jack crawford: you have 14 restraining orders against ex-girlfriends, ex-hairdressers, and ex-coworkers who randomly fell in love with you after seeing you once in the Quantico cafeteria
will graham: where i eat ALONE at a table by the window ALONE
beverly katz: people literally choke on their food around you because they forget how to breathe and chew at the same time
will graham: no one likes me or invites me to social events
beverly katz: you got invited to mark’s retirement party just last week, you ruined three relationships just by walking around the room once, the only thing you told mark was ‘sorry to see you go’ and the poor old bastard offered to leave his wife of 25 years for you
will graham: i sweat like a pig
jimmy price: you glisten like a sea-sprayed statue of a greek god
will graham: i wear hipster lumberjack clothes unironically
brian zeller: your face haunts my dreams
will graham: my students applauded me once for shooting a suspect, it was inappropriate
beverly katz: wanna talk inappropriate, your students once gave you a five-minute standing ovation for drinking from a water bottle
will graham: alana rejected my awkward and fumbling advances
alana bloom: my self-esteem couldn’t handle me not being the pretty one in the relationship
will graham: supermarket tabloids cast aspersions on my character
freddie lounds: how else am i going to justify devoting 8 pages to long-range photos of you playing with your dogs or wandering around your property in your underwear? btw calvin klein’s people called, they’re ready to offer you six figures to model those cute little boxer briefs you favor
will graham: help me jack i am so broken and vulnerable!..
jack crawford: sorry buddy, i’m going to have to talk with my back to you from now on, bella told me not to look at you ever again after i called out your name during our anniversary sex
will graham: WELL FINE SCREW ALL OF YOU I’LL JUST TALK TO THIS SHRINK I AM BEING FORCED TO SEE BECAUSE MY AIR OF MYSTERY, SELF-SACRIFICE, AND LOVE OF RESCUING ABANDONED ANIMALS ARE ALL SO OFF-PUTTING
dr. hannibal lecter: …
dr. hannibal lecter: hello, we literally just met but all i want to do for the rest of my life is cook you delicious meals and fill my mansion with drawings of your face and butt
will graham: …
dr. hannibal lecter: sorry, i don’t think i’m saying this right. my apologies, english is my fifth language.
will: ah ok
dr. hannibal lecter: what i meant to say was, i want to give you all my infinite money and put babies inside you
will graham: fml
For some reason “English is my fifth language” is what made me laugh out loud
Okay I’ve been thinking and where does hannibal get all his money from? Bc being a psychiatrist wouldn’t pay that much like?? Is he just living off his families money?? Is he a hitman? Does he sell his art? What else does he do?!?!
In the books, he’s said to have manipulated some of his wealthy patients to leaving him their estates.
Well he is a count, right? Despite the castle falling into disrepair, he may have had some amount of inheritance, small as it may be. He also spent a good amount of time as a noted trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins, which is a well-established hospital and would come with a decent salary. Combined with his nature in the books and intelligent investment, I think that would set him up nicely for a good amount of money.
In the books, there is no family money left. His parents were killed by the Nazis and the Soviets confiscated the castle and turned it into an orphanage, where Hannibal ended up.
He did then go to his wealthy aunt and uncle in Paris, yes, but then Uncle Robert dies and most the estate goes to death duties.
He basically arrives in America for his studies at Hopkins with the clothes on his back.
Hmm, interesting! I think he could have potentially used his salary in combination with investment and made a solid nest egg. I know the timeline was adjusted for the show, but maybe he could have put money into a successful startup? I know a guy who invested a few grand in bitcoin when it first started and now has millions to spare. Hannibal could have done something similar.
I’m picturing Hannibal getting approached by a bunch of software bros to invest in their startup and it’s making me laugh. So many variations on the faces he makes at Mason.
I don’t see him going that route. For one thing, he likes to present the air of old money. Being seen as someone who got his money via a startup or similar venture would be too nouveau riche.
Also, because of his murderous pastimes, he needs to have his assets be pretty liquid and easy to hide. Same reason why I don’t see him ever being one who focused on creating that 401(k) nest egg. And that’s just too damn frugal. Hannibal is not frugal.
Much easier to persuade some old rich folk to leave him their fortunes. He’s old money, just not his own old money. Probably able to create fake identities to inherit that money, as well, all the better to hide it.
I also like to think of him smirking to himself that it’s a variation on eating the rude. He doesn’t eat them – too tough and stringy, these old folk. Better to eat their inheritance instead.
Rewatching Hannibal and I still find it hilarious how Hannibal in S3 mentions he can’t get over his feelings for Will and his first actual course of action about it is just going
“Will is, ultimately, an inherently good man,” is such an a shallow reading of the character and the narrative that he inhabits.
Worse, in a fundamental way it denies him self-agency.
No one is inherently good or bad. We are the choices that we make.
The choices that Will makes are complicated, because Will is himself, complicated.
He’s neither “good” or “bad.”
He’s good and bad and everything else all at once, all of it tangled up into such a complicated mess that even he himself can’t make sense of it – in fact, he spends a lot of time willfully refusing to understand himself, for fear that he is at his core bad.
"Technically, you killed him." 