A scene from The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Ardelia

Is this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random – like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter."

Clarice

"Desperately random." What does he mean?

Ardelia

Not random at all, maybe. Like there's some pattern here ...?

Clarice

But there is no pattern, or the computers would've nailed it. They're even found in random order.

Ardelia

Random because of the one girl. The one he weighted down.

Clarice

Oh, Fredrica Bimmel, from ... Belvedere, Ohio. First girl taken, third body found. Why?

Ardelia

'Cause she didn't drift. He weighted her down.

Clarice

What did Lecter say about ... "first principles"?

Ardelia

Simplicity ...

Clarice

What does this guy do? He "covets". How do we first start to covet?

Ardelia

"We covet what we see ..."

Clarice

"... every day."

Ardelia

Hot damn, Clarice.

Clarice

He knew her.

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