Convicted

....Those of Us who had been up All-night,

were in No Mood for Coffee and Donuts --

We wanted strong Drink; We were,

after all, the absolute Cream of 

The American Sporting-Press.

MARLON BRANDO as JOR-EL in SUPERMAN: 

THE MOVIE forgets the name of his son.

....The Virtuous spirit 
has no need for Thanks or 
Approval, only the certain Conviction
that What has been Done is right -- 
Develop such Conviction in 
Yourself, El-al... Ralph, or
whatever Your Name is --
....cut! cut! cut! --
 
...We'll just pick 
it up.....

proof

Carl Sagan Responds To Christian 

Grad Student Question About God

"I refuse to prove that I exist,"
Sayeth He, "For proof denies Faith, 

and without Faith,

I am nothing --"

-- What would Happen..?

Killing God : The Assassination of Julius Caesar

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Everest in Easy Stages

Why Did Men Stop Being Ambitious?

Because They totally 

All just STABBED CEASAR.

So, in the... in The Arab-world, 

broadly-speaking, The Arab-world 

produces about as much as Spain --

Okay, well why...?

Well, part of The Reason 

is The Men don't Work --

Why Did Men Stop Being Ambitious?

i saw hypothetically an increased war on male play and interest preferences that made itself manifest I would say with the hyper feminization of the school system And then as well the there there was the communicated insistence that male ambition was toxic that competitive games were bad and that you know to the degree that the patriarchy is a corrupt institution that any sign of that demand for victory let's say a competitive m victory on the male front was actually a sign of psychopathology So I think part of the reason that the boys have been demoralized or h no are are failing to participate is because they've been demoralized and that that's provided them also with an excuse to be irresponsible Look na said you're best punished for your virtues So the conclusion is is if you're going to be punished for being ambitious and goal directed then that's going to be very effective as a punishment but it also gives you every reason to you know to bow out and to be irresponsible So I don't know what you think about that in in combination with the things that you're seeing on the you know the more specifically technological front Yeah Well so the boy's story is different from the girl story and it's a story of checking out of the real world and I draw from this in part on Richard Reeves who's a wonderful book of boys and men He points out that you know boys and men used to dominate the economy and society in many ways Um but beginning in the 70s we get the transition away from physical work and long shoremen and strength and to a service economy Um and we get uh as uh and girls are rising which is great Um but as girls are rising boys are not rising too In some ways they're falling And uh by 1980 I think it is most half of college students were female Now it's 60% are female Um so boys have been kind of checking out of school checking out of the workplace The electronic world the online world's gotten better and better more and more attractive for boys They're spending more time on video games So it is a story of male achievement male motives being kind of hijacked or turned towards trivial pointless pursuits that don't add up to anything Um and so I would agree with you um about the discouragement of of male ego ambition desire to be great uh the subversion of that into just wanting to do you know higher up on a on a video game leaderboard I suppose But you know I'd love to ask you Yeah you know because I've been I I've only really I I only really began turning to the boy story about three three years three or four years ago when I began working on the book You've been talking to young men for a long time now What do what do you see when you look at the Moles among young men I mean part of what you just said about but but just what's your diagnosis about um about what's what's happening to young men Is it depression anxiety Is it hopelessness What what do you see happening

Well a huge part of it fractured demoralization Like one of the things I've really noticed this it's quite the stunning and horrifying thing to see You know I think the biggest impact what I've said on young men has been my drawing of a relationship between meaning adventure and responsibility It's like well and you know you touch on this in your book like one of the things you point out so let let me take a bit of a sideways route here When the big five theorists were laying out the uh semantic webs associated with negative emotion neuroticism --

McCrae um in particular with uh with the Neo Big-Five noticed that self-consciousness and neuroticism were so tightly associated semantically that they were indistinguishable So here's the rule This is the rule and you allude to this If you think about yourself you are going to be anxious and miserable Those are the same thing And you know that when you're possessed by a bout of self-consciousness it's not pleasant Okay So then you might say well what do you do about that And one answer would be well don't focus on yourself But you can't not focus on yourself You have to focus on something else Okay So what do you focus on if you're male Well you focus on responsible service to the future and others Well why Well because that gives you what you described as that slow dopamine kick It's like that's where and that's not happiness It's meaning Those are very different things Happiness is that like hedonistic kick that can be hijacked by the AI machines meaning is s more s less intense but more sustaining Okay So where do you find that And that's simple You find that in the adoption of maximal responsibility That that's burden That's challenge That's play if you do it right That's also the sacrifice that civilization is founded on And one of the things that we might note Jonathan is that the default man is useless 

Right 

So so for example....

I'm going to get myself in Trouble 

here, but I don't really care  --

So, in the... in The Arab-world, 

broadly-speaking, The Arab-world 

produces about as much as Spain --

Okay, well why...?

Well, part of the reason 

is The Men don't Work --

 Now that's not surprising;

What's surprising is,
that any man ever work; 

because Work is difficult 

and it requires sacrifice -- 

And so The Question is, and 

this is the anthropological question, 

the question of Initiation --

How do you socialise and civilise men because the default is going to be trivial hedonism Of course it is because it's easier Of course it's going to be the default The default's always what's simpler and more fragmented 

Well you tell them a story of heroic responsibility and you draw even more importantly you draw a connection between responsibility and adventure you know and so it's so interesting because so many men have reflected this back to me and I literally mean thousands because I've I've said you know what you do is you look for the maximum burden and you note that in service to that you find meaning And so you can do that with truth You can do it with responsibility And the young men will come up to me and they do this daily I would say and say you know 5 years ago I decided I was going to start taking responsibility for myself and tell the truth And like everything's changed in consequence everything And so what what we're do we're doing this bigotry of soft expectations with men And one of the things I got right right off at the beginning was see the mas the male attitude towards younger men isn't the feminine ethos of acceptance So the you could imagine the dynamic in a family is that --

this is a stereotype, but --

I'm going to go with it anyways; 

The Mother says to The Child, 

"You're lovely the way you are." 

And The Father says "You I kind of like you, 

but you could be a lot more." 

And those are good -- Those are really good together, 

you know, because when The Child goes out from the mother he's encouraged let's say by the masculine go out And then when he's exhausted or she's exhausted for that matter she can come back to the mother and be accepted And that's the standard pattern of you know security seeking and then exploration Now what I've been doing with young men is saying to them you could be a lot more than you are And that's it's an insult in a way because means you're not good enough now But it it prioritizes the optimized future self And that's actually hugely advantageous you know And so I think what we're doing that's wrong with young men well and I think we're doing it to young women too in a more subtle manner is not asking not requiring or even demanding nearly enough So they default to trivial hedonism Obviously [Music]

Tonight We Take Care of All Family Business

The Producer :

Forget about the fucking tweet! 

The Anchor :

Look, I get that it's stupid, but it has an effect. 

And we haven't been getting the bounces lately. 

And there's injustice. Living with that much injustice 

from the person who was supposed to represent-- 

He's the one who tells you what The World 

is going to think of you. And if he tells you 

you're bad -- That, forever…..

The Producer :

— Not forever. 

That's my point.

30 seconds. 

The Producer :

30 seconds. If you're thinking on the off chance 

he might die tonight, you can win the last 

frame by sticking it to him-- 

The Anchor :

-- I'm not. 

The Producer :

Then why are you 

talking about justice? 

The Anchor :

— I don't know what to say. 

The Producer :

It's voice mail. "Dad, it's 

Will. I just heard--" 

The Anchor :

…I'll call him in the next break. 

The Producer :

What was the third tweet? 

The first was you blew her 

off and she's a waitress and 

you didn't respond to that. 

And the second was the lost battle 

and you didn't respond to that. 

What was the third? 

The Anchor :

"You just lost 

A Viewer." 

The Producer :

(nods in Disbelief)

 ……she knows what 

she's doing.

*********

We live in a dangerous

time for Freedom.

A time when it takes guts to speak 

out for conservative values.

I'll grant you that it takes guts

to speak out about anything.

But does it take something extra...

It's about five minutes away, and then 

we'll have to cut it down from 4:07.

Okay. Just 20 to 25 

seconds will be cool.

If we can't get it right on time, we can 

always slide it to Ten o’clock.

I want it for us.

We may be squeezed.

Then we're squeezed.

Alright. We'll have it.

...or Mr. Buchanan.

But Rush Limbaugh has the most 

popular show on the radio

and Pat Buchanan won

The New Hampshire primary.

What does someone who wants to speak 

up about conservative values have 

to fear in terms of consequences?

Will, I'm not even sure why 

we're talking about this.

It's because you said it's 

a Dangerous time for 

Freedom —

A time when it takes

guts to speak out

for conservative values, and 

then I took it from there.

Pat Buchanan was fired

from MSNBC.

Do you know why?

I can take a guess.

Well, since you're on Television,

I'd prefer you didn't.

It was absolutely because 

of The Book.

I guess you couldn't

help yourself.

You and I know there's a chapter 

that's misunderstood.

Tess, I'll be back in a second.

Give him a warning at 30 out.

Copy.

People widely misunderstood 

a chapter in Pat's book.

 The chapter --

"The End of White America."

Jesse?

Yeah.

I'm Mac -- Mackenzie McHale, 

The Producer.

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

That's such a News name.

(1940s Perry White-voice)

"Well, you got moxie, kid.

Kill The Lead that was there before

and get me a ham sandwich."

(blank look)

So, let me ask you

a couple of things.

You're The Head of 

The Rutgers Gay-

Straight Alliance?

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

Yes.

The Producer :

Did you know Tyler?

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

No.

The Producer :

Will's gonna ask you about the 

reaction to all this on campus.

You don't have to feel like

you're speaking for everyone,

just your own experience —

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

Obviously I thought 

what Dharun Ravi did

was reprehensible.

He invaded Tyler's privacy

in the worst possible way

and then made it available

for everyone to see.

Do you think Dharun Ravi

is homophobic?

The Producer :

I have no idea. I know 

he's an asshole.

You take the most intimate

moment of someone's Life and 

use it for Entertainment?

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

Right.

The Producer :

.....Right.

A Woman who works for The Post

is mad at Will for a perceived snub

and she's been tweeting about it and 

that's why someone here was looking 

at the #NewsNight Hashtag :

"Watch #Newsnight 8:00 P.M.

My TV debut.

Gonna make some waves.

#Parentspleasedonthateme."

This was you, right?

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

Yeah. Just spreading The Word.

The Producer :

What kind of waves, Jesse?

….are you planning on coming 

out on The Show..?

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

— to my parents.

The Producer :

I'm sorry, you can't.

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

Why?

The Producer :

You just said you can't take 

the most intimate moment

of someone's life and use 

it for Entertainment.

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

But I'm volunteering to Do that.

I signed a release.

The Producer :

You can't do it.

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

If I hadn't told you, you 

wouldn't have known.

The Producer :

If you hadn't tweeted about it

and you hadn't told me,

I wouldn't have known,

but you did and I do.

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

What's wrong with it?

As long as I'm okay with it.

The Producer :

It's just not that kind of Show.

We'll be back after this.

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

What kind of show?

The Producer :

The kind where that 

would happen.

We just went to commercial

and I'll be right back.

We have to talk 

about this, okay?

Jesse, Head of The Rutgers 

Gay-Straight Alliance :

You can't just pretend

I didn't say anything?

The Producer :

No.

The Producer :

She knew what she was doing

when she said you must have

thought she was A Waitress.

People are tweeting?

The Producer :

Mostly women.

Mostly bad stuff?

The Producer :

And Pepper Burke sent 

out another tweet.

During The Show?

I wish they'd wait until after.

Or at least a commercial.

The Producer :

What's going on here?

She tweeted again.

The Producer :

Yeah. And Miles Deaken pulled

my pigtails in kindergarten.

Could I...

The Producer :

What was the second tweet?

"Another battle lost in 

the war on women."

And also on that metaphor.

Did you call his phone?

Yeah, there was no answer.

The Producer :

You left A Message?

I called The Hospital.

The Producer :

You left A Message for him?

Yeah.

The Producer :

Good. It's gonna mean a lot to him —

….You didn't, did you?

No.

The Producer :

Come on, Do it, now.

It's not that simple.

The Producer :

Yes, it is.

After The Show.

The Producer :

I'm saying in addition

you should call now,

his phone, and leave 

A Message.

Start to turn this around.

I think I'm making 

A Mistake not having Neal 

write something 

to this woman.

"It was a pleasure meeting you at lunch.

I'm sorry you felt snubbed."

The Producer :

Yeah, but maybe it 

should be longer.

What else do you want to say?

“I had to hurry back 

to The Office.”

The Producer :

What else?

I don't think any woman with 

a coffee cup is A Waitress.

I don't think women are only 

suited to be waitresses.

The Producer :

Are you sure you want to be

that insulting to Waitresses?

You're right.

The Producer :

Will.

Yeah?

*********

Mackenzie:

Jesse. I'm sorry, I've got 

to bump the segment.

Why? 

Mackenzie:

We screwed up.

We aired a badly edited tape 

of George Zimmerman talking 

to the 911 operator and I need the 

space so we can air the full tape 

at the end of the show.

Is this because I said 

I was coming out?

Mackenzie:

No. 

Because I was gonna 

come out on the air?

Mackenzie:

No. I just told you the reason.

I don't believe you.

Mackenzie:

I guess I'm gonna have to live with that.

People are gonna know about this.

Mackenzie:

140-character public shaming is absolutely in order,

but make sure you blame it on Will and not me 'cause 

Will's The Famous One and you'll want traction.

Why are you acting like such a bitch?

Mackenzie:

(shuts The Door) 

I was gonna lose the segment anyway and 

it was 'cause you were gonna come out.

Jesse :

If it makes you uncomfortable, then 

maybe you should come to our meetings.

Mackenzie:

You want to come out 

on TV, I don't care.

But you can't do it here. 

He's not Maury Povich.

Tyler was robbed of his right to come 

out to the world on his own terms.

Dharun made that decision for him.

I'm doing what Tyler never 

had the chance to do.

I'm taking The Power back.

Mackenzie:

Jesse, you're full of shit.

You want to 

be a D-lister 

and that's it.

You want to get onstage and you want to call him ‘Tyler’

even though you told me you didn't know him

so you can bathe in his reflected tragedy.

Fuck you, Jesse.

That kid killed himself because his privacy was stolen.

Mackenzie:

And you think you're honouring him by tweeting about 

coming out in front of a million and a half strangers?

I'll put up color bars before I'll put 

you in front of our cameras.

…..I thought it was one way to 

tell my parents the news and 

not be there when I did.

Mackenzie:

Well, good luck with that.

Thanks.

Mackenzie:

I saw a video online. 

It gets better.

How would you know?

Mackenzie:

….I guess I wouldn't.

Take it easy.

I've known a few of these guys.

I know this one very well.

Having a relationship 

with An Audience is cool.I get it. 

As long as it doesn't turn serious.

As long as it's hooking up and Home 

before sunrise, then everything's 

fine 'cause... They don't feel 

about you the way 

you want them to.

You were gonna get killed. 

I did you a favour.

Rose

Peter Capaldi Remembers Rose | Doctor Who | BBC

Meeting on The Common

The Weird TARDIS of Wimbledon Common - Doctor Who

Doctor Who in An Exciting 

Adventure with The Daleks --

Chapter One : 

Meeting on The Common.

She's The Second Susan.

She's Anne Chaplet's Cousin; But,

Don't You Think She Looks almost

EXACTLY Like Susan Foreman...?

Burning Man

Burning Man : 

I had estates. Do you remember 

My Father's land back Home? 

Pastures of red grass, stretching far 

across the slopes of Mount Perdition. 

We used to run across those fields all day, 

calling up at the sky. Look at us now.

Perfect-10 : 

All that eloquence. But how 

many people have you killed?

Burning Man : 

I am so hungry.

Perfect-10 : 

Your resurrection went 

wrong. That energy. 

Your body's ripped open. 

Now you're killing yourself.

Burning Man : 

That human Christmas out there. They eat so much. 

All that roasting meat, cakes and red wine. 

Hot, fat, blood, food. Pots, plates of meat, and flesh, 

and grease, and juice, and baking, burnt, 

sticky hot skin. Hot. It's so hot.

Perfect-10 : 

Stop it.

Burning Man : 

Sliced. Sliced. Sliced.

Perfect-10 : 

Stop it.

Burning Man : 

It's mine. It's mine. It's mine 

to eat and eat and eat.

Perfect-10 : 

Stop it. What if I ask you for help? 

There's more at work tonight than you and me.

Burning Man : 

Oh yeah?

Perfect-10 : 

I've been told something is returning.

Burning Man : 

And here I am.

Perfect-10 : 

No, something more.

Burning Man : 

But it hurts.

Perfect-10 : 

I was told the end of time.

Burning Man : 

It hurts. Doctor, the noise. The noise in my head, 

Doctor. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. 

Stronger than ever before. Can't you hear it?

Perfect-10 : 

I'm sorry.

Burning Man : 

Listen, listen, listen, listen. 

Every minute, every second, 

every beat of my hearts, there it is, 

calling to me. Please listen.

(We can hear the four beats of the start 

of the Doctor Who theme being played out 

by an iron bar on an oil drum somewhere.)

Perfect-10 : 

I can't hear it.

Burning Man : 

Listen.

(The Master mind-melds with the Doctor. 

The Doctor hears the beats and pulls away.)

Burning Man : 

What?

Perfect-10 : 

….But —

Burning Man : 

What!

Perfect-10 : 

I heard it. But there's no noise. 

There never has been. It's just your insanity. 

What is it? What's inside your head?

Burning Man : 

It's real. It's real. It's real!

(The Master flies off and 

The Doctor runs after him.)

[Derelict site]

Burning Man : 

All these years, you thought I was mad. 

King of The Wasteland. 

But something is calling me, Doctor. 

What is it? What is it? What is it?

Director

Charlie Rose:

So we talk about artists; filmmaker, innovator, director, storyteller -- 

George Lucas:
Well, A Director is just somebody who's got a fetish 

with making The World to be the way 

he wants it to be, sort of narcissistic. 

Charlie Rose: 
That's you? 

George Lucas:
All directors, they're no different. 

Charlie Rose: 
And you're A Director. 

George Lucas:
Yes. All directors are -- they're vaguely like Emperors, which is I want to build the society to be -- to reflect me and what I want. And the great thing about -- you don't have to kill a lot of people and build a lot of stuff and spend a lot of money if you're a king and want to do that. It's good for society, obviously. 

But A Director can do it with a lot less money and just say 

"I'm going to create a world where people can fly."

Charlie Rose: 
So what do "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" say about the world you want to create? 

George Lucas:
Well, "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" were basically put together -- especially "Star Wars" more than "Indiana Jones" -- "Indiana Jones" was just done for fun to entertain people. And there were some messages in there about archeology and also what we believe in terms of myths and that sort of thing. But the real one is "Star Wars," and that was done in the same vein that what I was saying about the patron creates the propaganda and what I wanted to do was go back to some of the older propaganda, which was consistent through all the societies, which is mythology, but to say what do they all believe? 

Because they were all -- this propaganda 

was created independently. 

Charlie Rose: 
Yes. 

George Lucas:
And what are the things that they all actually believe? We're talking about relationships with your father, relationships with your society, relation to your history, relationships with the gods, all of this stuff is -- it's old. But there are psychological motifs that were created through storytelling, primarily oral storytelling, that explained what they believed in and who they believed in. 

So what I wanted to do is go back and find the psychological motifs that underlined that because those grow out of a popularism and to say that not all but a majority of people -- boys -- have a certain psychological relationship with their fathers. 

And that's been going on through history. 

And trying to explain that, to say we know your darkest secret and, therefore, you're part of us because we all know the same things. 

We know what you're thinking about your mother. 

We know what you think about your brother. 

We know what you think about your father, really. 

And those are the things that make people say, hey, this is why we believe this stuff.

And, again, the crudest part of that in terms of the religious/spiritual thing is some people have taken those ideas and then distorted them. 

And you end up in a cult, where they're using the psychological tools to make you adhere to their society. And part of it is they have to keep it closed. 

Charlie Rose: 
And to them. 

George Lucas:
And to them. But it's the same thing. I mean -- and again, you go through history, you know, and even though in most cases you had open societies, but they really were because you were going to kill the people to go outside the wall. So let's build a wall all around the whole thing so we can defend ourselves. So they were self-fulfilling, isolated human events. 

Charlie Rose:
Because you wear -- have worn all these hats, though -- filmmaker, director, storyteller, writer, a technological innovator -- what do you want the first line of your obituary to say? 

George Lucas:
"I was a great dad." Or, "I tried."

The Brakes

Hannibal Lecter : 

People don't always tell you what they are thinking. 

They just see to it that you don't advance in life.

[last lines] 

Hannibal Lecter : 

As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, 

it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things.

Hannibal Lecter : 

...would they have you back, you think? 

The FBI? Those people you despise 

almost as much as they despise you. 

Would they give you a medal, 

Clarice, do you think?

 

Would you have it professionally-framed 

and hang it on your wall to look at and 

remind you of your courage 

and incorruptibility? 

All you would need for that, 

Clarice, is a mirror.

Lecter : 

Tell me Clarice, Would You ever 

Say to Me, "Stop. If You 

loved Me, You'd stop"?

Clarice : 

Not in a thousand years.

Lecter : 

"Not in a thousand years"... 

That's My Girl.

Allegra Pazzi : 

Dr. Fell, Do you believe a man could become 

so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter?

“Dr. Fell : 

Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her 

and find nourishment in the very sight of her? 

I Think so. 

But would she see through the bars 

of his plight and ache for him?

[Repeated line] 

Hannibal Lecter : Okey-dokey. Here we go.

Mason Verger : Cordell, shoot him! Get the gun and shoot him!

Cordell Doemling : Go into the pen?

Mason Verger : Yes!

Cordell Doemling : No, I'm staying out of this.

Mason Verger : 

You're INVOLVED, 

is What You Are, 

in ALL of it! 

Now DO it!

Cordell Doemling : No.

Mason Verger : YES! 

[Cordell is standing behind Mason's wheelchair on a ledge overlooking the wild boar] 

Lecter  : (turning back to deliver 

a parting shot on his way out The Door —)

Hey, Cordell! Why don't you push him in? 

……You can always say it was me. 

[ He does just exactly that — ]

Hannibal Lecter : Bowels in or bowels out?

Clarice :

 I'll cut you loose. 

If you touch me, 

I'll shoot you.

Lecter : 

Understood.

Clarice : 

Do right, and You’ll 

Live through this.

Lecter : 

Spoken like a 

true Protestant.

Lecter : 

Given the chance, You would 

deny Me my Life, wouldn't you?

Clarice Starling : 

Not Your Life.

Hannibal Lecter : 

Just My Freedom. You'd 

take THAT from me.

Lecter :

 You see, 

The Brain itself feels no Pain if that concerns you, Clarice. 

For example, Paul won't miss this little piece here, 

which is part of the pre-frontal lobe, which they say 

is the seat of Good Manners.

Hannibal Lecter : Paul, remember what I said. If you can't be polite to our guests, you have to sit at the kiddies' table.

[apparently about to cut Starling's 

cuffed hand off with a cleaver] 

Lecter : 

….This is REALLY 

gonna Hurt.

Hannibal Lecter : Okey-dokey, let's drag these down. They must be as heavy as bodies.

Lecter : 

I came halfway around The World 

to Watch You RUN, Clarice. Let Me run, eh?

Hannibal Lecter : Clarice, there's nothing I'd love more in the world than to chat with you. Unfortunately, you've caught me at an awkward moment. Please forgive me.

Hannibal Lecter : "Io fei gibetto de le mei case." I made my own home be my gallows.

Hannibal Lecter : [writing a letter]  Dear Clarice, I have followed with enthusiasm the course of your disgrace and public shaming. My own never bothered me, except for the inconvenience of being incarcerated, but you may lack perspective. In our discussions down in the dungeon, it was apparent to me that your father, the dead night watchman, figures largely in your value system. I think your success in putting an end to Jame Gumb's career as a couturier pleased you most because you could imagine your father being pleased. But now, alas, you're in bad odour with the FBI. Do you imagine your daddy being shamed by your disgrace? Do you see him in his plain pine box crushed by your failure; a sorry, petty end of a promising career? What is worst about this humiliation, Clarice? Is it how your failure will reflect on your mommy and daddy? Is your worst fear that people will now and forever believe they were indeed just good old trailer-camp tornado-bait white trash, and that perhaps you are too? By the way I couldn't help noticing on the FBI's rather dull public website that I have been hoisted from the Bureau's archives of the common criminal and elevated to the more prestigious 10 Most Wanted list. Is this coincidence, or are you back on the case? If so, goody goody, 'cause I need to come out of retirement and return to public life. I imagine you sitting in a dark basement room bent over papers and computer screens. Is that accurate? Please tell me truly, Special Agent Starling. Regards, your old pal, Hannibal Lecter, M.D.

[pause] 

Hannibal Lecter : P.S. Clearly this new assignment is not your choice, rather I suppose it is a part of the bargain, but you accepted it, Clarice. Your job is to craft my doom, so I am not sure how well I should wish you, but I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun. Ta-ta, "H".

Hannibal Lecter : On a related note I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife.

Hannibal Lecter : Now you're being rude, and I hate rude people.

Hannibal Lecter : Are you by any chance trying to trace my whereabouts, you naughty girl?

Hannibal Lecter : Mason Verger doesn't want to kill me any more than I want to kill him. 

He just wants to see me suffer in some unimaginable way. He is rather twisted, you know.

Hannibal Lecter : Clarice, what are you doing up? You should be resting. Get back to bed.

Clarice : Your profile at the border stations has five features. I'll trade you...

Lecter : "Trade"?

Clarice : Stop now and I'll tell you what they are.

Lecter : How does that word taste to you, Clarice? 

Hmm? Cheap and metallic, like sucking on a greasy coin?

[Hannibal and Mason see each other for the first time in years] 

Mason Verger : Hylochoerus Meinertzhageni. Ring any bells from high school biology, doctor? No? Well, I could list its most conspicuous features if that would help jog the memory.

[wheels around the restrained Hannibal] 

Mason Verger : Three pairs of incisors, one pair of elongated canines, three pairs of molars, four pairs of pre-molars, upper and lower, for a total of forty-four teeth.

[stops to face Hannibal] 

Mason Verger : The meal will begin with an hors d'oeuvre tartare: your FEET. The main course - the rest of you - won't be served until seven hours later, but during that time, you'll be able to enjoy the effects of the consumed appetizer with a full-bodied saline drip. I guess you wish now you'd fed the rest of me to the dogs, hmm?

Hannibal Lecter : [perfectly calm]  No, Mason... No, I much prefer you the way you are.

Mason Verger : [holding back anger]  So... dinner at 8.

Hannibal Lecter : What if I did it for you?

Clarice Starling : Did what?

Hannibal Lecter : Harmed them, Clarice. The ones who've harmed you. What if I made them scream apologies? No, I shouldn't even say it because you'll feel - with your perfect grasp on right and wrong - that you were somehow accompli- even though you wouldn't be.

Hannibal Lecter : Do you know what a roller pigeon is, Barney? They climb high and fast, then roll over and fall just as fast toward the earth. There are shallow rollers and deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers, or their young will roll all the way down, hit, and die. Officer Starling is a deep roller, Barney. We should hope one of her parents was not.

Hannibal Lecter : Have you met my friend Mason Verger?

Clarice Starling : Yes

Hannibal Lecter : Face to face, so to speak?

Clarice Starling : Face to face.

Hannibal Lecter : Attractive, isn't he?

Mason Verger : I showed him my toys, my noose set-up, among other things - it's where you sort of hang yourself, but not really. It feels good while you, uh... well, you know. Anyway, he said "Mason,"...

Hannibal Lecter : Mason, would you like a popper?

Mason Verger : And I said, would I! Oh wow! Once that kicked in I was flying... He said "Mason, show me how you smile to gain the confidence of a child." I smiled, and he said "Oh, I see how you do it."

[In flashback, Mason kicks out a full-length mirror] 

Mason Verger : The good doctor approached me with a piece of broken mirror. "Try this,"

Hannibal Lecter : Try peeling off your face...

Mason Verger : "... and feeding it to the dogs."

[In the flashback, Mason does so, still laughing hysterically] 

Hannibal Lecter : No, I can still see it. Try again! No, I'm afraid not...

Mason Verger : That's entertainment!

[dissolve to the present] 

Mason Verger : Ah, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Hannibal Lecter : Good evening, Clarice! Just like old times.

Clarice Starling : Shut up.

Hannibal Lecter : See ya 'round.

Hannibal Lecter : I imagine your little brother must smell almost as bad as you do by now.

Hannibal Lecter : [Prying the knife away from Clarice]  Come on Clarice. No. That's a good girl. Good.

Allegra Pazzi : Are you from America, doctor?

Hannibal Lecter : Not originally. I've traveled there.

Allegra Pazzi : I've always wanted to visit. New England, especially.

Hannibal Lecter : I've enjoyed many excellent meals there.

Hannibal Lecter : Is this Clarice? Why, hello Clarice.

Hannibal Lecter : Are You confused?

Hannibal Lecter : What have you got in your hand, Clarice? Something to bash me over the head with?