Abel Gideon quotes from Hannibal

Abel Gideon

[to the orderly] You married? [to the guard] You married? You're married. How long you married? That long? Regarding divorce...not that you're getting one; just I can see the clock in your eyes. Word of advice: it's easier just to kill 'em. Kill 'em, kill everyone at the table. Less paperwork. Worked for me. I'm doing okay. Your wife is probably fantastic. My wife? Horrible. So maybe I'm not supposed to be in a relationship. There's people like that. [to the orderly] How do you keep those whites so clean? That's always amazes me.

Abel Gideon

[to Hannibal] Imagine what you must taste like. It won't be long until someone's taking a bite out of you.

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.

Abel Gideon

[getting ready to operate on a still-conscious Frederick Chilton] With experience, I have found surgeries are best performed on a local anesthetic or epidural with the patient awake. Reminds me there' a real person here entrusting me with their life rather than a lump of meat that I'm about to reorganize. And in this instance, I would like to see the look on your face.

Frederick Chilton

Please, you're not the Chesapeake Ripper.

Abel Gideon

You got inside my mind, Frederick. It's only fair I get inside your belly. This is of course Freddie Lounds, who you know. She will be assisting me today or assisting you by manually pumping the ventilator should you stop breathing.

Frederick Chilton

Oh, my God.

Abel Gideon

The real Chesapeake Ripper is a collector of surgical trophies. I'm gonna leave him a little gift. In fact, I'm gonna leave him a gift basket. [removing some of Chilton's non-vital organs] You know, it is truly amazing how many organs the body can offer up before it really begins to suffer. [Chilton drifts out of consciousness; Gideon slaps him] All right, stay awake now! Come on, Frederick. I'm gonna ask you to hold a few things.

Hannibal Lecter

(regarding an unresponsive Will) He's had a mild seizure.

Abel Gideon

That... doesn't seem to bother you.

Hannibal Lecter

I said it was mild. Are you the man who claimed to be the Chesapeake Ripper?

Abel Gideon

Why do you say claimed?

Hannibal Lecter

Because you're not. You know you're not, and you don't know much more about who you are beyond that.

Abel Gideon

Are you the Ripper?

Hannibal Lecter

Terrible thing, to have your identity taken away.

Abel Gideon

Well, I'm taking it back. One piece at a time.

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.

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.

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.

Hannibal Lecter

You were determined to know the Chesapeake Ripper, Dr. Gideon. Now is your opportunity.

Abel Gideon

You intend me to be my own last supper.

Hannibal Lecter

Yes.

Abel Gideon

How does one politely refuse a dish in circumstances such as these?

Hannibal Lecter

One doesn't. The tragedy is not to die, Abel, but to be wasted.

Abel Gideon

My compliments to the chef.

Abel Gideon

Cannibalism was standard practice among our ancestors. The missing link is only missing because we ate him.

Hannibal Lecter

It's not cannibalism, Abel. It's only cannibalism if we are equals.

Hannibal Lecter

Would you prefer I extend you the same kindness as the snails?

Abel Gideon

Eat me without my knowledge? No. I find knowledge to be much more powerful. Why do you think I'm allowing this?

Hannibal Lecter

Why do you think I'm allowing this?

Abel Gideon

'Cause snails aren't the only creatures who prefer to eat with company... if only that company were Will Graham. [tastes the escargot] I'm curious to know how you will feel when all this is happening to you.