According to the suspicious Warlock in his command-center basement, the former NSA cyber-criminal Thomas Gabriel demonstrated his expert hacking power to the Joint Chiefs of Staff four years earlier by shutting down NORAD with a laptop computer, but since then, "he just fell off the grid" after being fired and smeared.Barney told Verger that with Starling, unlike with others, Lecter "answered her questions.She interested him.She intrigued him." Verger ordered his attending private physician, Dr.Cordell Doemling (Zeljko Ivanek), to cut a check for $250K for Lecter memorabilia - his hockey mask.After the credits, a coordinated DEA/FBI/police drug raid was being orchestrated on the streets of Washington DC, and led by FBI Special Agent Starling, to capture notorious HIV-positive drug dealing queen-pin Evelda Drumgo (Hazelle Goodman) who was running a meth lab in the area of the city""s busy fish market.]Dr.Floyd, the Earth""s Chairman of the National Council of Astronautics, delivers a bureaucratic-style, techie briefing in a conference board room to other top scientists and space officials at Clavius, under conditions of highest security.Meanwhile, in front of his own hotel across the street, J.J.King purchases a white carnation from a pretty, flower stand girl (the stand is marked with a sign reading "Mother""s Day"), generously allowing her to keep the change from his bill.He tried to silence her: "I want no orders from a woman." She realized it was their first true, harsh argument since their engagement.Back in Cleopatra""s wagon with Hercules, where she was preparing a meal for him, he realized that she was extorting French money from Hans.