Ron Does Stuff

It’s been quite a while since I watched an episode! Work and my personal life has been pretty hectic and I also found myself sucked into newer shows but I’m back to it now!

It’s the penultimate episode of season one, and at the end of the previous episode we saw Hannibal manipulate Will and get rid of Gideon at the same time. All in the name of friendship!

At the start of this episode, Will is visiting Georgia Madchen, the killer from episode 10 that Will sort of has a connection with, owing to the fact that both of them feel lost and like they do not exist in this world. Will’s trying to make her feel better about the state of things right now but since I know how things end for her, it’s mostly a futile task.

Georgia isn’t giving a rosy picture of Will’s future either, telling him that they’re going to be misdiagnosing Will and that whatever treatments they recommend for him or her don’t always work. What’s horrible is someone does know what’s wrong with Will and he’s keeping it to himself! Even more horrible is Georgia thinks it was Will she saw murdering the doctor when it was actually Hannibal.

And where is Hannibal? Feeding Will fancy chicken soup is where he is. Did somebody say Chicken Noodle Soup?

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Hannibal is also gaslighting Will, continuing the fiction that he’s suffering from a mental illness when he’s not. He’s keeping Will’s sickness from Crawford and is also monitoring if Georgia has recalled that he was the one who killed the doctor. Which she won’t be doing anytime soon because Hannibal, by leaving a comb in Georgia’s hyperbaric chamber, has lit her on fire. That’s also one less support system for Will.

Meanwhile, Abigail Hobbs and Lounds are planning her tell-all book, I can’t remember what Abigail’s plan was with her bringing up Nick Boyle and I don’t remember Lounds talking about how she thinks Will is a killer but I guess that’s for the better because it’s interesting to watch now.

Back at Will’s home, he starts seeing Georgia at night and this image truly was unsettling for me the first time it flashed on the screen. And the way they made her move? Shivers.

The dream/vision shows Georgia being impaled by the Dire Deer that Will always sees whenever Hannibal is involved and Will takes this as a sign that Georgia was murdered. He tells Crawford about his suspicions but Crawford is naturally cautious and suspicious but Will convinces him anyway, leading to the discovery of the comb in what was left of the hyperbaric chamber. And when Will talks it out loud he recognizes the connections between the murders of Cassie Boyle, Marissa Schur, and Dr. Sutcliffe. He’s realizing that it’s the Chesapeake Ripper that is doing the killings, but he doesn’t know yet that Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper.

Crawford, on the other hand, remains dubious about Will’s assertions and has unfortunately turned to Hannibal for advice. Crawford thinks that Will is protecting Abigail Hobbs and possibly hiding her involvement in more than just her father’s killings, not knowing that it’s Hannibal and Abigail’s relationship he should be worried about.

But Hannibal isn’t the only psychiatrist that Crawford is talking to. He’s also talking to Bedelia and telling her that he suspects Hannibal of withholding information pertinent to an investigation, which he is, but not the information Crawford thinks. His conversation with Bedelia makes him suspect Will of something even more and he tasks the rest of the team to look at the details of the Garret Jacob Hobbs case again.

Meanwhile, Will and Abigail talk about what it feels to kill and how it affects you afterward, something that I really admire about the show. It’s rare to see shows like this one dwell so much and truly get into the layers of what it means to take a life, even just one life. It really underscores how important a life is and how abhorrent the violence in the show is. And there’s not even a lot of violence shown, let’s be honest! ANYWAYS. At the end of their talk, Will asks for Abigail’s help to catch the killers of Marissa Schur and Cassie Boyle. Oh boy.

That killer, Hannibal, is currently at Bedelia’s office, and Bedelia is not happy about Crawford’s visit. She asks Hannibal point-blank if he’s protecting Will and they engage in a little verbal back-to-back that I admit I had to listen to a few times to get what they were saying. I’m dumb, y’all!

Will definitely isn’t dumb, but he’s definitely lacking all the information he needs to not provide Hannibal with all the information needed to set him up. During their counseling session, Will tells Hannibal about his plant to take Abigail back to Minnesota and reconstruct the movements of the copycat killer/the Chesapeake Ripper and since he’s got a heads-up anyway, Hannibal can think of a way to derail this and avoid being discovered.

Over at the FBI, they find evidence that implicates Abigail as an accomplice of her father — which is true! — but Crawford makes the wrong leap by thinking that Abigail was the one that performed Hannibal’s crimes. Lound’s further fuels Crawford’s suspicions by telling him that Will and Abigail have snuck out. It’s information that he takes to Hannibal, who is smart enough to turn it to his favor and make it appear that Will’s bouts of lost time are signs of him disassociating and committing the murders of the Chesapeake Ripper. A little voice snippet of Will talking about Marissa Schur helps Crawford jump to believable conclusions given the information available to him.

Can I just say, the face Mads makes as Laurence Fishburne exits the scene? The quick change from remorse at not telling Crawford about Will’s “actions” to that smidge of smugness at wiggling out of being caught? Chef’s kiss.

Will and Abigail go back to her father’s hunting lodge and Abigail confesses to her role in her father’s killings, albeit in an indirect way by talking about hunting and fishing. Or at least that’s what Will figures out in his head because I did not remember this happening so I actually thought Will impaled her on those antlers! And then it turns out it’s another fakeout because Will hasn’t even left the plane yet! I really do not remember these scenes!

AND I AM FOOLED ONCE AGAIN BECAUSE APPARENTLY THE HUNTING LODGE SCENES DID HAPPEN BECAUSE ABIGAIL JUST TOLD ALL OF THIS TO HANNIBAL, WHO SHE’S MET IN ANOTHER LOCATION. I’m as disorientated as Will right now!

Just like me, Abigail also gets surprised. Hannibal comes clean about his motives, telling her that he called her father to see what would happen and that he wanted her to kill Nick Boyle. And that he’s going to be killing her now.