Hannibal Lecter Transcripts: Hannibal S1E12

Will: Smells delicious.

Hannibal: Silkie chicken in a broth. A black-boned bird prized in China for its medicinal values since the 7th century. Wolfberries, ginseng, ginger, red dates and star anise.

Will: You made me chicken soup.

Hannibal: Yes. The nurses tell me you've been wandering, Will.

Will: I was awake and wandering with purpose. And good intentions.

Hannibal: Visiting that unfortunate young woman suffering from delusions.

Will: She's my support group.

Hannibal: And I hope you're hers. Nothing more isolating than mental illness.

Will: The hallucinations, the loss of time, sleepwalking. Could that have all just been the fever?

Hannibal: Fevers can be symptoms of dementia. Dementia can be a symptom of many things happening in your body or mind that can no longer be ignored, Will.

Will: Does Jack know?

Hannibal: That this could be more than a fever? No. I haven't told him.

Will: Shouldn't you?

Hannibal: Not until we know for certain. What we must do now is continue to support and monitor your recovery. This young woman you were visiting, how's her recovery?

Will: I don't think she wants to recover. Afraid to remember what she did.

Hannibal: Can't say I blame her.

Jack: Could this be more than a fever? Will is connecting murders that previously had no connections.

Hannibal: Beyond his involvement in the investigations?

Jack: That's right.

Hannibal: So you're wondering if the lines are blurring or if he's on to something.

Jack: I'm wondering all sorts of things. What's Will's relationship with Abigail Hobbs right now?

Hannibal: You think he's protecting her?

Jack: He has been ever since he shot her father. I just don't know from what.

Hannibal: I can't imagine he would hide anything criminal from you. I've only ever known Will as a man striving to be his best self.

Jack: You haven't known him that long. We both know him well enough to know he hasn't been himself.

Hannibal: He needs our support. Whether or not mental illness is involved.

Jack: Mental illness... Is it really mental illness, Doctor, or is it just that his mind works so differently from most people's that we don't know what else to call it?

Hannibal: There are days when even Will doesn't understand his own thinking.

Bedelia: An agent from the FBI came to see me. He asked me questions about your relationship with Will Graham.

Hannibal: Jack Crawford was here?

Bedelia: He had enough doubt in whatever it is you told him about your patient to feel the need to verify.

Hannibal: He believes Abigail Hobbs was involved in her father's crimes and he suspects Will is protecting her.

Bedelia: And, evidently, he suspects you are protecting Will. Are you?

Hannibal: Are you asking as my psychiatrist?

Bedelia: I'm stepping out of my role as your psychiatrist and I'm speaking to you now as your colleague. Whatever you're doing with Will Graham, stop.

Hannibal: Will needs my help.

Bedelia: You've crossed professional lines.

Hannibal: By making a friend?

Bedelia: You cannot function as an agent of friendship for a man who is disconnected from the concept as a man who is disconnected from the concept.

Hannibal: I'm protecting Will from influence. He has flaws in his intuitive beliefs about what makes him who he is. I'm trying to help him understand.

Bedelia: You may not be able to.

Hannibal: I'm not comfortable telling Will that my very best attempts to help him may fail and that my loyalty to him and his treatment could be compromised.

Bedelia: Then tell him something else. Agent Crawford also asked me about my attack.

Hannibal: I see. What did you tell him?

Bedelia: Half-truths. That a violent patient swallowed his tongue while he was attacking me. I didn't tell him how or why or who was responsible.

Hannibal: You protect your patient from Jack Crawford, but I can't protect mine?

Bedelia: Not anymore. Even the very best psychiatrists have an inherent limitation to their professional abilities. You may find that difficult to accept.

Hannibal: You're right. It is.

Bedelia: You have to maintain boundaries, Hannibal.

Hannibal: When the pressures of my personal and professional relationships with Will grow too great, I assure you... I'll find a way to relieve them.

Will: I'm much better now. I feel clearer. It had to be the fever. I am finally thinking clearly about the copycat.

Hannibal: The murders you're attributing to the copycat have suspects whose DNA was found on the victims.

Will: So what?

Hannibal: You're choosing to ignore that?

Will: Both of those suspects are dead. I'm choosing to factor that into my psychological profile of a killer. Georgia Madchen followed me to Sutcliffe's office, she witnessed his murder, she saw the copycat.

Hannibal: Why not kill her then and there?

Will: Maybe didn't have the time. She was an unreliable witness, so that bought him time.

Hannibal: So he framed her for the murder.

Will: He wasn't planning on framing her. He was planning on framing me.

Hannibal: You believe this is personal?

Will: If it wasn't before... it is now. This could be someone at the bureau, someone in the police department, someone who knows the crimes and has access to the investigations.

Hannibal: Someone like you?

Will: There will be evidence. I found a pattern and now I'm gonna reconstruct his thinking.

Hannibal: How do you intend to do that?

Will: By taking Abigail back to Minnesota. Start where the copycat started, when he called Garret Jacob Hobbs.

Hannibal: Will, this is venturing into the paranoid. I can't allow you to pull Abigail into your delusion.

Will: This isn't a delusion. I'm not hallucinating. I haven't lost time. I am awake and this is real.

Jack: Sorry to barge in on you, Doctor. Couldn't wait. You want to tell me what the hell is going on between Will Graham and Abigail Hobbs?

Hannibal: Will has been victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts.

Jack: Has he acted on these thoughts?

Hannibal: Not that I'm aware of. Or he's aware of, for that matter. But he has experienced periods of lost time.

Jack: Yes, I've seen him confused at crime scenes. I've seen him disoriented.

Hannibal: He may have been confused because he was waking up. Might not have known where he was or how he got there.

Jack: Waking up?

Hannibal: From a dissociated personality state. He would appear perfectly normal and not remember a thing. But a fractured part of him would.

Jack: How long have you been aware of this?

Hannibal: He's only recently started to discuss these episodes.

Jack: Unless "recently" means just before I walked into your office, you failed to mention any of this to me!

Hannibal: Because I was trying to determine if it was trauma and stress from the work he's doing for you or mental illness. I thought it wise to be sure before making any claim about Will Graham's sanity.

Jack: He's taken Abigail Hobbs. You have any idea where they might be going?

Hannibal: No.

Jack: We have evidence she was involved in some of her father's crimes. We just don't know how involved. Is it possible Will knew what Abigail was doing? Is that why he's protecting her?

Hannibal: There's something you should hear.

"Hannibal: How did you feel seeing Marissa Schurr impaled in his antler room?"

"Will: Guilty."

"Hannibal: Because you couldn't save her?"

"Will: Because I felt like I killed her."

Jack: Where was Will the night that Marissa Schurr was killed?

Hannibal: He was supposed to be in his hotel room. I knocked on his door. He didn't answer.

Jack: We know he was in Dr Sutcliffe's office the night that he was killed. And Will was the last person to visit Georgia Madchen before she died. This dissociative personality state you say he goes into. Whose personality is it?

Hannibal: He said he got so close to Garret Jacob Hobbs and what he had done... that he felt he was becoming him.

Jack: And now he has Hobbs' daughter.

Hannibal: Who Hobbs intended to kill. I'm so sorry, Jack.

Hannibal: Abigail.

Abigail: What are you doing here?

Hannibal: I was so worried about you. Will told me he was taking you to Minnesota, and I strongly advised against it. Where is Will?

Abigail: I left him at the cabin. I didn't feel safe with him, so I left him. He knows everything.

Hannibal: So does Jack Crawford.

Abigail: If I run, they'll catch me, won't they? You can't protect me anymore.

Hannibal: They'll arrest you when they find you, yes. And Will.

Abigail: Did he kill Marissa?

Hannibal: They will believe he did. They will believe he killed others, too.

Abigail: Will always said whoever called the house that morning was the serial killer. Why did you really call?

Hannibal: I wanted to warn your father that Will Graham was coming for him.

Abigail: Why?

Hannibal: I was curious what would happen. I was curious what would happen when I killed Marissa. I was curious what you would do.

Abigail: You wanted me to kill Nick Boyle.

Hannibal: I was hoping. I wanted to see how much like your father you were.

Abigail: Oh, my God.

Hannibal: Nicholas Boyle is more important for you gutting him. He changed you, Abigail. That's more important than the life he clamoured after.

Abigail: How many people have you killed?

Hannibal: Many more than your father.

Abigail: Are you going to kill me?

Hannibal: I'm so sorry, Abigail. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you in this life.