Hannibal Lecter Transcripts: Hannibal S1E6

Hannibal: Jack, come in.

Jack: I'm sorry. Um... I was just, uh...

Hannibal: In the neighborhood.

Jack: Yeah, something like that.

Hannibal: How's Mrs. Crawford?

Jack: Yeah, that's why I was in the neighborhood. She's fine. Well, she tells me that she's fine and she tells me when she's not.

Hannibal: You expect me to tell you more?

Jack: Look, Bella's at a NATO conference. I can't talk to her. She's working. I doubt I could talk to her if she was here.

Hannibal: About her condition?

Jack: Yeah. About her cancer, about her dying. She doesn't want to talk to me about it.

Hannibal: I am prohibited from talking about it... Doctor-patient confidentiality.

Jack: You talk to me about Will Graham.

Hannibal: Will Graham is not officially my patient. We have conversations.

Jack: What do you consider this?

Hannibal: Desperate coping.

Jack: You don't think I have a right to know what's happening with my wife?

Hannibal: You have every right to know what's happening, but not from me.

Jack: Well, I'm not just gonna stand outside my marriage and watch this happen. If that's what she wants, too bad. She married the wrong guy for that.

Hannibal: I'll offer one insight. She doesn't think she married the wrong guy.

Jack: I can't stop thinking about when my wife is gonna die. I look at her side of the bed and I think, "is she gonna die there?" I can't stop thinking about it, you understand? I can't stop.

Hannibal: You're dreading the loss of your wife.

Jack: Yes. And I'm thinking about other losses too.

Hannibal: What other losses are you dreading? Jack, you can't save her. She won't let you. The cancer won't let you. Who else couldn't you save?

Hannibal: Inspired by Auguste Escoffier, we are having Langue d'agneau en papillottes, served with a sauce of duxelles and oyster mushrooms. Picked myself.

Alana: I don't think I've ever had tongue.

Hannibal: It was a particularly chatty lamb.

Dr. Chilton: The romans used to kill flamingos just to eat their tongues.

Hannibal: Don't give me ideas. Your tongue is very feisty. And as this evening has already proven, it's nice to have an old friend for dinner.

Alana: I see three possibilities. Gideon is The Chesapeake Ripper, or he just thinks he is, or he knows he isn't.

Dr. Chilton: He is, he knows he is, so do I.

Hannibal: Did you discuss the chesapeake ripper's crimes with Dr. Gideon before he murder the night nurse?

Dr. Chilton: When I began to suspect what he was. Fearing he might be exposed may have, uh, spurred him into action.

Alana: Is it possible you inadvertently planted the suggestion in Gideon's mind that he was The Ripper?

Dr. Chilton: You're not suggesting coercive persuasion.

Alana: No, I said inadvertently.

Dr. Chilton: Psychic driving is unethical.

Hannibal: But reasonable in certain circumstances.

Alana: What circumstances?

Hannibal: It may have been useful trying to remind Gideon he's the Chesapeake Ripper. If he repressed those memories. But he seems to have come to that awareness all by himself.

Dr. Chilton: Dr. Bloom, if he has been unethically manipulated somehow, I need to know. I would love your insight.

Hannibal: Dr. Chilton, would you care to assist me with dessert?

Dr. Chilton: Pleasure.

Hannibal: I love Norton grapes. Same color inside as outside. Peel it... And the flesh is also purple. Not like other grapes where flesh is white and color comes from the skin.

Dr. Chilton: A grape with nothing to hide.

Hannibal: Were I in your position, I would have attempted psychic driving. Perhaps you already have. I promise I am much more forgiving of the unorthodox than Dr. Bloom. Shall we?

Hannibal: What would be the benefit of making you believe your trainee was alive?

Jack: Hope. The Ripper wanted to cloud my vision with hope.

Hannibal: It can sometimes be brave to allow yourself hope.

Jack: Not the false kind.

Hannibal: Don't give up hope for your wife. Not yet. She's lost hope, which means you can't.

Jack: I don't have any control over that.

Hannibal: Take control. I'm sorry about your wife, Jack. I truly am. I believe the world is a better place with her in it. I am sorry about your trainee.

Jack: Whatever The Ripper was doing, it worked. I mean, I thought she was alive. For a moment, anyway. I actually let myself believe something that I knew was impossible.

Hannibal: Talk to me about her. What was her name?

(Flashback)

Miriam: My name is Miriam Lass. I'm with the FBI. I would show you my credentials, but I'm actually just a trainee.

Hannibal: Never just a trainee. An agent in training. Please, come in.

Miriam: I was hoping to talk to you about a former patient... Not necessarily one of yours, but someone you may have come into contact with when you were a practicing physician.

Hannibal: I haven't practiced medicine for some time, but fortunately for you, I have a very good memory. Please.

Miriam: His name was Jeremy Olmstead.

Hannibal: Perhaps not so good a memory after all. I don't recall a patient with that name, but it sounds familiar.

Miriam: He was recently found murdered in his workshop. We think he may be a victim of The Chesapeake Ripper.

Hannibal: That's why he sounds familiar. It was all over the news.

Miriam: He had two old scars on his thigh. Pathology checked with the local hospital. He had fallen out of a tree-blind five years ago while bow hunting... Stuck an arrow through his leg. The doctor of record was a resident surgeon, but you were on duty in the ER that night.

Hannibal: I was?

Miriam: Your name was on the admissions log.

Hannibal: Let me think. You'll have to forgive me. I saw so many people in the ER, but not so many hunters.

Miriam: It's been a long time since the accident, but I thought you may remember if anything was fishy with the arrow wound.

Hannibal: If it's the gentleman I'm thinking of, I vaguely remember a fellow hunter bringing him in, but I recall very little else.

Miriam: Figured it was a long shot.

Hannibal: I did keep detailed journals during those days. If you like, I can get them for you. Maybe you'll find something helpful.

Miriam: That would be great... If you don't mind.

Hannibal: Not at all. If you'll wait here, I'll be right back.

Miriam: Thank you.

(Hannibal kills Miriam.)

(Flasback is over.)

Jack: She was a very brave young woman.