Will Graham quotes from Hannibal

Hannibal Lecter

Killing must feel good to God, too. He does it all the time, and are we not created in his image?

Will Graham

Depends on who you ask.

Hannibal Lecter

God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshipers last Wednesday night in Texas, while they sang a hymn.

Will Graham

Did God feel good about that?

Hannibal Lecter

He felt powerful.

Abigail Hobbs

So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?

Will Graham

It's the ugliest thing in the world.

Jack Crawford

What kind of victim forgives the killer at the moment of death?

Will Graham

A mother.

Will Graham

Jack hasn't abandoned me.

Hannibal Lecter

Not in discernible way. Perhaps the same way gods abandon their creations. You say he hasn't abandoned you, but at the same time wandering around Wolf Trap in the middle of the night.

Will Graham

Well this should be interesting. Please, doctor, proceed.

Hannibal Lecter

Jack gave you his word he would protect your head space, yet he leaves you to your mental devices.

Will Graham

Are you trying to alienate me from Jack Crawford?

Will Graham

It's getting harder and harder to make myself look.

Jack Crawford

No one's asking you to look alone.

Will Graham

But I am looking alone, and you know what looking at this does.

Jack Crawford

I know what happens if you don't look, and so do you.

Will Graham

I can make myself look, but the thinking is shutting down.

Jack Crawford

Mr. Graham's going to need to see the crime scene with as much privacy as you can provide.

Frederick Chilton

Oh, yes, that thing you do. You're quite the topic of conversation in, uh, psychiatric circles, Mr. Graham.

Will Graham

Am I?

Frederick Chilton

Uh, yes. A unique cocktail of personality disorders and neuroses that make you a highly skilled profiler.

Jack Crawford

He's not here to be analyzed.

Frederick Chilton

Perhaps he should be.

Frederick Chilton

I've read your notes, of course. They were more or less helpful as I conducted my own interviews with Dr. Gideon over the years.

Alana Bloom

Well, I'm glad I was helpful.

Will Graham

More or less.

Alana Bloom

Certain personalities are attracted to certain professions.

Jack Crawford

Do you know what professions psychopaths disproportionately gravitate to?

Freddie Lounds

CEOs, lawyers, the clergy.

Jack Crawford

Number five on the list is surgeons.

Freddie Lounds

I know the list.

Will Graham

Well then, you know what number six is.

Freddie Lounds

Journalists. Know what number seven is, Mr. Graham?

Will Graham

Law enforcement.

Freddie Lounds

Here we are, bunch of psychopaths helping each other out.

Will Graham

Why'd you stop being a surgeon?

Hannibal Lecter

I killed someone. [beat] Or, more accurately, I couldn't save someone, but it felt like killing them.

Will Graham

You were an emergency room surgeon. It had to happen from time to time.

Hannibal Lecter

It happened one time too many. I transferred my passion for anatomy into the culinary arts. I fix minds instead of bodies, and no one's died as a result of my therapy.

Will Graham

I feel like I've dragged you into my world.

Hannibal Lecter

I got here on my own. But I appreciate the company.

Will Graham

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.

Will Graham

You choose the version of the truth that suits you best and pursue it pathologically.

Everybody decides their own versions of the truth.

Hannibal Lecter

Do you feel alive, Will?

Will Graham

I feel like I'm fading.

Jack Crawford

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.

Will Graham

Stability requires strong foundations, Jack. My moorings are built on sand.

Jack Crawford

I'm not sand. I am bedrock. When you doubt yourself, you don't have to doubt me too.

Jack Crawford

You look like hell, Will.

Will Graham

I feel like hell. Actually, no, I feel, uh, fluid, like I'm spilling.