John doesn't answer. He just looks at Kim, while she tries piecing all she had experienced together.
Kim: "You are going to capture and test Hannibal Lector?... but where do I fit in?".
John: "Whatever interest or feeling Hannibal has for you, it will probably lead him right to where we want him".
Kim: "Lector is not interested in me".
John: "No?... he followed you for days… the messages "What makes us human".. you must have noticed them".
Kim: "Well… I…".
John: "He had been right in front of you for days, yet you didn't see him, you had been way too busy tracking him down. I don't know what's so hard; the rain can't wash away the trail Hannibal has left behind so obviously".
Kim: "So… I'm bait?".
John: "Now you can certainly call your self that, but as I have said before: you chose that fate for yourself".
John turns around again and continues the drawing of Hannibal Lector's head and its anatomy. "Make your weaknesses your strengths" Kim repeats in her head. She lets John have a little peace and quiet for 5 minutes, and then she asks the question.
Kim: "John…. What can you tell me about B.H…… who is or was he?
John stops drawing. He seems to think for himself before answering.
John: "Why do you think I can answer that?"
Kim: "Because you have been digging in Lector's past too".
John turns around and smiles a bit.
John: "Curiosity drives many".
Kim: "Is B.H. alive?".
John: "No…. B.H. died 20 years ago".
Kim: "Who was he?".
John: "Lector's college, a friend".
Kim: "Another cannibal?".
John: "I don't think so… but it's uncertain how much he knew about Lector's taste for human flesh…. that Kim is the million dollar question I don't have the answer to".
Kim: "So what happened to him?".
John: "There are no burial grounds with his name on it, yet he has not disappeared since he has died. Look for a dead man Kim and you can easily find him… I did".
Kim: "Where?... where can you find his body?".
Amanda steps in.
Amanda: "John it evening, let me try again".
John: "Amanda… Kim is the key; the safe way, don't put your self though this".
Amanda: "We don't need her, I can do it".
John looks away from Amanda.
John: "Very well, let's prepare then".
Amanda once again grabs Kim's shoulder meaning that Kim needed to get back to her cell. Kim walks to her cell. When Amanda is beginning to close the door Kim speak to her.
Kim: "So are you going to try to catch Lector again tonight?".
Amanda stops, and opens the door again.
Amanda: "What did you say?".
Kim: "That's what you are doing right? You don't believe John's plan will work, so you are out every night looking for Lector?".
Amanda: "Have John told you that?".
Kim: "More like a hint…. And letting Lector track me to here, seems a lot safer than what you are doing".
Amanda: "Well I don't think it can be that easy. And that fucking psychopath doesn't deserve to run free one second more than he has to".
Kim: "You seem very eager to catch him yourself. Has he done something to you, that has provoked what certainly looks like hate?".
Amanda ignores her and closes the door. Kim is again alone in the cell. Amanda seems to have a personal reason to hate Lector, but Kim can't really figure it out.
There has been laid out some food for Kim. She eats it and lies down on the madras. It takes a long time for her to go to sleep, laying on an old madras is not very comfortable.
Very early in the morning she wakes up. Someone is yelling, she quickly recognizes the voice as Amanda. Kim gets up and walks to the metal door to hear who she is talking to. Kim can hear it John.
Amanda: "…I know I didn't find him! But you got to let me try again. We can't sit here and wait until that psycho decides to show up".
John: "Amanda… looking for Hannibal is more dangerous for you than for him".
Amanda: "I can do it, I can catch him".
John: "Amanda he is not to be underestimated, if you face him he can take so much from you".
Amanda: "He can't take my pride!".
John: "Believe me Amanda he can take that away from you too".
Kim can't hear Amanda anymore, so she guess that Amanda has nodded or something, because John suddenly speaks much lower and softer to her, Kim needs to put her head very close to the door to hear what he says.
John: "Amanda…. If you do happen to ever face him….. you can't show fear Amanda, that will just grand him more power. I want you to stop searching for him, the day you stop in believing me, is the day you loose me".
Kim can hear that Amanda is crying. But it seems like she has agreed to what he is saying. Kim moves away from the door. What could it be that has made Amanda so angry at Lector? Kim lies down and goes back to sleep.
She wakes up again a few hours later because someone shakes her head.
Amanda: "Hello?".
Kim opens her eyes and stands up.
Amanda: "You can eat your breakfast outside".
Kim walks out of the room and see that some bread on a plate is on one of the tables. Amanda leads her over to it, and takes out a new set of handcuffs, she chains Kim's one leg to the chair.
Amanda: "I'm going to leave you now, can you promise to be a good girl?".
Kim just nods and starts to eat. "It's probably best not to talk back" She thinks. Amanda goes out of the door on the opposite end of the big room. Kim doesn't know where that leads, but she guesses it lead outside.
Several minutes passes by where no one is in the same room as Kim. She looks around, many of the tools and mechanical things are gone from the room. Something new is in the room; a black box with a big lock on it. Kim looks around…. No one is near her. She tries to stand up and walk out of the room, but now Kim finds out that she can't move. The chair is actually stuck to the floor. "Well there goes that plan" Kim thinks. Then John comes into the room. He is holding a small mechanical thing, at the size of an electric shaver. It actually looks exactly like an electric shaver. He looks at Kim, then sits down and starts working on it.
Kim: "What's… that?".
John turns to Kim and pushes a button. 4 blades come out of it, one on the top, one in the bottom and one of each side. Kim gets a little freak out about it.
Kim: "What's… what that for?".
John: "It's not for you Kim don't worry".
Kim gets relieved. John presses a button on it so the blades go back in. He then takes a screwdriver and tightens some screws on it.
Kim: "Where is Amanda?".
John: "The basement, she is sealing off the last exits".
Kim: "You are preparing for a game aren't you?... You are close to capture Lector?".
John: "Stop asking question you already know the answer to Kim".
John seems way too relaxed Kim thinks. John seems so sure they can just capture Lector when he comes… if he even comes.
Kim: "John?... I have met Lector, and it will take a miracle for you to capture him just by waiting for him".
John: "That's the problem with you people… whenever something goes wrong you wait and hope for a miracle. Capturing Hannibal can never be a miracle, an addicted woman whom the world has given up on, who suddenly finds the courage to survive a game… that is a miracle. A woman who gets cured from her drug addiction by becoming reborn… that is a miracle. So you can't sit around and wait for miracles, you have to create them.
John puts away the little metal thing with the blades.
John: "Maybe it's time I tell you a bit more about B.H.".
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