History WMG / TheSilenceOfTheLambs

When Iris grew up she sought to distance herself from Travis's headline-grabbing vigilante killing spree by changing her name (which she already hated), dyeing her hair brown (or, if it ''was'' dyed when Travis met her, letting it return to its natural color), moving to Virginia, and deliberately cultivating a Southern accent. (Hell, maybe Starling was her late father's name; by the time Iris returned from the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman, Montana, her mother had moved to Pittsburgh and married a man named Steensma, and from ''there'' Iris ran away to New York.) Travis would be proud that she's carrying on his campaign against criminal scum more effectively than he ever could--let's just hope that he never ended up seeking psychiatric help from Hannibal!

When Iris grew up she sought to distance herself from Travis's headline-grabbing vigilante killing spree by changing her name (which she already hated), dyeing her hair brown (or, if it ''was'' dyed when Travis met her, letting it return to its natural color), moving to Virginia, and deliberately cultivating a Southern accent. (Hell, maybe Starling was her late father's name; by the time Iris returned from the Lutheran orphanage in Bozeman, Montana, her mother had moved to New York and married a man named Steensma.) Travis would be proud that she's carrying on his campaign against criminal scum more effectively than he ever could--let's just hope that he never ended up seeking psychiatric help from Hannibal!

When Iris grew up she sought to distance herself from Travis's headline-grabbing vigilante killing spree by changing her name (which she already hated), dyeing her hair brown (or, if it ''was'' dyed when Travis met her, letting it return to its natural color), moving to Virginia, and deliberately cultivating a Southern accent. (Hell, maybe Starling was her late father's name; by the time Iris returned from the Lutheran orphanage, her mother had moved to New York and married a man named Steensma.) Travis would be proud that she's carrying on his campaign against criminal scum more effectively than he ever could--let's just hope that he never ended up seeking psychiatric help from Hannibal!

When Iris grew up she sought to distance herself from Travis's headline-grabbing vigilante killing spree by changing her name (which she already hated), dyeing her hair brown (or, if it ''was'' dyed when Travis met her, letting it return to its natural color), moving to Virginia, and deliberately cultivating a Southern accent. Travis would be proud that she's carrying on his campaign against criminal scum more effectively than he ever could--let's just hope that he never ended up seeking psychiatric help from Hannibal!

Because, come on--HOW in Hell did he get ahold of that pen, if he didn't use [[StarWars the Force?]]

* Aaran Thomas regenerates into Gaspard Ulliel, who regenerates into Anthony Hopkins.

* Jack Crawford is portrayed by Harvey Keitel in ''Red Dragon'' and by Scott Glenn in ''The Silence of the Lambs''. He is absent from Hannibal, in which Starling is portrayed by Julianne Moore instead of Jodie Foster.

Connecting these stories to Series/Dexter.

...accounting for the maroon eyes, the ImprobablyHighIQ and six fingers on one hand. He will later change his name to Khan Noonien Singh and lead his favorite bits of humanity in killing the rest in the Eugenics Wars. Seriously. Look at him in "Space Seed". Except for the eyes and fingers, which he probably could have found a way around by that point, ''it's him.''

** It is. Though I can't be bothered to find my copy and give a more complete answer.

And is waiting for a chance to do what she should have done years ago: kill Hannibal. If there is another book, there will be an epic fight scene in which she faces off against Lector with the Murasaki family katana.

[[WMG: Hannibal Lector is, in addition to being a brilliant psychopath cannibal highly -cultured aristocrat (and a few other things I've missed, I'm sure), a SITH LORD.]]

...accounting for the maroon eyes, the ImprobablyHighIQ and six fingers on one hand. He will later change his name to Khan Noonien Singh and lead his favorite bits of humanity in killing the rest in the Eugenics Wars. Seriously. Look at him in "Space Seed". Except for the eyes and fingers, which he probably could have found a way around by that point, ''it's him.''

...accounting for the maroon eyes and six fingers on one hand. He will later change his name to Khan Noonien Singh and lead his favorite bits of humanity in killing the rest in the Eugenics Wars. Seriously. Look at him in "Space Seed". Except for the eyes and fingers, which he probably could have found a way around by that point, ''it's him.''

Connecting these stories to Series/Dexter.

But where???

[[WMG: The Silence from Series/DoctorWho were in ''The Silence of the Lambs.'']]

Lecter asked, "What is her name?" but we never heard it. For all we know, it was a female FBI agent looking for a different killer.

* Gaspard Ulliel regenerates into Anthony Hopkins.
* If we somehow incorporate the theory below, Gaspard Ulliel regenerates into Brian Cox, who regenerates into Anthony Hopkins.
** Perhaps Hopkins regenerates into Mads Mikkelsen?

[[WMG: The Silence of the Lambs is in a continuity separate from Red Dragon and Hannibal.]]
Though The Silence of the Lambs' events may take place between Red Dragon and Hannibal, the visual representation that we have seen is in a separate continuity.
* At the end of Red Dragon, Dr. Chilton goes to Lecter's cell and tells him that a female FBI agent is there to see him. This is clearly meant to be Clarlice Starling. However, in The Silence of the Lambs, Chilton does not leave Starling to see Lecter in his cell before she visits him, and his clothes are different.
* Jack Crawford is portrayed by Harvey Keitel in Red Dragon and by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs. He is absent from Hannibal, in which Starling is portrayed by Julianne Moore instead of Jodie Foster.
* In Hannibal, the dialog in the recorded conversation between Lecter and Starling is slightly different from how it is heard in The Silence of the Lambs.
* In Hannibal, Starling says that Lecter killed Benjamin Raspail. This is also implied in Red Dragon. In The Silence of the Lambs, however, he denies it. He could have been lying. Then again, it could be that he did not kill Raspail in the continuity of The Silence of the Lambs film.

[[WMG: The FBI agent at the end of Red Dragon was not Clarice Starling]]

[[WMG: Hannibal Lecter is a Time Lord]]

* In the movie, at least, there isn't a clear moment when he could have grabbed it. Maybe it's explained in the book.

** More or less WordOfGod, seeing as there exists a film of RedDragon, clearly tied to the other films.

* An addition to the theory, if there's a fifth book, that's what will happen..., but Hannibal would still win because there's no way Harris would allow [[DracoInLeatherPants the object of his mancrush]] to lose.

** (OP) There are many instances of octogenarian martial artists who can still kick serious ass. Being that by that time, Hannibal will be no spring chicken himself, it might not be as one-sided a fight as you think.

* Won't she be a bit... elderly to swordfight? Since she was (according to my superb calculations) thirtyish during TheFifties, she will be a bit geriatric when coming to seek revenge, Japanese or not.

And is waiting for a chance to do what she should have done years ago: kill Hannibal. If there is another book, there will be an epic fight scene in which she faces off against Lector with the Murasaki family katana.

** More or less WordOfGod, seeing as there exists a film of RedDragon, clearly tied to the other films.