# Finally watched "Silence of the Lambs"

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**Created:** [September 5, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-watched-silence-of-the-lambs/320251 "2005-09-05T22:22:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-watched-silence-of-the-lambs/320251/21 "2005-09-06T21:31:34Z")

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> [@ivylass](#):
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> The book had more subtleties than the movie. IIRC, Hannibal was stringing them along when he told them the murderer was a man named Billy Rubin. It turns out he was making a pun on bilirubin, a byproduct of degrading heme, which I believe is found in feces. Basically, he was bullshitting them.

Didn’t he also have some sort of formula created from Chilton’s name that he wrote out while in the cage at the museum?

One of the things I love about the movie is viewing it over again and trying to catch all of Lecter’s clues. Like when he says his goodbyes to the Senator, “Nice suit.”

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**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finally-watched-silence-of-the-lambs/320251/22 "2005-09-07T01:30:44Z")

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