- Clarice shows up to speak to Lecter, where she has to check her gun with officers at the door. He's being kept in a cage in the middle of a large room.
- In the elevator, Clarice tries to find out if Louis Friend is another anagram, which is a little more difficult in these pre-Internet days.
- Clarice brings Lecter a package: his drawings. That'll brighten up his cage a bit.
- They make small talk…well, as small as talk with a serial killer cannibal can get, before Clarice tells him that she did decode "Louis Friend" – iron sulfide. "Fool's gold."
- She asks him to continue telling her the truth.
- Lecter quizzes her. "What needs does he serve by killing?"
- She can't answer, so he tells her. "He covets."
- When she asks him to elaborate, he wants more quid pro quo. Why did she leave the Montana ranch?
- It was the screaming that scared her. The screaming lambs as they were being slaughtered.
- She tried to free them, but they wouldn't leave. She grabbed a lamb and ran. But the lamb was heavy and the sheriff caught her. The rancher sent Clarice to an orphanage.
- Her lamb was killed.
- Lecter tells her that she still wakes up in the dark, hearing the screaming of the lambs.
- He wonders if she thinks she can stop the screaming of the lambs if she saves Catherine.
- "I don't know," she says. It's an intense and strangely intimate moment.
- Chilton shows up to kick out Clarice.
- She begs Lecter to tell her Buffalo Bill's name as she's escorted away.
- He holds her case file from between the bars, and she rushes back to get it.
- He caresses her finger! At least he didn't bite it off.