HANNIBAL:
I let you in. I let you know me.
I let you see me.
WILL: You wanted to be seen.
HANNIBAL:
By you. A rare gift I've given you. But you didn't want it.
will isn't so definitive.
WILL: Didn't I?
HANNIBAL: You would deny me my life.
WILL: Not your life
HANNIBAL: My freedom, then. You'd take that from me. Confine me to a basement cell. Do you believe you could change me the way I've changed you?
WILL: I already have.
Hannibal studies Will a moment, realizing he's right.
HANNIBAL: Fate and circumstance has returned us to the moment the teacup shatters. I forgive you, Will.