important thing is
what l am becoming.
l know that you alone can
understand this transformation.
l have some things
l'd love to show you.
lf circumstances permit,
l hope we can correspond.
l have admired you for years
and have...
a complete collection
of your press notices.
Actually, l think of them
as unfair reviews.
As unfair as mine.
They do like to sling demeaning
nicknames, don't they?
''The Tooth Fairy. '' What could be
more inappropriate?
lt would shame me for you to
read that, if l didn't know...
you had suffered the same
distortions in the press.
l'm fed up with this
bloody stupid building!
Every day something breaking.
l swear they ought to tear
the whole fucking place down.
-How much longer do we have?
-Ten minutes, max.
lnstructions for answering...
were probably in the section
Lecter tore out.
Why not just throw
the whole note away?
lt was full of compliments.
He couldn't bear
to part with them.
Now we can mash just a little.
You're so sly.
But so am l.
Aniline dyes and colored inks
are transparent to infrared.
These could be the tips of ''T's''
here and here.
On the end, that's a ''P, '' or possibly an ''R. ''
Maybe this is where he's telling
Lecter how to answer him.
There's only one way to carry on
a conversation...
that's one-way blind.
Publication. Wait a minute.
We know this guy reads the Tattler.
That's in his note, right?
The Tooth Fairy,
they made that up.
Three ''T's'' and an ''R''
in ''Tattler.''
How do you communicate
through a tabloid?
-You got what? News stories.
-Personals.
Maybe he wants Lecter to answer
him through the personals?
-That could be it.
-We need proofs of the pages...
before the next Tattler's published!
l'm on it!
lnvestigator Graham
interests me.
Not your standard gumshoe,
is he?
More alert.
Purposeful looking.
You should have taught him
not to meddle.
Forgive the stationery.
l chose it because
it'll dissolve very quickly...
ifyou should
have to swallow it.
lf l hear from you, next time
l might send you something wet.
Until then, dear Doctor...
l remain your most...
avid fan.
The Tattler got an ad order
signed 666...
Baltimore postmark
on the envelope.
lt's set to run this afternoon.
Chicago field office is sending
the text through now.
-''Dear Pilgrim.''
-That's it.
Lecter called him a pilgrim
when we talked.
''You honor me.
You're very beautiful.'' Christ!
''l offer 100 prayers
for your safety.
''Find help in John 6:22, 8:16...
''9:1, Luke 1 :7.''
-Code.
-Has to be.
We've got 19 minutes to get in
a message if we can break this.
The Tattler can't hold
its presses any longer.
lt's simple.
They only needed cover
against casual readers.
-l'm thinking it's a book code.
-Code?
The first numeral...
''100 prayers,''
may be the page number.
The numbers after could be
line and letter. But what book?
-Bible?
-No, he's got ''Galatians 15:2.''
lt has only six chapters.
Same with ''Jonah 6:8.''
lt has four chapters.
He wasn't using a Bible.
Then the Tooth Fairy
named the book to use.
He specified it in his note,
in the part Lecter tore out.
lt would appear so.
What about sweating Lecter?
ln a mental hospital...
-l would think drugs--
-No.
They tried sodium amytal on him
three years ago, to find out...
where he buried
the Princeton student.
He gave them a recipe for dip.
lf we sweat him,
we lose the connection.
lf the Tooth Fairy
picked the book...
he knew Lecter would have it
in his cell.
-Can we get a list of his books?
-From Chilton, maybe.
No! Wait! Rankin and Willingham,
when they tossed his cell...
took Polaroids so they could put
everything back in place.
Ask them to meet me with
pictures of his bookshelves!
-Where?
-The Library!
l'm leery of letting
Lecter's message run...
without knowing what it says.
l say let this one run.
We keep working on the code.
At least it'll encourage
the Fairy to contact him again.
What if it encourages him