Hannigram Quotes

1.02 Amuse Bouche

Hannibal: "Your psychological evaluation. You are totally functional and more or less sane. Well done."

Will: "Did you just rubber stamp me?"

Hannibal: "Yes. Jack Crawford may lay his weary head to rest knowing he didn't break you, and our conversation can proceed unobstructed by paperwork."

Will: "Jack thinks that I need therapy."

Hannibal: "What you need is a way out of dark places when Jack sends you there."

Will: "Last time he sent me into a dark place, I brought something back."

Hannibal: "A surrogate daughter? You saved Abigail Hobbs' life. You also orphaned her. That comes with certain emotional obligations, regardless of empathy disorders."

Will: "You were there. You saved her life too. Do you feel obligated?"

Hannibal: "Yes. I feel a staggering amount of obligation. I feel responsibility. I've fantasized about scenarios where my actions may have allowed a different fate for Abigail Hobbs." (...)

Will: "Is this therapy, or a support group?"

Hannibal: "It's whatever you need it to be. And, Will, the mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else."

Hannibal to Will (deleted line): "I'm not sure therapy will work on you. Stealing into other minds has taught you how to fortify your own."

Hannibal: "The structure of a fungus mirrors that of the human brain an intricate web of connections."

Will: "So maybe he admires their ability to connect the way human minds can't."

Hannibal: "Yours can."

Will (laughs): "Yep. Um yeah, not physically."

Hannibal (seems piqued): "Is that what he is looking for? Some sort of connection?"

Eldon to Will: "If you walk through a field of mycelium, they know you are there. The spores reach for you as you walk by. I know who you're reaching for. I know."

Hannibal: "It's not Hobbs' ghost that's haunting you, is it? It's the inevitability of there being a man so bad that killing him felt good."

Will: "Killing Hobbs felt just."

Hannibal: "Which is why you're here to prove that sprig of zest you feel is from saving Abigail, not from killing her dad."

Will: "I didn't feel a sprig of zest when I shot Eldon Stammets."

Hannibal: "You didn't kill Eldon Stammets."

Will: "I thought about it. I'm still not entirely sure that wasn't my intention pulling the trigger."

Hannibal: "If your intention was to kill him, it's because you understand why he did the things he did. It's beautiful in its own way giving voice to the unmentionable."

Will: "I should've stuck to fixing boat motors in Louisiana."

Hannibal: "A boat engine is a machine, a predictable problem, easy to solve. You fail, there's a paddle. Where was your paddle with Hobbs?"

Will: "You're supposed to be my paddle."

Hannibal: "I am. It wasn't the act of killing Hobbs that got you down, was it? Did you really feel so bad because killing him felt so good?"

Will: "I liked killing Hobbs."

Hannibal: "Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. And are we not created in his image?" (...) "God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshippers last Wednesday night in Texas, while they sang a hymn."

Will: "And did God feel good about that?"

Hannibal: "He felt powerful."