justprompts If you were given the chance to redo one moment in your life...
If you were given the chance to redo one moment in your life, what would it be and why?
I once told Him that if I had it to do over again that I'd put two bullets in His head before He had a chance to palm the stiletto He shoved into my gut. I was lying.
I'm not proud of it but it was more of a knee jerk response than inner truth. If I had known in those moments, if I'd known when He excused himself from the room - I suspect things would have played out exactly the way they did. If not exact, then at least close enough. I would have still tried to capture Him alive. That's what I was trained to do. That's my conditioning. Those are my roots. Sometimes I forget those roots. Forget that I was a cop before I was ever Special Agent Will Graham. I was a decent New Orleans homicide detective. It surprises me now to think that a clean arrest would have been my priority.
So there it is: I would have tried to arrest Dr. Lecter - He would have fought. He's left a large enough trail of dead and disfigured cops and agents in his wake to know that he wouldn't come quietly. Someone would have gotten a handful of arrows in their side and someone was going to end up shot.
If I had to pick what I would really change, it would be going back home before forensics had a chance to confirm the body we found in the Dolarhyde house was really Francis Dolarhyde. You'd think I would have known by then that NOTHING is ever over just because you think it is or just because you want it to be.
I once told Him that if I had it to do over again that I'd put two bullets in His head before He had a chance to palm the stiletto He shoved into my gut. I was lying.
I'm not proud of it but it was more of a knee jerk response than inner truth. If I had known in those moments, if I'd known when He excused himself from the room - I suspect things would have played out exactly the way they did. If not exact, then at least close enough. I would have still tried to capture Him alive. That's what I was trained to do. That's my conditioning. Those are my roots. Sometimes I forget those roots. Forget that I was a cop before I was ever Special Agent Will Graham. I was a decent New Orleans homicide detective. It surprises me now to think that a clean arrest would have been my priority.
So there it is: I would have tried to arrest Dr. Lecter - He would have fought. He's left a large enough trail of dead and disfigured cops and agents in his wake to know that he wouldn't come quietly. Someone would have gotten a handful of arrows in their side and someone was going to end up shot.
If I had to pick what I would really change, it would be going back home before forensics had a chance to confirm the body we found in the Dolarhyde house was really Francis Dolarhyde. You'd think I would have known by then that NOTHING is ever over just because you think it is or just because you want it to be.