“You are a woman with a very public reputation for hunting monsters,” FBI Agent Clarice Starling is told in a new trailer for “Clarice.” Set in 1993, one year after the events of “The Silence of the Lambs,” the CBS series sees Clarice (Rebecca Breeds, “Pretty Little Liars”) returning to the field following her fateful encounters with Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lecter.
Encouraged to “come out of hiding” because she’s “the only one who can help,” Clarice reluctantly agrees. She has demons of her own that she’s contending with, and not everyone seems convinced that she’s earned her reputation for hunting monsters. We see a higher-up telling her, “We do evidence — not it’s a full moon and ‘I’ve got a feeling,’ so you’ll keep quiet until I tell you and then you will say what I tell you.”
It’s not long before Clarice goes off script. “Whose stories are worth telling?” she asks. “Whose are worth hearing? Never let anyone decide that for you.”
Jodie Foster won an Oscar for her portrayal of Clarice in 1991’s “The Silence of the Lambs.” Julianne Moore played the character in 2001’s “Hannibal.”
“Clarice” premieres on CBS February 11. Elizabeth Klaviter (“Grey’s Anatomy”) serves as showrunner.
