Hannigram Quotes

3.12 The Number of the Beast is 666

Will: "I look at my wife and I see her dead. I see Mrs. Leeds and Mrs. Jacobi lying where Molly should be."

Bedelia: "Do you see yourself killing her?"

Will: "Yes. Over and over."

Bedelia: "It's hard to predict when brittle materials will break. Hannibal gave you three years to build a family, confident that he would find a way to take them from you."

Will: "And he has. What's he going to take from you?"

Bedelia: "Is it important to you that he take something from me?"

Will: "Hannibal has agency in the world."

Bedelia: "Hannibal has no intention of seeing me dead by any other hand than his own, and only then if he can eat me. He's in no position to eat me now."

Will: "If you play, you pay."

Bedelia: "You have paid dearly. It excites him to know that you are marked in this particular way."

Will: "Why?"

Bedelia: "Why do you think?"

Will (scoffing): "Bluebeard's wife. Secrets you're not to know, yet sworn to keep."

Bedelia: "If I'm to be Bluebeard's wife, I would have preferred to be the last."

Will: "Is Hannibal in love with me?"

Bedelia: "Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for you and find nourishment at the very sight of you? Yes. But do you ache for him?"

Will doesn't answer, only stares.

Bedelia (deleted line): "Once you catch the Red Dragon, your wife and son can go home again. Can you?"

Hannibal: "Will's thoughts are no more bound by fear or kindness than Milton's were by physics. He is both free and damned to imagine anything."

Jack: "Now that he's imagined the worst."

Hannibal: "Like ducklings, we imprint on those ideas that grab our attention."

Jack: "What's got your attention, Doctor? God, the Devil and the Great Red Dragon?"

Hannibal: "Lest we forget the Lamb."

Jack: "Will is the Lamb of God?"

Hannibal: "Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb."

Jack: "Who's us?"

Hannibal: "You, me and the Great Red Dragon. The Lamb's wrath touches everyone who errs. His retribution is even more deadly than the Dragon's."

Jack: "It is for you."

Hannibal: "The seals are being opened, Jack. The lamb is becoming a lion. For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"

Jack: "I'll still be standing."

Hannibal: "Is your conscience clear?"

Jack: "As clear as yours."

Hannibal: "Righteousness is what you and Will have in common. In righteousness the Lamb doth judge and make war. War against the Great Red Dragon."

Jack: "He's not the Dragon, you are. The Devil himself bound in the pit."

Hannibal: "Then that makes you God, Jack."

Jack: "Yes, it does."

Hannibal: "All gods demand sacrifices."

Will: "If he can hold off until we catch him, maybe we can help him make it stop."

Jack: "He almost killed your wife and son."

Will: "Hannibal almost killed them."

Bedelia: "Would you like to talk about what happened with Frederick Chilton?"

Will: "The divine punishment of a sinner mirrors the sin being punished."

Bedelia: "Contrapasso. You play, you pay."

Will: "Chilton languished unrecognized until Hannibal the Cannibal. He wanted the world to know his face."

Bedelia: "And now he doesn't have one."

Will (whispered): "Damned if I will feel."

Bedelia: "We are all making our way through the Inferno. Dante's pilgrims."

Will: "No, we're not pilgrims. We're pets. And the Great Red Dragon kills pets first."

Bedelia: "You put your hand on Dr. Chilton's shoulder in the photograph. Touch gives the world an emotional context. The touch of others makes us who we are. It builds trust."

Will: "I put my hand on his shoulder for authenticity."

Bedelia: "To establish that he really told you those insults about the Dragon? Or maybe you wanted to put Dr. Chilton at risk? Just a little?"

Will (whispered): "I wonder."

Bedelia: "Do you have to wonder?"

Will: "No."

Bedelia: "What did you think the Great Red Dragon would do? You were curious what would happen, that's apparent. Is this what you were expecting?"

Will: "I can't say I'm surprised."

Bedelia: "Then you may as well have struck the match. That's participation. Hannibal Lecter does have agency in the world. He has you."

Jack: "He did burn Chilton like it looked like you did burn Freddie Lounds. Hannibal said he would. In his own way."

Will: "Hannibal told him to." (...) "Frederick, it's Will Graham. I'm sorry this happened to you."

Frederick: "You set me up. You knew it. You set me up. You put your hand on me in the picture, like a pet."