TEXT: (sound muted) (soft ambient pulse) (Sound returns.) (siren in the distance) (sound muted) (soft ambient pulse) (Sound returns.) (insects chirping) (house alarm) Will: I shoot Mr. Marlow twice, severing jugulars and carotids with near-surgical precision. He will die watching me take what is his away from him. This is my design. (house alarm) (woman whimpering frantically) Will: I shoot Mrs. Marlow expertly through the neck. This is not a fatal wound. The bullet misses every artery. She is paralyzed before it leaves her body. Which doesn't mean she can't feel pain. It just means she can't do anything about it. This is my design. (house alarm) (Alarm stops.) (phone ringing on other end) (keypad beeps) Security: This is DDX Security. Who am I speaking with? Will: I need the incident report for the home security company. This was recorded as a false alarm. There was a false alarm last week. He tapped their phone. Yeah. Officer: It's been tapped. Will: He recorded Mrs. Marlow's conversation with the security company. Security: This is DDX Security. Who am I speaking with? Mrs. Marlow's Voice Record: Theresa Marlow. Security: Can you please confirm your password for security purposes? Mrs. Marlow's Voice Record: Tea kettle. Security: Thank you, Mrs. Marlow. We detected a front-door alarm. Mrs. Marlow's Voice Record: Yeah, sorry about that. Security: Is there anyone in the house with you at this time, Mrs. Marlow? Mrs. Marlow's Voice Record: I'm just here with my husband. Security: Do you require any further assistance? Mrs. Marlow's Voice Record: No. Thank you so much for calling. Will: And this is when it gets truly horrifying for Mrs. Marlow. [SCENE_BREAK] Will: Everyone has thought about killing someone, one way or another, be it your own hand or the hand of God. Now think about
SUMMARY:
FBI Special Investigator Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy ), who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers and mentally re-create their crimes with vivid detail, is drawn into the investigation of a series of missing college girls by Special Agent Jack Crawford ( Laurence Fishburne ), who has special interest in Graham's ability. Crawford and Graham interview the parents of the latest girl to go missing, only to discover that her body has been returned to her bedroom. Graham suspects it is an apologetic gesture from the killer. Crawford, by recommendation of Dr. Alana Bloom ( Caroline Dhavernas ), enlists the help of noted psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ), who takes a keen interest in the case and particularly in Graham, in whom he senses a like mind. Another girl, Cassie Boyle, is found, this one mounted on top of a deer's head in an open field with her lungs removed. Graham is convinced it is the work of someone else, a negative, designed to show him the positives of the other crimes. Dr. Lecter is shown preparing himself a meal with human lungs. FBI crime scene investigator Beverly Katz ( Hettienne Park ) finds a shred of metal from a pipe threader on the clothes of the returned girl, which leads Graham and Dr. Lecter to a construction site that employs Garrett Jacob Hobbs, who fits Graham's profile. Dr. Lecter secretly makes a phone call to Hobbs, warning him that "they know". Lecter and Graham arrive at Hobbs's house just as Hobbs kills his wife. Graham shoots Hobbs dead, but not before Hobbs partially cuts his daughter's throat. Later, Graham and Lecter sit with the unconscious girl in her hospital room.