FBI trainee Clarice Starling visits the incarcerated cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter to seek his help on a psychological profile. Lecter subjects her to a brutal psychological dissection of her background before offering a cryptic lead on the Buffalo Bill case.
DR. LECTER: You know what you look like to me, with your good bag and your cheap shoes? You look like a rube. A well-scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste... That accent you're trying so desperately to shed—pure West Virginia. What was your father, dear? Was he a coal miner? Did he stink of th
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