Hannibal: "Which answer is it you want to hear, Will?"
Will: "What's happening now and about to happen is an answer. I want an admission. I want you to admit what you are."
Hannibal: "Must I denounce myself as a monster while you still refuse to see the one growing inside you? Why not appeal to my better nature?"
Will: "I wasn't aware you had one."
Hannibal: "No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them. By that love we see potential in our beloved. Through that love, we allow our beloved to see their potential. Expressing that love, our beloved's potential comes true." (deleted line: "I love you, Will.")
Will: "I promised you a reckoning. Here it is."
script: Will awakens, calmly opening his eyes to stare into middle distance. No solace comes from Hannibal's dream death.
Hannibal: "I visited Granada when I was a young man. I fell in love with many things, in particular, this dish. I remember my time there so vividly, like I frescoed the walls of my mind."
Jack: "I used to be afraid of losing my memory. What I wouldn't give to forget a thing or two now."
Hannibal: "Memory gives moments immortality, but forgetfulness promotes a healthy mind. It's good to forget. What are you trying to forget, Jack?"
Jack: "Doubt. I let doubt in."
Hannibal: "About me?"
Jack: "About Will."
Hannibal: "I can no longer discuss Will's state of mind with you or anyone else without his consent. Will's officially my patient. He employs me now, not the FBI."
Jack: "Well, let's hope your therapy works."
Hannibal: "Therapy only works when we have a genuine desire to know ourselves as we are, not as we would like to be."
Will: "Do you have any regrets?"
Hannibal: "With every choice lies the possibility of regret. However, if I choose not to do something, it's usually for a good reason."
Will: "I'm... riddled with regrets."
Hannibal: "A life without regret would be no life at all."
Will: "I regret what I did in the stable."
Hannibal: "Then, you were lucky I was there."
Will: "Oh, no, no, no. Being lucky isn't the same as making a mistake. The mistake was allowing you to stop me."
Hannibal: "So, it's not pulling the trigger that you regret... it's not pulling it effectively."
Will: "That would be more accurate."
Hannibal: "You must adapt your behaviour to avoid feeling the same way again, Will."
(initial script: Hannibal: "Then it's not your actions that you regret. It's the lack thereof." Will: "That would be more accurate." Hannibal: "Did you make that decision on the basis of anticipating the regret you would feel taking another life?" Will: "Yes." Hannibal: "Anticipating regret commonly results in dubious decisions. You must adapt your behavior to avoid feeling the same way again.")
Will: "Adapt. Evolve. Become."
Hannibal: "Yes. I want you to close your eyes. Imagine a version of events you wouldn't have regretted. What did you see?"
Will: "A missed opportunity... to feel... like I felt when I killed Garret Jacob Hobbs. To feel like... like I felt when I thought I'd killed you."
Hannibal: "And what does that feel like?"
Will: "I felt... a quiet sense... of... power."
Hannibal: "Good. Remember that feeling."
Hannibal: "We all have a gauge for humanity that twitches when we see other people. Tell me, Margot, what twitches when you see your brother?"
Margot: "Not my gauge for humanity."
Hannibal: "You don't recognize in your brother basic human traits. You dehumanize him as much as he dehumanizes you."
Margot: "At least, I'll never be the worst person I know."
Hannibal: "The tendency to see others as less human than ourselves is universal."
Margot: "My brother is less human."
Hannibal: "And you are less human for it."
Margot: "Did you just dehumanize me?"
Hannibal: "Psychiatrists who dehumanize patients are more comfortable with painful but effective treatments."
Margot: "I met a patient of yours. Will Graham. Wonder what sort of painful but effective treatment you prescribed him?"
Hannibal: "What do you imagine?"
Margot: "You're very supportive of me killing my brother. And I appreciate that support, I really do. But I can only imagine what you'd be supportive of Will Graham doing. What kind of psychiatrist are you?"
Hannibal: "You already had my reputation and bona fides verified. You know what kind of psychiatrist I am."
Margot: "I'm beginning to."
initial script
Margot: "You're very supportive of me killing my brother. I appreciate the support, I really do. But I can only imagine what you'd be supportive of Will Graham doing."
Hannibal: "What do you imagine?"
Margot: "I imagine you tiptoe your way into the vaults of hearts and minds and coax out whatever's waiting there. What kind of psychiatrist are you?"
Hannibal: "What is your interest in Will?"
Margot: "My interest is in your interest in people who kill, or at least try to."
Hannibal: "Will Graham was very-publicly found innocent of all charges."
Margot: "My brother was very-publicly found innocent of all his charges, too. But not because he was innocent."
Will: "Do bears and wolves hunt together?"
Peter: " Um, I mean, you could, you could train, train a bear to be a wolf, or a wolf to be a bear. Train, train them long enough, and they will hunt together, feed together. Hmm... OK. En-enough-enough time, there's, there's a great deal I could train even you to do, Will. Hm."
Will: "That kind of friendship can keep you on your toes."
Peter: "Animals, they, they do have... they have friendships just-just like us. We're the same."
Will: "Yeah, I'll try to remember that."
Peter: "Please, don't-don't blame-blame the animals. No. Don't. Man is the only creature that kills to... kill."
initial script
Will: "Do bears and wolves hunt together?"
Peter: "A bear doesn't look in the mirror and see a bear. Just sees itself. Can train a bear to be a wolf, wolf a bear. Train them long enough, they hunt together, eat together. Enough time, circumstances, there's a lot I could train even you to do."
Will considers that a moment, then: "Does a bear forget it's a bear?"
Peter: "Doesn't matter. Wolf won't forget what the bear is. He never forgets the bear is bigger. Stronger. And would kill him if it needed to. Instinct makes them remember that."
Will: "That sort of friendship can keep you on your toes. A bear may not recognize its reflection, Peter, but we have to."
Peter: "Do we? The more a man forgets himself, tending to another creature, the more he sees how human he is."
Will considers Peter's view, then: "I'll try to remember that."
Hannibal: "No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage."
Will: "It's not rage. Rage is an emotional response to being provoked. This is something else."
Hannibal: "What is it?"
Will: "Instinct. It's the way he thinks."
Hannibal: "The way any animal thinks depends on limitations of mind and body. If we learn our limitations too soon, we never learn our power."
Will: "His victims are torn apart; I'd say he learned his power."
Hannibal: "He claimed his power. Can you imagine tearing someone apart? Or would you prefer to use a gun?"
Will: "Guns lack intimacy."
Hannibal: "You set an event in motion with a gun; you don't complete it. You fantasized about killing me with your hands. Wouldn't that be more satisfying than pulling a trigger?"
Will: "Yes."
Hannibal: "When you sent the man to kill me, were you imagining killing me yourself? Living vicariously through him as if... your hands tightened the noose around my neck? Or were you simply hiding?"
Will: "I wasn't hiding from anything the first time I tried to kill you."
Hannibal: "You were hiding... behind the gun. You must allow yourself to be intimate with your instincts, Will."
Randall Tier: "You think I killed someone with a fossil? I had an identity disorder. Doctors told me the internal map of my body didn't match reality. Do you know what it's like when the skin you're wearing doesn't fit?"
Will: "I can imagine."
Margot: "Oh, my brother is the heir, not me. I have the wrong parts and the wrong proclivity for parts."
Will: "You didn't answer my question."
Margot: "Came for a character reference. Patient to patient. What do you think of Dr. Lecter's therapy?"
Will: "It depends what you're in therapy for."
Margot: "Margot: "Oh, I'm in therapy for all kinds of reasons. The Vergers slaughter 86,000 cattle a day and 36,000 pigs, depending on the season, but that's just the public carnage."
Will: "What's your private carnage?"
Margot: "I tried to kill my brother."
Will: "Well, I assume he had it coming."
Margot: "Did he ever. What's your private carnage?"
Will: "I tried to murder Dr. Lecter."
Margot: "Did he have it coming?"
Will: "What do you think?"
Margot: "I can't say that I know."
Will: "Neither can I."
Margot: "We have some very similar issues. Although I doubt that Dr. Lecter gave you the same advice on murder that he gave me."
Will: "And what's that?"
Margot: "He said... If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
Will: "I'm curious what would happen if your patients started comparing notes, Dr. Lecter. What would Randall Tier have to say to me?"
Hannibal: "What did Randall Tier say to you?"
Will: "He said he was much better now, that mental illness was treatable. Randall Tier is a success story."
Hannibal: "You believe he's innocent?"
Will: "I believe... your therapy was successful. You can be persuasive. How many have there been? Like Randall Tier? Like me?"
Hannibal: "Every patient is unique."
Will: "Your psychiatrist came to visit me at the hospital before my trial."
Hannibal: "Dr. Du Maurier."
Will: "She told me she believed me. She knew there were others like me."
Hannibal: "Fascinating."
Will: "Did you kill her?"
Hannibal: "No."
Will: "What do you think about when you think about killing?"
Hannibal: "I think about God."
Will: "Good and evil?"
Hannibal: "Good and evil has nothing to do with God. I collect church collapses. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? The facade fell on 65 grandmothers during a special mass. Was that evil? Was that God? If he's up there, he just loves it. Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place."
script: Hannibal walks a circle around the table. He considers the offering. One akin to a mouse left by the cat for its master. Hannibal surprised by Will Graham a second time - and pleased.
Will to Hannibal: "I'd say this makes us even. I sent someone to kill you... you sent someone to kill me. Even Steven."
