Alana Bloom quotes from Hannibal

Alana Bloom

I've always enjoyed the word defenestration. Now I get to use it in casual conversation.

Alana Bloom

Play with your food, Mason, you give it the opportunity to bite back.

Alana Bloom

Congratulations, Hannibal - you're officially insane.

Alana Bloom

[to Hannibal] I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain or solitude, it's indignity. You're a little bit like a cat that way. I'll take your books. I'll take your drawings. I'll take your toilet. You'll have nothing but indignity and the company of the dead.

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%.

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?

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

What effect were you hoping to have by killing Elizabeth Shell?

Abel Gideon

The effect I was hoping to have was her death. Mission accomplished.

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.

Alana Bloom

I want to go on record as saying that this is a very bad idea. Hannibal?

Hannibal Lecter

Jack has the look of a man with no interest in any opinion but his own.

Alana Bloom

You were trying to find the Ripper that night. Did you?

Abel Gideon

I found Will Graham.

Alana Bloom

Will isn't the Chesapeake Ripper.

Abel Gideon

Not yet. All the things that make us who we are, what has to happen to make those things change? So much has happened to Mr. Graham. He is a changed man.

Alana Bloom

Maybe he's looking for redemption.

Abel Gideon

He's not looking for redemption, but revenge. That is a trinket he could value.

Alana Bloom

Whatever it is you are playing, Hannibal, you have to listen very carefully to what you are creating.

Hannibal Lecter

I'm listening.

Alana Bloom

Where's Jack?

Hannibal Lecter

In the pantry. I was hoping you and I wouldn't have to say goodbye. Nothing seen nor said. You may have found that rude. [takes a step towards her]

Alana Bloom

Stop! [in horror] I was so blind.

Hannibal Lecter

In your defense, I worked very hard to blind you. You can stay blind. You can hide from this. Walk away, I'll make no plans to call on you, but if you stay, I will kill you. [Alana does not move] Be blind, Alana. Don't be brave.

Will Graham

I'm visiting old friends.

Alana Bloom

You're not tempted to forget?

Will Graham

I don't wanna forget. I'm building rooms in my memory palace for all my friends.

Alana Bloom

Friendship with Hannibal is blackmail, elevated to the level of love.

Will Graham

A mutually unspoken pact to ignore the worst in one another in order to continue enjoying the best.

Alana Bloom

After everything he's done, can you still ignore the worst in him?