If this was a game they were going to play, one Starling was still unaware of, he was about to find that she was absolutely full of surprises.

"You say that like you speak from more experience than what we just were part of," she says, picking that up and not willing to put it down. If she ever makes it back home, Hannibal will be absolutely intrigued by any new developments, particularly for the sake of his lost sister. "Can we come back to that later, if that's alright? Apart from all this?"

She resettles herself in her seat, feeling one of her feet start to slightly prickle with pins and needles. "This was all in the domain of the mind, whether it was ours or Billy's. And the mind is a complicated place. We have so many thoughts we're not even necessarily aware of. But the things we're aware of are the ones we can control, and that's what shows on the outside. Are you really that concerned about this ... crueler facet of yourself coming to the surface, Beck? Or are you just trying to cope with it and move forward? I have thoughts on both."