[Should he sugarcoat it? He wouldn't for Hannibal. Hannibal wouldn't for him. And Chilton had talked of them being equals, he would be insulting him not to treat him as an equal. Will's quiet long enough Chilton can hear the door shut behind him, the songs of those early birds hailing his journey out. His journey to Chilton.]

You wanted something of this magnitude. Yes, Frederick, I fully believe you did want this to happen. You wanted it to impact people outside you. That's the only aspect of this you did not want. Replace Jeff and I with anyone else, with anyone you don't have some connection to...you wouldn't be singing this tune. [For someone discussing his murderer, the murderer of a close friend, and the general pain in the ass Walter's been off and on, he's very good at sounding detached. At discussing this in the same way he would any other profile, which may be more unsettling than anything else, considering who he specializes in profiling. Who Chilton specializes in.] I realize you didn't want this specifically, but it was your design. No matter how it turned out, you aren't blameless.

[Then again...]

Neither am I.