Red Dragon - Hannibal

         After forcing Freddie Lounds to read a long paragraph on tape Dolarhyde then proceeds to  bite Freddie's toung off while he screams and then he soaks him with gasoline and lights him afire and rolls him down the parking lot of the Tattler much to the alarm of those standing in the parking lot.

         After Will's last visit, Hannibal proceeds to get the telephone number of Will's boss and coerces the lady to give him the home address of the Graham family in Marathon, Florida. He pretends to be a publishing company executive which seems to work very well. Hannibal then communicates with Francis Dolarhyde by means of the personal section of the National Tattler and after much hard work the FBI manages to get the cipher message which says, blah, blah, "kill them all." Jack Crawford calls Will on the phone and alerts him which results in the FBI going into action and they move Molly and Will's small son to Jack Crawford's farmhouse far away from Marathon, Fla. This shows the changing of an insane mind from one emotion to another. When will left Hannibal in his cell Hannibal said, "My best to Molly and Josh" and almost in the same breath he said in his cipher in the Tattler, " Kill them all."

     It should be noted that the acting of Anthony Hopkins throughout this story is nothing less than superior. Finnes and Norton also are also great. If one were to watch the movie it would be worth watching it just for their acting!

     Will Graham and Jack Crawford now go to the Chromalux Company to talk to the head manager and after applying pressure all of a sudden all facts point to Francis Dollarhyde as the serial killer. The next thing is to catch him. The night before Emily Watson wandered around in the house and Francis thinks she discovered something. In the movie Francis hears voices which he thinks is the dragon and he imagines the dragon is going to steal her away from him. He says, "No, you can't have her."

     But we're getting ahead of ourselves. While entertaining Miss Watson he puts on a film of another family. Emily says, "Is this a corporate promo? Francis says, "No, it's just some people I'm going to meet." The film shows a swimming pool scene of a mother and daughter playing. The woman is well endowed and then we are sure of the motivation of Francis' killings. Sex.

     Back to Emily's apartment and we see Emily's friend Mandy kissing Emily after an evening out for dinner. Francis sees this and feels betrayed and shoots Mandy in the forehead on the front porch he then drugs Emily and takes both of them out to the old Dolarhyde mansion in his van.

    Will and Jack have narrowed it down to the Dolarhyde Nursing Home. They are on the way when they see a large fire. It's the nursing home. Francis has set fire to it and has shot Mandy again with a twelve gage shotgun. When they get there Emily is out in front saying Francis shot himself but she is wrong. He's still alive. Mandy's corpse is burning inside when the house explodes.