Ron Does Stuff

At the end of the previous episode, Will declares he and Hannibal are even after Hannibal sent a serial killer after him. So now they have…a clean slate? For love?

After seeing a highly stylized interpretation of how Will subdued the previous episode’s killer, we get to see Will and Hannibal talk about how Will did it, and how intimate it was to do it with his fists. And then to have Hannibal dress Will’s wounds? Oh, this is foreplay. Will says he’s never felt more alive than when he was killing, and I presume he and Hannibal proceeded to make that murder kabuki display. I’d take a screenshot but I think they won’t allow me to post a link to this post on social media if I do.

And then to have Will and Hannibal ~investigate~ the crime scene? The goopery and the gaggery. The two of them subtly complimenting each other as they ~investigate~? Will’s internal dialogue where he tells himself that he is becoming who he is, and Hannibal being the supportive boyfriend? Gagatrondra.

We then head on over to Freddie Lounds, and she’s spouting dialogue straight from the book, if I’m remembering correctly! But this Freddie Lounds is sharper and more perceptive, and sees through the big lie that Chilton is the Chesapeake Ripper. And she’s really advocating for Abigail Hobbs, dead as she is.

Hannibal is talking to a woman as well — Margot Verger. He’s still trying to push her to kill her brother, but when Margot says that she’ll be left with nothing if Mason dies, Hannibal implants the idea of her having a child, since the Verger wealth is only going to go to a “legitimate male heir”. And she better get moving on that quick, because we finally get to see Mason and his pigs. Unlike in the book where he comes up with this idea to get back at Hannibal, the show uses it as his way of keeping Margot under control, what with the pigs being trained using her clothes, her scent, and her screams. Chilling.

So, is this going to be about the different women in Will and Hannibal’s lives? The next sequence is Hannibal and Will talking to Alana and Margot, respectively, with Margot trying to get pregnant via Will. And then the…threesome, I guess? Except Alana doesn’t know she’s in a threesome. At least this was better shot than the sex scene in episode six.

Whatever pleasure Alana may have gotten during her time with Hannibal is quickly cut short, because Freddie Lounds hounds her at her work the next day, asking her if she’s sleeping with Hannibal and telling her her suspicions about Hannibal and Will. Alana isn’t having it of course, which is funny because Freddie’s actually got it right. Sorta right. I am still assuming this is Will trying to lure Hannibal into the clutches of the FBI by being the bait, as explained by him back in episode eight.

Meanwhile, Hannibal himself is having a meeting of his own with Mason Verger. Mason brings up the subject of Hannibal’s sister, not knowing how touchy that subject is, and Hannibal suggests that Mason go to therapy. And we know what happens to Mason in therapy.

And since Hannibal Rising has already been brought up via Hannibal’s sister, lets see Gaspard Ulliel again.

I mean, look at the material!

Hannibal leaves Mason’s property with a pig he picked out himself, which he then serves to Will and Alana in his home. Alana shares what Freddie Lounds told her, as well as her…confusion…with what exactly is going on with Will and Hannibal. The conversation at the dinner table is delightful, because in a different context it sounds like a polyamorous couple trying to invite a third into their relationship, what with all the talk about crossing a boundary isn’t the same as violating it.

Freddie, unfortunately, has now caught the ire of Hannibal now that he’s heard about her again from Alana. He waits at her home in his murder suit, but she’s not there…because she’s gone over to Will’s place. After picking the lock to his shed, she finds the animal suit of the previous episode’s killer, as well as what remains of his jaw, and runs into Will, looking very serial killer-y. Honestly, it looks like a mirror of when Katz met Hannibal!

Now, does Will kill Freddie? The show wants us to think that, especially when he brings ~meat~ to Hannibal and the dialogue alludes to it probably being Lounds. And then to have that neat trick of making Will and Hannibal’s face look like they’re melding together? Oh, is this them finally getting together? Is this their first date where they’re honest with each other?

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