Hannibal: "I guess I'm a better friend than therapist."
Jack: "You're a great friend, Hannibal."
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Will: "I remember that night at Dr. Lecter's. The night I brought you there."
Abel: "The night you tried to kill me."
Will: "Yes, how do you think I found you? He sent me to kill you, Abel."
Abel: "Am I your evidence? Oh, you're in trouble, Mr. Graham."
Will: "Why would you protect him?"
Abel: "You were quite happy to try and kill me yourself. You have it in you, as they say. He is the Devil, Mr. Graham. He is smoke. You'll never catch the Ripper. He won't be caught. If you want him... you will have to kill him."
Will: "Fair enough."
Hannibal: "We know memories, emotions, and even spiritual experiences can be manipulated while under hypnotics."
Chilton: "I'm trying to set Will on the path to rebuilding his broken brain, picking up your pieces, as it were."
Hannibal: "You've analyzed my patient; perhaps you'll allow me to analyze yours."
Hannibal: "I was Will Graham's psychiatrist."
Abel: "Well, he's not a very good advertisement for your abilities, Dr. Lecter."
Hannibal: "That remains to be seen."
Abel: "Oh, I bet you're a devil at the bridge table. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
Hannibal: "The pleasure's mine."
Abel: "But now I know your name, of course I am aware of you by reputation and I see why Chilton both reveres you and resents you. Esteem in psychiatric circles still eludes him, yet it clings to you like soap to a baby's eyes. He very much wants to be you."
Hannibal: "He should be more careful what he wishes for."
Abel: "And you should have been more careful with Will Graham. That young man has got a bone to pick."
Hannibal: "As a therapist, I'm concerned with finding ways of overcoming resistance. Not building it up."
Abel: "Well, you built up something, Dr. Lecter."
Will: "I'm talking about the man who killed the bailiff and the judge at my trial."
Freddie: "Ah. And you think he's your admirer?"
Will: "He killed the bailiff to give me an alibi. He killed the judge because he threw that alibi out."
Freddie: "So is your admirer crazy?"
Will: "I don't think anybody as careful as he is could be crazy. I think - I think he's different. Maybe a lot of people believe him to be crazy, and the reason for that is, he hasn't let people understand much about him."
Freddie: "But you understand him. Are you trying to catch him or contact him?"
Will: "I would like to establish a line of communication."
Matthew Brown: "Just say the words."
Will: "I want you to kill Hannibal Lecter." (antlers grow from Will's back)
Alana: "You want to do something about it."
Will: "Would that be so bad?"
Alana: "Depends on what you're thinking about doing. But there's no solution to grief, Will. It just is."
Will: "Beverly died because of me. Because she listened to me. I'm not gonna let that happen again."
Alana: "Will, what have you done?"
Will: "Just what I had to do."
Abel: "A little birdie wanted me to kill you. Or a little birdie wanted Mr. Graham to have reason to kill me. But either way, you and I are equally expendable."
Alana: "You were trying to find the Ripper that night. Did you?"
Abel: "I found Will Graham."
Alana: "Will isn't the Chesapeake Ripper."
Abel: "Not yet. All the things that make us who we are... What has to happen to make those things change? So much has happened to Mr. Graham. He is a changed man. Maybe he's looking for redemption. But revenge, now that is a trinket he could value."
Alana: "He thinks that he knows who killed Beverly Katz?"
Abel: "For the courtesy you have always shown me, I am going to give you a gift. I'm going to give you a chance to save Will from himself. He is in a biblical place right now, but that rage will pass. And when it does, Will Graham will either be a murderer or he will not. Up to you."
Alana: "He's institutionalized. He's really in no position to be killing anyone."
Abel: "Not with his own hands. But if he only had a little birdie who could whisper murder into a sympathetic ear..."
Alana: "Who does he want to kill, doctor?"
Matthew Brown: "Judas had the decency to hang himself in shame at his betrayal. But I thought you needed help. Did you know that the phrase 'to kick the bucket' came from exactly this situation? You could kick it out right now yourself and it'd all be over. Quicker than bleeding out."
Hannibal: "You're a nurse at the hospital. You're setting a new standard of care."
Matthew Brown: "Will Graham is not what you think."
Hannibal: "He's not a murderer."
Matthew Brown: "He is now. By proxy."
Hannibal (grunting): "He asked you to do this?"
Matthew Brown: "What are friends for?"
script: Hannibal considers that, impressed by Will's moxie.
Matthew Brown: "(...) How many times have you watched someone cling on to a life that's not really worth living? Eking out a few extra seconds. Wondering why they bother."
Hannibal: "I know why. Life is precious."