Hannibal (2013–2015): Season 3, Episode 12 - The Number of the Beast Is 666 - full transcript

- Previously on Hannibal...
- I can't be with you.

- You are becoming. The dragon
is your higher self.

- There's a family out there
who don't know he's coming.

- They're not my family.

And I am not letting them die.
You are.

- What'd you say to him?
- Save yourself. Kill them all.

Then I gave him
your home address.

How's the wife?

(drums and eerie music)

- I look at my wife

and I see her dead.



I see Mrs. Leeds and Mrs. Jacobi

lying where Molly should be.

- Do you see yourself
killing her?

- Yes.

Over and over.

- It's hard to predict

when brittle materials
will break.

Hannibal gave you three years

to build a family,

confident that
he would find a way

to take them from you.

- And he has.

What's he going
to take from you?

- Is it important to you



that he take something from me?

- Hannibal has agency

in the world.

- Hannibal has no intention

of seeing me dead

by any other hand than his own,

and only then

if he can eat me.

He's in no position

to eat me now.

- If you play,

you pay.

- You have paid dearly.

It excites him to know

that you are marked

in this particular way.
- Why?

- Why do you think?
(scoffing)

- Bluebeard's wife. Secrets

you're not to know,
yet sworn to keep.

- If I'm to be Bluebeard's wife,

I would have preferred
to be the last.

- Is Hannibal

in love with me?

- Could he daily feel a stab

of hunger for you

and find nourishment

at the very sight of you?

Yes.

But do you

ache for him?

- Will's thoughts are no more
bound by fear or kindness

than Milton's were by physics.

He is both free and damned
to imagine anything.

- Now that he's imagined
the worst.

- Like ducklings, we imprint

on those ideas that
grab our attention.

- What's got
your attention, Doctor?

God, the Devil
and the Great Red Dragon?

- Lest we forget the Lamb.

- Will

is the Lamb of God?

- Hide us from the wrath
of the Lamb.

- Who's "us"?

- You, me

and the Great Red Dragon.

The Lamb's wrath touches
everyone who errs.

His retribution
is even more deadly

than the Dragon's.

- It is for you.

- The seals
are being opened, Jack.

The lamb is becoming a lion.

"For the great day of his wrath

is come; and who
shall be able to stand?"

- I'll still be standing.

- Is your conscience clear?

- As clear as yours.

- Righteousness is what

you and Will have in common.

"In righteousness the Lamb

doth judge and make war."

War against
the Great Red Dragon.

- He's not the Dragon, you are.

The Devil himself

bound in the pit.

- Then that makes you God, Jack.

- Yes it does.

- All gods demand sacrifices.

(paper ripping)
(hissing)

(screeching strings)

(theme music)

- We don't have anything else?

- Eight people dead in a month.
We can't play the long game.

You know and I know it's the
best way to bait him.

- Got me on the hook,
now you're dangling me

to catch a bigger fish.
- It was your suggestion.

- And you're thrilled you didn't
have to make it.

- You once fooled yourselves
into believing

you were in control
of what was happening.

Are you still under
that delusion?

- The Dragon has a certain

abstract curiosity about me.

All psychopaths
are narcissists. They love

to read about themselves.
If you were smart, Jack,

you would use Freddie Lounds.
- She will need

to interview you, Will.
Take your picture.

- I'm in it now. Can't go home
as long as he's loose.

So, I really bad-mouth

the Red Dragon in TattleCrime.

Give him a shot at me.

- It's got to be
a really good shot.

What about the setup?

- Something open. Some place
where he can get close to me.

- It'd feel like a trap to me.

And it'll feel
like a trap to him.

Unless you have
a professional voice

who will legitimize
what you're saying.

- Someone to hide
the wire on the snare.

Are you volunteering?

- No.

I'd have to be a fool.

- Since your commitment,

you have written some brilliant
articles for The Northern

Medical Journal of Psychiatry.

- Thank you, Frederick.

- I just finished
your most recent piece.

Extraordinary stuff.

- A particularly good one.
- It may be my favorite.

I have seen a lot of hostility.

But this
was quantifiably bitchy.

Do you think I am your nemesis?

- No. Nemesis? No.

- You refuted my entire book.
- It didn't hold up to scrutiny.

- Of course it didn't.
I was lying.

On your behalf.

To save your life.

You refuted
your insanity defense.

I went out on a limb for you

and you climbed up there
and sawed it off.

- "Wood burns because it has the
proper stuff in it;

and a man becomes famous because

he has the proper stuff in him."

You don't have
the proper stuff, Frederick.

- I am a best-selling author.

The journals only

still publish your writing

for the freak value

of your byline.

The attention given
to you is dwindling

since you have been overshadowed
by another creature.

That book is writing itself.

I think I'll call it
The Dragon Slayer.

All I need is the ending.

- Fate has a habit
of not letting us choose our own

endings, Frederick.

- This is the ending fate
has chosen for you.

Your teeth will go
and your strength.

Nobody will be afraid
of you anymore.

After Dr. Bloom's reign,

you will be out in the ward.

The young ones
will push you around

and use you for sex.

All you'll get to read
is what you write on the wall.

You have seen the old ones.

They cry

when they do not like

the stewed apricots.

Oh,

I'm just going to leave
an extra copy

of my book right over here.
- Thank you, Frederick.

- I've personalized it for you.

Are you here to remonstrate me
with "I told you so" s?

- That's not why I'm here.

- She's here because
we need someone

who is less concerned
about the truth

than the best story.

So, Dr. Chilton, you just lay
out your theories. Will will

aggravate them for the record.
- You're making statements

no investigator would ever make
and no straight newspaper
would credit.

- You're not a straight
newspaper. You sell T-shirts

that say, "The Tooth Fairy
is a One-Night Stand."

- I can get you one, if you
like. You a small or a medium?

Small, I bet. They aren't
selling so well since

you started calling him
"The Dragon."

- The killer's objection
to the name "The Tooth Fairy"

is likely grounded
in the homosexual

implication of the word "fairy."

Tedious, I know, but if
you really want to piss him off,

that's what you should call him.

- Very well. Tooth Fairy it is.

- The Tooth Fairy's actions
indicate a projective delusion

compensating for intolerable
feelings of inadequacy.

Smashing mirrors ties these
feelings to his appearance.

- And not only
is the Tooth Fairy insane,

he is ugly and impotent.

- There's a strong bonding

of aggressive and sexual drives
that occurs in sadists at
an early age.

- He's a vicious, perverted,
sexual failure.

An animal.

- The savage acts aimed
primarily at the women

and performed
in the presence of families

are clearly strikes
at a maternal figure.

- The Tooth Fairy is the product
of an incestuous home.

- This is the child
of a nightmare.

- Will, I think we need
a key shot of you

here in your
"Washington hideaway."

- I'd love something
of you in a bathrobe

sitting at a desk,
poring over this

artist's conception
of the Fairy. Hmm?

- I'll stand by the window.
And make sure you can see the
fountain and the Capitol dome.

Red Dragon will need to be able
to find this place,

if he wants to.

Frederick, would you like
to be in the photograph?

- One for the dust jacket.

- (whispered): Let's see, up.

And... yeah.

(tinkling bells)

This whole procedure
is way too passive for my taste.

We are playing games
in the dark of the moon.

- He thinks he can do anything.
Maybe he thinks he can stop.

If he can hold off
until we catch him, maybe
we can help him make it stop.

- He almost killed
your wife and son.

- Hannibal almost killed them.

- Alright. Pedestrian traffic
falls off around 7:15.

You should go for a walk,
say 8:30 or so.

He'll have to cross
open ground to get close.

- He'll want to get close.
- I've got snipers

with night-vision on the roofs.
You'll be wearing

body armour.
- 7 out of 11 times,

he's gone
for the headshot, Jack.

- Yeah...

(ding)
- That's absurd.

That's not what
I said at all. Dr. Lecter

gave misleading answers
in my interviews.

I will refute his refutations

in my new book, Blood
and Chocolate. Supermarket

tabloids love Hannibal Lecter
more than alien abductions.

That is his demographic now.

We know who his fans are.

Oh!

(gasping)

- Would you like a blanket?

I'll get you a blanket.

- Oh, my back hurts.

Oh, my skin.

Did I get burned?
Did I, did I get burned?

I hope, dear God,
I am not burned.

- Burned?

Burned.

Burned.

No.

You just rest there.

- What am I doing here?

- Atoning,

Dr. Chilton.

(chair creaking)

(exhale)
- I have not

seen your face.

I could not,
I could not identify you.

I do not know

what you look like.

- Do you know

who I am?

- No. No. I do not want to know,

believe me.

- According to you,

I'm a vicious,

perverted

sexual failure.

An animal.

You know now, don't you?

- Yes.

- Why did you lie, Dr. Chilton?

(whining)

Do you

understand what I'm doing?

- No. No!

But I think

I have an opportunity
to understand.

Then all my readers

could understand, too.

- Do you feel privileged?

- It is a privilege, but...

I have to tell you I am scared.

Man to man,

I am scared.

And it is...

It is very hard to...

Uh, to concentrate
when you are scared.

If you have got a great idea,

you do not need to scare me

for me to be impressed. OK?

- "Man...
(gasp)

to man."

You use that phrase
to imply frankness.

But you see,

I am not a man.

I have become

Other

and more than a man.

Do you think

God is in attendance here?

Are you

praying to him now?

(grunting)

- We pray to God

mostly when we are scared.

- And does God

help you?

- No.

I don't know. I don't know.
I do not know.

I do, I do... I ought...

I do not think about it after.
I ought to.

- You ought to.
- I ought, I ought to.

- There are so many things

that you ought to understand.

And in a little while,

I will help you understand.

- No, I do not want
to see your face!

- When you turn around,
you will open your eyes

and look at me,

or I will staple your eyelids

to your forehead.

(doorbell rings)

If you make a sound,

I will kill her.

- I don't like surprises.

I bet you don't, either.

I tried to call you.

May I come in?

I won't be long.

I asked my taxi to wait.

How are you feeling?

- OK.

- Your office said
you were sick.
- The flu.

You shouldn't be here.

- I brought you soup.

I...

I didn't come

just to give you soup, D.

I guess I'm guilty
of liking you.

Demonstrably guilty.

And I know you like me, too.

- I do.

- I've learned that withdrawal
can be a strategy to avoid pain.

I have a deep vein

of cripple's anger in me;

while I can't get rid of it,

I've made it work for me.

It's fueled my independence.

I'm not so scarred by life

that I'm incapable of love.

I hope you aren't, either.

Enjoy the soup.

- Do you want to know

what I am?

- More than anything.
I was afraid to ask.

- Look.

- Do you see now?
- Yes.

- Do you see?
- Yes.

- Do you see?

- Do you see?
- Yes.

- Do you see?
- Yes.

(strangled sound)
- Do you

see?
- Yes.

- Do. You. See?

- GOD!

- Do you see?

- Please no.
- No what?

- Not me.
- Are you going to tell
more lies about me, Dr. Chilton?

- Oh no, no, no, no, no.
- Why did you tell lies,

Dr. Chilton?
- No, it was the police

told me to.
They, they, they said it.

- You quote Will Graham.

- Graham told the lies.

Graham.

- Will you tell the truth now?
About me.

About my work. My...

Becoming.

My art.

Dr. Chilton,

is

This

art?

- Art.

- You said

that I, who see

more than you, am insane.

I, who have pushed the world

so much further than you,

are insane.

I have dared more than you.

I am the Dragon

and you call me insane?

(whispered): Before me,

you are

a slug in the sun.

You are privy
to a great Becoming

and you recognize nothing.

It is in your nature

to do one thing correctly

and before me you tremble.

Fear is not

what you owe me.

You owe me awe.

For your journey home.

Ice,

we'll need that.

Before we go,

I think we should tape

for a little while.

Look straight down the lens.

Repeat after me.

That's all,

Dr. Chilton.

You did very well.
- You will let me go now?

- I will.

Although

there is one way

that I can help you
better understand

and remember.

- I want to understand.

And I've got a very good memory.

(gibberish)

(hissing)

(continuous screaming)

(piano music)

- Hand delivered.

May I open it privately?

- You may not.

- Dr. Chilton often offended me,

so I certainly understand
the sentiment.

- Where's the other one?

- This one can provide you
anything the other one can.

I'm sorry, Jack. The tragedy
of what's happened

to Frederick has put me
in an excellent humour.

- Dr. Chilton
disappeared yesterday,

under armed escort.
- You pretended to burn

Freddie Lounds in a wheelchair
to flush me out.

What were you pretending
to do with Frederick Chilton?

- He profiled the Dragon.

For Freddie Lounds.

- We wanted to enrage him.

- Congratulations.

You could've provided
anything Dr. Chilton could.

That would've been
your lip I was tasting.

Again.

- You publicly discredited
Dr. Chilton.

By refuting him,

you orchestrated
his end by proxy.

- You orchestrated
his end, Alana.

You saw the hole
and let him roll

right into it.
That's professional discourtesy.

- I have had a great privilege.

I have seen with wonder and awe

the strength
of the Great Red Dragon.

All that I said

was lies from Will Graham.

I have blasphemed
against the Dragon.

Even so,

the Dragon is merciful.

Because I was forced to lie,

he will be more merciful to me

than to you, Will Graham.

Reach behind you and feel

the small knobs

on the top of your pelvis.

Feel your spine between them;

that is the precise spot

where the Dragon
will snap your spine.

There is much for you to dread.

From my own lips,

you will learn
a little more to dread.

(muffled, continuous screaming)

- Would you like to talk about

what happened
with Frederick Chilton?

- The divine punishment

of a sinner

mirrors the sin being punished.

- Contrapasso. You play,

you pay.

- Chilton languished
unrecognized

until "Hannibal the Cannibal."

He wanted the world
to know his face.

- And now he doesn't have one.

- (whispered):
Damned if I will feel.

- We are all making our way

through the Inferno.

Dante's pilgrims.
- No,

we're not pilgrims. We're pets.

And the Great Red Dragon
kills pets first.

- You put your hand
on Dr. Chilton's shoulder

in the photograph.

Touch gives the world

an emotional context.

The touch of others

makes us who we are.

It builds trust.

- I put my hand on his shoulder
for authenticity.

- To establish

that he really told you
those insults

about the Dragon?

Or maybe you wanted

to put Dr. Chilton at risk?

Just a little?

- (whispered): I wonder.

- Do you have to wonder?

- No.

- What did you think
the Great Red Dragon would do?

You were curious what would
happen, that's apparent.

Is this what you were expecting?

- I can't say I'm surprised.

- Then you may as well

have struck the match.

That's

participation.

Hannibal Lecter

does have agency in the world.

He has you.

(escalating strings)

(inaudible)

- He did Chilton like it looked
like you did Freddie Lounds.

Hannibal said he would.
In his own way.

- Hannibal told him to.

- You OK?
- I'm OK.

I had the SWAT team.

- Chilton said your name when
they brought him into the E.R.

He's trashed.

You oughta get ready for this.

(sigh)

- Frederick, it's Will Graham.

I'm sorry this happened to you.

- You set ne uh.

You knew it.

You set ne uh.

You tut your hand on ne

in the ticture,

like a tet.

- Can you understand
what he's saying?

- He said,

"You set me up.

You knew it.
You put your hand on me

in the picture, like a pet."

(deep breath)

Did you see anything?

- A 'lack

woman...

and she was 'lind...

- "A black woman. She's blind."

- Reba.

The Dragon said her name
when he called Lecter.

- Not much longer now.

(door opening and closing)

(whimpering)

(continuous ticking)

(whimpering)

If I untie you

and let you sit up,

will you be good?

- I, I...
(gulping)

I didn't know you cared
this much about me.

I'm glad you feel that way,
but you scared me with this.

I never hurt you.

I never wanted to.

Let's just be friends

and have a good time
and forget about this...

- Shut up.

I'm going to tell you something.

The most important thing

that you will ever hear.

Sermon-on-the-Mount important.
Ten Commandments important.

Got it?
- Yes, D. I don't...

- Shut up.

Some remarkable events

have happened
in Chicago and Buffalo.

Do you know
what I'm talking about?

- No.

- It's been on the news a lot.

Two groups of people

were changed.

Leeds. And Jacobi.

The police think
that they were murdered.

Do you know now?

Do you know

what they call the... the Being

that visited those people?

- The Tooth Fai...
- Think.

(gasp)
Answer

correctly.
- (whispered): It's, uh...

Dragon something.

Dragon... Red Dragon.

- I am

the Dragon.

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