And The Plot Thickens...

The film begins with Clarice, a student at UVA, runs through the woods near Quantico, Virginia. While Clarice performs her usual exercise, someone stops her telling her that Crawford wants to see her. Crawford assigns Clarice a special mission to talk/study Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic psychopath, to find out if he knows anything about another serial killer and/or psychopath known as Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill starves women and kills them only to use their skin to disguise himself as a woman; his recent victim is Catherine Martin. When Clarice begins her work with Hannibal, she feels a lot of pressure and breaks down from all of the chaos she experiences within the jail. After recovering from her initial visit with Hannibal Lecter, Clarice visits Hannibal’s cell and eventually tells him more about herself to receive more information about Buffalo Bill. Hannibal tells her that all the information about Buffalo Bill is in the case file. The Senator of Tennessee, Ruth Martin, offers Hannibal a nicer prison cell in hopes to find her daughter, Catherine Martin. Hannibal Lecter escapes after killing two police officers, several EMTs, and giving some final information tabout Buffalo Bill to Clarice. Clarice finds Buffalo Bill in Calumet, Illinois, kills him, and rescues Catherine Martin from a well Buffalo Bill kept her in. After the rescue, Clarice graduates from UVA, goes to a celebration, and receives a phone call from Hannibal. Hannibal mentions that he will not kill Clarice and that he is visiting an old friend. Hannibal hangs up the phone with Clarice still on the line; both Clarice and Hannibal go about their ways leaving the audience hanging and wondering where Hannibal’s whereabouts seems to be.