Through the Eyes of Dr. Hannibal Lecter

When I look into your eyes, I can see a love restrained...

Darling, when I hold you, don't you know I feel the same...?

Nothing lasts forever, and we both know hearts can change...

And it's hard to hold a candle...in the cold November Rain...

Dr. Hannibal Lecter, like all of us, is a creature of habit. A connoisseur of fine wines, gourmet food, and beautiful music, his is a pursuit of all things sensual. Boasting an intellect that would knock the Mensa collective on its' ass, and intolerant of pettiness and stupidity, he can lay bare your deepest emotions with but a glance. Cross him and he'll verbally tear you to shreds...that is, if he doesn't decide to field-dress you and stick you in his fridge.

However, like all creatures of habit, he is capable of the purest, most feared, and most wonderful emotion of all...love.

Love for intellectual pursuits, love for a good challenge, love for his escapes from everyday life. There are many rooms in his memory palace, filled with images from his past...and his future.

In this future, he sees the one person he has loved above all others, even the family he so tragically lost as a boy...

Clarice Starling.

He has never forgotten the day they met, nor has he forgotten their meetings in Baltimore and Memphis. Like all the others, he stripped away her emotional defenses and challenged her to face her darkest fears. But she is unlike all the others...

She conned him, under orders from Jack Crawford, to give her the psychological profile on serial killer Jame Gumb, and naturally her lie upset him. But he was able to do the one thing he had never done with anyone else...he forgave her and spared her life. After all, she kept her end of the "quid pro quo," and was only doing her job. If anyone else had lied, he'd have given them the same treatment he gave Pembry and Boyle...

But he spared Clarice. His love for her was already obvious...and in the forthcoming Hannibal, it finally roars to the surface.

I see my future when I look in your eyes

It took your love to make my heart come alive

I lived my life believing all love was blind

But everything about you is telling me this time...

It's forever...

This time I know it

There's no doubt in my mind

Forever...

Until my life is through

Girl, I'll be lovin' you

Forever...

Lyrics taken from November Rain by Guns 'N Roses, and Forever by KISS.

Continuing the Journey...