Jack Crawford quotes from Hannibal

Jack Crawford

[to Will] Your bad luck that you’re the best, pal.

Jack Crawford

I used to be afraid of losing my memory. What I wouldn't give to forget a thing or two now.

Alana Bloom

Normally I wouldn't even broach this, but what do you think one of Will's strongest drives is?

Jack Crawford

Fear.

Alana Bloom

Mm-hmm.

Jack Crawford

Will Graham deals with huge amounts of fear. It comes with his imagination.

Alana Bloom

It's the price of imagination.

Jack Crawford

Alana, I wouldn't put him out there if I didn't think I could cover him. [pause] All right, if I didn't think I could cover him 80%.

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.

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!

Alana Bloom

[about Abigail Hobbs] She has a penchant for manipulation. Withheld information to gain information. She demonstrated only enough emotions - to prove she had them.

Jack Crawford

You beginning to appreciate my lack of sympathy?

Jack Crawford

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

Will Graham

A mother.

Hannibal Lecter

First and worst sign of sociopathic behavior, cruelty to animals.

Jack Crawford

That doesn't apply in the kitchen.

Hannibal Lecter

I have no taste for animal cruelty. That's why I employ an ethical butcher.

An ethical butcher, be kind to animals and eat them?

Hannibal Lecter

I'm afraid I insist on it, no need for unnecessary suffering. Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

Jack Crawford

A gift that keeps on giving.

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.

Jack Crawford

You don't think I have a right to know what's happening with my wife?

Hannibal Lecter

You have every right to know what's happening, but not from me.

Jack Crawford

Well, I'm not just gonna stand outside my marriage and watch this happen. If that's what she wants, too bad! She married the wrong guy for that.

Hannibal Lecter

I'll offer one insight. She doesn't think she married the wrong guy.

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.

Jack Crawford

I had eight college girls dead in Minnesota. Will caught their killer for me.

Hannibal Lecter

He also caught their killer's disease.

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.