I mean, you've got a trainee FBI agent hot on your case at your mercy, blinded by the darkness, and you could shoot her at any moment and use her skin to make your skin suit, but you FORGET TO COCK YOUR GUN?? You deserve to DIE for that stupidity!
I think a part of the cat and mouse game Bill was playing included a bit of self-sabotage, or at the very least, being a bit careless with his life at times, pushing the boundaries of what he could or could not get away with turned him on.
For example, why even invite Starling into his home to begin with? He could have just said, don’t know her, bye, and shut the door.
I think you're right, he wanted the thrill and the risk of an FBI agent in his home so he could potentially have a prize of her skin if he beat her. After all, he must've been bored shitless at that house with only the occasional victim and his dog to talk to.
He didn’t have to cock his gun, it still would have fired and the chances of him missing with double action that close to his target were pretty minimal.
shareIf Bill were really smart he wouldn't have imported rare moths and put their cocoons in his victims mouths. But serial killer often like to play games with the police. It's part of their psychosis to think they will never get caught
shareBuffalo Bill was not up for that sort of confrontation. He was good at capturing unarmed women by taking them in with some version of the ruse we saw him employ. He was not ready for someone who wasn't part of his fantasy. So, yeah, he was stupid and forgot to cock his gun.
Who said he did not deserve to die?
A lot of criminals are massively stupid! People involved in law enforcement and the justice system say that, and reading the news will tell you the same thing.
Like that guy in Colorado who killed his wife and kids, and hid the bodies at his own workplace? Or the guy in Idaho who killed four students with a knife, and who not only left his knife sheath at the crime scene with his DNA on it, he brought his cell phone with its pinging GPS along, when he drove to the murders! And he was in a Criminology program! So, well. Someone like Buffalo Bill, who is operating from delusional beliefs in the first place, is going to be even less on the ball.
we see the way he tries to touch her in the darkness. He wanted to spend some time looking at her while she groped about in the darkness in fear. He was just a freak.
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