Twisted Minds

Secondo

LECTER ESTATE - FRONT GATE - DAY-

Will's car is off the side of a dirt road, near a high stone wall. He dons a backpack. Will and Caroline inspect the sky -- gray, thick clouds. In the distance, a roll of THUNDER.

A WROUGHT-IRON GATE In the high stone wall. Held shut with a thick chain. Padlock hanging on the inside. Will finds a handhold and begins to scale the gate. He pulls himself up and over.
As Will drops down and lands on the other side, great laden drops of rain begin to fall, hard and fast. He opens the gate for Caroline.  through the deluge, revealing a stone archway. On it is carved: "LECTER DVARAS."

Hunched against the rain, up an overgrown gravel road flanked by encroaching forest. 

CASTLE LECTER. An imposing-but-crumbling castle, the woods around growing wild as if to engulf it. The woods seem to lean in toward Will, threatening. Caroline seems satisfied with the environment. A knight and His Queen approaching the dragon's lair.

LECTER ESTATE - HUNTING COTTAGE - DAY-

In a meadow clearing, amid the woods, a small cottage stands, dwarfed by the castle's crumbling shadow. We watch as Will and Caroline  walk toward it. From a distance, we see Will peer in the windows as the rain smashes down. Through the window, he looks into the rustic interior. He tries the door. And then -- seeing no one -- he moves on.

AN ANCIENT LEANING STONE Covered in moss and lichen. Slick with rain. move
around it to find – THE CASTLE LECTER CEMETERY
Slowly absorbed by undergrowth. Tombs and small mausoleums are overgrown with weeds and ivy, shrubs and saplings. EXCEPT FOR ONE. Will moves to the well-tended grave with its recent stone. Fresh-cut flowers lie at its foot – MISCHA LECTER, BELOVED.

The Couple stand together, gazing at the grave. A GUNSHOT rings out, snapping us back to – THE CASTLE LECTER GROUNDS
Will snaps out of his daydream. Another SHOT, then ANOTHER. They are up, heading toward the sound... Will keeps Caroline Covered, scanning the horizon with his binoculars.

Find a steel-eyed Japanese woman named CHIYOH, rifle at the ready, moving along the tree line, toward Will. She stops. Having heard something. Looking in our direction. Then:
In the foreground, PHEASANT EXPLODE from the brush, flying upward. The woman follows with her rifle -- CRACK, CRACK! Both the birds drop from the air in sudden, ungainly fashion. Chiyoh brings the rifle down, aiming RIGHT AT US.

No sign of Will or Caroline. She scans the vicinity through crosshairs. The Couple stand hidden in the tree line. Hooded, face in shadow. A spectral presence in the forest. They do not move.

She pauses, breath held, eyes searching the tree line for movement. Something is off in this place she knows so well. Another pheasant EXPLODES from the brush. Chiyoh swings the rifle and -- CRACK! She fires a shot. As quickly, she throws the rifle over her shoulder and the pheasant drops.

LECTER ESTATE - HUNTING COTTAGE - DAY-

Chiyoh plucks the feathers from a pheasant. Other birds – glossy feathers reflecting in the light -- hang around her. Chiyoh continues to work diligently in her perch, breaking down the birds, unaware that she is being observed.

Will watches Chiyoh, almost predatory. The pheasant has been more or less plucked. With a cleaver, she removes its still-feathered main wing from its body with a succinct CHOP. A second CHOP for the other wing

NORMAN CHAPEL - NIGHT-

the heart sculpture to reveal the image is contained within the frame of a CRIME SCENE
PHOTOGRAPH held by Jack Crawford. HOLD ON Jack until CAMERA reveals a figure is moving up behind him, OUT OF FOCUS. RACK FOCUS bringing PAZZI into relief as he pauses on Jack's shoulder. They stand before flickering candles. Two men, both with confessions to make. Jack is holding Pazzi's picture, of a younger Hannibal Lecter, alongside the CSI heart photo.