

Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: And if one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is.
Lloyd Bowman: What about sweating Lecktor?
Jack Crawford: What are you, sympathizing with this guy?
Will Graham: Do you think that's a contradiction, Jack? Does this kind of understanding make you uncomfortable?
Will Graham: I know that I'm not smarter than you.
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: Then how did you catch me?
Will Graham: You had disadvantages.
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: What disadvantages?
Will Graham: You're insane.
Lloyd Bowman: You're so sly... but so am I.
Will Graham: It's not over yet.
Will Graham: I gave it up! Till you showed up with pictures of two dead families, knowing God damn well that I'd imagine families three, four, five and six. Right?
[Will remembers the recording on the Leeds' answering machine]
Mrs. Leeds: [recording] Hi, this is Valerie Leeds. Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now.
Will Graham: I'm sorry, too.
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: Dream much... Will?
Will Graham: l'm sick of you, Lecktor. If you've got something to say, say it!
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: l want to help you, Will. You'd be more comfortable if you relaxed with yourself! We don't invent our natures, they're issued to us with our lungs and pancreas and everything else. Why fight it?
Will Graham: Fight what?
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: lt feels good because God has power. lf one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is. God's a champ. He always stays ahead. He got 140 Phillipinos in one plane crash last year. Remember that earthquake in ltaly last spring?
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: Save yourself, kill them all!
Will Graham: It's just you and me now, sport. And I'm going to find you, God damn it.
Molly: You're talking - about doing exactly what you said you'd...
Will Graham: This killing... it's gotta stop.
Molly: William... you're gonna make yourself sick or get yourself killed.
Will Graham: The Tooth Fairy's gonna go on until we get smart or we get lucky. He won't stop.
Jack Crawford: Why not?
Will Graham: He's got a genuine taste for it.
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: You want the scent? Smell yourself!
Francis Dollarhyde: You owe me awe!
[last lines]
Molly: [looking at the turtles in the hatchery] Hom many of 'em made it!
Will Graham: Most of 'em... Most of 'em made it!
Jack Crawford: Listen, Will, have you seen this week's Tattler?
Will Graham: [scoffs] It's not on my preferred reading list, Jack.
Jack Crawford: Yeah, well, uh... your picture's all over the front page.
Will Graham: Who the hell was it? Lounds?
Jack Crawford: Of course. Who else?
Will Graham: Damn it, Jack! I promised Molly. I promised her!
Jack Crawford: If I really didn't need you to come back, I wouldn't ask.
Will Graham: He never regained consciousness. Did you hear the tape?
Jack Crawford: Yeah. Listen, Bowman just broke the code that Lektor used in the Tattler personal ad. It was the State of Maryland statutes. You need to know what it said right now?
Will Graham: What?
Jack Crawford: Listen to me, everything's OK, I've taken care of it.
Will Graham: What is it, Jack?
Jack Crawford: [angry] Bastard gave him your home address. It said 'Graham home, 3860 DeSoto Highway, Cativa, Florida. Save yourself, kill them all.'
[to Jack, about the Tooth Fairy]
Will Graham: You think I'm gonna see him standing in the street and say "there he is"? That's Houdini you're thinking of.
Francis Dollarhyde: Do you know who I am?
Freddy Lounds: I don't want to know who you are.
Francis Dollarhyde: According to you, I'm a sexual pervert... an animal, you said. You know who I am now?
Freddy Lounds: Yes.
Will Graham: [watching the Leeds and Jacobi films side by side] And you know you need a bolt-cutter and every other Goddamn thing... Because everything with you is seeing, isn't it? Your primary sensory intake that makes your dream live is seeing... Reflections... Mirrors... Images...
Will Graham: [stunned realization] You've seen these films! Haven't you, my man?
[Will Graham releases the jogger he has just mistakenly tackled]
The Runner: [to the cops] What you movin' in slow motion for, man? I'm being mugged.
Jack Crawford: So what are we doing?
Will Graham: The dream. He dreams about being wanted and desired. So he changes people into beings who want and desire him.
Jack Crawford: Changes?
Will Graham: It's a word. Killing and arranging the people to imitate it. And Lecktor told me something: "If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is." You put it together, you get: If our boy imitates being wanted and desired enough times, he believes he will become one who is wanted and desired and accepted. It'll all come true.
Freddy Lounds: Has this case in anyway affected your sex life?
Will Graham: My sex life? Hasn't affected my sex life, it's affected yours. Go fuck yourself.
[the subject of Hannibal Lector has been brought up]
Kevin Graham: What happened?
Will Graham: Well, Lector was attacking college girls, and he killed them.
Kevin Graham: How?
Will Graham: In bad ways.
Kevin Graham: When are you gonna kill him?
Will Graham: I'm not. It's only my job to find him.
Francis Dollarhyde: It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: Tremble.
Reba McClane: Who is it?
Francis Dollarhyde: It's me.
Reba McClane: Who? Who is it?
Francis Dollarhyde: It's me.
Reba McClane: [opens the door] Oh. Francis?
Doctor Hannibal Lecktor: Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight, Will? It appears quite black.
[first lines]
[Francis plays a home video of the family he intends to kill]
Reba McClane: What are you watching?
Francis Dollarhyde: Just a little homework.
Will Graham: Mine? It doesn't affect mine, it affects yours. Go fuck yourself!
[Francis keeps Reba from touching his face]
Francis Dollarhyde: Take my word for it. I'm smiling.
Reba McClane: Hey, I didn't mean to offend you.
Francis Dollarhyde: Do you imply that I'm queer?
Freddy Lounds: God, no.
