Jack: "Hannibal will slip away. Will you slip away with him?"
Will: "Part of me will always want to."
Jack: "You have to cut that part out."
Will (small chuckle): "No, of course, you found him here, not because of the exhibit, but because of the crowd it attracts. You had him, Jack. He was beaten. Why didn't you kill him?"
Jack: "Maybe I need you to."
Chiyoh: "You're like his bird. I'm his bird, too. He puts us in cages to see what we'll do."
Bedelia: "Fly away or dash ourselves dead against the bars."
Chiyoh: "You haven't flown away."
Bedelia: "You are flying right towards him. How does he inspire such devotion?"
Chiyoh: "You're his psychiatrist."
Bedelia: "You could add into what I've learned from my experience with him and from the mute postures of the dead. Were you there? Did you watch as the wild beast within him turned from the teat and entered the world?"
Chiyoh: "I met the beast... and I saw him grow. Someone wants to kill him."
Bedelia: "More than one someone, I'd say. What do you want?"
Chiyoh: "I want to cage him."
Bedelia: "I thought Will Graham was Hannibal's biggest mistake... wonder if it isn't you."
Will to Bedelia: "You expect us to believe that you somehow lost yourself in the hot darkness of Hannibal Lecter's mind?"
Hannibal is drawing Will in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, as Will approaches him. Script: Hannibal looks up at Will and smiles - pleased to see him. Will sits beside Hannibal on the bench in front of the glorious painting. A moment as they absorb.
Will (deleted line): "Good to see you."
Hannibal: "If I saw you every day, forever, Will, I would remember this time."
Will (deleted lines): "I looked up at the night sky there. Orion above the horizon and, near it, Jupiter. I wondered if you could see it too. I wondered if our stars were the same."
Hannibal (deleted lines): "I believe some of our stars will always be the same. You entered the foyer of my mind and stumbled down the hall of my beginnings."
Will smiling: "Strange seeing you here in front of me. Been staring at afterimages of you in places you haven't been in years. I wanted to understand you before I laid eyes on you again. I needed it to be clear... what I was seeing."
Hannibal: "Where does the difference between the past and the future come from?"
Will: "Mine? Before you and after you. Yours? It's all starting to blur. Mischa. Abigail. Chiyoh."
Hannibal: "How is Chiyoh?"
Will: "She pushed me off a train."
Hannibal: "Atta girl."
Will: "You and I have begun to blur."
Hannibal: "Isn't that how you found me?"
Will: "Every crime of yours... feels like one I am guilty of. Not just Abigail's murder, every murder... stretching backward and forward in time."
Hannibal: "Freeing yourself from me and... me freeing myself from you, they are the same."
Will: "We're conjoined. I'm curious whether either of us can survive separation."
Hannibal (deleted line): "The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval."
Hannibal: "Now is the hardest test: not letting rage and frustration... nor forgiveness keep you from thinking. Shall we?"
Will: "After you."
scene: Alana and Margot having sex with each other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvfbAlKse6c
scene: Hannibal and Will walking outside the Uffizi Gallery, Will tries to stab Hannibal, Chiyoh shoots Will, Hannibal steps infront of Will shielding him
script: As Will is hit in the shoulder. And is thrown off balance against Hannibal who catches him. Holds him up as if Will is drunk or faint. Will's blade falls from his hand and Hannibal picks it up. Hannibal looks around quickly and then throws an arm around Will, dazed and bleeding, and quickly hustles him though the courtyard toward the riverfront.
script: Will's POV hazy - as Hannibal moves away and comes back with water in a glass. He tenderly holds it to Will's lips. Again, Will watches as Hannibal cuts Will's shirt away and we see the ugly bullet wound. Still oozing blood. Will endures the pain beneath Hannibal's touch. The intimacy is striking.
Hannibal: "This is gonna hurt. The bullet is still inside you. Chiyoh has always been very protective of me. ..." (puts the knife back in Will's hand) "You dropped your forgiveness, Will. You forgive how God forgives. Would you have done it quickly? Or would you have stopped to gloat?"
Will: "Does God gloat?"
Hannibal: "Often." (injects painkillers) "Give that a moment."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfjC4ra6jJE
Will: "I can almost taste the butter."
Hannibal: "Taste and smell are the oldest senses and the closest to the center of the mind."
Will: "Parts that precede pity and morality."
Hannibal: "They play in the dome of our skulls, like miracles illuminated on a church ceiling. The ceremonies and sights and exchanges of dinner can be far more engaging than theater."
Will: "What's for dinner?"
Hannibal: "Never ask. Spoils the surprise. No, no. I don't indulge much in regret, but... I am sorry to be leaving Italy. There were things in the Palazzo Capponi I would have liked to read. I would have liked to play the clavier... and perhaps compose. I would have liked to show you Florence, Will."
Will: "Soup isn't very good."
Hannibal (spoon-feeding Will): "It's a parsley and thyme infusion, and more for my sake than yours. Have another sip. Let that circulate."
Will: "Are we expecting company?"
Bedelia: "He was hoping to meet a friend before he left Florence. The nature of the meeting required privacy. They will be somewhere no one is supposed to be."
Jack: "We were supposed to sit down together at your house in Baltimore, just the three of us."
Hannibal: "You were to be the guest of honour."
Will: "But the menu was all wrong."
Hannibal: "Yes, it was. Jack was the first to suggest getting inside your head. Now, we both have the opportunity to chew quite literally... what we've only chewed figuratively."
Jack: "Hannibal... stop. Stop!"
