Dolarhyde is unable to control his violent, sexual urges, and believes that murdering people-or 'changing' them, as he calls it-allows him to more fully 'become' an alternate personality he calls the 'Great Red Dragon,' after the dominant character in Blake's painting. He is a disturbed individual who is obsessed with the William Blake painting 'The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun '. Louis film processing technician named Francis Dolarhyde. Before Graham leaves, Lecter taunts him one last time, the reason Graham caught him is that 'we're just alike'. After examining the case, Lecter believes the killer is disfigured and smashes the mirrors in the houses so that he can see himself in their eyes.

Lecter goads Graham on the true reason he has come here and requests to look at the case file. He greets Graham and quickly works out that he is here to consult him on the Tooth Fairy murders.

Lecter notices that Graham is still wearing the same aftershave he wore in court. After a tense and unwelcome greeting by Frederick Chilton, he finally meets Lecter. Graham visits Lecter at the Chesapeake Hospital where he is held. Graham prefers to think of him as a 'monster'. Although experts label Dr Lecter as a 'sociopath', it is only because they don't know what else to call him. When Graham went to call for back up, Lecter snuck up behind him and almost disemboweled him. Lecter had murdered nine people and critically injured another two, and Graham was nearly killed when he discovered evidence implicating Lecter as the killer his sixth victim was arranged as the medical diagram Wound Man. During a conversation with another officer, Graham discusses briefly Lecter's crimes and how he captured him. After visiting over the crime scenes with only minimal insight, he realizes that he must visit Lecter and seek his help in capturing the Tooth Fairy. Crawford goes to Graham's Sugarloaf Key residence and pleads for his assistance Graham reluctantly agrees. Graham is shown to have a remarkable visual memory as well as the ability to empathize with serial killers and had also shot the serial killer Garret Jacob Hobbs. Two days after the Leeds murders, FBI agent Jack Crawford seeks out his protégé, Will Graham, a brilliant profiler who captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter three years earlier, but retired after Lecter almost killed him. He first kills the Jacobi family in Birmingham, Alabama, then the Leeds family in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1980, a serial killer, nicknamed in the press the Tooth Fairy, stalks and murders seemingly random families during sequential full moons.

Red dragon thomas harris