Ron Does Stuff

It’s the penultimate episode! Let’s dive right in!

At the end of the previous episode, we saw that Freddie Lounds is very much alive and that Will is very angry that Mason Verger gave Margot a hysterectomy she did not want. He implants the idea in Mason’s head of feeding Hannibal to his pigs, so at the this point we just need to watch the pieces fall into place.

Hannibal and Will are face to face again for therapy, or at least that’s what it’s supposed to be. I think Hannibal already has an idea of what is going on, but Will is slippery enough to make him unsure about what Will’s true intentions are. Like Hannibal said, the two of them are the same, which means they can deceive each other.

It’s an honest and refreshing conversation the two of them have, with no deception — I think — and all their cards on the table. The conversation is also darkly funny, especially now that Will can just say out loud that Hannibal eats people. We also see Will indulging in a fantasy of killing. Unlike the first season, the idea of taking someone’s life no longer unbalances him. Or at least, taking Hannibal’s life.

After the title credits, we see Hannibal hiding a scalpel up his sleeve as he talks with Mason Verger, who is confronting him about Margot. All throughout the conversation, Mason is just discourteous and moves like someone who’s never had to think about anyone but himself, and of course it irks Hannibal. Hannibal’s face when Mason stabs the chair? Hilarious, at least to me.

While that’s happening, Will is with Margot, and we get to see her scarred body from the abuse she’s suffered from Mason, including the hysterectomy. A hysterectomy that’s left her with a scar, one that Mason instructed the doctors to leave. Oh no wait, this meeting isn’t just with Will, it’s also with Hannibal. They’re doing a group therapy session, I guess?

We’re then shown Will reporting to Jack, and I’m trying to figure out if Will’s lying or not because surely Hannibal hasn’t just been saying vagaries. Jack is getting impatient, which makes Will reveal that Hannibal is trying to manipulate him into killing Mason, and that Will has been trying to manipulate Hannibal into killing Mason. But Jack is done with just letting the murder husbands move at their own pace and he’s brought in Bedelia.

Will is the one interrogating Bedelia, and we find out that the patient that died under her care? She killed him. But then she gives Jack a look, so is she covering up for Hannibal? She says it was done in self-defense, but also adds that she was influenced by Hannibal to do so. She makes the distinction that she wasn’t coerced to kill but persuaded to, which really puts into question Will’s innocence. Has he been a killer all along?

Will then meets up with Hannibal again after that conversation with Bedelia, and they talk about Mason Verger being an opportunity and a pleasure they can share. OH I BET. But Will isn’t at a disadvantage now since he no longer has encephalitis. He recognizes that Hannibal is removing everything in his life like Lestat did to Louis in the first episode of Interview with the Vampire, and he emphasizes to Hannibal that they are both alone, with the insinuation being they wouldn’t be alone if they were together. Bedelia back at the FBI doesn’t think that’s the case though, warning that if they think they’re going to catch Hannibal, it’s because Hannibal wants them to think that it’s happening.

We then get Jack over at Hannibal’s, ready to eat fancy gelatin. Just like with any breakfast/lunch/dinner at Hannibal’s place, the conversation is filled with innuendo, and you as an audience member aren’t fully sure if Hannibal is aware he’s being entrapped or not.

And the answer may be not! Mason’s goons visit him at his office, and while he manages to put up a valiant fight, they succeed in capturing him. Now the trio are face-to-face-to-face: Hannibal, Will, and Mason. It looks like Will is going to stab Hannibal to give Mason’s pigs a taste, but then he whirls him around and frees him from his constraints. He doesn’t get to see what happens next as he gets knocked out, but when he regains consciousness, Mason’s minion has been fed to the pigs.

Mason, on the other hand, is with Hannibal, and he gets the treatment he gets in the book. It’s very well-shot, because it did genuinely look like what a psychedelic trip would feel like. AND THEN, we find out that Hannibal and Mason weren’t at Hannibal’s office. THEY WERE IN WILL’S HOME AND MASON’S FEEDING THE DOGS WITH PIECES OF HIS FACE.

ALSO HANNIBAL WAS STILL THERE. Can I just say it’s crazy that Will and Hannibal are having a conversation about mercy and murder while Mason is eating his own nose. The two of them having a conversation about what to do with Mason like a couple?

After all of that, we get Mason as he is in the book and movie, one who is now left in the care of his sister Margot. Margot promises to take care of him the same way he took care of her, and boy is that a loaded statement.

You know what else is going to be full of loads? Hannibal and Will, who are talking about Achilles and Patroclus back at what I am assuming is Hannibal’s office. Hannibal talking about how it took divine intervention to take Achilles and Patroclus down WHAT IS THIS MALICIOUS GAY FAGGOTRY.

But it turns out that Will is pushing Hannibal’s buttons! He’s sending him over to Jack, back to that scene from the first episode of this season.

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