Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
What reason did you have to kill the others?
I had every reason to kill the others. They just had no reason to die. They never saw me coming unless I wanted them to see me coming. I could wave at a lady and smile, chew the fat with her in church, knowing I killed her husband. There is something beautiful about that ball of silence at a funeral, all those people around you, knowing that you made it happen.
Insane isn't really black or white, is it? We're all pathological in our own ways.
You choose the version of the truth that suits you best and pursue it pathologically.
Everybody decides their own versions of the truth.
Do you feel alive, Will?
I feel like I'm fading.
What do you smell on me?
Opportunity.
I had eight college girls dead in Minnesota. Will caught their killer for me.
He also caught their killer's disease.
Let me tell you what I think. I think that the work you do here has created a sense of stability for you. Stability is good for you, Will.
Stability requires strong foundations, Jack. My moorings are built on sand.
I'm not sand. I am bedrock. When you doubt yourself, you don't have to doubt me too.
[to the orderly] You married? [to the guard] You married? You're married. How long you married? That long? Regarding divorce...not that you're getting one; just I can see the clock in your eyes. Word of advice: it's easier just to kill 'em. Kill 'em, kill everyone at the table. Less paperwork. Worked for me. I'm doing okay. Your wife is probably fantastic. My wife? Horrible. So maybe I'm not supposed to be in a relationship. There's people like that. [to the orderly] How do you keep those whites so clean? That's always amazes me.
[getting ready to operate on a still-conscious Frederick Chilton] With experience, I have found surgeries are best performed on a local anesthetic or epidural with the patient awake. Reminds me there' a real person here entrusting me with their life rather than a lump of meat that I'm about to reorganize. And in this instance, I would like to see the look on your face.
Please, you're not the Chesapeake Ripper.
You got inside my mind, Frederick. It's only fair I get inside your belly. This is of course Freddie Lounds, who you know. She will be assisting me today or assisting you by manually pumping the ventilator should you stop breathing.
Oh, my God.
The real Chesapeake Ripper is a collector of surgical trophies. I'm gonna leave him a little gift. In fact, I'm gonna leave him a gift basket. [removing some of Chilton's non-vital organs] You know, it is truly amazing how many organs the body can offer up before it really begins to suffer. [Chilton drifts out of consciousness; Gideon slaps him] All right, stay awake now! Come on, Frederick. I'm gonna ask you to hold a few things.
You look like hell, Will.
I feel like hell. Actually, no, I feel, uh, fluid, like I'm spilling.
(regarding an unresponsive Will) He's had a mild seizure.
That... doesn't seem to bother you.
I said it was mild. Are you the man who claimed to be the Chesapeake Ripper?
Why do you say claimed?
Because you're not. You know you're not, and you don't know much more about who you are beyond that.
Are you the Ripper?
Terrible thing, to have your identity taken away.
Well, I'm taking it back. One piece at a time.
I don't know if I will ever be myself again. I don't know if I've got any "self" left over. I spent so long thinking I was him, it's gotten really hard to remember who I was when I wasn't him.
[Hallucinating Abel is Garret Jacob Hobbs] And who are you now?
Now I'm you. We're both, here looking at her; just those kind of people who shouldn't be in a relationship. You and I are already committed. It's hard to be with another person when you... can't get out of your own head.
I want to get out.
Yeah, well, we all want things that we can't have. But if I kill her, like he would kill her, then maybe I could understand him better. I wonder if then you would finally understand what you've become.
You were attacked by a patient not too long ago. I read the report. I know that there was a statement given by Dr. Lecter.
The patient who attacked me was a former patient of Dr. Lecter.
And he was referred to you by Dr. Lecter?
Yes.
And this patient almost killed you.
He swallowed his tongue while he was attacking me. That's the only thing that saved my life.
Well, thank God for small favors.
You have to maintain boundaries, Hannibal.
When the pressures of my personal and professional relationships with Will grow too great, I assure you I'll find a way to relieve them.
Did Will really kill Marissa?
They will believe he did. They will believe he killed others, too.
[realizing] Will always said that whoever called the house that day was the serial killer. [pause] Why did you really call?
I wanted to warn your father that Will Graham was coming for him.
Why?
I was curious what would happen. I was curious what would happen when I killed Marissa. I was curious what you would do.
You wanted me to kill Nick Boyle.
I was hoping. I wanted to see how much like your father you were.
[horrified] Oh my God...
Nicholas Boyle is more important for you gutting him. He changed you, Abigail. That's more important than the life he clamored after.
How many people have you killed?
[taking her hand] Many more people than your father.
[afraid] Are you going to kill me?
Hannibal Lecter': [pause] I'm so sorry, Abigail. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you in this life.
Perhaps you didn't come here looking for a killer. Perhaps you came here to find yourself. You killed a man in this very room.
I stared at Hobbs and the space opposite me assumed the shape of a man filled with dark and swarming flies. And then I scattered them.
At a time when other men fear their isolation, yours has become understandable to you. You are alone because you are unique.
I'm as alone as you are.
If you followed the urges you kept down for so long, cultivated them as the inspirations they are, you would have become someone other than yourself.
I know who I am. I'm not so sure I know who you are anymore.
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