- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: [to Will] You catch these killers by getting into their heads, but you also let them into your own.
- Will Graham: Guess you dodged a bullet with me.
- Dr. Alana Bloom: I don't feel like I dodged a bullet. I feel wounded.
- Jack Crawford: [to Will] My biggest fear is that we'll learn that you knew what you were doing the whole time.
- Will Graham: You have no traceable motive... which is why you were so hard to see. You were just curious what I would do. Someone like me. Someone who thinks how I think. Wind him up and watch him go. Apparently, Dr Lecter... this is how I go.
- [evidence suggests Will murdered Abigail Hobbs]
- Will Graham: Hi.
- Dr. Alana Bloom: Hi.
- Will Graham: You look flushed. Have you been yelling?
- Dr. Alana Bloom: Screaming is more like it.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Is this who you really are?
- Will Graham: I am who I've always been. The scales have just fallen from my eyes. I can see you now.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: We've existed for 100,000 years. In that time 100 billion human lives have had beginnings and endings.
- Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier: 100,000 lives haven't impacted yours. Clearly Abigail Hobbs' life has and that seems to surprise you.
- Jack Crawford: You know, in my time I've seen people broken by the world. I've seen them broken in all kinds of hideous and offhanded ways but never like this. Never like this. No one in this room will be the same.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Perhaps you didn't come here looking for a killer. Perhaps you came here to find yourself. You killed a man in this very room.
- Will Graham: I stared at Hobbs and the space opposite me assumed the shape of a man filled with dark and swarming flies. And then I scattered them.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: At a time when other men first see and fear their isolation, yours has become understandable to you. You are alone because you are unique.
- Will Graham: I'm as alone as you are.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: If you followed the urges you kept down for so long, cultivated them as the inspirations they are, you'd become someone other than yourself.
- Will Graham: I know who I am. I'm not so sure I know who you are anymore. But I am certain one of us killed Abigail.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I was so confident in my ability to help Will, to solve him...
- Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier: To save him.