201 so there's no record of anyone named Mofet, but 202 I thought the ''yourself'' reference was too hokey for Lecter, 203 so I figured he's from Baltimore and I looked in the phone book 204 and there's a ''Your Self'' storage facility right outside of downtown Baltimore, sir. 205 Unit 31 was leased for ten years, pre-paid in full. 206 The contract is in the name of a Miss Hester Mofet. 207 So nobody's been in here since 1980? 208 Not to my knowledge. 209 Privacy is a great concern to my customers. 210 Yes. I won't disturb anything, I promise. I'll be outta here before you know it. 211 - May I help you? - Yes, actually. 212 - It's stuck. - We could return tomorrow with my son. 213 What about him? 214 I would ask my driver to help you, but he detests physical labour. 215 Right. Well, you just stay here. I'll be back in one minute. 216 It's stuck. Hand me that flashlight, sir. 217 If this door should fall down or anything else, 218 this is the number for our Baltimore field office. 219 Now they know that you're with me. Call them if anything should happen. 220 Yes, Miss Starling. 221 Clarice. They're waiting for you. Watch your step. 222 Hester Mofet. It's an anagram, isn't it, Doctor? 223 Hester Mofet. ''The rest of me.'' 224 ''Miss the rest of me.'' Meaning that you rented that garage? 225 - Thank you. - Your bleeding has stopped. 226 How did you...? 227 It's nothing. It was just a scratch. 228 Dr Lecter, whose head is in that bottle? 229 Why don't you ask me about Buffalo Bill? 230 - Do you know something about him? - I might if I saw the case file. 231 - You could get that for me. - Why don't we talk about Miss Mofet? 232 You wanted me to find him. 233 His real name is Benjamin Raspail, a former patient of mine, 234 whose romantic attachments ran to, shall we say, the exotic. 235 I did not kill him, merely tucked him away very much as I found him, 236 after he'd missed three appointments. 237 - If you didn't kill him, then who did, sir? - Who can say? Best thing for him, really. 238 His therapy was going nowhere. 239 His dress, make-up... 240 - Raspail was a transvestite? - In life? Oh, no. 241 Garden-variety manic-depressive. Tedious, very tedious. 242 I now just think of him as a kind of experiment. 243 A fledgling killer's first effort at transformation. 244 How did you feel when you saw him, Clarice? 245 Scared at first, then exhilarated. 246 Jack Crawford is helping your career. Apparently he likes you and you like him. 247 I never thought about it. 248 Do you think Jack Crawford wants you, sexually? 249 True, he is much older, but do you think he visualises scenarios, exchanges, 250 fucking you? |