Hannigram Quotes

3.10 And the Woman Clothed in Sun

script: Bedelia closes the doors and turns. Will, who has patiently been waiting his turn, finally confronts Bedelia who puts on a friendly face.

Will: "Poor Dr. Du Maurier, swallowed whole. Suffering inside Hannibal Lecter's bowels for what must have felt like an eternity. You didn't lose yourself, Bedelia, you just crawled so far up his ass you couldn't be bothered."

Bedelia: "Hello, Will."

Will: "You hitched your star to a man commonly known as a monster. You're the Bride of Frankenstein."

Bedelia: "We've both been his bride."

Will: "How did you manage to walk away unscarred? Huh? I'm covered in scars."

Bedelia: "I wasn't myself. You were. Even when you weren't, you were."

Will: "I wasn't wearing adequate armour."

Bedelia: "No. You were naked. Have you been to see him?"

Will: "Yes."

Bedelia: "You haven't learned your lesson, have you? Or did you just miss him that much?"

Will faltering, considers, decides the question is rhetorical: "Have you been to see him?"

Bedelia: "I've seen enough of him. I was with him behind the veil. You were always on the other side."

The simplicity of that strikes Will: "Something we should talk about."

Bedelia: "You'll have to make an appointment."

Woman (on the phone): "Dr. Frederick Chilton's office." (...)

Hannibal: "Maybe you could help me, if you don't mind. This is Bob Greer at Blaine and Edwards Publishing. Dr. Chilton asked me to send a copy of his book to someone, and Linda was supposed to give me the address and phone number, but she never did. (...) It's right there in his contacts. I'll dance at your wedding if you'll read it to me."

Woman: "I'm opening the file."

Hannibal: "Be a darling and slide that cursor down to the letter G, give it a click and I'll be out of your hair."

Woman: "Alright. What was the name?"

Hannibal: "Graham. Will Graham."

Will: "Have you had any contact with him?"

Bedelia: "He sends me greeting cards on Christian holidays and my birthday. He always includes a recipe."

Will: "If he does end up eating you, Bedelia, you'd have it coming."

Bedelia: "I can't blame him for doing what evolution has equipped him to do."

Will: "If we just do whatever evolution equipped us to do, murder and cannibalism are morally acceptable."

Bedelia: "They are acceptable... to murderers and cannibals. And you."

Will: "And you."

Will: "You lied, Bedelia. You do that a lot. Why do you do that a lot?"

Bedelia: "I obfuscate. Hannibal was never not my patient. Covert treatment suffers secrecy and disapproval."

Will: "Covert because... Hannibal was an uncooperative patient?"

Bedelia: "Covert because I was a cooperative psychiatrist. Do no harm."

Will: "And did you?"

Bedelia: "I did. Technically."

Will: "You dared to care."
(German syncro: "You have allowed yourself feelings.")

Bedelia: "Not the first time I've lost professional objectivity in a matter where Hannibal is concerned." (...)

Will: "How is one patient worthy of compassion and another not?"

Bedelia: "I'm under no illusion how morally consistent my compassion has been. How is one murderer worthy of compassion and not another?"

Will (deleted line): "We're morally schizophrenic when it comes to Hannibal. And we both seem to keep getting away with it."
Will: "All that time you were with Hannibal behind the veil, you'd already killed one patient. It ever occur to you to kill another?"

Bedelia: "My relationship with Hannibal is not as passionate as yours. You are here visiting an old flame. Is your wife aware of how intimately you and Hannibal know each other?"

Will: "She's aware enough."

Bedelia: "You couldn't save Hannibal. Do you think you can save this new one? Your experience of Hannibal's attention is so profoundly harmful, yet so irresistible, it undermines your ability to think rationally." (...)
(German syncro: "Do you think you can save this new LOVE?")

Bedelia: "One thing I learned from Hannibal is the alchemy of lies and truths. It's how he convinced you you're a killer."

Will: "You're not convinced?"

Bedelia: "You're not a killer. You're capable of righteous violence because you are compassionate."

Will: "How are you capable?"

Bedelia (inhaling slowly): "Extreme acts of cruelty require... a high level of empathy. The next time you have an instinct to help someone, you might consider crushing them instead. It might save you a great deal of trouble."

Will: "It was done carefully and cleanly with a very sharp knife. It was not the work of a child."

Hannibal: "It's a Chinese character which means, 'You hit it', an expression sometimes used in gambling."

Will: "A lucky sign. The character also appears on a mahjong tile. Marks the Red Dragon."

Hannibal: "And behold a great red dragon... Are you familiar with William Blake's The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun? Blake's Dragon stands over a pleading woman caught in the coil of its tail. Few images in Western art radiate such a unique and... nightmarish charge of demonic sexuality."

Will: "The man who killed the Jacobis and the Leedses saw something in them that drew him and drove him to do it. He chose them because something in them spoke to him."

Hannibal: "The Jacobis were the first to help him, the first to lift him into the glory of his becoming. The Jacobis were better than anything he knew."

Will: "Until the Leedses."

Hannibal: "As the Dragon grows in strength and glory, there are families to come."

Will: "I have to believe there is a common factor and we will find it... soon."

Hannibal: "Otherwise you have to enter more houses and see what the Dragon has left for you. 11 days to the next full moon. Tick-tock. I like this Dragon, Will. I don't think he's crazy at all. I think he may be quite sane. A magnificent thing, to watch the world through his red haze."