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GRAHAM:

Because he has a genuine taste for

it, Jack.

CRAWFORD:

See? You do know something about

him.

GRAHAM:

(long stare at

Crawford; then)

... I'm going to see Lecter.

Crawford's cup of coffee stops in front of his mouth:

CRAWFORD:

For Christ's sake, why?

GRAHAM:

(matter-of-fact)

To recover the mind set.

CUT TO:

INT. HOTEL ROOM - GRAHAM - DAY

In the middle of packing. Then the PHONE RINGS.

MOLLY (V.O.)

Hello, hotshot!

GRAHAM:

Hey, baby! Where are you?

MOLLY (V.O.)

At the store. You doin' some good?

GRAHAM:

None you'd notice. I'm lonely...

MOLLY (V,O.)

Me, too. And very erotic...

GRAHAM:

Tell me about yourself.

MOLLY (V.O.)

Which part? That or the day-to-day.

22.

GRAHAM:

(laughs)

Let's keep it the day-to-day stuff.

(beat)

How's Kevin?

MOLLY (V.O.)

Kevin's fine. He had to recover the

turtle eggs you two fenced in. The

dogs dug them up. Tell me what

you're doing.

GRAHAM:

Eating junk food.

(beat)

They don't have a lock on anything,

Molly. There's not enough

information. Or I haven't done

enough with it...

MOLLY (V.O.)

Will you be in Atlanta for a while?

I'm not buggin' you about coming

home, I just wondered.

GRAHAM:

Z don't know. I'm goin' up to

Baltimore this afternoon.

MOLLY (V.O.)

To do what?

GRAHAM:

I have to see somebody.

There is a silence. Graham does not want to tell her that

he is going to see Lecter. Molly stays cool, she doesn't

pursue it.

MOLLY (V.O.)

I'm thinking about painting the

kitchen. What color do you like,

Will? Are you there?

GRAHAM:

(coming back)

Yeah. Ah... yellow, let's paint it

yellow.

MOLLY (V.O.)

Yellow's a bad color for me. I'LL

look green at breakfast.

GRAHAM:

Blue, then.

MOLLY (V.O.)

Blue is cold.

23.

GRAHAM:

Hey, goddamn it, paint it sh*t-

brown for all I care...

(beat)

Look, I'm sorry. When I come home,

we'll go to the paint store together

and get some chips and...

Molly interrupts:

MOLLY (V.O.)

Will, I don't know why I'm talking

about this stuff...

(beat)

I called to tell you: I love you

and I miss you. And you are doing

the right thing. It's costing

you, too. And I know that. And

I'm here. I'LL be here whenever

you come home. Or I'LL meet you

anywhere. Anytime. That's what I

called to say...

Graham holds the phone close to him. As if it were a part of

Molly herself.

GRAHAM:

Molly, dear Molly. Go to bed now,

baby. ..

MOLLY (V.O.)

GRAHAM:

I love you...

WIDE SHOT:
GRAHAM

slowly hangs up the phone. He sits, round-shouldered, on

the bed. All over the room are clothes out of drawers and

closets, videotapes and files: the mess of being only half-

packed.

CUT TO:

INT. CHESAPEAKE STATE HOSPITAL FOR CRIMINALLY INSANE

DR. CHILTON - DAY

DR. CHILTON

Dr. Bloom called me yesterday, Mr.

Graham. Or should I call you Dr.

Graham?

GRAHAM (O.S.)

I'm not a doctor.

(beat)

I need to see Lecter in as much

privacy as possible.

24.

TWO SHOT:

Graham sits in front of his desk in a chair. He appears

repressed, clamped down. Dr. Chilton is a sincere Chief of

Staff, but not gifted.

DR. CHILTON

Dr. Lecter will stay in his room.

That is absolutely the only place

where he is not put in full body

restraints. One wall of his room

is a double barrier. I will have

a chair put just outside.

GRAHAM:

I might have to show him some

material that could stimulate him.

DR. CHILTON

As long as it's on soft paper.

You may(Pause) find this curious.

He pulls an EKG tape from a drawer and points to the

spiky lines.

DR. CHILTON

Here Lecter's resting on the

examining table getting an

electrocardiogram. Complained of

chest pains. Pulse seventy-two.

Here he grabs the nurse's head and

pulls her down to him. Here he's

subdued by the attendant and

Lecter's shoulder is dislocated.

Do you notice the strange thing?

(pause)

His pulse never got over eighty-

five. Even when he tore into her

face.

Dr. Chilton looks over at Graham, perhaps expecting a.

response. There is nothing to read in Graham's face. It is

a blank.

DR. CHILTON

The consensus around here is that

the only person who has demonstrated

any practical understanding of Dr.

Hannibal Lecter is you, Mr. Graham.

Can you tell me anything about him?

GRAHAM:

No.

25 .

DR. CHILTON

When you saw Dr. Lecktor's murders,

their 'style,' so to speak, were you

able to reconstruct his fantasies?

And did that help you identify him?

DR. CHILTON

looks at Graham. Dr. Chilton has seen a lot of hostility.

Right now he's seeing some more.

GRAHAM:

(stands)

I want to see Lecktor now.

DR. CHILTON

Uh... sure...

INT. MAXIMUM SECURITY SECTION - DOOR - DAY

We hear three locks opening. The door opens. Graham enters.

An attendant behind Graham closes the door and we hear the

bolts lock again. As Graham is walking towards us, we WIDEN

and TRACK IN. It makes the b.g. disorienting as we get closer

to Graham's face. The CAMERA DROPS as Graham sits in a single

chair. We haven't yet seen what Graham looks at. Now:

GRAHAM'S POV:
BARRED CELL

A 6x10 cage. In the center of the bars separating Graham

from the Occupant is a three-foot-square perspex sheet. The

occupant can't get at someone sitting in front of him. In

the perspex square is a letter -- passing drawer. In the

cell -- laying on his bunk -- is DR. HANNIBAL LECKTOR. He

appears to be asleep. His back is to Graham. He has not

stirred. Then:

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