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Synopsis: 3 Years after retiring from the FBI because of a near-fatal encounter with Hannibal Lecter, who was helping him catch the "Chesapeake Ripper", only to reveal it was Hannibal himself, Will Graham is asked by his ex-partner Jack Crawford to come solve one last case - 2 slaughtered families every full moon. They have 3 weeks until the next full moon to find the madman, but an innocent blind woman has found him first... Will Graham must risk his family's security and his own safety to track down this one last murderer - the epitome of all evil - The Red Dragon.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Brett Ratner
Production: Universal Pictures
  4 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2002
124 min
$92,930,005
Website
1,990 Views


One day short of a lunar month.

lf we're lucky, we may have

a little over three weeks...

before he does it again.

Will, do you respect

my judgment?

Of course.

l think we have a better chance

to catch him fast if you help.

Go to Atlanta and look.

Just look.

Then help me brief the locals.

That's it.

Crawford has

the whole damn government.

Why does he need you?

He just wants me to look

at some evidence, Molly.

Give him another point of view.

lt's a few days, a week maybe,

and l'll be right back.

-And you believed that?

-Yes.

These kinds of cases

come up very rarely...

and l've had experience.

Yes, you have.

You're paid up, Will.

All of us. Even Josh.

There's a chance l could

help them save some lives.

How do l say no to that?

This one will never see me

or know my name.

l'll just help them find him.

The cops will take him down,

not me.

l'll be in the back of the pack,

Molly, l promise.

Never in your life.

-l know you.

-Come on. Come here.

l love you.

-See you in a few days.

-Okay.

l'll call you tonight.

Bye, Dad!

Leeds House, Atlanta, Ga

Where's the dog?

No one heard barking.

There's nothing about it

in the case file.

The intruder enters in the dark

and cuts Charles Leeds' throat.

He shoots Valerie Leeds in

the stomach as she's rising...

disabling her

but not killing her.

He leaves her

to watch her husband die...

then turns

and goes down the hall.

The children were....

The children were still in bed

when they were shot...

which might indicate

that he used a silencer.

He dragged the bodies into

the master bedroom, but why?

They were already dead

and none of them got the same...

extra attention as Mrs. Leeds.

Small pieces of mirror

were inserted...

in the orbital sockets

of the victims.

This occurred post-mortem.

Why did you put mirrors

in their eyes?

The pieces of mirror are to make

their eyes look alive!

He wanted an audience.

He wanted them all lined up...

watching him

when he touched her.

When he touched her.

Touched. Talcum powder.

There was talcum powder.

''Mrs. Leeds had traces of

talcum on her right inner thigh.

''A complete search

of the home...

''led to no such matching talcum

in the house.''

You took your gloves off,

didn't you? You son of a b*tch!

You took your gloves off, touched her...

with your bare hand

and wiped her down.

But when the gloves were off,

did you open her eyes?

Crawford.

Are the Leeds' bodies

still at the morgue?

Who's good

with latent prints here?

Atlanta P.D.

They've already printed

the bodies.

Not the bodies.

Tell them to check the eyes.

Mrs. Leeds' eyes.

Even her corneas.

l think he took his gloves off.

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Ted Tally

Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter. A graduate of Yale, he has received awards including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the Writers Guild of America Award, the Chicago Film Critics Award, and the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. more…

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