450 Please. 451 My daughter is Catherine. 452 Boy, that's smart. Jesus, that's really smart. 453 She keeps repeating the name. 454 If he sees Catherine as a person and not just an object, it's harder to tear her up. 455 Release my little girl. 456 You're coming into my hospital to conduct an interview 457 and refusing to share information with me for the third time. 458 Sir, I told you, this is just a routine follow-up on the Raspail case. 459 - He is my patient. I have rights. - I understand that, sir. 460 Look, I am not just some turnkey, Miss Starling. 461 This is the number for the US attorney's office. 462 Either you discuss this with him or you let me do my job, do you understand? 463 If your profile helps us catch Buffalo Bill in time to save Catherine Martin, 464 the senator promises you a transfer 465 to the VA hospital at Oneida Park, New York, with a view of the woods nearby. 466 Maximum security still applies, of course. 467 You'd have reasonable access to books. 468 Best of all, though, 469 one week of the year, you get to leave the hospital 470 and go here. 471 Plum Island. 472 Every day of that week you may walk on the beach, you may swim in the ocean, 473 for up to one hour, under SWAT team surveillance, of course. 474 And there you have it. 475 A copy of the Buffalo Bill case file. 476 A copy of the senator's offer. 477 This offer is non-negotiable and final. 478 Catherine Martin dies, you get nothing. 479 ''Plum Island Animal Disease Research Centre.'' 480 Sounds charming. 481 That's only a part of the island. There's a very nice beach. 482 - Terns nest there. There's beautiful... - Terns? 483 If I help you, Clarice, it will be ''turns'' with us too. 484 Quid pro quo. I tell you things, you tell me things. 485 Not about this case, though. About yourself. 486 Quid pro quo. Yes or no? 487 Yes or no, Clarice? Poor little Catherine is waiting. 488 Go, Doctor. 489 What is your worst memory of childhood? 490 The death of my father. 491 Tell me about it and don't lie, or I'll know. 492 He was a town marshal. 493 One night he surprised two burglars 494 coming out the back of a drugstore. 495 They shot him. 496 Was he killed outright? 497 No, he was very strong. He lasted more than a month. 498 My mother died when I was very young. 499 My father had become the whole world to me, and, when he left me, I had nothing. 500 I was ten years old. |