“By the way I couldn't help noticing on the FBI's rather dull public...” – Hannibal Lecter, Hannibal ... Movie Quotes Database

A scene from Hannibal 2001

[in a letter to Clarice Starling]

By the way I couldn't help noticing on the FBI's rather dull public website that I have been hoisted from the Bureau's archives of the common criminal and elevated to the more prestigious 10 Most Wanted list. Is this coincidence, or are you back on the case? If so, goody goody, cause I need to come out of retirement and return to public life.

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