One of my favorite things about some of the Hannibal Lecter films is that characters like this appear pretty often. The whole investigation and analysis system is functional because of people like this that the main characters can depend on.

There were far fewer of these characters featured in later movies once they realized that the grand guignol of Lecter and his crimes was drawing more people to the theater. But leadership, intelligence, competence, and professional discipline and drive are major themes for Thomas Harris, who wrote the books, and there are many of those characters in the novels. I love seeing all of that represented.