A killer has arisen in the form of another. A murder that prefers to skin his victims and leaves no trace behind. The FBI is unable to find any useful clues to catch this criminal. Brilliant psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter is in prison for murdering and eating nine people. Clarice, whose town marshal father was killed in the line of duty, is determined to become an FBI agent. A male criminal with a confused sexual identity, refused for sex reassignment surgery. The killer has wreaked vengeance on five women. His name is Buffalo Bill and he parades around in his victims skins. In the book, Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, FBI trainee at the top of her class, Clarice Starling is on the hunt for the notorious Buffalo Bill requires the help…show more content… Dr. Lecter is a brilliant forensic psychiatrist. At the end of Thomas Harris’s book, Red Dragon (1981), Hannibal Lecter is put into the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane for his crimes. During his time at the asylum, many Doctors came to profile him. Since he knew how the tests worked, he could easily come up with the typical answers that would brand him as not being psychologically disturbed. He mocked the psychiatrists' attempts to profile him by folding their tests into origami. While being given a routine exam, he ate a nurses tongue clean out. His pulse never got over eighty three. Hannibal is a man that needs entertainment in his asylum. Clarice is the pretty little birdy that comes to entertain…show more content… The cycle of getting answers and receiving them becomes an interesting focal point in the book. Starling must prove to Hannibal that her mind is apt able enough to be filled and teased by the Doctor. Hannibal relentlessly picks her apart. Exposing her inner self and her true origins ,”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. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? (Harris 67)” Hannibal offers answers in his own way, never giving Clarice a straight answer. She must think for herself; he only offers cryptic answers that she must use in order to reveal the killer. Hannibal Lecter is a polite, even avuncular presence, in Clarice's mind as she searches for Buffalo Bill. Clarice solves the problem of Buffalo Bill’s identity by looking to the results of his actions. The victims leave a cookie crumb trail and she deduces why he takes their skin. Buffalo Bill, later revealed to be Jame Gumb, kidnaps a famous senator's daughter, Catherine. This adds more pressure for Clarice to find Bill. Starling continues her search for Buffalo Bill with the clues that Lector gave her. Clarice believes she possesses an advantage over male FBI agents because she is a woman. She knows how
