Will Graham quotes from Hannibal

Abel Gideon

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.

Will Graham

[Hallucinating Abel is Garret Jacob Hobbs] And who are you now?

Abel Gideon

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.

Will Graham

I want to get out.

Abel Gideon

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.

Hannibal Lecter

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.

Will Graham

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.

Hannibal Lecter

At a time when other men fear their isolation, yours has become understandable to you. You are alone because you are unique.

Will Graham

I'm as alone as you are.

Hannibal Lecter

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.

Will Graham

I know who I am. I'm not so sure I know who you are anymore.

Hannibal Lecter

Are you a killer, Will? You. Right now. This man standing in front of me. Is this who you really are?

Will Graham

I am who I've always been. The scales have just fallen from my eyes. I can see you now.

Hannibal Lecter

You said it felt good to kill Garret Jacob Hobbs. Would it feel good to kill me now?

Will Graham

Garret Jacob Hobbs was a murderer. Are you a murderer, Doctor Lecter?

Hannibal Lecter

What reason would I have?

Will Graham

You, you have no traceable motive... Which is why you were so hard to see. You were just curious what I would do. Someone like me. Someone who thinks how I think. Wind him up and watch him go. And apparently, Dr. Lecter, this is how I go.

Hannibal Lecter

Friendship can sometimes involve a breach of individual separateness.

Will Graham

You're not my friend. The light from friendship won’t reach us for a million years. That’s how far away from friendship we are.

Hannibal Lecter

I imagine it's easier to believe I am responsible for those murders than it is to accept that you are.

Will Graham

Sure is.

Will Graham

I don't know you.

Bedelia Du Maurier

My name is Bedelia Du Maurier.

Will Graham

You're Hannibal Lecter's therapist. [beat] What's that like?

Bedelia Du Maurier

It may be small comfort, but I am convinced Hannibal has done what he honestly believes is best for you.

Will Graham

Well, that isn't small comfort. That would be no comfort.

Bedelia Du Maurier

The traumatized are unpredictable because we know we can survive. You can survive this happening to you.

Will Graham

Happening to me?

Bedelia Du Maurier

[Walks up to the bars and whispers as the guards come to take her away] I believe you.

Will Graham

Gratitude has a short half-life.

Hannibal Lecter

So can doubt.

Will Graham

So the second killer, whoever he is, understood the muralist well enough not just to find his canvas, but well enough to convince him to be part of it.

Beverly Katz

You have an idea who that might be?

Will Graham

I do.

Beverly Katz

Don't say Hannibal Lecter.

Will Graham

I'm saying Hannibal Lecter.

Beverly Katz

Didn't you stop ringing that bell?

Will Graham

I'm not asking you to believe anything you can't prove. I'm just asking you to prove it.

Will Graham

I'm quite the topic of conversation in psychiatric circles.

Frederick Chilton

I shared my diagnosis of you on the witness stand. Your personality disorders, neuroses-- all forgeries.

Will Graham

Even if that were true, I'd still be a psychopath of some interest.

Frederick Chilton

Mm. Quite a manipulative one at that. Poor, confused, wounded bird for Agent Crawford and Doctors Lecter and Bloom. And for me, well, I get the psychopath's triumvirate: charm, focus, and ruthlessness. The charm being debatable, of course.

Will Graham

So, either I'm a psychopath or I am delusional. Or I'm right about Hannibal Lecter. Aren't you curious which one it is?

Frederick Chilton

Is something wrong? Will?

Will Graham

He was inducing seizures. He was encouraging them. The blackouts. The lost time. It was strategic. It was planned.

Frederick Chilton

You would only see a seizure response in a brain afflicted with photosensitive epilepsy.

Will Graham

Or afflicted with something just as damaging, like encephalitis.

Frederick Chilton

That would suggest a radically unorthodox form of therapy.

Will Graham

Yes it would.

Beverly Katz

The Chesapeake Ripper kept surgical trophies. If Hannibal's the Ripper, what's he doing with his trophies?

Will Graham

He's eating them.

Will Graham

She met the Ripper last night, Jack. She will be missing organs. He had to take his trophies.

Jack Crawford

Who is he, Will?

Will Graham

Beverly made her connection to the Ripper. You have to make your own, Jack.

Jack Crawford

Then what did I bring you here for?

Will Graham

To say goodbye.

Will Graham

He sent me to kill you, Abel.

Abel Gideon

Am I your evidence? Oh you're in trouble, Mr. Graham.

Will Graham

Why would you protect him?

Abel Gideon

You were quite happy to kill me yourself - "You have it in you", as they say. He's the devil, Mr. Graham, he is smoke. You'll never catch the Ripper, he won't be caught. If you want to, you will have to kill him.

Will Graham

Fair enough.

Why did you want to talk to me?

Will Graham

I need a favor.

I'm always happy to do a favor for a friend, just say the word.

Will Graham

I want you to kill Hannibal Lecter.