Red Dragon Page #4

Remember? With the tubes

hanging out of me?

Forget that prick.

Give yourself some credit.

When we catch the Tooth Fairy...

that print plus his teeth

will burn him.

You did that, Will.

That evidence was there, Jack.

-lt was there for anyone to see.

-But nobody else did.

All l'm sayin' is,

that was very good work.

No, good work would be seeing it

all the way through...

and catching the guy.

And l can't do that.

l did what you asked me to do.

l'm going home.

l don't even have any idea

who this guy is.

What l just gave them was broad

strokes. He's got no face to me.

That's what you said about

Garrett Hobbs, remember?

-And you figured him out.

-No, l didn't.

-You didn't?

-No, l was stuck on Hobbs.

l had help.

From Lecter.

Yeah.

Jack, don't play games with me.

Don't do it.

Just tell me

what's on your mind.

l'm saying maybe we've got

a resource we should look into.

ls that what this was about?

Did you just want to ask me that

all along?

Don't get mad at me.

l'm just doing my job.

lf you know a better shortcut,

let me know it.

lf you think there's any chance

he'll talk to me...

l'll go myself.

lf you can't handle it,

God knows l'd understand that.

As a research subject, Lecter

has proven most disappointing.

He's simply impenetrable

to psychological testing.

Rorschach,

Thematic Apperception.

He folds them into origami.

As you see.

So you can imagine the stir

your little visit...

is causing among my staff,

Mr. Graham.

lf you'd care

to share some insights--

Dr. Chilton, l'm sorry, l've got

a 4:
17 flight back to Atlanta.

Of course.

Tell me,

when you saw Lecter's murders...

their style, so to speak...

were you able, perhaps,

to reconstruct his fantasies?

And, if so, did you jot down

any impressions?

No.

Let me be frank, Mr. Graham.

The first analysis of Lecter

will be a publisher's wet dream.

l'd give you full credit,

of course.

Damn it, man. You must have

some advice. You caught him.

What was your trick?

l let him kill me.

That's the same atrocious

aftershave you wore in court.

l keep getting it for Christmas.

Christmas, yes.

Did you get my card?

l got it, thank you.

So nice of the Bureau's

crime lab to forward that.

They wouldn't give me

your home address.

Dr. Bloom sent me your article

on surgical addiction...

in the

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry.

And?

Very interesting,

even to a layman.

You say you're a layman.

But it was you who caught me.

Wasn't it, Will?

-Do you know how you did it?

-l got lucky.

l don't think you believe that.

lt's in the transcript.

What does it matter now?

lt doesn't matter to me, Will.

l need your advice, Dr. Lecter.

Birmingham and Atlanta.

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