The Silence of the Lambs Scene 18 Summary

  • Back at Quantico, Ardelia tells Clarice that Lecter killed everyone in the ambulance and escaped.
  • Clarice believes she's safe. Lecter won't go after her. "He would consider that rude."
  • She fears that Catherine's dead.
  • Briefly we see Buffalo Bill's abode, where he's at the sewing machine, just like grandma.
  • That is, if grandma were an evil serial killing fashionista wannabe.
  • In her room, Clarice and Ardelia go through the case file, zeroing in on the first victim, Frederika Bimmel.
  • First girl taken, but third found, because she was weighted down. What made her different?
  • Clarice believes that Bill knew her personally. Well, it's off to Ohio…