The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Kasi Lemmons: Ardelia Mapp

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• Clarice Starling : [Hannibal Lecter has escaped]  He won't come after me.

  Ardelia Mapp : Oh really?

  Clarice Starling : He won't. I can't explain it... He - he would consider that rude.

• Ardelia Mapp : Is this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter."

  Clarice Starling : "Desperately random." What does he mean?

  Ardelia Mapp : Not random at all, maybe. Like there's some pattern here...?

  Clarice Starling : But there is no pattern or the computers would've nailed it. They're even found in random order.

  Ardelia Mapp : Random because of the one girl. The one he weighted down.

  Clarice Starling : Oh, Fredrica Bimmel, from... Belvedere, Ohio. First girl taken, third body found. Why?

  Ardelia Mapp : 'Cause she didn't drift. He weighted her down.

  Clarice Starling : What did Lecter say about... first principles?

  Ardelia Mapp : Simplicity...

  Clarice Starling : What does this guy do, he "covets". How do we first start to covet?

  Ardelia Mapp : "We covet what we see -"

  Clarice Starling : " - every day."

  Ardelia Mapp : Hot damn, Clarice.

  Clarice Starling : He knew her.