VERGER

MASON VERGER :

 Cordell, to you, does that look like a wave 

‘Goodbye’, or ‘Hello’? 

So, What Do You Think? 

Does Lecter wanna fuck her, 

or kill her, or eat her, or what? 

CORDELL: 

Probably all three, 

though I wouldn't wanna predict in what order. 

[VERGER CHUCKLES] 

VERGER :

Here's What I Think — 

No matter how Barney might wanna romanticise it, 

or make it 

"Beauty and the Beast" -- 

Lecter's Object, 

as I know from personal experience, has always been 

degradation and suffering. 

Yes, but She is A Policeman —

You are a Pig.

As was Richard of Gloucester —Swine.

She’s a bold and plucky chaste and righteous  champion-protector of The Weak and defender of The Innocent —

You’re a cruel and boastful sado-masochistic  billionaire pervert and Rapist of Children —

Mason Verger doesn’t seem to understand how that makes the two of them any different as people in Lecter’s eyes...

Cordell, get this damn thing off me, 

I can't breathe in this thing. 

He comes in 

The Guise of A Mentor, 

as he did with me, and her, 

but it's distress that excites him. 

To draw him, she needs to be distressed. 

To make her attractive to him, 

let him see her distressed. 

Let The Damage He Sees suggest 

The Damage He Could Do. 

[ No, that’s not him, that’s you. ]

[SMACKING LIPS] 

[SLURPS] 

When The Fox hears The Rabbit scream, 

he comes a-running —

But not to help. 

KRENDLER: 

I don't understand. 

VERGER OVER PHONE: 

Well, there's nothing to understand, Paul. 

All you have to understand is 

What it's Worth to You. 

KRENDLER: 

No, no. 

I don't understand why she didn't turn this over. 

I mean, she's such a Straight Arrow. 

VERGER :

She didn't turn it over, 

Because she didn't receive it. 

She didn't receive it, 

Because it was never sent. 

It was never sent, 

Because Lecter didn't write it. 

He didn't write it, 

Because I did. 

KRENDLER: 

Oh! 

[LAUGHING]

VERGER :

So, what do you think? 

KRENDLER: 

I think you'd have been better off 

if you never got her out of Trouble in the first place. 

VERGER :

Oh, woulda, shoulda, coulda. 

I meant what do you think about The Money? 

KRENDLER: 

....Five. 

[LAUGHS] 

VERGER :

Oh, let's just toss it off, like, 

"Five." 

Let's Say it with 

The Respect it Deserves. 

KRENDLER: 

[ENUNCIATING] 

$500,000. 

VERGER :

That's better, but not much.

And will it work?

KRENDLER: 

It'll work.

It won't be pretty.

VERGER :

What ever is?

 

[CHUCKLES]

[DIAL TONE DRONING] 

Cocksucker