Ron Does Stuff

Four episodes left! We’re getting closer and closer to the season finale, and I’m beginning to wonder what role the Vergers are going to play.

At the end of the previous episode, we had Hannibal tell Will that he knows what he is, and that he should just accept that he is a killer Louis. And at the start of this episode, we have Hannibal tied to a tree, with Will wanting Hannibal to admit to being the Chesapeake Ripper. And its imagery from Hannibal Rising, which I didn’t think was very good but I love Gaspard Ulliel.

I mean, look at the material!

And then dream!Hannibal just declares his love for Will. He sees Will’s potential, wants him to see that potential for himself, and make use of that potential. That potential to be a killer. It really is very Lestat wanting Louis to be the killer that he is.

We then switch to the waking world, where Crawford is having dinner with Hannibal eating an omelette that I also want to eat. That looks delicious. But over that delicious-looking dish is a conversation laced with innuendo, and not the sexual kind. It’s a very short and tense discussion.

After that, we’re introduced to the monster of the week, and it’s…a literal monster? I can’t tell, it’s so dark! I’ve got the brightness turned all the way up on my laptop and I can’t tell who or what it is! Will, of course, is going to be tasked to look into it.

But right now, Will is in therapy, thinking about how Hannibal stopped him from killing the social worker that framed Peter Bernardone for the murder of multiple women. He says that he regrets allowing Hannibal to stop him, which just tickles Hannibal. Is this his ~love~ bearing fruit? He tells Will that he should adapt so as not to feel the same way again, and Will responds with Adapt, Evolve, Become, and Hannibal is chubbed up.

Hannibal has him imagine going through with killing the social worker, and Will tells him that it was a missed opportunity to feel like he did when he killed Garret Jacob Hobbs, to feel like he did when he thought he killed Hannibal, and Hannibal licks his lips he’s fully erect right now.

Will leaves the therapy session and runs into Margot Verger, and when he tells her that he’s the guy that didn’t kill all those people, Margot is interested. She does want to kill Mason, after all. She talks about him with Hannibal, but doesn’t really show her cards just yet.

What we’re shown next is the victim of the monster of the week, which might actually be someone using an animal to kill. And there’s that tidbit from Hannibal, saying that the killer isn’t denying the animal’s instincts but evolving it. You are a killer, Louis Will.

Will goes to Peter for some insight as to what kind of animal may have done this, and Peter points out that the photos show a wolf and a bear did it. That while they don’t often hunt together, they could if they’re trained long enough. That peter could even train Will to do things, given enough time. And just like Will, my response is “Hm.”

But it turns out that the killer isn’t someone using an animal. It’s someone in a mechanical animal suit, and I can just imagine the physical strength need to operate that! Will talks about this killer with Hannibal, and since they’re circling around each other like nervous lovers, the conversation goes to how intimate and more satisfying it would be for Will to kill Hannibal with his hands. Oh this is foreplay for them.

At the FBI, Hannibal reveals that he once had a teenage patient who thought he was an animal trapped in the body of a human, and that patient would be an adult by now. It’s giving holding back the information that Benjamin Raspail was a patient until he felt he was good and ready to share it! In fact, more than just ~recalling~ that he once had a teenage patient like this, Hannibal knows where the now adult patient is, and was probably the one he set on this path of killing, much like he’s planning to do with Margot and Will. He tells him that the FBI are looking for him, and that he should do exactly as Hannibal instructs him off-screen when he gets caught. I’m guessing we’ll find out Hannibal’s instructions later in this episode, because I don’t think his responses to Crawford’s questions when they visit him in the museum were Hannibal’s instructions.

After that interaction, we get Margot Verger visiting Will in his home. She wants to know what he thinks of Hannibal’s therapy, and boy is that a loaded question. She admits to trying to kill her brother, and Will admits to trying to kill Hannibal. This meeting is something that Will sorta admits to Hannibal, by asking what Hannibal would think if his patients started taking notes. Will also shared that Bedelia told him that she believed in him, and it’s one thing that actually seems to ruffle Hannibal’s feathers a bit. Is that what makes him send the killer to Will’s home? Either way, Will manages to defend himself and dumps the killer’s body on Hannibal’s dinner table. Now they’re even.

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