" Without even reading his mind, Xavier knew that Stryker had arranged the assassination attempt to influence the President.Smith swivels his head back and forth between his two owners.[The eager dog, expressing longings for both of them, represents the one existing emotional link left between hem.The two-page handwritten letter, beginning with "Dear Clarice," was from Lecter, expressing how he had followed her "disgrace and public shaming," and knew that her previous success in capturing Jamie Gumb was now overshadowed by her killing of five during the FBI shootout ("Do you imagine your Daddy being shamed by your disgrace?", he asked mockingly about her humiliation) - "the sorry, petty end of a promising career.Dr.Dixon ordered an autopsy with special attention paid to the cranium and oral areas of Milo's brain.Afterwards, Dr.Dixon tried to assure the two remaining apes: "We mean you no harm...We will not hurt you." The uncivilized gorilla was bound by chains and sedated.Zira told Dixon that she was a psychiatrist, who had often bound "humans" by chains and medicated them.