Hannibal

- I thought it might be the chesapeake ripper, but there

Were no surgical trophies taken. I'm gonna need you to prepare

Yourself on this one. - I'm prepared.

- Yeah, prepare yourself some more. It's soup in there. - Jack gave you his word

He would protect your headspace, yet he leaves you to your mental devices.

- Are you trying to alienate me from jack crawford?

- It's difficult to lie still and fear going to sleep when it's there to think about.

- do you have a history of sleepwalking, mr. Graham?

- My wife and I need to talk. May we use your waiting room?

- Lung cancer. - When were you gonna tell me?

- Do I seem different? - But you've always been a little different.

- It's getting harder and harder to make myself look.

- I'm not gonna tell you what you ought to do.

- I don't know how much longer I can be all that useful to you, jack.

- Really? The last three we had, you caught.

- You can't arrest me for writing an article.

- You don't write another word about will graham and I won't have to.

- This is your final opportunity to comply.

On your feet, dr. Gideon, or we will restrain you.

Alright, lace your fingers behind your head!

Get a gurney!

- Well, thanks to freddie lounds,

There's an unconfirmed story floating out there

That the chesapeake ripper's already in custody.

- Unconfirmed. Am I confirming?

Fact-checking for freddie lounds...

- You're fact-checking for me.

- I always feel a little nervous going into these places.

Why's that?

- Afraid they won't let me out. - Don't worry.

I won't leave you here. - Yeah, not today.

- Dr. Bloom just called me about you,

Mr. Graham--or should I call you dr. Graham?

- I'm not a doctor. - You're not fbi either.

That's a temporary identification.

- Mr. Graham teaches at the academy.

- Ah, a teacher. Please, gentlemen, take a seat.

Thank you.

Dr. Chilton, we're going to need to see

The crime scene while it's still relatively undisturbed.

- I assure you, for something so disturbing, it is quite undisturbed.

- Why was a nurse left alone with a prisoner

In a high-security psychiatric hospital?

- For the two years since he was brought here,

Gideon behaved perfectly

And gave every appearance

Of cooperating with attempts at therapy. As dictated

By our present administrator, security around him was slightly... Relaxed.

I cannot help feeling responsible

Myself for what happened. He sat directly across from me

And I had no idea what he was hiding.

And now one of our staff is dead. - I understand, doctor.

Mr. Graham's going to need to see the crime scene

With as much privacy as you can provide.

Oh, yes, that thing you do.

You're quite the topic of conversation in, uh, psychiatric circles, mr. Graham.

Am I?

- Uh, yes. A unique cocktail

Of personality disorders and neuroses that make you a highly skilled profiler.

- He's not here to be analyzed. - Perhaps he should be.

We are woefully short of material

On your sort of thing, mr. Graham.

Would you mind speaking to some of the staff?

- Doctor. - No, no, no. Not this trip.

Maybe a special visit. - Thank you, dr. Chilton.

I'd like to see the crime scene now.

So, gideon was restrained?

- Handcuffed. - Hm.

- He concealed a fork tine in the palm of his hand

And used it to pick the lock. - Where is he now?

- In his cell. You'll note

The removal of organs and the abdominal mutilations

Are all consistent with the chesapeake ripper.

- So is the brutalization of the corpses, but that doesn't

Change the fact that the ripper is still out there.

- Jack, what I'm about to show you

Suggests otherwise.

- Dr. Chilton consulted on the case when we failed

To catch the ripper after his last series of murders.

The reason you failed

And kept failing to capture the chesapeake ripper...

Was I already had him.

Um...

It's been over two years since the chesapeake ripper killed?

That's correct.

When was gideon admitted?

Almost two years ago.

Lass, miriam regina. Come in.

Morning, agent crawford.

- Sorry to pull you out of class. There's nothing wrong.

Uh, no reason to be nervous.

- I'm not nervous. Curious.

Your instructors tell me

That you are in the top 10%? - Top five, sir.

- You're gonna have to stop correcting me if we're gonna get along, lass.

Take a seat.

You wrote me

A letter when you qualified for the academy.

- I wasn't sure you got it. You never replied.

- Never do. Odds are against any trainee completing the program.

But I'm glad to see you're still here.

In your letter, you said you wanted to work for me

In the violent criminal apprehension program.

- Yes, sir. - There might be an opportunity.

I'm assuming that you're familiar

With the chesapeake ripper. - Yes.

- The ripper's very hot right now. Killed his last two victims in six days. There'll be

At least one more body and then nothing for months.

- They say he's a true sociopath.

What do you say?

- I say they don't know what else to label him.

He has some of the characteristics

Of what they call a sociopath-- no remorse or guilt at all.

He won't have any of the other marks.

He won't be a drifter.

He'll have no history of trouble with the law.

He'll be hard to catch.

- I'm assigning you to the chesapeake ripper task force.

You're gonna work directly under me.

- I'm grateful for the opportunity, agent crawford.

But I can't help wondering... Why me?

- You have a forensics fellowship,

Six years of law enforcement,

A degree in psychology, doctorate in criminology.

And what I don't have are enough warm bodies.

So, I'm gonna need your full attention on this.

(miriam): Yes, sir.

- The volume of abel gideon's mail is becoming a nuisance.

Sometimes I feel like his secretary rather than his keeper.

- Any specific correspondences that stood out from the others?

- Mostly researchers or phd candidates

Requesting interviews. A scattered dozen lonely hearts

Seeking his hand in marriage. - He butchered

His last wife and her family on thanksgiving.

- There's no accounting for taste--or intelligence.

- Murdering his wife was impulsive. The chesapeake ripper

Is methodical, meticulous.

That's why he's so hard to catch.

Was so hard to catch.

Will you be conducting a joint interview?

- Separate. Compare and contrast.

- I know you're anxious to get on with it.

You have talked to gideon before, for some length of time.

- Well, I saw him mainly in court. I wrote an article

About him in the journal of criminal psychology.

- He is very familiar with you.

He has given you a lot of thought.

- You had some sessions with him?

- Yes, two, a couple years ago when he was first institutionalized.

- I've read your notes, of course. They were more or less helpful

As I conducted my own interviews with dr. Gideon over the years.

- Well, I'm glad I was helpful. - (will): More or less.

I'll go first.

Why, dr. Bloom.

How wonderful to see you again.

- You remembered. - I've met a lot

Of psychiatrists in the last two years. It's hard to forget

One so sublime.

- Thank you for your time, dr. Gideon. I won't waste it.

Shall we begin?

- Dr. Bloom, what is this to be?

I was caught red-handed. I mean, literally.

There's no mystery as to whodunit. I did it.

- The mystery is whether you are who you say you are.

Or not. - Never liked being called

The chesapeake ripper.

Maybe something with a little more wit.

- Is that why you didn't take credit for the ripper murders before now?

- Just watching the goose chase from the box seats.

Two years of goose chasing.

You must be a very patient man. - Are you just gonna run

The psychopathic checklist here? I have had my personality

Inventoried by the minnesota multiphasic.

- Would you prefer a rorschach test?

- Well, if you're gonna show me those pictures,

Maybe you should put a blood pressure cuff to my genitals.

I find it gives a much truer gauge of reaction.

- What effect were you hoping to have by killing

The night nurse?

- The effect I was hoping to have was her death.

Mission accomplished.

- Brutalization of the body was done posthumously.

Chesapeake ripper usually

Does that sort of thing during,

Not after.

- I do not have to convince you that I am the chesapeake ripper.

- Seems that's what you need to do.

Certainly what somebody needs.

Jack.

Come in.

I'm sorry. Um...

I was just, uh...

In the neighborhood.

- Yeah, something like that.

How's mrs. Crawford?

- Yeah, that's why I was in the neighborhood.

She's fine.

Well, she tells me that she's fine

And she tells me when she's not.

- You expect me to tell you more?