The Best Ardelia Mapp Quotes

Ardelia: Is this Lecter's handwriting? "Clarice, doesn't this random scattering of sites seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar? Ta, Hannibal Lecter."
Clarice: "Desperately random." What does he mean?
Ardelia: Not random at all, maybe. Like there's some pattern here...?
Clarice: But there is no pattern or the computers would've nailed it. They're even found in random order.
Ardelia: Random because of the one girl. The one he weighted down.
Clarice: Oh, Fredrica Bimmel, from... Belvedere, Ohio. First girl taken, third body found. Why?
Ardelia: 'Cause she didn't drift. He weighted her down.
Clarice: What did Lecter say about... first principles?
Ardelia: Simplicity...
Clarice: What does this guy do, he "covets". How do we first start to covet?
Ardelia: "We covet what we see -"
Clarice: " - every day."
Ardelia: Hot damn, Clarice.
Clarice: He knew her.

Clarice: [Hannibal Lecter has escaped] He won't come after me.
Ardelia: Oh really?
Clarice: He won't. I can't explain it... He - he would consider that rude.