Mads Mikkelsen credited as playing...
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Killing must feel good to God, too... He does it all the time, and are we not created in His image?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: God's terrific. He dropped a church roof on thirty-four of his worshippers last Wednesday night in Texas while they sang a hymn.
- Special Agent Will Graham: Did God feel good about that?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: He felt powerful.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: When you shot Eldon Stammets, who was it that you saw?
- Special Agent Will Graham: I didn't see Hobbs.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Then it's not Hobbs's ghost that's haunting you, is it? It's the inevitability of there being a man so bad that killing him felt good.
- Special Agent Will Graham: Killing Hobbs felt *just*.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Which is why you're here. To prove that sprig of zest you feel is from saving Abigail, and not from killing her dad.
- Special Agent Will Graham: I didn't feel a sprig of zest when I shot Eldon Stammets.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: You didn't kill Eldon Stammets.
- Special Agent Will Graham: ...I thought about it. I'm still not entirely sure that wasn't my intention when pulling the trigger.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: If your intention was to kill him then it's because you understand why he did the things he did. It's beautiful, in it's own way.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: It wasn't the act of killing Hobbs that got you down, was it?... Did you really feel so bad because killing him felt so good?
- Special Agent Will Graham: ...I liked killing Hobbs.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Killing must feel good to God, too... He does it all the time, and are we not created in His image?
- Special Agent Will Graham: I don't consider Hobbs my victim.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: What do you consider him?
- Special Agent Will Graham: Dead.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: The structure of a fungus mirrors that of the human brain an intricate web of connections.
- Will Graham: So maybe he admires their ability to connect the way human minds can't.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Yours can.
- Will Graham: [laugh] Yep. Um yeah, not physically.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Is that what your farmer is looking for? Some sort of connection?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Well, next time bring your wife. I'd love to have you both for dinner.
- Jack Crawford: Thank you.
- Will Graham: I don't consider Hobbs my victim.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: What do you consider him?
- Will Graham: Dead.
- Will Graham: Jack says I need therapy.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: What you need is a way out of dark places when Jack sends you there.
- Will Graham: Last time he sent me into a dark place, I brought something back.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Killing must feel good to god too, he does it all the time. And are we not created in his image?