[In order to have to put some sort of effort into anything at all, Hannibal would have to be facing someone who presented a real challenge. He'd have to be up against a person who could be considered as competition, and Chilton is certainly nowhere near competent enough to earn such a rank in Hannibal's mind. He'll let him think he's Someone Important until the jig is up, if it ever occurs. He'll let him think Hannibal is there for him like a good friend, will offer advice and aid in any way he can. If faced with the idea of being put in a different hospital once caught, he will all but demand to go into Chilton's, just to watch the man unravel day by day until he thinks he's safe. That Hannibal being restrained is something that will stop him.

And it's then that the whole thing will come tumbling down, and Frederick will be wishing he was holding his organs all over again in order to get away from the man he once dared to refer to by first name.]

Several of your staff have been killed [because of you] so of course others may wish to head to different pastures for work. Perhaps, if you need someone to consult with, that might be doable. I'm quite pleased with private practice, however, so I would have to humbly reject an offer for a full-time position. My apologies, but if such a need arises, I can offer referrals in place of actually coming myself.

[Because like hell will Hannibal work for Chilton. The pure nerve behind it all but rises off of him in a stench, hot and wet and pervading the room if only to find something to cling to and seep into like an insidious humidity.

Hannibal is his own boss. That's how it's going to stay.]