[Thesevenkillings are marked below by numbers - one of the seven occurred before the film""s action.] What makes things especially perplexing is that important characters involved in the plot never appear alive on screen (e.You ate her, too, so why don""t you kill yourself?...Pot Watcher fed her to you in a broth...You have to kill everyone who knows it, don""t you? You ate her - half-conscious.Your little lips greedy around the spoon." Incensed and growling, Lecter carved an M - his sister""s initial, into Grutas"" bare chest, as the horrified Lady Murasaki watched and tried to stop him.When confronted by police officers, he committed suicide.Dr.Marta Shearing was he only survivor of the lab assault.Meanwhile, Cross stole a plane and flew out of Alaska, reappearing in Chicago in a parking garage.He retrieved stashed articles of identity (wallets, passport, license plates, etc.) for the next stage of his journey eastward - on the run.After the lab attack, as Dr.Shearing was preparing o leave town to see her sister, a group of four agents drove up to interrogate her in her secluded home in the woods, including ""clinical psychologist"" Dr.Again, Helen sees only his "tremendous imagination.Lately you""ve begun to imagine in Cinemascope, with stereophonic sound."Then, Sherman offers himself some reassurance about how his wife and women in general age differently than men:She probably figures she isn""t as young as she used o be.Following the elf""s funeral, a smooth white rock was engraved with his epitaph: "Here Lies Dobby, A Free Elf.