Savannah Guthrie eerily echoed exact ‘Silence of the Lambs’ line in plea video

Savannah Guthrie eerily uttered the exact same words used in the hostage-negotiation scene from the iconic horror film “Silence of the Lambs” in the gut-wrenching video she posted earlier this week pleading for her mother’s safe return.

The “Today” show star, her sister Annie, and her brother Camron, issued a tearful video plea to their mother Nancy’s captors on Feb. 4, with Savannah sharing a pointed message.

“[Nancy] is full of kindness and knowledge. Talk to her and you’ll see,” Savannah said in a quivering voice.

A nearly verbatim message was used in Jonathan Demme’s Oscar-winning 1991 film, in a scene where a a senator is coached by the FBI to speak to the captor of her daughter in a live televised address. The goal was to get the monstrous kidnapper to see his victim as a human being.

“Catherine is very gentle and kind. Talk to her and you’ll see,” the fictional Sen. Ruth Martin said into TV cameras.

Annie, Savannah, and Camron Guthrie (left to right) delivered a tear-drenched plea to their mother’s captors which was shared on Instagram. via REUTERS

The movie, centered around a brilliant, flesh-eating killer named Hannibal Lector, was filmed in part at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and several FBI agents coordinated with producers to make the film realistic, according to the agency.

The attempt to humanize Nancy Guthrie, or any person being ransomed, is standard procedure, said former FBI Special Agent Lance Leising.

“A plea to the kidnapper to make them feel empathy is usually powerful,” Leising told The Post.

“That victim is a commodity, not a person, to the captors,” the security expert said. “It’s a very standard negotiator playbook to make the victim appear human. Humanizing them to the captor.”

“They didn’t purposefully try to make that identical to ‘Silence of the Lambs,'” he added. “It’s just standard operation procedure to send out that type of message,” he said.

Nancy Guthrie was last seen late Jan. 31, and apparent ransom notes have been sent to local outlets and TMZ. Officials said Saturday they still have no suspects in the case, but President Donald Trump said Friday that investigators have “very strong clues” that they are pursuing.

“I think we could have some answers coming up fairly shortly,” Trump told reporters.