HANNIBAL
What type is Hannibal?
Tall in his six feet five inches of height, elegant in his posh suits that would look ostentatious on anyone but him, charismatic in his movements and timid smiles, intelligent in his low accented voice and, beyond a reasonable doubt, a cannibal.
Will Graham had been avoiding it for quite sometime, telling himself that it was all just a slip of the tongue, a coincidence, a trick of the light, that his conclusions were just the result of a bad turn somewhere along the road.
How could Dr Lector – no, Hannibal – be the Chesapeake Ripper?
How could his friend – no, his only friend – be a cannibalistic killer with more murders under his belt than anyone he'd ever encountered?
How could he, Will Graham, famed for being able to delve deep into the psyche of serial murderers, not see that his therapist – no, his trusted advisor – was in fact one of the killers he was meant to find?
How could a brilliant mind such as Lector's possibly see that murder and cannibalism was right and moral?
Then again, who was he to judge on what was right and moral. Working for the FBI, seeing death in so many different ways, managed to skew Will's perception of moral and just.
Killers, savages in human disguises had their own code of ethics, their own laws of honour and principals of justice that the rest of humanity was not privy to. Some felt as if they needed to kill, to cleanse the world of pests. Others killed for fun, to please a hunger inside of them that was unseen to no one but themselves.
Now Will wondered … which one was Hannibal Lector? Which one of the multitudes of profiles did Hannibal the Cannibal belong to? Which strand of murderer was his best friend?