In The Silence of the Lambs, agent-in-training Clarice Starling made a second trip to Baltimore State Hospital to speak to Dr. Lecter after investigating his storage unit. While she was exiting the storage unit, she cut her hand. One of the first things Dr. Lecter said to Clarice during this meeting was, “Your bleeding has stopped.” Clarice looked briefly at her hand and said, “How did you - it’s nothing, a scratch” and quickly changed the subject.
I always assumed that Lecter in fact WAS talking about the scratch on her hand, but after watching the movie again recently, I wonder if he was pointedly referring to her period. If it was her hand, I would think he would have made a more direct statement, like “Tell me about your hand, Clarice” or even commented that he was still able to hurt people while in his cell.
Clarice’s reaction made me think that this possibility occurred to her as well (and that he was correct) and she changed the subject to keep him from going down that path, and out of shock from his being even more intuitive than she first realized.
It’s a pretty minute point, but did anyone else think that’s what he meant?
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