Jack Crawford quotes from Hannibal

Jack Crawford

You were attacked by a patient not too long ago. I read the report. I know that there was a statement given by Dr. Lecter.

Bedelia Du Maurier

The patient who attacked me was a former patient of Dr. Lecter.

Jack Crawford

And he was referred to you by Dr. Lecter?

Bedelia du Maurier

Yes.

Jack Crawford

And this patient almost killed you.

Bedelia du Maurier

He swallowed his tongue while he was attacking me. That's the only thing that saved my life.

Jack Crawford

Well, thank God for small favors.

Hannibal Lecter

Kaiseki. A Japanese art form that honors the taste and aesthetic of what we eat.

Jack Crawford

I almost feel guilty about eating it.

Hannibal Lecter

I never feel guilty eating anything.

Hannibal Lecter

We can't define Will only by his maddest edges.

Jack Crawford

We can't define Will at all.

Five horrendous murders, over 40 different pieces of forensic and physical evidence that tell us that Will Graham can think like a killer because he is one. Rather than feel tormented by the work he did, Will Graham enjoyed the cover his role at FBI gave him to commit his terrible crimes.

Jack Crawford

I don't believe that to be true.

Agent Crawford?

Jack Crawford

Will hated every second of the work, he hated it. He didn't fake that, he hated and I kept making him do it.

Why then is it that when you offered him an opportunity to quit, he refused?

Jack Crawford

Because he was saving lives. I had been warned by more than one person that if I pushed Will I'd break him. I put those checks and balances in places and then ignored them. And here we are.

Jack Crawford

I've given my life to death.

Hannibal Lecter

And now death has followed you home, come to live in your house.

Jack Crawford

Bella has kept our bedroom from looking too much like a sick room. There are flowers, but not too many, you know. She insists that there are no pills in sight. So I've been thinking about taking her to Italy where we met. We could ... she could die there.

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.

Jack Crawford

Hannibal Lecter is not the Chesapeake Ripper.

Will Graham

If the Ripper is killing, you can bet Hannibal Lecter is having a dinner party. You and I probably sipped wine while swallowing the people who we were trying to give justice, Jack.

Jack Crawford

Then you're aware of what Will is accusing Hannibal Lecter of?

Frederick Chilton

Oh yes, I am aware, and I am grateful that I have trouble digesting animal proteins, as the last meals I have shared with Hannibal Lecter have all been salads.

Jack Crawford

You believe it?

Frederick Chilton

Hannibal once served me tongue and then made a joke about eating mine. It would be narrow to not at least consider it.

Will Graham

I’m a good fisherman, Jack.

Jack Crawford

You hook ‘em, I’ll land ‘em.

Jack Crawford

I don't want to take up too much of your time, Mr. Verger. I realize that you probably need to get your rest, but I would like to ask you just a few questions about what happened to you.

Took a tumble in the pig pen. Broke my neck. Embarrassing, really. Clumsy, clumsy, clumsy. If my sister hadn't found me, the pigs would have eaten more than my face.

Jack Crawford

Pigs did this to you?

Oh, yes. The pigs certainly did.

Jack Crawford

Mr. Verger, you are a patient of Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Is that right?

Dr. Lecter, yes. Yes.

Jack Crawford

Have you ever seen or met another patient of Dr. Lecter's, a man called Will Graham?

Will Graham. The man that didn't kill all those people? That Will Graham?

Jack Crawford

Yes.

Can't say that I've had the pleasure.

Jack Crawford

Do you find that Dr. Lecter's therapy has been helpful to you?

I've benefited greatly from Dr. Lecter's therapy. I'm still benefiting from it. I will always be grateful for how he's helped me. I only hope that I may repay him one day.

Jack Crawford

I want to thank you, Dr. Lecter, for your friendship.

Hannibal Lecter

The most beautiful quality of a true friendship is to understand and be understood with absolute clarity.

Jack Crawford

Then this is the clearest moment of our friendship.

Hannibal Lecter

I brought Bella back from death, and now you've returned her to it. Is that where you're taking me, Jack?

Hannibal Lecter

How will you feel when I'm gone?

Jack Crawford

Alive.

Will Graham

You had him, Jack. He was beaten. Why didn't you kill him?

Jack Crawford

Maybe I need you to.

Hannibal Lecter

Congratulations, Jack. You caught the Chesapeake Ripper.

Jack Crawford

I didn't catch you. You surrendered.

Alana Bloom

You've been talking to the Tooth Fairy.

Hannibal Lecter

I think he's earned the right to be called by the name he's chosen: He's the Great Red Dragon.

Jack Crawford

You have hugged Hell, Dr. Lecter.

Hannibal Lecter

I often do.