Barney picks up an injured (or dead) pigeon from a Washington, D.C. street. In this particular shot, the street appears wet.
Barney brings the pigeon into his home. Pigeons and doves constitute the bird family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerines. The Holy Spirit is sometimes represented in art by a dove. This injured or dead pigeon is a metaphor for Barney (who represents the Holy Spirit) having become corrupt; it also represents that part of Clarice which has 'broken down'.
The upper right corner of a photograph in Starling's work area. The two sets of three digits each, ostensibly part of an FBI file number or some such thing, are actually hints to the audience to help interpret the movie: '189' is a reference to Genesis (first book of the bible), chapter 8, verse 9: "but the dove found no place to set its foot, and it returned to [Noah] to the ark, for the waters were still on the face of the whole earth. So he put out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark with him." [from the New Revised Standard Version]
