Most Rewatchable Scene
Lecter attacks the two guards
In the discussion (4)
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- The nominees read out are Clarice's first meeting with Lecter where Miggs ('Biggs' as transcribed) is introduced, Lecter taking out the two officers who brought him dinner without checking his handcuffs, the ambulance escape, the put-the-lotion-in-the-basket scene, and Clarice dropping in on James Gumm (as transcribed).
- The pick is Lecter attacking the two guards with opera playing; the other host concurs and calls it haunting.
- One host widens it to the full run from Clarice's first visit to the fifth-floor cell, a setup that badly needed a security camera, through the dinner, the bleeding elevator and the ambulance with Lecter wearing the guard's face, called one of the best 22-minute sequences of any movie; they agree on Lecter taking out the officers.
- Dr. Chilton's earlier remark that Lecter's pulse never rose during an attack on a nurse foreshadows how calmly he swings the baton on the officers, an indelible image.