the end of the book Clarice saves lector, and after he saves her she realizes that Lector was her lamb and she was always his, they fall in love and run off together! Knowing the FBI will never have her back, true love. Awesome ending compared to the horrible film ending of lector eating brains on a plane with some oriental child. How stupid.

They lived the rest of their lives together as a couple. This happened after she went to rescue Hannibal from the Verger farm. Hannibal ended up rescuing her. She was shot twice with tranquilizers. The 2nd one hit bone, otherwise it probably would have been fatal. Dr. Lector kept her drugged up for awhile and played mind games with her. She was on hallucinogenic's as well. She ate Krendler's brain but she really didn't understand what she was doing. After he had successfully programmed her, he no longer kept her drugged and they lived happily ever after. Barney did spot them together at the very end of the book but he never told anyone. Hannibal started out wanting a replacement for Micha, his sister, and ended up in love with Clarice. She almost wanted a replacement for her father. Hannibal got the remains of her father and brought them to the house they were living in after the escape. She thought her father was really there and talked with him.

She had a lot of baggage leftover from her childhood. Her mom was alive and didn't die when she was a child. She had younger siblings. She was sent away, as a child, after her father died because she was the oldest and her mom didn't make enough money as a maid. Her father wasn't a sheriff but a night's watchman.