU FUCKIN' BITCH, NO! Don't you leave me here, this guy is fucking crazy!
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Clarice StarlingI graduated from UVa, Captain; it's not exactly a charm school.
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Miggs[looks at Clarice after throwing his semen at her]Got you.
[laughs insanely]
Friendly PsychopathMiggs, you stupid fuck!
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Clarice StarlingThe wig, the dress, the makeup. Raspail was a transvestite?
Hannibal LecterIn life? Oh, no. Garden-variety Manic Depressive. Tedious, very tedious. I did not kill him I assure you just tucked him away, very much as I found him, after he'd missed three appointments.
Hannibal LecterWho can say? Best thing for him, really, his therapy was going nowhere. No, just think of him as a fledgling killer's first attempt at transformation.
Clarice StarlingWhat do you mean fledgling killer? Do you mean he's killed again?
Hannibal LecterI've been in this room for eight years, now Clarice, and I know they'll never let me out, not while I'm alive. What I want is a view where I can see a tree, or even water. I want to be in a federal institution far away from Doctor Chiltern. I'll help you catch him, Clarice.
Clarice StarlingYou know who he is, don't you? Tell me who decapitated your patient.
Hannibal LecterAll good things to those who wait. I've waited, but how long can you and Jackie-boy wait? Our little Billy must already be looking for that next special someone.
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Hannibal LecterI would not have had that happen to you, discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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[to Clarice]
Dr. Frederick ChiltonYou know, we get a lot of detectives here, but I must say I can't ever remember one as attractive.
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Dr. Frederick ChiltonWe've tried to study him, of course, but he's much too sophisticated for the standard tests.
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RodenSphingid ceratonia, maybe.
[cuts open cocoon]
RodenAgent Starling, meet Mr. Acherontia styx.
PilcherWeird.
RodenBetter known to his friends as the Death's-head moth.
Hannibal LecterPunishment, you see, for Miggs. Like that Gospel Programme. When you're gone they'll turn the volume way up. Doctor Chiltern does enjoy his petty torments.
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Clarice StarlingThere's no correlation in the literature between transsexualism and violence. Transsexuals are very passive.
Hannibal Lecter...Billy is not a real transsexual. There are three major centers for transsexual surgery... I wouldn't be surprised if Billy had applied for sex reassignment at one or all of them and been rejected... Billy hates his own identity you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual.
Sergeant TateIt's Jim Pembry now talk to him dammit!
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[referring to Clarice's deal]
Dr. Frederick ChiltonYou still think you're going to walk on some beach and see the birdies? I don't think so. I called Senator Ruth Martin. She never heard of any deal with you. They scammed you, Hannibal.
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Boyle[greeting Lecter in Memphis]Welcome to Memphis Dr. Lecter, I'm Lieutenant Boyle, this is Sergeant Patrick. Now we'll treat you as good as you treat us, you be a gentleman and you'll get three hots and a cot.
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Jack CrawfordLook at it, Starling. Tell me what you see.
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Hannibal LecterThat is very slippery of you, Agent Starling.
Dr. Frederick ChiltonWhat you are doing, Miss Starling is coming into my hospital to conduct an interview, and refusing to share information with me, for the third time.
Clarice StarlingSir, I told you, this is just a routine follow-up on the Raspail case.
FBI Director Hayden BurkeWell she's mad as hell, Jack. Paul Krendler's over here from Justice. She's asking him to take over in Memphis.
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Hannibal LecterAll good things to those who wait! I've waited, but how long can you and Jacky-boy wait? Our little Billy must be looking for... that next Special Someone.
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Paul KrendlerSenator Martin's been on the line. Did you have a trainee make a kind of phoney deal with Lecter?