Hannigram Quotes

2.10 Naka-Choko

scene: Will vs. Rendal Tier/ Hannibal

script: Hannibal is facing Will across the dining table. Randall Tier's corpse lies across the table. His head lolling at an unnatural angle. A piece of paper is pinned to his chest. On it is written: "Return to Sender." Finally Will steps out of the shadows.

Will: "I'd say this makes us even. I sent someone to kill you... you sent someone to kill me. Even-steven."

Hannibal: "Consider it an act of reciprocity." (deleted line: "One positive action begets another.")

Will: "Polite society normally places such a taboo on taking a life."

Hannibal: "Without death, we'd be at a loss. It's the prospect of death that drives us to greatness. Did you kill him with your hands?"

Will: "It was... intimate."

Hannibal: "It deserves intimacy. You were Randall Tier's final enemy." (while holding Will's hand)

script: They sit at one end of the dining room table, Randall Tier's body still splayed across it. Hannibal removes Will's hands from the Epsom salts bath, drying them. Will stares absently as Hannibal treats his wounds. Hannibal clocks the retreat.

Hannibal: "Don't go inside, Will. You'll want to retreat." (deleted line: "You'll want it as we want to jump from balconies.") "You'll want it as the glint of the rail tempts us when we hear the approaching train."
script: Hannibal applies salve to the cuts and bruises on Will's hands, gently rubbing the ointment into his open wounds.
Hannibal: "Stay with me."
script: Hannibal carefully wraps gauze bandages around Will's hands.

Will: "Where else would I go?"

Hannibal: "You have everywhere to go." (deleted line: "As long as you buttress your mind against deterring forces like guilt.") "You should be quite pleased. I am."

Will: "Of course you are."

Hannibal: "When you killed Randall, did you fantasize you were killing me?"

Will (deleted line): "Yes." script: That makes Hannibal smile.

Hannibal: "Most of what we do, most of what we believe, is motivated by death."

Will: "I've never felt as alive as I did when I was killing him."

Hannibal: "Then you owe Randall Tier a debt. How will you repay him?"

Jack: "The killer chose not to dispose of the body, but to display it."

Hannibal: "A jarring reminder of the informality of death."

Jack: "Randall Tier was denied the respectful end that he himself denied others."

Hannibal: "This is a humiliation, a final indignity."

Will: "He isn't mocking him. This isn't disdain. He's... commemorating him."

Hannibal: "This killer has no fear for the consequences of what he's done."

Will: "No guilt. ... Hello again."

Randall: "Come closer. I want to see you. Can you see you?"