Hannibal · Season 1
Why'd you stop being a surgeon?
I killed someone. [beat] Or, more accurately, I couldn't save someone, but it felt like killing them.
You were an emergency room surgeon. It had to happen from time to time.
It happened one time too many. I transferred my passion for anatomy into the culinary arts. I fix minds instead of bodies, and no one's died as a result of my therapy.
Before we begin, you must all be warned. Nothing here is vegetarian. Bon appetit.
I feel like I've dragged you into my world.
I got here on my own. But I appreciate the company.
You spend a lot of time building walls, Hannibal. It's natural to see if someone is clever enough to climb over them.
It's nice when someone sees us, Hannibal. Or has the ability to see us. It requires trust. Trust is difficult for you.
I want to go on record as saying that this is a very bad idea. Hannibal?
Jack has the look of a man with no interest in any opinion but his own.
What reason did you have to kill the others?
I had every reason to kill the others. They just had no reason to die. They never saw me coming unless I wanted them to see me coming. I could wave at a lady and smile, chew the fat with her in church, knowing I killed her husband. There is something beautiful about that ball of silence at a funeral, all those people around you, knowing that you made it happen.
Insane isn't really black or white, is it? We're all pathological in our own ways.
You choose the version of the truth that suits you best and pursue it pathologically.
Everybody decides their own versions of the truth.
Do you feel alive, Will?
I feel like I'm fading.
What do you smell on me?
Opportunity.
I had eight college girls dead in Minnesota. Will caught their killer for me.
He also caught their killer's disease.
Let me tell you what I think. I think that the work you do here has created a sense of stability for you. Stability is good for you, Will.
Stability requires strong foundations, Jack. My moorings are built on sand.
I'm not sand. I am bedrock. When you doubt yourself, you don't have to doubt me too.
[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.
[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.
Please, you're not the Chesapeake Ripper.
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.
Oh, my God.
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.
You look like hell, Will.
I feel like hell. Actually, no, I feel, uh, fluid, like I'm spilling.
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