- Bella Crawford: Would I be a terrible guest if I skipped this course?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Too rich?
- Bella Crawford: Too cruel.
- Jack Crawford: Phylis.
- Bella Crawford: Jack.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: First and worst sign of sociopathic behavior: cruelty to animals.
- Jack Crawford: Well, that doesn't apply in the kitchen.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I have no taste for animal cruelty, which is why I employ an ethical butcher.
- Bella Crawford: An ethical butcher? Be kind to animals and then eat them?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I'm afraid I insist on it. No need for unnecessary suffering. Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
- Will Graham: Did you just smell me?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Difficult to avoid. I really must introduce you to a finer aftershave. That smells like something with a ship on the bottle.
- Will Graham: Well, I keep getting it for Christmas.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: You entered into a devil's bargain with Jack Crawford. It takes a toll.
- Will Graham: No, Jack isn't the devil.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: When it comes to how far he's willing to push you to get what he wants, he's certainly no saint.
- Will Graham: I'm sorry it's so early.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Never apologize for coming to me. Office hours are for patients. My kitchen is always open to friends.
- Beverly Katz: "Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws."
- Brian Zeller: Robert Frost.
- Will Graham: Jim Morrison.
- Beverly Katz: Even a drunk with a flair for the dramatic can convince himself he's God. Or the Lizard King.
- Jimmy Price: God makes angels. Jesus was fond of fishermen. Are we talking hardcore Judeo Christian upsetting, or just upsetting in general?
- Will Graham: This is a very specific upsetting.
- Brian Zeller: Increased serotonin in the wounds is much higher than the free histamines, so, uh... she lived for about fifteen minutes after she was skinned.
- Jimmy Price: Powder residue on the neck of the soda bottle shows Vecuronium - scotch and soda and a paralytic agent.
- Brian Zeller: Kneeling in supplication at the feet of G-dash-D.
- Jimmy Price: Supplication is the most common form of prayer. "Gimme, gimme, gimme."
- Will Graham: They weren't praying to him. They were praying for him. He's afraid.
- Beverly Katz: What is somebody who could do something like this afraid of?
- Will Graham: What's in his vomit?
- Jimmy Price: Uh... dexamethosone...
- Brian Zeller: That's used for patients with tumors.
- Jimmy Price: ...Keppra...
- Brian Zeller: He was epileptic. Radiation?
- Jimmy Price: Gamma four.
- Brian Zeller: Steroids for the inflammation, anticonvulsants for the seizures, radiation for the chemotherapy. Our guy has a brain tumor.
- Will Graham: He's afraid of dying in his sleep. He's making angels to watch over him.
- Bella Crawford: I am slowly shrinking, while this tiny thing grows larger every day. And yet I feel fine.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: You will feel fine up until the precise moment you don't.
- Bella Crawford: It's a really very dull story, though, isn't it? The ending is always the same, and that same is that it ends.
- Jack Crawford: There are no jurisdictional rivalries here. The local police begged us to take this. Where's your head?
- Will Graham: It's on my pillow. I didn't sleep.
- Jack Crawford: Got just the thing to wake you up.
- [Will and Jack enter the grisly crime scene]
- Will Graham: Okay, I'm awake.
- Elliot Buddish: I see what you are.
- Will Graham: What do you see?
- Elliot Buddish: Your inside. I can bring it out of you.
- Will Graham: Not all the way out.
- Elliot Buddish: I can give you the majesty of your becoming.
- Beverly Katz: I don't know if is was the good night's sleep, but he slept here. Hair on the pillow and the sheets are still damp. He's a sweater.
- Will Graham: Madness slept here last night