Hannibal · Season 1
(regarding an unresponsive Will) He's had a mild seizure.
That... doesn't seem to bother you.
I said it was mild. Are you the man who claimed to be the Chesapeake Ripper?
Why do you say claimed?
Because you're not. You know you're not, and you don't know much more about who you are beyond that.
Are you the Ripper?
Terrible thing, to have your identity taken away.
Well, I'm taking it back. One piece at a time.
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.
[Hallucinating Abel is Garret Jacob Hobbs] And who are you now?
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.
I want to get out.
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.
You were attacked by a patient not too long ago. I read the report. I know that there was a statement given by Dr. Lecter.
The patient who attacked me was a former patient of Dr. Lecter.
And he was referred to you by Dr. Lecter?
Yes.
And this patient almost killed you.
He swallowed his tongue while he was attacking me. That's the only thing that saved my life.
Well, thank God for small favors.
You have to maintain boundaries, Hannibal.
When the pressures of my personal and professional relationships with Will grow too great, I assure you I'll find a way to relieve them.
Did Will really kill Marissa?
They will believe he did. They will believe he killed others, too.
[realizing] Will always said that whoever called the house that day was the serial killer. [pause] Why did you really call?
I wanted to warn your father that Will Graham was coming for him.
Why?
I was curious what would happen. I was curious what would happen when I killed Marissa. I was curious what you would do.
You wanted me to kill Nick Boyle.
I was hoping. I wanted to see how much like your father you were.
[horrified] Oh my God...
Nicholas Boyle is more important for you gutting him. He changed you, Abigail. That's more important than the life he clamored after.
How many people have you killed?
[taking her hand] Many more people than your father.
[afraid] Are you going to kill me?
Hannibal Lecter': [pause] I'm so sorry, Abigail. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you in this life.
Perhaps you didn't come here looking for a killer. Perhaps you came here to find yourself. You killed a man in this very room.
I stared at Hobbs and the space opposite me assumed the shape of a man filled with dark and swarming flies. And then I scattered them.
At a time when other men fear their isolation, yours has become understandable to you. You are alone because you are unique.
I'm as alone as you are.
If you followed the urges you kept down for so long, cultivated them as the inspirations they are, you would have become someone other than yourself.
I know who I am. I'm not so sure I know who you are anymore.
Are you a killer, Will? You. Right now. This man standing in front of me. Is this who you really are?
I am who I've always been. The scales have just fallen from my eyes. I can see you now.
You said it felt good to kill Garret Jacob Hobbs. Would it feel good to kill me now?
Garret Jacob Hobbs was a murderer. Are you a murderer, Doctor Lecter?
What reason would I have?
You, you have no traceable motive... Which is why you were so hard to see. You were just curious what I would do. Someone like me. Someone who thinks how I think. Wind him up and watch him go. And apparently, Dr. Lecter, this is how I go.
Kaiseki. A Japanese art form that honors the taste and aesthetic of what we eat.
I almost feel guilty about eating it.
I never feel guilty eating anything.
We can't define Will only by his maddest edges.
We can't define Will at all.
Friendship can sometimes involve a breach of individual separateness.
You're not my friend. The light from friendship won’t reach us for a million years. That’s how far away from friendship we are.
I imagine it's easier to believe I am responsible for those murders than it is to accept that you are.
Sure is.
[to Hannibal] What you did to me is in my head, and I will find it. I'm going to remember, Dr. Lecter, and when I do, there will be a reckoning.
[to Jack] I am not the intelligent psychopath you are looking for.
What exactly am I guilty of?
Exactly, I cannot say. I've had to draw a conclusion based on what I glimpsed through the stitching of the person suit that you wear. And the conclusion that I've drawn is that you are dangerous.
I don't know you.
My name is Bedelia Du Maurier.
You're Hannibal Lecter's therapist. [beat] What's that like?
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