FBI agent Will (Edward Norton played by Edward Norton) was responsible for the investigation of the case. After detailed investigation, Will analyzed that this person would cut off the victim’s throat and eat it every time, but he did not find any trace of the murderer. Will asks Hannibal (Anthony Hopkins), a mentally ill criminal psychologist, for help, hoping that Hannibal can portray the criminal psychology of the murderer to help solve the case.
Unexpectedly, Hannibal suffered from mental illness and intended to hurt Will, and was finally put in a mental prison, and the case was not resolved. Years later, Will encountered the same murder again. Although the suspect was identified, if he wanted to clarify his criminal psychology and bring him to justice, Will had to find Hannibal again.
1. FBI agent Will Graham cooperated with Hannibal to be responsible for the detection of a serial murder case. After discovering that the murderer had killed the victims, he cut off a certain part of their bodies and ate them. He came to Hannibal's house and wanted to tell him, but unexpectedly discovered that Hannibal was the murderer. When things came to light, Hannibal attacked the unsuspecting Will from behind, and Will also defeated Hannibal. In the end, Hannibal was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment, and Will left the FBI shortly afterwards.
2. Will and his family moved to Florida on the east coast. One day an old colleague, Crawford, came to visit suddenly. He told Will that another murderer had appeared and killed the Jacoby family in Birmingham and the Leeds family in Atlanta. Crawford hopes that Will will come back to help investigate the case and catch the murderer. Finally, Will persuaded his wife Molly to get in the car to Atlanta.
3. Will came to the victim's Liz's home to investigate the murder scene. The bed and walls of the master bedroom were covered with blood, and the children's room next door was also covered with two pools of bright red blood. The glass in the bathroom was broken. While patrolling, he took notes on his own associations and guessed the murderer's behavior and psychology.
4. Will gathered all the collected case materials together. Without a clue, images of dolls neatly arranged on the cabinet appeared in his mind. It suddenly occurred to him that the murderer had inserted the broken glass into Mrs. Liz’s eyes, and He probably took off his gloves to commit the murder, so by examining Mrs. Liz's eyes, he would definitely be able to find the fingerprints accidentally left by the murderer.
5. Crawford received a call and learned that the murderer's thumb fingerprint had been obtained from Mrs. Leeds' eyes, and believed that the case could be detected by combining the murderer's tooth prints, but at this time Will felt that he did not understand The murderer couldn't imagine what kind of person the murderer was, so he suggested that he needed Hannibal's help.
6. Will came to the FBI criminal laboratory to find Hannibal who was imprisoned, and learned that the psychological research activities were very difficult, and it was difficult to get his psychological activity data from there. Walking into the jail, Will tells Hannibal that he needs his help. After a psychological contest between the two people, Hannibal finally agreed to check the case files and information to help Will analyze the criminal psychology.
7. Looking through the information of the case, Hannibal felt that the murderer was a shy boy and perhaps had some facial disfigurement, and more importantly, the murderer liked to see blood in the moonlight; therefore, the outdoor yard of the family might be the murderer’s choice. An important factor in the murder of the object. Hannibal saw Will's fear, but he knew that Will would eventually catch the murderer. After the conversation, Will decided to go to the victim Liz's house to find out.
8. At Leeds's house, Will found a bag of videotapes, the content of which was recorded by the male owner of their family's life. After that, Will came to Jacob's family. After observing the surroundings of Jacob's house, Will climbed up a tree opposite the Jacob's house. He guessed that the murderer was probably sitting on the tree to observe the life of the victim, and then he found that the murderer had left a mark of his pride on the tree.
9. In an old building, a masked man is doing exercise. Thinking back to his ears what happened in this house many years ago, he hated all the insults his grandmother had to him when he was a child. Suddenly, he got up and went to the broken mirror, put on his dentures, and revealed a vicious look. He is the murderer in this case-Francis.
10. Will told Hannibal that the mark found on the tree means the red dragon in Chinese Mahjong. Hannibal analyzed the murderer’s crimes. The murderer was afraid and panicked the first time he committed the crime; but the murderer improved when he committed the second crime. A lot. Will quickly went to the library to check it and saw an introduction to the Red Dragon in a book.
11. Francis on the other side didn't seem to be aware of the police's actions. He came to the color lab to get an infrared package and met Makailian, who was blind here. At night, it was raining heavily outside. Seeing Macalline standing at the door hiding from the rain, Francis decided to drive her home amidst entanglement. Marquillen invited Francis to sit at home and have a bite to eat. When she got home, she happily chatted with him about her childhood memories of watching a cougar. However, when she offered to touch Francis' face, she was rejected, and the conversation between the two stopped abruptly.
12. While inspecting Hannibal's room, the police found a note that Francis had sent to Hannibal hidden in toilet paper. Through this note, the police immediately launched an investigation and collected fingerprints and hair. Will also realized that they were likely to pass on information from the local newspaper’s missing persons notice. Sure enough, in the newspaper draft, they got an encrypted message.
13. In the library, the police immediately deciphered the encrypted information, and the content turned out to be the address of Will's house and Hannibal's words that he hoped that Francis would kill his family. As a result, the FBI took immediate action and transferred Molly and her son to the house of Crawford's brother by helicopter overnight. After his family was safe, Will decided to ask reporter Lowz to publish an article about the murderer being an incompetent low-level creature, angering Francis to commit the crime again, in order to arrest him.
14. An enraged Francis caught Lowz and took him to his home, showing him the red dragon tattoo on his back and his "masterpiece" after killing, forcing Lowz to speak his awe of himself and record the sound. After that, his devilishness recurred again. He bit Lauz's tongue fiercely, then set him on fire and sent him to the street. The police received the tapes sent by Francis. Everyone was terrified. They vowed to catch the murderer.
