Look for severe childhood disturbances associated with violence. Our Billy wasn't born a criminal, Clarice. He was made one through years of systematic abuse. Billy hates his own identity, you see, and he thinks that makes him a transsexual. But his pathology is a thousand times more savage and more terrifying.
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Yes, she will, Precious. She will get the hose. Okay, okay, okay. Okay. I'm there. Okay. Mister, if you let me go, I won't press charges. I promise. See, my mom is a real important woman. I guess you already know that. Now it places the lotion in the basket. Please! Please! I want to go home.
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Why, Clarice? Did the rancher make you perform fellatio? Did he sodomize you?
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I went to live with my mother's cousin and her husband in Montana. They had a ranch.
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What is your worst memory of childhood?
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A copy of the Buffalo Bill case file.
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-Why so briefly? -I ran away.
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A copy of the senator's offer.
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Quid pro quo, Doctor.
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There's no correlation in literature between transsexualism and violence. -Transsexuals are very passive... -Clever girl.
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Billy is not a real transsexual. But he thinks he is. He tries to be. He's tried to be a lot of things, I expect.
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You're so close to the way you're gonna catch him. -Do you realize that? -No. Tell me why.
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After your father's murder, you were orphaned. What happened next?
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Caterpillar into chrysalis or pupa, and from thence into beauty.
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I don't imagine the answer is on those second-rate shoes, Clarice.
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You answer me now, or by God, you'll never leave this cell.
