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S1 E15Unfinished Business
It may be small comfort, but I am convinced Hannibal has done what he honestly believes is best for you.
Well, that isn't small comfort. That would be no comfort.
The traumatized are unpredictable because we know we can survive. You can survive this happening to you.
Happening to me?
[Walks up to the bars and whispers as the guards come to take her away] I believe you.
WVWendy Vega
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.
I don't believe that to be true.
WVWendy Vega
Agent 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.
WVWendy Vega
Why then is it that when you offered him an opportunity to quit, he refused?
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.
I've given my life to death.
And now death has followed you home, come to live in your house.
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.
Gratitude has a short half-life.
So can doubt.
So the second killer, whoever he is, understood the muralist well enough not just to find his canvas, but well enough to convince him to be part of it.
You have an idea who that might be?
I do.
Don't say Hannibal Lecter.
I'm saying Hannibal Lecter.
Didn't you stop ringing that bell?
I'm not asking you to believe anything you can't prove. I'm just asking you to prove it.
I'm quite the topic of conversation in psychiatric circles.
I shared my diagnosis of you on the witness stand. Your personality disorders, neuroses-- all forgeries.
Even if that were true, I'd still be a psychopath of some interest.
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.
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?
PCPhyllis "Bella" Crawford
Suicide seems like a valid solution to my problem.
How does that make you feel?
PCPhyllis "Bella" Crawford
Alive. How does it make you feel?
I've always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty, and art, and horror of everything this world has to offer.
PCPhyllis "Bella" Crawford
A death benefit?
Upon taking his own life, Socrates offered a rooster to the god of healing, Asclepius, to pay his debt.
PCPhyllis "Bella" Crawford
What debt might that be?
To Socrates, death was not a defeat but a cure.
Is something wrong? Will?
He was inducing seizures. He was encouraging them. The blackouts. The lost time. It was strategic. It was planned.
You would only see a seizure response in a brain afflicted with photosensitive epilepsy.
Or afflicted with something just as damaging, like encephalitis.
That would suggest a radically unorthodox form of therapy.
Yes it would.
The Chesapeake Ripper kept surgical trophies. If Hannibal's the Ripper, what's he doing with his trophies?
[Will flashes back to discovering a corpse and sharing a meal with Hannibal.]
He's eating them.
[While examining the corpse of Beverly Katz]
She met the Ripper last night, Jack. She will be missing organs. He had to take his trophies.
Who is he, Will?
Beverly made her connection to the Ripper. You have to make your own, Jack.
Then what did I bring you here for?
To say goodbye.
He sent me to kill you, Abel.
Am I your evidence? Oh you're in trouble, Mr. Graham.
Why would you protect him?
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.
Fair enough.
MBMatthew Brown
Why did you want to talk to me?
I need a favor.
MBMatthew Brown
I'm always happy to do a favor for a friend, just say the word.
I want you to kill Hannibal Lecter.
You were trying to find the Ripper that night. Did you?
I found Will Graham.
Will isn't the Chesapeake Ripper.
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.
Maybe he's looking for redemption.
He's not looking for redemption, but revenge. That is a trinket he could value.
Hannibal Lecter is not the Chesapeake Ripper.
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.
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