Ron Does Stuff

Hannibal, in an effort to get Will out of jail, kills the judge at the end of the previous episode. Will might be getting a new trial now, but will it eventually lead to him getting out of jail? Yes, probably, since there’s a third season, but I wanna see the specifics of how that happens!

The first scene we see in this episode is Will teaching Abigail Hobbs how to make a lure, which echoes a scene from episode three of season one. He’s trying to teach Abigail how to catch rather than to shoot, and he’s now doing it in the real world, as he urges Katz to look into Hannibal and his possible connection to the Muralist.

Katz isn’t the only lure Will has out in the world. He’s also offered himself up to Chilton, who he tempts with the promise of getting to psychoanalyze him. All Chilton has to do is to keep Hannibal away from him. Which is a difficult task, but Chilton thinks too highly of himself to think that.

And what’s Hannibal doing right now? Talking with Bella, who is considering ending her life because she doesn’t want to see herself wither from the cancer treatments that Jack is making her undergo. Absolutely valid! However, one can’t help but think that she may be manipulated into doing this by Hannibal just to further destabilize Jack’s world.

And Jack Crawford’s world? Currently filled with bees, as this episode’s murderer of the week has something to do with bees. He’s unaware of Bella’s thoughts on suicide, and he might just find himself blind sided once again.

At the FBI, I can’t help but feel worried about Katz as she upfront tells Hannibal that she has an arrangement with Will where she looks into the crimes he’s accused of. She also lies and tells Hannibal that Will doesn’t think he’s the killer anymore, and I think she is severely underestimating Hannibal.

Over at Chilton’s hospital, Will is being drugged by Chilton because Chilton wants to be sure that Will is telling him the truth. But Chilton’s decision unintentionally clears Will’s mind and exposes what Hannibal did to him — inducing the seizures and the blackouts he experienced in season one. However, it also looks like Will underestimated Chilton’s sleaziness as well because Chilton has no qualms sharing what he’s learned from the session with Hannibal.

At the Crawford house, Bella and Jack are getting high and Jack is trying to convince Bella to try out more cancer treatments. Bella expresses her desire to not be remembered as someone sick, and to Jack’s credit, he says he’ll only remember her as the beautiful woman that she is. I really like how they’ve expanded Bella’s role in this adaptation, since she’s always been just in the background in the books. But then again, you don’t hire Gina Torres just to put her in the background.

We then get back to this week’s murderer, whos is this hippy dippy white lady who lobotomizes her victims and takes out their eyes, giving the audience some truly unsettling images.

The inspection of the victim, however, provides Katz with an epiphany with regards to the body of the Muralist. The stitches are hiding stitches and the fact that the Muralist’s kidney was taken, preserved for some dish Hannibal’s going to eat in the future.

Back in Chilton’s hospital, Will’s memories are starting to come back now that the floodgates have opened. He finally recalls the conversation between Hannibal and Abel Gideon in episode 11 of the first season, where Hannibal practically confesses that he’s the Chesapeake Ripper.

The next day, Katz brings her findings to Will and also mentions that she asked Hannibal to look at the Muralist’s body with her, leading Will to warn her that Hannibal is going to know that she’s got an agenda going and that she should stay away from him. Their conversation also leads Will to another realization: Hannibal is eating the organs he removes, and that he may have fed Will Cassie Boyle.

Meanwhile, in an anticlimactic turn of events for me, the Bee Lady doesn’t even resist her arrest, just offering herself up to the FBI and confessing to what she’s done. They don’t even show how they figured out she was doing it, but I think it’s because she’s there to emphasize and explain the decision that Bella wants to make about her own life, and how Hannibal robs her of that decision. Can’t blame Bella for slapping him at the hospital!

While Hannibal’s getting slapped, Katz is at his home looking for evidence of his cannibalism. I’m not gonna lie, I do not feel good about Katz being in Hannibal’s home. Is she going to get caught? Is she going to get killed? And…well. Hannibal catches her in his pantry. I hate life.