Hannibal TV Series (Bonus):

 Trigger warning the first part of the episode talks about rape. We start off immediately with that and after that things become lighter. There is a lot of personal information as well. If you or someone you know needs help please contact: https://www.rainn.org/

Preface:

Welcome to the unplanned bonus episode of Just Another Review Cast. We apologize for the rushed episode earlier this week. We have a lot of episodes to get into and a lot of story happening and it was very late. This bonus episode we will be concentrating on a lot of the subtext that happens in the show Hannibal. But I will also be talking about some of the things that ended up being rushed over last episode that I personally believe need to be touched on.

Margot:

Another thing I wanted to talk about is the fact that when I was a child I was attacked. For decades I couldn’t have anyone touch me. I went through numerous psychiatrists most of whom told me to forgive. No one told me that it wasn’t my fault. The first time I heard this was from Hannibal, along with him telling Margot that it is okay to hate. This started me down a path of being able to hate the person who attacked me. Once I let myself hate them even for a moment, it felt like the world was lifted from my shoulders. I was able to move forward and actually have a healthy relationship with my husband. It also taught me that it is okay to be weird. I started becoming more open about my sexuality as well. This also helped me become closer to my husband and more accepting of myself. Thus, leading to a healthier relationship. It was just the beginning of my catharsis. More will come later. 

Adapt, Evolve, Become. That phrase has been one that has helped me through the tough times. Whereas the meaning in Hannibal is much darker. To me it means to Adapt to your surroundings, Evolve to meet the challenges, and Become who you need to to survive. This is my design. To me it means this is who I am. I shouldn’t change myself to suit the needs of others. I tattooed both of these on my arm so I can always remember the breakthrough that I had, and something to look at in tough times.

Backstory:

Bryan Fuller originally intended for Will and Hannibal to develop a more brotherly type relationship. Once filming started the dynamic between Mads and Hugh was such that things changed quickly. By episode four they had decided to just see where things went. Fans quickly picked up on the dynamic and ran with it. By season two they decided to keep things in undertones. 

Hannibal and Will are already well established characters and changing things to this level can be very controversial. In fact, only about half the fans were okay with it. Mostly, because it went against Canon. But, sometimes change is what is needed in my opinion. The original novels did not have much diversity, and were not kind to anyone who is LGBTQ+. One of the major themes in Harris’ book is transformation. So, to me changing things like this falls very much in line with keeping with the original feel of the novels. By season three subtext will become text. As Fuller put it. We needed to “shit, or get off the pot”. Bryan Fuller himself is gay, and so having someone who is LGBTQ+ making the decisions to keep things in the subtext for season two was a little more palatable then if it was someone who wasn’t. 

Season 1:

Starting back at the beginning with season one. Hannibal was immediately fixated on Will. But, it was more an obsession with whether or not Will was smart enough to catch him. As he actually got to know him better he started to see Will as a friend. In the Red Dragon novel, Hannibal was able to figure out pretty quickly that Will was going to be his downfall. Before he was caught he had already destroyed most of his patients files to allow them privacy from the FBI. In the show, Hannibal kept Will close but also started developing a friendship with him. He noticed that Will had a darkness in him and was intrigued by the fact that he enjoyed killing Hobbs. He tries to plant into Will’s brain that their relationship is more intimate than Doctor/Patient because it is like they have a daughter together. When Hannibal had Abigail over for High-life Eggs, he was trying to plant the same idea into her head. The third place setting was not for Alana, but for Will. He wasn’t too happy with Alana for destroying his plan. Hannibal also was not very happy that Will was getting close to the Chesapeake Ripper. Normally, Hannibal would just kill someone who got too close, but he was already in an emotional place where he could not do that to Will so he set him up to take the fall, this allowed him time to come up with an alternative.

Now, for Will’s point of view. Will is someone who cannot even look people in the eyes when we meet him. He keeps people at arms length because he knows what lives inside his head. He doesn’t like Hannibal at first because Hannibal was able to figure him out immediately. When Hannibal brings him people sausage breakfast he starts to get on Will’s good side. Will starts to actually open up to Hannibal and starts to see actual friendship with him. Will’s does not have any living family members and doesn’t seem to have many friends outside of the FBI. So this friendship with Hannibal is something that would be on a deeper level. He opens up to Hannibal about Hobbs and finally finds someone he doesn’t need to hide a part of himself with. In Sorbet during the ambulance scene he watches Hannibal closely. We don’t know if he is connecting the dots between Hannibal and the Ripper or if there is something else happening there. It is purposely written that way. The next scene is Will dropping by Hannibal’s with a glass of wine accidentally crashing his dinner party. Will does try to romance Alana still, but like I had said it is just a crutch. In Fromage after Tobias Budge has attacked Hannibal, Will originally was supposed to intimately clean blood off of Hannibal’s forehead. That part was changed and probably was a bit too obvious too soon, and Jack was right there and would have picked up on that immediately. What did stay in, was them looking at each other as the script says with “uneasy camaraderie.” Will agrees to keep Hannibal and Abigail’s secret as well. When things start to get really back for Will, he is always running to Hannibal, not just because he is a psychiatrist, but a friend. Finding out that Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper would be a major betrayal for Will. 

Back in episode 4, you can actually start to see something playing out. Mads, actually using his micro-expressions, checks out Will’s ass at one point. He did that on purpose, just to see if anyone would catch it. 

Season 2:

In season 2 we have Hannibal realizing that he is truly missing Will. His own therapist advises him to stay away for his own good, but he fails to listen. The script calls Hannibal sewing the Muralists into his own work, a valentine. Later, Will sends American Russell Tovey to try and kill Hannibal. Once Hannibal realizes that Will is willing to go to these lengths to try and kill, he is even more intrigued by him. Hannibal’s feelings for Will at this point probably have started to move from friendship to romantic. He kills Sheldon Islay and displays him in the image of St. Sebastian, the patron saint of martyrs, but also the patron saint of anyone who is queer. He also kills a security guard leaving all the evidence that Will is innocent. He is getting him out of the asylum. He has Chilton take the fall instead. When Will tries to kill Hannibal again he could easily have defended himself and even if he was caught, pleaded self defense. But he doesn’t. As Will starts to play the game Hannibal becomes even more in love with him. He allows Will to take his control. 

Everything that Will talks about with Hannibal is the truth. He does enjoy the violence. But, another thing he enjoys. The fact that he is able to manipulate and almost control Hannibal. Someone, who is normally the one manipulating and controlling everyone else. Hannibal Will does not need to hold back who he is mentally. The power dynamics between the two is one of the most intriguing aspects of the show. Will definitely wants the Chesapeake Ripper dead or arrested. But, the freedom he has with Hannibal is also something he does not want to give up either. Season Two has the emotional/mental battle that Will has to go through to decide what it is he wants.

The linguistics of this is something that you have to pay close attention to. When they speak to each other in an almost ASMR like way and discuss the “intimacy” of killing this is subtext. Will is always telling Hannibal that he wants to kill him, and Hannibal is asking in a whispered way to have Will tell him how he would do it. Will respond back in the same way. It resembles a flirtatious conversation between a couple, or even foreplay. Whenever Will imagines killing Hannibal it is always with Hannibal being tied up or bound in some way. As Will kills Hannibal in this fantasy, Hannibal is never angry, in fact he is usually smiling with pleasure. Even when Will was beating up Randall Tier imagining Hannibal he has that “annoying” smirk. Will tries to hold onto the image of Alana when having sex with Margot, but his mind wonders to thinking about Hannibal and then he sees the Wendigo, which is the Ripper side of Hannibal. It is then that he has an orgasm. Camera, shaking and eyes rolling back. Hannibal tells Alana that they have gone so long in their friendship without ever touching. But, this is just a voice over as we are watching Will and Margot at the time. Hannibal has a habit as well of always talking about Will when he is in bed with Alana.

Outside of the two, there is another conversation that has subtext to it as well. When Margot Verger is talking to Hannibal about her family dynamics she says that they don’t like her because she is “weird”. Hannibal responds with “I am much weirder than you are, it’s okay to be weird.” This was Margot trying to figure out if Hannibal was someone who she could be safely open with. Hannibal responded beautifully. I caught this one almost immediately due to the fact that I have been in that same awkward situation with psychiatrists before. No one has ever responded that way and I usually have crawled back inside. There is a LGBTQ+ store that has a shirt with the Ravenstag on it, that says “It’s okay to be weird”. I want that shirt so much. The play of linguistics in this way is one of the ways to understand the subtext. I cannot translate every single one, if you want more information on this I highly recommend the book: Becomin: Genre, Queerness, and Transformation in NBC’s Hannibal.

I have mentioned fluidity in both characters and analogy before. Hannibal is not supposed to be Bisexual in this show, but Pansexual. Will is portrayed as straight but is falling for Hannibal. Hannibal has accepted these facts about himself and most likely has previous experience. Based on artwork of his, there are not only previous women, but also men. When Hannibal does artwork it is usually copies of famous art, but the bodies and faces are of people he has known physically. Remember this fact and pay close attention. Expressing sexuality and love through artwork is about as ancient as humans themselves. But, using it in this way to tell a story is also very much in keeping with 18-19th Century literature. 

Just look at the Picture of Dorian Gray. They are always discussing artwork, not just Dorian Gray’s painting. Later, in season two there will be a scene in Hannibal that is very, very similar to the conversations that take place in Dorian Gray, the only thing missing was the use of the word Adonis, which might have been too much. As in too close to Dorian Gray.

The Gothic/Victorian age “monster” was an analogy to the “other”. Basically, someone who lived outside of normal society. Coming in and trying to bring other people to their ways, either by changing them into vampires, or in Dorian Gray’s case trying to “corrupt” people into his life of hedonism. With food, drugs, alcohol or sex. Both Hannibal and Will live on the outside of society. Hannibal is an social Anti-Social as his psychiatrist Bedelia puts it. Whereas Will is just Anti-social. Hannibal comes into Will’s life and uses gaslighting to try and convince him that he is just like Hannibal. Considering the fact that this is actually already kind of true it doesn’t take much. There is also the fact that Hannibal is actually a Count, with a Castle in Lithuania. Will is not the “damsel in distress” opposite Mina in Dracula. Which makes the power dynamics much more equal. But the feel and basic story is the same. It is the 21st Century after all. 

Later, in Season Two there will be a conversation between Will and Hannibal. Hannibal is in his office with Will. Instead of in their normal place Hannibal sits by the fireplace sketching. Will standing beside. No other light is present in the room. Will checks out what Hannibal is sketching. It is Achilles mourning the death of his lover Patrocaleus. In this sketch he has his own face as Achilles and Will as Patrocleus. Patrocleus was known for his empathy, and Achilles wished all Greeks would die so they could conquer Troy alone. It is an ancient Greek Romeo and Juliet type love story. One that has been used numerous times when talking about Forbidden love. Usually, the forbidden love is a homosexual relationship. But, in this case an enemies to lovers situation. Will admires the artwork before coming back to his senses and informing Hannibal that they will be caught. At this point, Will no longer knows which side he is on anymore. He does not react either surprised or negatively to Hannibal’s artwork. Also, Hannibal is known for doing artwork (in this show at least) of people he has known, usually romantically. Places the faces of current, or former lovers into ancient and renaissance art.

Unintended:

Back in season 1 there was an accidental subtext that happened that I am sure not many people cued in on. This takes place after the patient-zoning scenes in Sorbet. When Hannibal asks Will whether they are friends or just having conversations. After the ambiguous answer Hannibal offers Will a Rosé. Will is a whiskey drinker in this show and is only seen drinking wine when he is with Hannibal. This is another 19th Century trope used when two men are about to start a relationship. Rosé is especially used in 19th century-1960’s France for this. Mads said that because he was trying to cover for a prop mistake, but as someone who had to research this decades ago, and knowing what was to come on Hannibal. If Will was a 19th Century French Gentlemen he would be asking if Hannibal was trying to hit on him. Yes, that is where that term comes from. 

Ortolan:

One of the more obvious instances, and it is hardly subtext is the Ortolan Bunting scene. The Ortolan are supposed to be eaten with faces covered, but Hannibal does not shy away from God. Instead, it is very much symbolic of Fellatio. Close-ups on mouth taking in the Ortolan, then close-ups of the throats as they swallow the ortolan whole, bones and all. Then we do close-ups of eye rolls similar to Will’s during the orgasm. The first words spoken are from Hannibal about feeling euphoric after having his first ortolan. If this scene took place in a 18-19 Century novel, it would be a replacement scene for actual Fellatio. When eating an Ortolan the Armagnac and blood from the ortolan explodes in your mouth. The larger bones are spit out while the smaller ones are swallowed, but usually will poke the inside of your mouth. Your blood and the blood and armagnac from the ortolan are mixed together in a multitude of flavors. One of the ways I knew I was healing from my past, was the fact that this scene actually got to me, whereas nothing else in the world could.

There are food related scene in Dorian Gray that later were filmed in a 2008 movie as a sex scene. That is the intent of this graphic in the novels. Whereas Bryan Fuller, has left things open to interpretation or as he said “plausible deniability” to keep things safe. Reading that scene in a gothic/victorian way. Definitely implies something much further.

Friendly:

The show Hannibal is also considered one of the most LGBTQ+ friendly shows out there. It has complicated characters, who are queer and not portrayed in a steriotypical fashion. Other shows have attempted stuff like this since and I won’t mention which one. But, they have stated that the character will never be romantically involved. Or, like the storyline of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, it gets glossed over. Hannibal uses undertones because of already established characters, and they were already pushing boundaries as it was. But, they have all openly stated that Will and Hannibal are romantically together by the end. Season three we do see subtext become text. Even in the show it will become acknowledged. They actually go on to be called Murder Husbands both in and out of the show itself. Opposite to most other show they were not trying for Queer-baiting, it happened naturally and unintentionally. They just played with it a little bit, before taking the leap. One thing to keep a lookout for, Will and Hannibal are not the only ones to go down this path. We also have another couple that will become the Murder Wives. So, it isn’t aimed just at the men in the show. Since the other characters were established in the books as LGBTQ+ and were not main characters, it was much easier for their story to become much more prominent on screen. 

Hannibal TV Series, Part 3

 Fun Facts:

--Chris Diamotouplas the guy crawling out of the horse is the voice for Disney’s Mickey Mouse.

--Confirmation! Will doesn’t hate Hannibal. If he did, life would be much easier for him.

--The meat that Will bring to Hannibal is Randall Tier. So he did kill Randall and then Cannibalise him. Just like what Hannibal does. The commentary states that he did not have permission from Jack for this. Jack does not know that Will is planning on going this far to catch Hannibal.

Hannibal Series, Part 2

  This segment of the podcast will have talk about suicide. If you or anyone you know is thinking about suicide please contact the National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-8255 or https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ Help is always available. If this is a topic that will bother you please skip this one. Always remember, this is a podcast for fun and taking care of yourself is more important. 

I will give one example: Hannibal is about to do some field kabuki (Thanks, Will) again and if Jack had the ability to see what I did due to my knowledge of such imagery from decades ago he could have figured out who did, why they did and Hannibal could probably have been arrested by the end of the episode.  

Hannibal: Season 2 Synopsis

 Synopsis for Hannibal Season 2

Episode 1 is called Kaiseki. Jack Crawford visits Dr. Hannibal Lecter at his home and immediately attacks him. A protracted and brutal fight ensues, ending with Dr. Lecter stabbing Crawford’s neck with a piece of broken glass. Bleeding profusely, Crawford manages to lock himself in Lecter’s pantry. Twelve weeks earlier, Kade Pruell, an investigator for the Inspector General’s Office, warns Crawford of his misconduct, while pressuring Alana Bloom to recant her complaint, namely about Crawford’s mishandling of Graham’s instability. Bloom refuses, stressing that the truth must go on record. Dr. Lecter gets to walk in Graham’s shoes when six partially preserved bodies are found in a river. Dr. Lecter theorizes that the killer is preserving the bodies to create a human model collection and that those in the river are imperfect castoffs. In the Baltimore asylum, Graham is determined to uncover how Dr. Lecter sets him up and enlists Alana to help him recover lost memories through hypnosis. While not immediately successful, he later has a flashback of Dr. Lecter forcing Abigail Hobbs’ ear down his throat with the use of a plastic tube. The killer strikes again, kidnapping a young man and taking him, alive, to an empty silo where his collection is revealed: an interconnected collage of naked bodies.

Episode 2 is called Sakizuke. The young man Roland Umber, escapes from the silo, but is chased by the killer through a cornfield to the edge of a cliff and dies attempting to jump into the water below. The BAU team recovers his body but assumes he was discarded and dumped like the others. Dr. Lecter picks up the scent of corn on him, which he keeps to himself. Dr. Bedelia du Maurier terminates her relationship with Dr. Lecter, having come to the conclusion that he is a dangerous man. Beverly Katz continues to use Graham to help with the case and, using photos of Roland Umber’s body, Graham realizes that he had in fact escaped and was not discarded. In return for his help, Katz promises to look into Graham’s possible innocence. Dr. Lecter finds the silo without informing the BAU and kills the murderer, adding him to his own mural. Prunell visits Graham in the asylum and offers him the chance to avoid the death penalty by pleading guilty, which Graham refuses. Bedelia du Maurier visits Graham, standing close and whispering “I believe you” before being forcibly removed by orderlies. Dr. Lecter goes to Bedelia du Maurier’s house, seemingly to silence her, only to find the furniture covered and the house empty.

Episode 3 is called Hassun. Graham’s trial begins and the prosecution paints him as an intelligent, creative psychopath. Crawford puts his job at risk by testifying that he may have pushed Graham too far by keeping him on the investigative team, though the admission allows him some relief. Graham’s lawyer receives a severed ear in the mail, cut from a corpse within the previous forty-eight hours, causing doubts to stir among those who believe in Graham’s guilt. Katz, Price and Zeller determine that the ear was severed using the same knife that cut off Abigail Hobbs’ ear, which was signed out of the courthouse evidence room by the bailiff in Graham’s trial, Andrew Sykes. A large fire is triggered when the FBI raid his apartment, but it does not destroy a key piece of evidence: Sykes’ body mounted on a stag’s head, missing an ear, face cut into a Glasgow smile and set on fire: all of the things Graham supposedly did to his victims. Dr. Lecter presents the forensic reports to Graham, who deduces that Sykes was killed in too different a manner from the others to be the same killer. Dr. Lecter agrees, but urges Graham to lie about who he thinks killed Sykes in order to exonerate himself. The prosecution picks up on the dissimilarities as well, and succeeds in having the bailiff’s murder deemed inadmissible. The next day, the judge in Graham’s trial is found brutally murdered and displayed in the courtroom. This prompts a mistrial and saves Graham from conviction, for the moment.

Episode 4 is called Takiawase. Graham agrees to an intense stimulation with flashes of light by Dr. Chilton, during which time he realizes that Dr. Lecter was tacitly encouraging his encephalitis. Dr. Chilton confronts Dr. Lecter about this, but is not hostile, relating to Dr. Lecter as another physician accused of manipulating his patient into murder. An acupuncturist lobotomizes suffering patients, leaving them to die in meadows. Her first victim is found with a beehive occupying his half-empty skull; the second is found still standing, brain dead but physically alive. After the second victim is discovered, he is immediately connected to the first as patients of the acupuncturist. When Crawford visits her, she turns herself in without a fuss. Bella Crawford talks to Dr. Lecter about the possibility of suicide in the face of her lung cancer, something which he encourages, citing Socrates and describing death as a “cure”. Later, Bella visits Dr. Lecter’s office after taking an overdose of morphine, and falls unconscious. After flipping a coin, Dr. Lecter saves her life with a naloxone shot. Later, he visits her and Crawford in the hospital, and Bella slaps him across the face. Katz, on Graham’s advice examines the body of James Gray, the mural killer. She finds that the stitches connecting him to the mural were also surgical stitches on an opening through which his kidney was removed. Katz, starting to suspect Dr. Lecter and against Graham’s advice, breaks into Dr. Lecter’s home and discovers his murder dungeon. She removes a package from a freezer but is caught by Dr. Lecter and gunshots are fired.

Episode 5 is called Mukōzuke. An anonymous tip brings Freddie Lounds back to the observatory she and Dr. Chilton was taken to by Abel Gideon. There she finds the body of Beverly Katz, sectioned vertically and displayed in tableau. Graham is brought to the crime scene and convinces Crawford that it is the work of the Chesapeake Ripper and the mural copycat; that they are one and the same. A post-mortem examination of Katz reveals that her kidneys were removed and replaced with the kidneys of James Gray, the mural killer. Graham convinces Chilton to return Abel Gideon to the asylum, to glean information about the Chesapeake Ripper’s identity. Graham uses Lounds to write an article, hoping to inspire contact from the killer of the bailiff and the judge at his trial. A new orderly at the asylum, Matthew Brown, confesses to Graham that he killed Sykes, hoping it would exonerate Graham, but the death of the judge was someone else’s work. Brown asks Graham how he can serve Graham, who tells Brown he could kill Dr. Lecter for him. Gideon overhears this and gives Alana the chance to save Graham from himself. The orderly tranquilizes Dr. Lecter while the latter is swimming laps, slits his wrists and strings him up with a noose, and is about to kick away the bucket on which Dr. Lecter is standing when Crawford arrives. He shoots the orderly, who even while falling dead manages to kick the bucket out, but Crawford saves Dr. Lecter.

Episode 6 is Futamono. Crawford confronts Graham about setting the orderly on Dr. Lecter, and Graham denies it but tries to make Crawford see that Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper by explaining to him why he only kills in sounders of three or four; he has to eat the meat he takes before it spoils. Graham assures Crawford that if the Ripper is killing again, Dr. Lecter will be throwing a dinner party. Sure enough, Dr. Lecter soon invites Crawford to a gathering he is hosting. Meanwhile, local city councilor Sheldon Isley is found surgically grafted onto a tree in a parking lot (for which Isley brokered the development deal and in the process destroyed the habitat of some rare songbirds), his chest cavity emptied of all organs except his lungs and stuffed with poisonous flowers. The autopsy reveals a number of Ripper tell-tale signs and that Isley was drowned. Price and Zeller determine from the water in his lungs that he was killed within a fifty-mile radius. Chilton records Abel Gideon confessing to Graham that he was in Dr. Lecter’s home, but Gideon denies this when questioned by Crawford. Gideon is beaten by a pair of guards and put in the infirmary. Dr. Lecter throws his dinner party and Crawford takes a few samples of the food to Price and Zeller to be tested. Alana and Dr. Lecter sleep together and Dr. Lecter kidnaps Gideon from the infirmary while she is sleeping (helped by a drugged glass of wine). The infirmary guard is killed and strung up with fishing lines. Dr. Lecter uses Alana as an alibi when confronted by Crawford. Dr. Lecter cooks and serves Gideon’s leg to him as a last meal. Though Price and Zeller do not find any human tissue in the samples of Dr. Lecter’s food, they do find body materials in the fishing lures from such victims as the Judge, James Gray, Miriam Lass, all the way back to Marissa Schur. Crawford and his team finally realize that there was no “Copycat Killer,” responsible for the deaths of Boyle, Schur, Sutcliffe, and Madchen: it was the Chesapeake Ripper all along, toying with them. They also find a piece of rare tree bark, which Crawford traces to an abandoned farmhouse in the initial search area, where he finds Miriam Lass still alive.

Episode 7 is called Yakimono. Miriam Lass is brought in to identify the Ripper, but has no memory of her encounter with Dr. Lecter and only vague recollections of her captivity. When Dr. Lecter himself is brought in, Miriam is positive it is not him. The evidence gathered from the most recent Ripper killings serves to prove that Will’s alleged victims were actually the Ripper’s, exonerating him of all charges. Graham is released from the asylum and urges Dr. Chilton to share what he knows about Dr. Lecter’s unusual psychiatric treatment on him, by confessing his own psychic driving of Abel Gideon. Graham figures out that Alana and Lecter are together and warns her to stay away from him. He visits Miriam and tells her about the flashes of light used to induce his blackouts. Miriam recalls similar experiences with her captor. He drops in on Dr. Lecter confronts him with a gun. He says killing Dr. Lecter would feel right, but ultimately doesn’t. Crawford takes Miriam to Lecter’s office and he performs hypnotic regression therapy on her. The last thing she remembers before being captured is the Wound Man illustration. Price and Zeller find one of Lecter’s fingerprints on a flower from Sheldon Isley’s body, and Crawford repeats what Graham said in the farmhouse, i.e. that whatever evidence is found, it would lead away from the Ripper. Drugs are found in Miriam’s blood which were used in both Graham and Gideon’s treatment, pointing to either Dr. Lecter or Chilton as the suspect. Crawford wants them both brought in, but Dr. Lecter moves first and frames Chilton by placing Gideon’s mutilated body in Chilton’s house and murdering the two FBI Agents who were to bring Chilton in for questioning, dressing one of them as the Wound Man. Chilton goes to Graham for help, intending to flee the country, but Crawford catches up with him first and brings him into custody. While Alana is questioning Chilton, Miriam, watching, “remembers” him performing the treatment on her, identifying him as the Ripper. In a moment of rage and confusion, she takes Crawfords gun and shoots Chilton in the face. Graham visits Lecter again and asks to resume his therapy.

Episode 8 is called Su-zakana. Dr. Lecter begins therapy with a new patient named Margot Verger, who suffers abuse at the hands of her sadistic brother Mason. Will Graham, now cleared of being the Chesapeake Ripper, resumes assisting the FBI, and willingly continues his therapy with Dr. Lecter. Finding a female victim placed inside a dead horse’s uterus, Graham and Crawford interview previous stable employee Peter Bernardone, who denies committing the crime. Performing an autopsy, the horse victim is found to have a live bird trapped in her chest cavity, and soil found inside her throat leads the FBI to a mass burial ground. Graham questions Peter further, who states he placed the soil to lead them to his social worker Clark Ingram who is responsible for the mass grave and the horse victim. Clark is interviewed by Alana, telling her Peter is sick and sometimes violent. Observing, Graham tells Crawford that Peter isn’t guilty and accuses Clark of being the real killer; despite Clark’s counter-accusation of Peter, Graham sympathizes with Peter’s vulnerable state, and believes he is being manipulated, but Crawford lets Clark go. Peter returns to the stables, only to find Clark has used a hammer to kill a horse that had earlier injured Peter further implicating him. Graham and Lecter later arrive at the horse stable as Peter is sewing up the dead horse’s torso, and they learn he placed Clark inside the horse. They take Peter outside, where he clarifies that he did not murder Clark, but instead trapped him alive so he could experience the fate of his victims. Returning to the stable to find Clark emerging from the horse and picking up his hammer, Graham holds him at gunpoint and threatens to kill him for trying to frame Peter. Dr. Lecter warns that killing Clark won’t resolve Graham’s internal conflicts. After Lecter takes Graham’s gun, the pair detain Clark for his crimes. Lecter then confides in Graham that he is fascinated with his unpredictability.

Episode 9 is called Shiizakana. We start with Will’s revenge dream. He has Hannibal tied up to a tree with the Ravenstag pulling on the ropes. He is trying to get Dr. Lecter confesses, but Lecter only confesses his love. Will then sees Dr. Lecter turn into the Wendigo, and pulls the ropes severing his head as blood spatter’s everywhere. When he wakes up, he is unsatisfied with the result. A truck driver is found horribly mauled, and Crawford believes it is not a simple animal attack, but the work of someone with a large animal trained to kill on command. Later discovering a couple who are similarly mutilated and killed, the BAU team realize that while it appears to be an animal, it is more likely a killer who stalks and kills while wearing a mechanical beast suit. Dr. Lecter informs Crawford that he previously treated Randall Tier, a patient who fits the profile; only a teenager when Lecter treated him, Tier suffers an identity disorder, causing him to believe he is an animal in the body of a human. Meanwhile, Graham is approached by Margot Verger, seeking insight on Lecter’s unusual therapy, and the two discover that they share similar personal problems. Visiting Lecter, Graham informs him that Dr. du Maurier confided her belief in him, and questions if Dr. Lecter has a history of manipulating patients. Lecter approaches Tier and warns him the FBI is investigating him, and asks him to kill Graham. After one of his dogs, Buster, is attacked and injured outside his home, Graham rescues it and locks himself inside, only for Tier to break through a window and attack him. As Dr. Lecter returns home, he enters his dining room and finds Graham has killed Tier, and has laid the corpse on his dining table.

Episode 10 is called Naka-Choko. As Randall Tier smashes into Graham’s house, Graham alternates seeing him as the Ravenstag, the Wendigo, and as Lecter. A struggle ensues and, overpowering Tier, Graham pummels him before snapping his neck. Taking Tier’s body to Lecter, Graham states he and Hannibal are even, having both sent psychopaths to kill each other. Crawford asks Lecter and Graham to analyze Tier’s corpse, parts of which have been combined with a saber-tooth display. Both Graham and Lecter discuss the former’s actions, their conversation disguised as a crime scene analysis. Meeting with Freddie Lounds, Graham learns she still believes Graham’s story of Lecter being the real Chesapeake Ripper. Margot visits her brother, Mason Verger, who shows her that he is training specially bred pigs to eat people alive. After a therapy session where Dr. Lecter subtly suggests that one way for Margot to get revenge on her brother would be for her to get pregnant, Margot returns to Graham’s house again, and after further confiding in each other, they have sex, intercut between Hannibal and Alana having sex and Will also sees the Wendigo. Lounds visits Alana Bloom for an interview, and after noting that Tier is the fourth ex-patient of Lecter’s to have been murdered, states her suspicion that Graham and Lecter are killing together. Mason meets with Hannibal and explains he is suspicious about what Margot may disclose. When Lecter then outlines doctor-patient confidentiality and offers to treat Mason, he accepts, then offers Hannibal one of his hybrid pigs for slaughter. Learning of Lounds’ suspicions from Alana during a dinner with Hannibal, Alana and Will, Lecter waits in her apartment to kill her. Concurrently, Lounds arrives at Graham’s house and investigates his locked barn, where she finds Tier’s bloodied animal suit along with his jawbone. Graham appears, and when Lounds flees and calls Crawford, Graham overpowers her. Crawford shares Lounds’ phone call, only unintelligible screams, with Graham, who mentions he invited her to an interview where she failed to attend. Joining Lecter for dinner, Graham provides the ingredients and meat, and is vague about the meat’s origin. Eating together, Lecter presses Graham on its source, and the latter confirms that it is “long pig”.

Episode 11 is Kō No Mono. Will has a dream of the Wendigo and Ravenstag and turning into the Wendigo himself. Hannibal and Will have dinner over Ortolan birds and discuss Freddie Lounds. At the TattleCrime offices, a burning body in a wheelchair rolls into the parking garage, and a dental analysis confirms it is Lounds. Margot meets with Graham and Lecter, informing them she is pregnant with Graham’s child, but that she is hiding it from Mason. Graham is visited by Alana, who is worried about his relationship with Lecter, and asks if he killed Lounds; Graham responds vaguely, but gives Alana his pistol and tells her to practice using it. Mason attends therapy with Lecter, who implies Mason could have an heir through Margot, hinting at her pregnancy. Graham attends Lounds’ funeral with Alana, and further implies he murdered her. Several hours later, Lounds’ grave is found disturbed, her body posed like Shiva, which Bloom deduces was done by an admirer of Lounds’ killer. Alana starts to suspect Lecter and Graham.  Margot, aware Mason knows of her pregnancy, attempts to flee, only for Mason’s assistant Carlo to crash into her car. Waking on an operating table, Margot learns from Mason that he is having her made infertile, leaving him as the only source of any family heir. Alana confronts Crawford, demanding to know what he and Graham are hiding; Crawford reveals Lounds is alive. Learning what Mason did to Margot, Graham breaks into his farm and, when taunted by Mason, hangs him over his pit of pigs. Graham spares Mason, but notes Lecter is manipulating them all, and suggests Mason feed Lecter to his pigs.

Episode 12 is called Tome-Wan. Meeting for therapy, Graham claims that Lecter wants Mason dead, and that he informs Verger of it; despite agreeing with the doctor, Graham still fantasizes about feeding Lecter to Mason’s pigs. Learning Mason compares maiming Margot to “playing chicken”, Lecter informs Graham and Margot, who suggest she seek revenge by surviving her brother rather than kill him. Speaking with Crawford, Graham is told to tread carefully, as his mutilating Tier’s corpse contradicts his self-defense claim. Crawford reveals he has located Dr. du Maurier. Graham interviews her and says the FBI will give her complete immunity. She admits she killed the patient who attacked her. She says it was self-defense, but she was also under Hannibal’s “influence”. She says Hannibal never uses coercion, only persuasion. She warns Graham be cautious lest he be “persuaded”. Meeting with Lecter, Graham boasts awareness of his manipulative ways; concurrently, du Maurier warns Crawford that if they think they will catch Lecter, it’s because that’s what he wants them to think. Three of Verger’s employees capture Lecter and take him to Verger’s farm, where he is to be fed to the pigs with Graham brought in to witness. Asked to cut Lecter’s throat to encourage the pigs, Graham instead cuts him free before being knocked out. Captured by Lecter, Verger is forced to inhale several psychedelic drugs, after which Lecter is able to convince Verger to mutilate his own face. Regaining consciousness, Graham returns home to find Verger removing and feeding pieces of his face to the dogs. Lecter asks Graham what they should do with Verger, Graham replies “he’s your patient”. Lecter breaks Verger’s neck, leaving him alive but paralyzed. Mason, now bedridden and in Margot’s care, lies to Crawford and tells him that his mutilation was due to an accident involving his pigs. Speaking with Lecter about their relationship, Graham warns they will soon be caught, and suggests Lecter reveal himself to Crawford.

Episode 13 is called Mizumono. Speaking with both Lecter and Crawford, Graham reflects on his relationship with both and, when both ask if he can be trusted, he confirms. Graham requests Lounds respect Abigail Hobbs’ memory and write only on him and Lecter, and when Lounds questions if Graham expects to survive, he does not answer. Helping Lecter destroy his patients' records, Graham brushes off Lecter’s suggestion they escape without confessing, and when they pass each other, Lecter (who has an extremely heightened sense of smell) recognizes Lounds’ scent on him. Alana, accepting Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper, warns Graham of trapping Lecter, as he could be caught by Lecter instead. Sharing a final meal, Lecter questions Graham’s loyalty and, when asked if he would take Crawford’s forgiveness, Graham notes it isn’t an option as Crawford wants justice. Crawford is confronted by Prunell, and forced to take a work absence; as he allowed Graham to mutilate Tier and is plotting to entrap Lecter, she finds him unfit to work. Warned by Alana that the FBI is attempting to arrest him, Graham attempts to further earn Lecter’s trust, and phones to warn him. A fight breaks out between Crawford and Lecter; Crawford, wounded, hides from Lecter in the pantry, only for Lecter to be held at gunpoint by Alana. Lecter tells Alana to walk away or he will kill her; she tries to shoot Lecter, who reveals he emptied her gun earlier. Escaping upstairs and reloading, Alana suddenly finds she isn’t alone; turning around, she finds Abigail Hobbs alive, who apologizes and pushes her out the window. Graham, arriving to find Alana seriously injured, phones for help and enters to find Jack. Graham finds Abigail, who again apologizes, stating she obeyed Lecter as she didn’t know what else she could do. Lecter appears, embracing Graham and stabbing him with a linoleum knife, while explaining that he spared Abigail as a surprise. Lecter forgives Graham for repaying his trust with betrayal, but questions if Graham will ever do the same as he cuts Abigail’s throat and leaves the others to bleed. He is next seen aboard a plane to France with Dr. Bedelia du Maurier.

Hannibal Season One Synopsis

 Synopsis for Season 1 Hannibal: For those who are listening to the podcast but haven't yet seen the show. Though I highly recommended as we get further along into it.

Episode One: Apéritif: FBI Special Investigator Will Graham, who is haunted by his ability to empathize with Serial Killers and mentally re-create their crimes with vivid detail, is drawn into the investigation of a series of missing college girls by Special Agent Jack Crawford, who has special interest in Graham’s ability. Crawford and Graham interview the parents of the latest girl to go missing, only to discover that her body has been returned to her bedroom. Graham suspects it is an apologetic gesture from the killer. Crawford, by recommendation of Dr. Alana Bloom, enlists the help of noted psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who takes a keen interest in the case and particularly in Graham, in whom he senses a like mind. Another girl, Cassie Boyle, is found, this one mounted on top of a deer’s head in an open field with her lungs removed. Graham is convinced it is the work of someone else, a negative, designed to show him the positives of the other crimes. Dr. Lecter is shown preparing himself a meal with human lungs. FBI crime scene investigator Beverly Katz finds a shred of metal from a pipe threader on the clothes of the returned girl, which leads Graham and Dr. Lecter to a construction site that employs Garret Jacob Hobbs, who fits Graham’s profile. Dr. Lecter secretly makes a phone call to Hobbs. Abigail answers and hands the phone to her father. Hannibal warns Hobbs that “they know.” Lecter and Graham arrive at Hobb’s house just as Hobbs kills his wife. Graham shoots Hobbs dead, but not before Hobbs partially cuts his daughter's throat. Later, Graham and Lecter sit with the unconscious girl in her hospital room.

Episode 2 is Amuse-Bouche. Will Graham helps to find a murderer who uses his victims as fertilizer to grow mushrooms. Tabloid blogger Fredricka “Freddie” Lounds snoops around the crime scene and Dr. Lecter’s office to write a story about Graham, which the killer uses to stay a step ahead of the investigation. Meanwhile, Graham and Dr. Lecter discuss their mutual feeling of responsibility for Abigail Hobbs, which leads Graham to begin opening up to the doctor. The killer is revealed to be a pharmacist who preys on diabetics and is obsessed with the similarities between the structure of fungi and the human mind: Graham intercepts and shoots him in the arm as he attempts to kidnap the unconscious Abigail Hobbs. During another session with Lecter, Graham reluctantly admits that he found killing Garret Jacob Hobbs “just”. Lecter likens it to a feeling of being God.

Episode 3 is Potage. Abigail Hobbs awakens from her coma. Graham suspects that Garrett Jacob Hobbs, dubbed the “Minnesota Shrike”, killed eight girls, but not the one impaled on the deer’s head; that, he maintains, was a victim of a copycat, who called Hobbs to warn him. Crawford harbours suspicions that Abigail was somehow complicit in her father’s killing spree, despite objections from Dr. Bloom, Lecter and Graham. Lounds meets the brother of the impaled girl and reveals to him that Abigail Hobbs is out of the hospital. Lecter and Graham take Abigail to her home, where she and her neighbor Marissa are confronted by the brother of the impaled girl, Nicholas Boyle. The following day, Abigail is taken to the cabin where Marissa is found impaled on a deer’s head. In her house, Abigail finds the hair of one of the murdered girls inside a pillow and inadvertently kills Nicholas Boyle in a way that, according to Lecter, cannot be seen as self-defense. Lecter helps her cover-up the murder, after which Abigail admits to Lecter she knows he had made the call to her father. Lecter suggests that Abigail keeps his secret in exchange for his hiding her murder.

Episode 4 is Œuf. Two Families are found murdered, with both mothers killed last. The only link between the families is that they both have sons who have been on the missing persons list for approximately a year. Graham concludes these “lost boys” are killing their old families to bond more closely to their new family. Graham continues his sessions with Dr. Lecter and confides that even if he finds the boys, he will never be able to give them back what they gave away: their families. He also admits to having paternal feelings toward Abigail Hobbs, which makes him uncomfortable. Lecter’s own interest in Abigail leads him to check her out of the hospital, against Dr. Bloom’s wishes, and take her into his care. He gives her some tea made from psilocybin mushrooms to help with her traumatic dreams. Bloom helps Graham realize that the boys are under the influence of a powerful but unnamed mother figure and uses footage from a convenience store security camera to track them to North Carolina in time to stop another young boy from murdering his family.

Episode 5 is Coquilles. A murdered couple is found in a motel room, posed in praying positions with the flesh of their backs opened and strung to the ceiling to give them the appearance of wings. Using a sample of the killer’s vomit found on the nightstand, the BAU team discovers several medications often used together to treat cancer, specifically brain tumors. Graham surmises the killer is transforming his victims into guardian angels to watch over him because he is afraid of dying in his sleep. Meanwhile, Crawford’s wife Phyllis “Bella '' becomes Dr. Lecter’s new patient. She is reluctant to tell her husband that she has terminal lung cancer because he already has too much to worry about. Graham starts to suffer from episodes of sleepwalking and continues to dream about the feathered stag that has been haunting him since the Hobbs case. He confides to Dr. Lecter that the pressure of looking into Killers’ minds is starting to break his psyche and Lecter attempts to use this to create a wedge between Graham and Crawford. The angel maker is tracked to an old farm, but is discovered to have committed suicide and transformed himself into an angel. During the investigation, Crawford realized the reason for his wife’s distant behavior and promised to help her through her illness any way he can.

Episode 6 is called Entrée. A nurse at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is brutally murdered by a patient, Dr. Abel Gideon, in a manner reminiscent of the Chesapeake Ripper, who hasn’t committed a murder in two years, the same number of years Gideon has been incarcerated. While Graham tries to discover whether Gideon truly is the Ripper, Crawford receives a phone call, apparently from the real Ripper, who plays the recorded voice of Miriam Lass, a trainee Crawford had consulting on the Chesapeake Ripper case two years previously when she suddenly disappeared. Bloom and Crawfords make a deal with Lounds to write a story about Gideon, hoping to provoke the real Ripper to make himself visible. During a dinner with Bloom and Lecter, Dr. Frederick Chilton, the administrator of the hospital, tells him he had suspecter Gideon of being the Ripper; Lecter surmises that Chilton unintentionally planted the thought of Gideon’s mind during a session, implying that, while Gideon is not the Ripper, he believes himself to be. Later, Crawford receives another phone call, which they trace to an old observatory, where they find Miriam’s cell phone clutched in the hand of a severed arm. A final flashback reveals Miriam’s fate: She visits Dr. Lecter to ask about an old patient, Jeremy Olmstead, whom he had come into contact with when working as an ER attendant, who has turned up as the latest Ripper victim. While Lecter excuses himself, Miriam finds one of his sketches of the Wound Man, which precisely matches the manner in which Olmstead was murdered. Lecter sneaks up on her from behind and choked her unconscious, revealing himself as the real Chesapeake Ripper.

Episode 7 is called Sorbet. The BAU is called in when a man is found in a hotel room bathtub with his kidney removed and Graham must determine whether this is the act of an organ harvester or if the Chesapeake Ripper has claimed his first victim in two years. Meanwhile, Crawford continues to be haunted by the discovery of Miriam Lass’s arm. Dr. Bloom suspects that Crawford has become obsessed with catching the Ripper, and is putting Graham in danger by making him chase the Ripper. Lecter murders a medical examiner who once treated him rudely and removes his heart. When his body is found displayed on a bus. Graham becomes convinced that the latest victim was the work of the real Ripper, while the first was not. Lecter takes another four victims and harvests their organs for use in a dinner party. Through hotel security footage, the BAU team discovers that the organ harvester is a part-time paramedic. Devon Silvestri, who aspires to be a doctor. They track his ambulance in time to save the life of his latest victim, but his arrest solidifies Graham’s opinion that there is only one Chesapeake Ripper, who was responsible for all of the murders except the first.

Episode 8 is called Fromage. Lecter’s patient Franklyn Froideveaux worries that his friend Tobias Budge may be a psychopath, but Franklyn’s growing obsession with Lecter is what concerns the latter more. Graham investigates the murder of a Baltimore musician who had his throat opened and a cello neck inserted through his mouth. Graham, with Lecter’s guidance interprets this as one killer serenading another. Graham’s mental stability deteriorates further when he begins having auditory hallucinations of animals in pain and when his romantic feelings for Alana Bloom are rejected. At first she responds well to Graham kissing her, but then says it would be a bad idea for them to become involved. When Franklyn confesses to Lecter that Tobias had told him he wanted to cut open someone’s throat and “play them like a violin”, Lecter confronts Tobias, who reveals that not only is he the murderer, but he knows that Lecter is one as well and feels they could be friends. Lecter passes on some of this information to Graham, once again putting an unknowing Graham in a dangerous situation when he goes to question him. Tobias kills two police officers who had accompanied Graham and escapes to Lecter’s office, where Franklyn is having a session. Lecter kills both Franklyn and Tobias and lies to Crawford about what happened. Lecter confides to his own psychoanalyst, Dr. Bedelia du Maruier, that he believes he might have found a true friend in Graham.

Episode 9 is Trou Normand. A totem pole of human bodies ranging from freshly killed to decades old are found on a beach and while Graham is investigating the crime scene, he suddenly finds himself in Lecter’s office, three and a half hours away, with no recollection of how he got there. Lecter theorizes that Graham’s mind is trying to escape from having to investigate such brutal murders. Lounds convinces Abigail Hobbs to let her write a book about her and her father, which is met with grave concern from Graham and Lecter. The body of Nicholas Boyle (whom Abigail had accidentally killed) re-surfaces and with it re-emerges Crawford’s suspicion that Abigail knows more than she is letting on. The freshest totem pole victim is identified as Joel Summers, who was the son of Fletcher Marshall, the oldest body on the pole, before he was adopted. The killings are traced to Lawrence Wells, who was having an affair with Marshall’s wife and killed him in a crime of passion. The rest of the killings were for his own satisfaction; knowing he’d be caught, he could “retire” to a life in prison, which would be better than any retirement home he could afford. However, Graham reveals that Summers was not Marshall’s biological son, he was Wells’, who unknowingly murdered his own son. Graham examines Boyle’s body and deduces that he was killed by Abigail. He confronts Lecter, who reveals that he helped Abigail hide the body in order to protect her future. Graham reluctantly agrees to keep her secret so that she won’t inherit her father’s brutal legacy. Abigail herself reveals an even greater secret to Lecter: that she actually did, as Crawford suspected, know who her father really was and helped him to procure his victims by befriending the young girls.

Episode 10 is Buffet Froid. Beth LeBeau is found murdered, having drowned in her own blood as a result of her face being cut into a Glasgow smile. Graham’s mental state continues to sharply decline; he loses hours at a time and when a vivid hallucination causes him to contaminate the crime scene, Lecter refers him to a neurologist, an old residency colleague, Dr. Sutcliffe. An MRI reveals that Graham is suffering an advanced form of encephalitis, but Lecter pressures Sutcliffe into telling Graham that he found no neurological problems so that Lecter can continue to analyze him. Graham returns to LeBeau’s house, where he is attacked by her killer, who manages to escape. She is identified as Georgia Madchen, a young woman who suffers from numerous medical conditions, including Cotard’s Syndrome, a delusional disorder that has her convinced she is actually dead and takes away her ability to identify people’s faces. She mutilates LeBeau’s (her best friend) face because she was deluded into thinking LeBeau was an untrustworthy stranger. She becomes interested in Graham after their encounter and even follows him to Dr. Sutcliffe’s office. Graham reaches out to her and manages to convince her that she is still alive and not alone, and Georgia is brought in for medical treatment. Lecter murders Dr. Sutcliffe frames the kill to appear as though Georgia had murdered him while following Graham.

Episode 11 is called Rôti. Dr. Abel Gideon escapes from custody and begins targeting the psychiatrists who attempted to treat him, displaying their bodies with a Colombian necktie. While Alana Bloom is put under protective custody Gideon kidnaps Dr. Frederick Chilton and lures Freddie Launds into a trap, forcing her to write an article about him. Meanwhile, Graham’s undiagnosed encephalitis drives his temperature up, causing severe hallucinations. Another psychiatrist is found similarly mutilated, only with his right arm amputated and Graham speculates that this is actually a message from the real Chesapeake Ripper telling them where to find Gideon. At the abandoned observatory where Miriam Lass’ severed arm was found. Gideon begins surgically removing Chilton’s organs with the intention of leaving a “gift basket” for the Ripper, whom Gideon is trying to lure out. While Crawford and a SWAT team hit the observatory, Graham’s hallucination of the stag returns and he follows it, fortuitously intercepting Gideon, who had anticipated the SWAT team’s arrival. In his delusional state, Graham takes Gideon to Lecter, who convinces Graham that he has hallucinated the encounter. When Graham has a seizure, Lecter uses the opportunity to set Gideon on Alana. Lecter manipulates Graham into pursuing him and Graham shoots at Gideon outside Alana’s house before collapsing. Graham is hospitalized.

Episode 12 is called Relevés. Following an offhand comment by Graham, Hannibal leaves a comb in the chamber of Georgia Madchen, who accidentally sparks a fire inside her hyperbaric chamber and is burned to death. Angered, Graham deduces that several recent murders were all the work of a copycat patterning after recent serial murders, and that Georgia was killed because she may have remembered the face of whoever had killed Dr. Sutcliffe. Crawford, bothered by Graham’s behavior and by Lecter’s apparent concealment of Graham’s hallucinations, discovers the pattern that shows Abigail was present during Garrett’s victim selection processes. Crawford confronts Lecter’s therapist, Dr. du Maurier, and she later tells Lecter that she didn’t reveal the details about being attacked by a patient. After releasing himself from the hospital, Graham takes Abigail back to Minnesota, to the hunting lodge. During a hallucination he deduces, correctly, that Abigail was an active participant in her father’s murders. Fleeing from Graham, Abigail is comforted by Lecter, who admits to having killed more people than her father. When Abigail asks him if he is going to kill her, he simply tells her he is sorry he couldn’t protect her.

Episode 13 is called Savoureux. Following his strange trip to Minnesota, Graham is taken into custody by Crawford for the probable murder of Abigail Hobbs. They find her severed ear in his kitchen sink and her blood under his fingernails. Alana is left devastated by the arrest and is determined to find the cause of Graham’s dementia, despite Crawford’s insistence that there is no underlying cause. She has him draw a clock when he tells her that Dr. Lecter had him perform a similar test, and the results solidify her belief that there is a physical explanation for Graham’s instability. Katz, Price and Zeller examine Graham’s homemade fishing lures and discover that four of them have included elements of human remains, whose DNA matches all four victims of the copycat killer: Cassie Boyle, Marissa Schur, Dr. Sutcliffe, and Georgia Madchen. Graham escapes from custody while being transferred and goes to Dr. Lecter for help, only to have Dr. Lecter demonstrates that it is feasible for him to have murdered all four people. Graham convinces Dr. Lecter to take him back to the Hobbs house in Minnesota, where he finally comes to realize that it was Lecter who called to warn Garrett Jacob Hobbs about his impending arrest and that Lecter has been manipulating him ever since to see how someone with Graham’s unique ability would operate. Crawford arrives and stops Graham from killing Lecter by shooting him in the shoulder. Graham is hospitalized, where his encephalitis is finally discovered and he is placed in a protective coma while undergoing treatment.Lecter brings dinner to Dr. du Maruier, where she reveals that she may know much more about him than even he suspected. Next, Dr. Lecter pays one last visit to Graham in his new home: The Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

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