The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Scott Glenn: Jack Crawford

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• Jack Crawford : Starling, when I told that sheriff we shouldn't talk in front of a woman, that really burned you, didn't it? It was just smoke, Starling. I had to get rid of him.

  Clarice Starling : It matters, Mr Crawford. Cops look at you to see how to act. It matters.

  Jack Crawford : Point taken.

• Jack Crawford : Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head.

• Jack Crawford : I remember you from my seminar at UVA. You grilled me pretty hard, as I recall, on the bureau's civil rights record in the Hoover years. I gave you an A.

  Clarice Starling : A-minus, Sir.

• Jack Crawford : Just do your job, but never forget what he is.

  Clarice Starling : And what is that?

  [cut to Clarice's first trip to the psychiatric prison] 

  Dr. Frederick Chilton : Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive. From a research point of view, Lecter is our most prized asset.

• Jack Crawford : Look at it, Starling. Tell me what you see.

• FBI Director Hayden Burke : Jack, Hannibal Lecter's being transferred to Memphis.

  Jack Crawford : Transferred?

  FBI Director Hayden Burke : Did you have a trainee make some sort of phony offer in the Senator's name?

  Jack Crawford : Yeah, I rolled the dice. I had to.

  FBI Director Hayden Burke : Well she's mad as hell, Jack. Paul Krendler's over here from Justice. She's asking him to take over in Memphis.

• Paul Krendler : Senator Martin's been on the line. Did you have a trainee make a kind of phoney deal with Lecter?

  Jack Crawford : Yeah, I rolled the dice, I had to.

  Paul Krendler : Well, she's mad as Hell, Jack.