[Jack is about to arrest Hannibal]
I want to thank you, Dr. Lecter, for your friendship.
The most beautiful quality of a true friendship is to understand and be understood with absolute clarity.
Then this is the clearest moment of our friendship.
“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)
[Alana has a bloody Hannibal at gunpoint]
Where's Jack?
In the pantry. I was hoping you and I wouldn't have to say goodbye. Nothing seen nor said. You may have found that rude. [takes a step towards her]
Stop! [in horror] I was so blind.
In your defense, I worked very hard to blind you. You can stay blind. You can hide from this. Walk away, I'll make no plans to call on you, but if you stay, I will kill you. [Alana does not move] Be blind, Alana. Don't be brave.
[to Will] I let you know me... see me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it.
Didn't I?
You would deny me my life?
No. No. No, not your life.
My freedom, then. You would take that from me. Confine me to a prison cell. Do you believe you could change me, the way I've changed you?
I already did.
Fate and circumstance have returned us back to this moment, when the teacup shatters. I forgive you, Will. Do you forgive me?
[Flashback to Hannibal preparing to eat Abel Gideon]
Cannibalism was standard practice among our ancestors. The missing link is only missing because we ate him.
It's not cannibalism, Abel. It's only cannibalism if we are equals.
You no longer have ethical concerns, Hannibal. Only aesthetical ones.
[to Hannibal] Imagine what you must taste like. It won't be long until someone's taking a bite out of you.
My husband has a sophisticated palate. He's very particular about how I taste.
ADAnthony Dimmond
[smiles] Is it that kind of party?
[Hannibal smiles knowingly at Bedelia, who shudders]
It's not that kind of party.
No, it really isn't.
ADAnthony Dimmond
A shame. You're both suddenly so fascinating.
Would you prefer I extend you the same kindness as the snails?
Eat me without my knowledge? No. I find knowledge to be much more powerful. Why do you think I'm allowing this?
Why do you think I'm allowing this?
'Cause snails aren't the only creatures who prefer to eat with company... if only that company were Will Graham. [tastes the escargot] I'm curious to know how you will feel when all this is happening to you.
Blame has a habit of not sticking to Hannibal Lecter.
Do you believe in God?
What I believe is closer to science fiction than anything in the Bible.
We all know it, but nobody ever says that G-dash-d won't do a G-dash-d-damn thing to answer anybody's prayers.
God can't save any of us because it's... inelegant. Elegance is more important than suffering. That's his design.
Are you talking about God or Hannibal?
Hannibal's not God. He wouldn't have any fun being God. Defying God, that's his idea of a good time. There's nothing he'd love more than to see this roof collapse mid-Mass, choirs singing... he would just love it, and he thinks God would love it, too.
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What will you do when you find him, your il Mostro?
I'm curious about that myself.
Where will Will Graham be looking for you next?
Someplace I can never go: home.
We construct fairy tales, and we accept them. Our minds concoct all sorts of fantasies when we don't want to believe something.
I accept what Hannibal has done. I understand why he has done it.
Mischa doesn't explain what Hannibal is. She doesn't quantify what he does.
He does what was done to her.
How do you know it was your prisoner who killed Mischa?
Hannibal told me so. Why are you searching for Hannibal after he left you [points to Will's scar] with a smile?
I've never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him.
Why can't you go home, Hannibal? What happened to you there?
Nothing happened to me. I happened.
There is only one way you can forgive Will Graham.
I have to eat him.
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