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The Silence of the Lambs Scene 6 Summary

  • Clarice returns to Lecter, saying "Hester Mofet" is an anagram for "the rest of me." She knows Lecter rented the garage.
  • He slides open the drawer, and Clarice looks inside. There's a small towel there, to dry her wet hair.
  • She asks whose head is in the jar, but Lecter wants to talk about Buffalo Bill. He wants Clarice to bring him the case file.
  • Lecter says the head in the jar belonged to Benjamin Raspail. He didn't kill him; but he stored him after he found him dead. He has no idea who killed him.
  • Lecter asks Clarice if she thinks Jack Crawford is sexually attracted to her, and she tells him that's "the sort of thing Miggs would say."
  • Finally, the lights in Lecter's cell come on, and all his drawings are gone. He's being punished for basically killing Miggs.
  • Clarice brings Lecter back to the issue at hand (or more like at head), but Lecter, channeling E.M. Forster, wants a room with a view.
  • He knows that Benjamin Raspail was killed by Buffalo Bill, but he won't tell her who Bill is just yet.