The basement is cold. 10 year ago the whole place had been used as a slaughterhouse, now no one used this abandon building…. almost no one. John is sitting in the light of a small lamp. Though it was not in the radio, he knows that it has happened; he knows that Lector has escaped. Suddenly the phone rings. Only Amanda knows the phone number, so when he picks it up he is surprised.
John: "Hello?".
Lector: "Hello my dear Engineer…. I do believe we have a few things to discuss…..".
John: "… What do you want?".
Lector: "Time…just a bit".
John: "Time is the only thing I don't have Hannibal.
Lector: "I just want to talk to you… I want you to listen".
John: "I have listened, through walls, death and time. I am however curios to how you got this number".
Lector: "Same way you knew I had escaped, of course.
John: "Well Hannibal, normally you wouldn't choose to call the one person you want dead the most".
Lector: "But then again my dear Engineer; our choices are not always entirely normal".
John: "Indeed Hannibal, indeed… but what is it really that you wish?".
Lector: "Survival, curiosity…. Retaliation. Ohhh vengeance can have so many names. But then again; you must admit that behind your, I'm guessing, cold and hard appearance, anger is what you feel when you think about me".
John: "Ah so it's pride that is making you call me. I was detecting an emotion, but I was reading it as stupidity. You live your life through rage and terror, you consume every last part of what makes people human. Anger is certainly an appropriate word for what I should feel, looking at your history".
Lector: "Digging in my past have we?".
John: "It's like a one way mirror".
Lector: "A Brokenmirror… take care my dear Engineer; if you try to piece it together you are going to cut yourself, I promise you that. Besides, the blood of the policeman who was with me last night is on your hands too".
John: "You murdered a man, you are threatening me, and you insult Amanda".
Lector: "Yes your apprentice did become quite upset by my drawing, didn't she? I guess naked pictures are extra disturbing to her… especially when it involves a syringe in her mouth. But you must be happy; I have done everything you planned; handed myself on a silver-plate… that was what you wanted, wasn't it?.. so you could kill me, that is your cause?".
John: "For this cause I am prepared to die… there is no cause where I'm prepared to kill".
Lector: "I see….. then what about dear little Kim Würtz?... though she does seem a bit pathetic, she can really keep her head clear and follow a lead like a sleuthhound, and now she will follow you to the end of the world my dear Engineer, and she will pull the trigger".
John: "Kim has realized something you haven't, and that makes her superior to you, despite her average mind. But I'm not the one she is a threat to".
Lector: "Cold and inhumane no matter what huh?... but what are you really saying?".
John: "I'm saying that she will never pull the trigger, not anymore; it is not her hate for me that makes her chase me, it is her love for life, and that's what we share".
Lector: "Then I hope she realizes that in time….. Funny; none of us wish for her to get caught in our crossfire, yet she is probably not going to give us that option".
John: "Let me ask you something: We know my motive not to come after her, but what kind of sick obsession is it that you have with her, can you tell me that?".
Lector: "No… let me in instead ask you something: You surround yourself with death and torture…. has the things you have done ever made your life any better?... your weakness is your believe my dear Engineer".
John: "Yours are your arrogance… goodbye Hannibal Lector".
Lector: "Is it a goodbye, because the next time we meet, one of us is going to die!".
John hangs up.
Kim is still standing behind Baltimore mental facility. The raining is beginning to stop. Richard is approaching her.
Richard: "Where you talking on the phone before?".
Kim looks at the sky. She use to hate the rain, but now she can't remember why. After a while, she looks at Richard.
Kim: "It's was Lector".
Richard: "No shit huh?".
In a while they just stare at each other. Then Richard speaks again.
Richard: "You know there is still something bothering me. I know that Lector could have died from that post trap and all, but still…. Why would Jigsaw set him free?... doesn't really seem as his pattern to release a murder".
Kim: "Maybe he thinks he can save life by putting an end to the legend of Lector".
Richard: "Still… why would he set free the only man that is as smart as he is?".
Kim: "Because he thinks he can capture him".
Richard: "Then…. Why would Hannibal run away from this facility? I mean; he was safe here".
Kim: "Because he thinks he can kill Jigsaw".
Kim looks Richard directly into his eyes.
Kim: "This is now a battle: Hannibal vs. Jigsaw…. Place your bets!".
(This is the ending. And though I have plans for a new "season", I'm probably not going to use my time on that unless of course enough of you people want me to. But at the moment I'm going to use my time on other things. Don't forget to leave a comment about what you though about the chapter or story, comments are what keeps me going).
