- A guard named Barney lets Clarice in through the thick gate.
- Hannibal is at the end of the hall, the last cell.
- All the creeps behind bars leer at Clarice, saying words we can't print in mixed company.
- Lecter's different, standing calmly in the middle of his cell. "Good morning," he says. Classy guy—we're surprised a little bluebird doesn't land on his shoulder. (Maybe he ate it already.)
- He asks to see Clarice's credentials, so she holds out her ID.
- "Closer, please. Closer," he asks, so she brings the ID closer.
- He notices that she's a trainee, and she tells him she's there to learn from him. (Perhaps he has a nice recipe for human a la flambe.)
- She sits in the provided chair outside Lecter's cell.
- Lecter sniffs the air, noting she uses Evian skin cream and sometimes she wears L'Air du Temps, "but not today."
- Now that's just creepy.
- Clarice asks Lecter about his drawings of Italy that he's done from memory.
- Then she clumsily segues into asking him to fill out her questionnaire.
- Lecter calls her out on her lack of skills. He thinks Crawford must be desperate to send a student.
- He starts talking about Buffalo Bill, and asks Clarice why he's called that.
- She tells him a homicide detective commented, "This one likes to skin his humps."
- Lecter wonders if Clarice knows why.
- She says that Buffalo Bill is excited by it, and wants to keep a trophy from his victims.
- "I didn't," says Lecter.
- "No, you ate yours," observes Clarice, dryly.
- He gives her permission to send the questionnaire through the tray, and she does.
- He flips through it, and becomes offended. He insults Clarice, calling her a "rube" with no taste, and he gives her a quick rundown of what he thinks her past was like.
- "Are you strong enough to point that high-powered perception at yourself?" she dares him.
- Bad idea. He sends the questionnaire through unanswered, and tells her what he did to a census taker once. (There's the recipe we'd hoped for. Fava beans. Chianti. Census taker, whole.)
- Lecter sends Starling away, so she sulks back down the hall.
- When she passes Miggs' cell, he flings some fluid at her, maybe hoping Clarice will style her hair like Cameron Diaz does in There's Something About Mary.
- Lecter calls out for Agent Starling, and she runs back to his cell.
- He's offended that Miggs mistreated her in this way, so he wants to help her. He tells her to "Look deep within yourself," and visit a patient of his, Miss Mofet.
- She quickly exits the asylum, without getting anything chucked at her face this time.
- Clarice goes to her little junky car, crying from the stress, and thinking about her childhood in the South.