Hannigram Quotes

2.06 Futamono

scene: Hannibal writes a sad song

Will: "You're moving smoothly and slowly, Jack. Carrying your concentration like a brimming cup."

Jack: "Hannibal Lecter was almost murdered... by an employee of this hospital. An attendant who we believe is the person that... killed the bailiff and the judge at your murder trial."

Will: "He killed the bailiff, he didn't kill the judge. That was the Chesapeake Ripper."

Jack: "You know this?"

Will: "He told me."

Jack: "Then you told him to kill Hannibal."

Will: "Nothing I said made that happen, Jack. It just happened. It just happened."

Jack: "You don't seem to be too broken up about it."

Will: "There's a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named. The happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt."

Jack: "You feel contempt for Hannibal?"

Will: "Well, I have contempt for the ripper. I have contempt for what he does."

Jack: "And what does he do?"

Will: "What does he do? What is the first and principal thing he does? What need does he serve by killing?"

Jack: "He harvests organs."

Will: "No, that's only the action of what he does. Why does he need to do it? The ripper kills in sounders of three or four in quick order. Do you know why? I know why."

Jack: "Then tell me."

Will: "Because if he waits too long, then the meat spoils."

Jack: "He's eating them? Hannibal is like Garrett Jacob Hobbs? A cannibal?"

Will: "No, not like Garrett Jacob Hobbs. Hobbs ate his victims to honor them; the ripper eats his victims because they're no better to him than pigs."

Jack: "With the exception of Beverly Katz, there is no connection between Hannibal and any ripper victims."

Will: "No immediate connection."

Jack: "Hannibal Lecter is not the Chesapeake Ripper."

Will: "If the ripper's killing, you can bet Hannibal Lecter's planning a dinner party. You and I probably sipped wine while swallowing the people to whom we were trying to give justice, Jack. Who does he have to kill before you open your eyes?"

Hannibal: "A remarkably lean organ, the heart, yet such a potent symbol of life... and the things that make us human. Good and bad, love and ache."

Alana: "All of them skewered."

Hannibal: "It's a thematic dish. My heart certainly feels skewered."

Alana: "You have the scars to prove it."

Hannibal: "It feels as if that noose is still around my neck. Strange having nightmares; I never used to."

Alana: "Don't make the same mistake I've made; being your own psychiatrist. I'm always assessing my feelings instead of acting on them."

Hannibal: "It's the safest course."