This Lecter is -- perhaps timeskipped, as we are all wont to be, at some point. Perhaps something else. [Better to focus on Hannibal than Freddie, he reasons.] The dates he's given don't calculate to my Hannibal, but to suggest that the man isn't capable of lying would be breathtakingly naïve.

[A beat.]

I'm playing nice with him. I suggest you do the same.