- Previously on Hannibal... - I can't be with you.
- You are becoming. The dragon is your higher self.
- There's a family out there who don't know he's coming.
- They're not my family.
And I am not letting them die. You are.
- What'd you say to him? - Save yourself. Kill them all.
Then I gave him your home address.
How's the wife?
(drums and eerie music)
- I look at my wife
and I see her dead.
I see Mrs. Leeds and Mrs. Jacobi
lying where Molly should be.
- Do you see yourself killing her?
- Yes.
Over and over.
- 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.
- And he has.
What's he going to take from you?
- Is it important to you
that he take something from me?
- Hannibal has agency
in the world.
- 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.
- If you play,
you pay.
- You have paid dearly.
It excites him to know
that you are marked
in this particular way. - Why?
- Why do you think? (scoffing)
- Bluebeard's wife. Secrets
you're not to know, yet sworn to keep.
- If I'm to be Bluebeard's wife,
I would have preferred to be the last.
- Is Hannibal
in love with me?
- 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'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.
- Now that he's imagined the worst.
- Like ducklings, we imprint
on those ideas that grab our attention.
- What's got your attention, Doctor?
God, the Devil and the Great Red Dragon?
- Lest we forget the Lamb.
- Will
is the Lamb of God?
- Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb.
- Who's "us"?
- 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.
- It is for you.
- 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?"
- I'll still be standing.
- Is your conscience clear?
- As clear as yours.
- Righteousness is what
you and Will have in common.
"In righteousness the Lamb
doth judge and make war."
War against the Great Red Dragon.
- He's not the Dragon, you are.
The Devil himself
bound in the pit.
- Then that makes you God, Jack.
- Yes it does.
- All gods demand sacrifices.
(paper ripping) (hissing)
(screeching strings)
(theme music)
- We don't have anything else?
- Eight people dead in a month. We can't play the long game.
You know and I know it's the best way to bait him.
- Got me on the hook, now you're dangling me
to catch a bigger fish. - It was your suggestion.
- And you're thrilled you didn't have to make it.
- You once fooled yourselves into believing
you were in control of what was happening.
Are you still under that delusion?
- The Dragon has a certain
abstract curiosity about me.
All psychopaths are narcissists. They love
to read about themselves. If you were smart, Jack,
you would use Freddie Lounds. - She will need
to interview you, Will. Take your picture.
- I'm in it now. Can't go home as long as he's loose.
So, I really bad-mouth
the Red Dragon in TattleCrime.
Give him a shot at me.
- It's got to be a really good shot.
What about the setup?
- Something open. Some place where he can get close to me.
- It'd feel like a trap to me.
And it'll feel like a trap to him.
Unless you have a professional voice
who will legitimize what you're saying.
- Someone to hide the wire on the snare.
Are you volunteering?
- No.
I'd have to be a fool.
- Since your commitment,
you have written some brilliant articles for The Northern
Medical Journal of Psychiatry.
- Thank you, Frederick.
- I just finished your most recent piece.
Extraordinary stuff.
- A particularly good one. - It may be my favorite.
I have seen a lot of hostility.
But this was quantifiably bitchy.
Do you think I am your nemesis?
- No. Nemesis? No.
- You refuted my entire book. - It didn't hold up to scrutiny.
- Of course it didn't. I was lying.
On your behalf.
To save your life.
You refuted your insanity defense.
I went out on a limb for you
and you climbed up there and sawed it off.
- "Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it;
and a man becomes famous because
he has the proper stuff in him."
You don't have the proper stuff, Frederick.
- I am a best-selling author.
The journals only
still publish your writing
for the freak value
of your byline.
The attention given to you is dwindling
since you have been overshadowed by another creature.
That book is writing itself.
I think I'll call it The Dragon Slayer.
All I need is the ending.
- Fate has a habit of not letting us choose our own
endings, Frederick.
- This is the ending fate has chosen for you.
Your teeth will go and your strength.
Nobody will be afraid of you anymore.
After Dr. Bloom's reign,
you will be out in the ward.
The young ones will push you around
and use you for sex.
All you'll get to read is what you write on the wall.
You have seen the old ones.
They cry
when they do not like
the stewed apricots.
Oh,
I'm just going to leave an extra copy
of my book right over here. - Thank you, Frederick.
- I've personalized it for you.
Are you here to remonstrate me with "I told you so" s?
- That's not why I'm here.
- She's here because we need someone
who is less concerned about the truth
than the best story.
So, Dr. Chilton, you just lay out your theories. Will will
aggravate them for the record. - You're making statements
no investigator would ever make and no straight newspaper would credit.
- You're not a straight newspaper. You sell T-shirts
that say, "The Tooth Fairy is a One-Night Stand."
- I can get you one, if you like. You a small or a medium?
Small, I bet. They aren't selling so well since
you started calling him "The Dragon."
- The killer's objection to the name "The Tooth Fairy"
is likely grounded in the homosexual
implication of the word "fairy."
Tedious, I know, but if you really want to piss him off,
that's what you should call him.
- Very well. Tooth Fairy it is.
- The Tooth Fairy's actions indicate a projective delusion
compensating for intolerable feelings of inadequacy.
Smashing mirrors ties these feelings to his appearance.
- And not only is the Tooth Fairy insane,
he is ugly and impotent.
- There's a strong bonding
of aggressive and sexual drives that occurs in sadists at an early age.
- He's a vicious, perverted, sexual failure.
An animal.
- The savage acts aimed primarily at the women
and performed in the presence of families
are clearly strikes at a maternal figure.
- The Tooth Fairy is the product of an incestuous home.
- This is the child of a nightmare.
- Will, I think we need a key shot of you
here in your "Washington hideaway."
- I'd love something of you in a bathrobe
sitting at a desk, poring over this
artist's conception of the Fairy. Hmm?
- I'll stand by the window. And make sure you can see the fountain and the Capitol dome.
Red Dragon will need to be able to find this place,
if he wants to.
Frederick, would you like to be in the photograph?
- One for the dust jacket.
- (whispered): Let's see, up.
And... yeah.
(tinkling bells)
This whole procedure is way too passive for my taste.
We are playing games in the dark of the moon.
- He thinks he can do anything. Maybe he thinks he can stop.
If he can hold off until we catch him, maybe we can help him make it stop.
- He almost killed your wife and son.
- Hannibal almost killed them.
- Alright. Pedestrian traffic falls off around 7:15.
You should go for a walk, say 8:30 or so.
He'll have to cross open ground to get close.
- He'll want to get close. - I've got snipers
with night-vision on the roofs. You'll be wearing
body armour. - 7 out of 11 times,
he's gone for the headshot, Jack.
- Yeah...
(ding) - That's absurd.
That's not what I said at all. Dr. Lecter
gave misleading answers in my interviews.
I will refute his refutations
in my new book, Blood and Chocolate. Supermarket
tabloids love Hannibal Lecter more than alien abductions.
That is his demographic now.
We know who his fans are.
Oh!
(gasping)
- Would you like a blanket?
I'll get you a blanket.
- Oh, my back hurts.
Oh, my skin.
Did I get burned? Did I, did I get burned?
I hope, dear God, I am not burned.
- Burned?
Burned.
No.
You just rest there.
- What am I doing here?
- Atoning,
Dr. Chilton.
(chair creaking)
(exhale) - I have not
seen your face.
I could not, I could not identify you.
I do not know
what you look like.
- Do you know
who I am?
- No. No. I do not want to know,
believe me.
- According to you,
I'm a vicious,
perverted
sexual failure.
An animal.
You know now, don't you?
- Yes.
- Why did you lie, Dr. Chilton?
(whining)
Do you
understand what I'm doing?
- No. No!
But I think
I have an opportunity to understand.
Then all my readers
could understand, too.
- Do you feel privileged?
- It is a privilege, but...
I have to tell you I am scared.
Man to man,
I am scared.
And it is...
It is very hard to...
Uh, to concentrate when you are scared.
If you have got a great idea,
you do not need to scare me
for me to be impressed. OK?
- "Man... (gasp)
to man."
You use that phrase to imply frankness.
But you see,
I am not a man.
I have become
Other
and more than a man.
Do you think
God is in attendance here?
Are you
praying to him now?
(grunting)
- We pray to God
mostly when we are scared.
- And does God
help you?
- No.
I don't know. I don't know. I do not know.
I do, I do... I ought...
I do not think about it after. I ought to.
- You ought to. - I ought, I ought to.
- There are so many things
that you ought to understand.
And in a little while,
I will help you understand.
- No, I do not want to see your face!
- When you turn around, you will open your eyes
and look at me,
or I will staple your eyelids
to your forehead.
(doorbell rings)
If you make a sound,
I will kill her.
- I don't like surprises.
I bet you don't, either.
I tried to call you.
May I come in?
I won't be long.
I asked my taxi to wait.
How are you feeling?
- OK.
- Your office said you were sick. - The flu.
You shouldn't be here.
- I brought you soup.
I...
I didn't come
just to give you soup, D.
I guess I'm guilty of liking you.
Demonstrably guilty.
And I know you like me, too.
- I do.
- I've learned that withdrawal can be a strategy to avoid pain.
I have a deep vein
of cripple's anger in me;
while I can't get rid of it,
I've made it work for me.
It's fueled my independence.
I'm not so scarred by life
that I'm incapable of love.
I hope you aren't, either.
Enjoy the soup.
- Do you want to know
what I am?
- More than anything. I was afraid to ask.
- Look.
- Do you see now? - Yes.
- Do you see? - Yes.
- Do you see?
- Yes.
(strangled sound) - Do you
see? - Yes.
- Do. You. See?
- GOD!
- Do you see?
- Please no. - No what?
- Not me. - Are you going to tell more lies about me, Dr. Chilton?
- Oh no, no, no, no, no. - Why did you tell lies,
Dr. Chilton? - No, it was the police
told me to. They, they, they said it.
- You quote Will Graham.
- Graham told the lies.
Graham.
- Will you tell the truth now? About me.
About my work. My...
Becoming.
My art.
Dr. Chilton,
is
This
art?
- Art.
- You said
that I, who see
more than you, am insane.
I, who have pushed the world
so much further than you,
are insane.
I have dared more than you.
I am the Dragon
and you call me insane?
(whispered): Before me,
you are
a slug in the sun.
You are privy to a great Becoming
and you recognize nothing.
It is in your nature
to do one thing correctly
and before me you tremble.
Fear is not
what you owe me.
You owe me awe.
For your journey home.
Ice,
we'll need that.
Before we go,
I think we should tape
for a little while.
Look straight down the lens.
Repeat after me.
That's all,
Dr. Chilton.
You did very well. - You will let me go now?
- I will.
Although
there is one way
that I can help you better understand
and remember.
- I want to understand.
And I've got a very good memory.
(gibberish)
(hissing)
(continuous screaming)
(piano music)
- Hand delivered.
May I open it privately?
- You may not.
- Dr. Chilton often offended me,
so I certainly understand the sentiment.
- Where's the other one?
- This one can provide you anything the other one can.
I'm sorry, Jack. The tragedy of what's happened
to Frederick has put me in an excellent humour.
- Dr. Chilton disappeared yesterday,
under armed escort. - You pretended to burn
Freddie Lounds in a wheelchair to flush me out.
What were you pretending to do with Frederick Chilton?
- He profiled the Dragon.
For Freddie Lounds.
- We wanted to enrage him.
- Congratulations.
You could've provided anything Dr. Chilton could.
That would've been your lip I was tasting.
Again.
- You publicly discredited Dr. Chilton.
By refuting him,
you orchestrated his end by proxy.
- You orchestrated his end, Alana.
You saw the hole and let him roll
right into it. That's professional discourtesy.
- I have had a great privilege.
I have seen with wonder and awe
the strength of the Great Red Dragon.
All that I said
was lies from Will Graham.
I have blasphemed against the Dragon.
Even so,
the Dragon is merciful.
Because I was forced to lie,
he will be more merciful to me
than to you, Will Graham.
Reach behind you and feel
the small knobs
on the top of your pelvis.
Feel your spine between them;
that is the precise spot
where the Dragon will snap your spine.
There is much for you to dread.
From my own lips,
you will learn a little more to dread.
(muffled, continuous screaming)
- Would you like to talk about
what happened with Frederick Chilton?
- The divine punishment
of a sinner
mirrors the sin being punished.
- Contrapasso. You play,
you pay.
- Chilton languished unrecognized
until "Hannibal the Cannibal."
He wanted the world to know his face.
- And now he doesn't have one.
- (whispered): Damned if I will feel.
- We are all making our way
through the Inferno.
Dante's pilgrims. - No,
we're not pilgrims. We're pets.
And the Great Red Dragon kills pets first.
- 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.
- I put my hand on his shoulder for authenticity.
- 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?
- (whispered): I wonder.
- Do you have to wonder?
- No.
- 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?
- I can't say I'm surprised.
- Then you may as well
have struck the match.
That's
participation.
Hannibal Lecter
does have agency in the world.
He has you.
(escalating strings)
(inaudible)
- He did Chilton like it looked like you did Freddie Lounds.
Hannibal said he would. In his own way.
- Hannibal told him to.
- You OK? - I'm OK.
I had the SWAT team.
- Chilton said your name when they brought him into the E.R.
He's trashed.
You oughta get ready for this.
(sigh)
- Frederick, it's Will Graham.
I'm sorry this happened to you.
- You set ne uh.
You knew it.
You set ne uh.
You tut your hand on ne
in the ticture,
like a tet.
- Can you understand what he's saying?
- He said,
"You set me up.
You knew it. You put your hand on me
in the picture, like a pet."
(deep breath)
Did you see anything?
- A 'lack
woman...
and she was 'lind...
- "A black woman. She's blind."
- Reba.
The Dragon said her name when he called Lecter.
- Not much longer now.
(door opening and closing)
(whimpering)
(continuous ticking)
(whimpering)
If I untie you
and let you sit up,
will you be good?
- I, I... (gulping)
I didn't know you cared this much about me.
I'm glad you feel that way, but you scared me with this.
I never hurt you.
I never wanted to.
Let's just be friends
and have a good time and forget about this...
- Shut up.
I'm going to tell you something.
The most important thing
that you will ever hear.
Sermon-on-the-Mount important. Ten Commandments important.
Got it? - Yes, D. I don't...
- Shut up.
Some remarkable events
have happened in Chicago and Buffalo.
Do you know what I'm talking about?
- No.
- It's been on the news a lot.
Two groups of people
were changed.
Leeds. And Jacobi.
The police think that they were murdered.
Do you know now?
Do you know
what they call the... the Being
that visited those people?
- The Tooth Fai... - Think.
(gasp) Answer
correctly. - (whispered): It's, uh...
Dragon something.
Dragon... Red Dragon.
- I am
the Dragon.
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