- Wendy Vega: How did you meet Will Graham?
- Jack Crawford: I met him at the opening of the Evil Minds Research Museum. He didn't agree with what we called it. He told me that the title mythologized banal and cruel men who didn't deserve to be thought of as supervillains.
- Wendy Vega: And what was your first impression?
- Jack Crawford: He was intelligent, and arrogant. And very likely on the spectrum.
- Wendy Vega: Which is why he wasn't real FBI. He didn't pass the screening procedures.
- Jack Crawford: Yes.
- Wendy Vega: But you felt that he was qualified to work in the field.
- Jack Crawford: Under my supervision.
- Wendy Vega: And you believed that he was valuable because he could think like a killer.
- Jack Crawford: He could think like anybody.
- Wendy Vega: Sounds like a supervillain. Five horrendous murders, over forty different pieces of forensic and physical evidence that tell us that Will Graham can think like a killer because he is one. Rather than feel tormented by the work he did, Will Graham enjoyed the cover his role at the FBI gave him to commit his terrible crimes.
- Jack Crawford: I don't believe that to be true.
- Wendy Vega: Agent Crawford?
- Jack Crawford: Will hated every second of the work. He hated it. He didn't fake that. He hated it and I kept making him do it.
- Wendy Vega: Why then is it that when you offered him an opportunity to quit, he refused?
- Jack Crawford: Because he was saving lives. I had been warned by more than one person that if I pushed Will, I'd break him. I put those checks and balances in place, then ignored them. And here we are.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: It seems you have an admirer.
- Will Graham: You think someone sent me an ear because they admire me?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: The boundaries of what's considered normal are getting narrower. Outside those boundaries, this may be intended as a helpful gesture.
- Will Graham: How far would you go to help me?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: It hadn't occurred to me to send you an ear.
- Wendy Vega: Is Will Graham an intelligent psychopath?
- Dr. Frederick Chilton: There is not yet a name for whatever Will Graham is.
- Jack Crawford: This murder raises serious doubts about the case against Will Graham.
- Judge Dawes: Your team provided the evidence.
- Kade Prurnell: The overwhelming evidence.
- Jack Crawford: So you understand the significance of my questioning it.
- Leonard Brauer: You are smitten with the accused, Ms. Bloom, and it is adorable but not our brand of defense.
- Kade Prurnell: Who is he to you that makes you want to risk everything for him?
- Jack Crawford: The very cogent reminder of the befalls of having faith in one's fellow man, thank you.
- Kade Prurnell: Jesus, Jack. The trail was supposed to put an end to this. Instead, the circus has just added another ring.
- Jack Crawford: And we're the clowns.
- Kade Prurnell: Who's "we", Jack?
- Jack Crawford: So, it appears that the judge was murdered in his chambers, and then he was hauled out here to be put on display.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Not only is justice blind; It's mindless and heartless.
- Leonard Brauer: Miss Lounds. Could you please remind me how many times you've been sued for libel?
- Freddie Lounds: Six.
- Leonard Brauer: Sorry?
- Freddie Lounds: Six.
- Leonard Brauer: Six. And how many times did you settle?
- Freddie Lounds: Six
- Leonard Brauer: Six... Thank you. Nothing further.