Will Graham quotes from Hannibal

Will Graham

[recreating the events of a crime] I shoot Mrs. Marlow expertly through the neck. This is not a fatal wound. The bullet misses every artery. She is paralyzed before it leaves her body. Which doesn't mean she can't feel pain. It just means she can't do anything about it. This is my design.

Will Graham

[to Freddie Lounds] It isn't very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living.

Will Graham

[to Hannibal] What you did to me is in my head, and I will find it. I'm going to remember, Dr. Lecter, and when I do, there will be a reckoning.

Will Graham

[to Jack] I am not the intelligent psychopath you are looking for.

Will Graham

I don't want to kill you, Dr. Lecter. Not now that I finally find you interesting.

Will Graham

[to Jack] He'll try to kill you in the kitchen...for convenience. It makes it easier for him to prepare the tartare.

Will Graham

Blame has a habit of not sticking to Hannibal Lecter.

Will Graham

[to Hannibal] You and I have begun to blur.

Will Graham

Poor Dr. Du Maurier. Swallowed whole, suffering inside Hannibal Lecter's bowels for what must have felt like an eternity. You didn't lose yourself, Bedelia, you just crawled so far up his ass you couldn't be bothered.

Hannibal Lecter

I imagine what you see and learn touches everything else in your mind. Your values and decency are present yet shocked at your associations, appalled at your dreams. No forts in the bone arena of your skull for things you love.

Will Graham

Whose profile are you working on? [to Jack] Whose profile is he working on?

Hannibal Lecter

I'm sorry, Will. Observing is what we do. I can't shut mine off any more than you can shut yours off.

Will Graham

Please, don't psychoanalyze me. You won't like me when I'm psychoanalyzed.

Jack Crawford

Will...

Will Graham

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go give a lecture on psychoanalyzing.

Hannibal Lecter

I would apologize for my analytical ambush, but I know I will soon be apologizing again and you'll tire of that eventually, so I have to consider using apologies sparingly.

Will Graham

Just keep it professional.

Hannibal Lecter

Or we could socialize, like adults. God forbid we become friendly.

Will Graham

I don't find you that interesting.

Hannibal Lecter

You will.

Jack Crawford

The reason you currently used to work homicide is you didn't have the stomach for pulling the trigger. You just pulled the trigger 10 times!

Will Graham

Wait, so psych eval isn't a formality?

Jack Crawford

No, it's so I can get some sleep at night. I asked you to get close to the Hobbs thing. I need to know you didn't get too close. How many nights did you spend in Abigail Hobbs' hospital room, Will?

Will Graham

Therapy doesn't work on me.

Jack Crawford

Therapy doesn't work on you because you won't let it.

Will Graham

And because I know all the tricks.

Jack Crawford

Well, perhaps you need to un-learn some tricks.

Alana Bloom

Why not have a conversation with Hannibal? He was there. He knows what you went through.

Jack Crawford

Come on, Will. I need my beauty sleep!

Will Graham

Jack thinks I need therapy.

Hannibal Lecter

What you need is a way out of dark places when Jack sends you there.

Will Graham

Last time he sent me to a dark place I brought something back.

Will Graham

Took me 10 shots to drop Hobbs.

Beverly Katz

Zeller wanted to give you the bullets he pulled out of Hobbs in an acrylic case, but I told him you wouldn't think it was funny.

Will Graham

Probably not.

Beverly Katz

I suggested one of those clackin' swingin' ball things.

Will Graham

That would've been funny.

Hannibal Lecter

It's not Hobbs' ghost that's haunting you, is it? It's the inevitability of there being a man so bad that killing him felt good.

Will Graham

Killing Hobbs felt just.

Hannibal Lecter

Which is why you're here, to prove that sprig of zest you feel is from saving Abigail, not killing her dad.

Will Graham

I didn't feel a 'sprig of zest' when I shot Eldon Stammets.

Hannibal Lecter

You didn't kill Eldon Stammets.

Will Graham

I thought about... I'm still not entirely sure that wasn't my intention, pulling the trigger.