Frederick Chilton quotes from Hannibal

Frederick Chilton

[to Mason Verger] Each of us who intercepted Dr. Lecter lost something. A limb here, a lung, a few feet of intestines. The dead... the dead at least have the luxury of being done with what they lost. You and I, we both still itch.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Frederick Chilton

I have the same profile as Hannibal Lecter, same medical and psychological background. We are both doctors of note in our field. Of course it would be me. Hannibal was never going to kill me, I'm his patsy. I... I have to leave the country, I am leaving the country.

Will Graham

No, if you run you look guilty.

Frederick Chilton

You did not run and you looked plenty guilty. Abel Gideon was half-eaten in my guestroom, I have corpses on my property! You just threw up an ear!

Frederick Chilton

He knew exactly how to cut you.

Will Graham

They said it was surgical.

Frederick Chilton

He wanted you to live.

Francis Dolarhyde

Do you understand what I am doing?

Frederick Chilton

No. But I think I have an opportunity to understand, and then my readers could understand too. But I must tell you that I am scared. Man to man, I am scared, and it is very hard to concentrate when you are scared. If you have a great idea, you do not need to scare me to impress me.

Francis Dolarhyde

"Man to man." You use that expression to imply frankness. But I am not a man. I have become... Other. Do you think God is in attendance here? Are you praying to him now?