Quantifiably B*tchy: A Hannibal Fan Podcast! Episode 13

Delve into S1Ep13 Savoureux with me!

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This month we discuss unreliable narrators, the framing of Will Graham and Hannibal's ability to control the plot. 

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SPEAKER_01 0:05

Hey guys, and welcome to season one, episode 13 of Quantifiably Bitchy. I'm your host, Raquella, and today we're gonna be discussing season one, episode 13, Save Rue. Hope you guys are ready to talk about the season one finale of Hannibal. I am so excited. I can't believe that we are finally at the end of season one. This has been such an incredible journey, and I'm so happy that you guys are here to celebrate it with me. We just hit 200 subs on YouTube. Yay! So thank you guys for subscribing. We are almost at 500 downloads on Buzz Sprout. So again, thank you for being here. I'm so happy to talk about these gay cannibals. It started out as kind of like, oh, I'm depressed, the world sucks. What should I do? And I was like, maybe I started watching Hannibal and I was like, maybe I'll do a podcast. Like the fandom is so engaging. It's been such a lovely place to kind of sit down and relax and spread my wings. So I was like, why don't I start a podcast and kind of see how that goes? And I really couldn't have done it without the fannibles. Like you guys just make this space so welcoming. And that is why I chose this fandom, this podcast, to kind of go on this journey. So thank you so much for being here. This is not the final episode of the season. I will be doing one more episode after this just to kind of recap and maybe like have it be a fun episode where we go each by each episode by each and like talk about themes and favorite moments and kind of give away some season one awards. And you can thank my friend CJ for that. They have an amazing, they have a couple amazing Hannibal Fix. I'm going to post their username here. It's CJ IsAll Right on AO3. And yeah, so you're gonna get one more episode out of season one, and then E Girl is taking a break. So I will finish season one next month, and then I am going to take the summer off and then reconvene to do season two in the fall. Because while this has been a very rewarding experience, it's also a lot of work. So um I will be taking a quick break and I'm going to brainstorm ideas for season two, see if I want to change up the structure. So I think it'll be a good break for me. But to thank you guys, I am working on a giveaway. I know I say this every time, but I am going to finish this beautiful um uh crystal Hannibal mask, bejeweled mask for anyone that is listening. It is a 3D printed version of the mask that Hannibal wears, Mad's Hannibal, in the show, and I am bejeweling it with teeny tiny crystals. So it will be a TikTok giveaway, likely, and it will only be in the US at this time. I apologize, it's not what I want, but since it is my first giveaway, I am kind of nervous to expand it to the entire world, considering the, you know, the state of the postal service and things like that. So the first giveaway for Quantifiably Bitchy will be on TikTok. I will cross-post it, but it will be a TikTok giveaway once it is complete. So keep an eye out for that. I will be giving the details next episode, but I just wanted to thank you all for being here, and I have just been creating so many things that I was like, I should give one away. So keep an eye out for that next episode. I'm excited to give it away. Again, TikTok likely will be US only, but keep that in mind. I did also buy myself, I treated myself again. I got the Wilgram pop last time, and then I treated myself to the art and making of Hannibal. If you guys are not familiar, it is a book that came out, god, I don't even know when it says 2015, and it's just like behind the scenes of the art of Hannibal, and as you can see, like um, it's the Antler room and it's Marissa, and it just goes in detail of like a lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff. It's kind of hard to get a hold of. I was kind of keeping an eye out on like eBay and Mercari, and it can be kind of pricey. So I had a little like search um bookmarked for it, and I got it at a reasonable price for how they are selling, but I think I'm going to kind of delve into some of the behind the scenes more next episode in the season one recap. So keep an eye out for that. Really exciting. I cannot wait. My friend Saya has one, and she is slowly getting them signed by all the cast members, which I think is really cool. And I might copy her if I ever like interact with any cast members. Hasn't happened yet, but we'll see. Cool. So let's get started with some basic housekeeping. You know the drill. Follow me everywhere. I am quantifiably bitchy without that eye in bitchy. I am most active right now on Tumblr and probably second place TikTok. I haven't been on Blue Sky much just because it's so hard to keep up with like every social media platform. I have an Instagram too, but please follow me wherever, wherever you are the most active. I am probably there, except for X, because fuck Elon Musk. So yeah, follow me everywhere and let's get started. Season one, episode 13, Saver. I love the name the title of this episode. All of the episode titles are fitting to the episodes themselves. This one is funny because saverux, it means like to savor, right? And keep in mind that Will is on the precipice of getting framed as the Ripper, and Hannibal is kind of he's the one orchestrating it, and he definitely wants to like savor his time with Will Graham. So keep that in mind while we watch. All right, you know the deal. Opening shot. What are we working with? How is this episode setting us up with its first impressions? And we see Will with a gun in the woods in the dark, it's disorienting. We don't know if it's real or if it's fake. It's a hallucination. So, much like all of the other episodes that we have gotten so far, it opens up with something that's not rooted in reality, which is important because Will is struggling with the concept of reality now. So he's walking through the woods, he's hunting, he is seeing the stag, which I think in this moment represents kind of Abigail. It can represent death as well, and like his becoming, and he has this sniper rifle and he's shooting and missing, and he is trying to get this stag in the woods. He's running and he sees that he's hit it, and there is, I love this scene, and it's really important as foreshadowing and also just like a metaphor. He has a shot. We don't know if he hits the stag or not. He's chasing after it in the woods. He comes across the Wendigo, which always like kind of bears a resemblance to Hannibal, and it's feasting on the stag, and there's blood everywhere. But then when he looks again, the stag is gone and the Wendigo is gone too. And I'm pretty sure we don't really like see the body of the stag, which is important to note because um Abigail is missing, presumed dead. But in his hallucination, there is just tons of blood everywhere in this woods with this deer, but the stag and he there's no body. He senses trouble, he senses this other beast that is feasting on the stag. And then he turns and it's the Wendigo, and he is scared awake because he was dreaming. In his bed, his dogs are looking kind of alarmed and concerned. He is sweating. He's not been doing well. Remember, he thinks that he has cured his fever, but encephalitis was never mentioned. And Will looks down at his feet and he's covered in dirt. His hands are covered in dirt. It kind of reminds me of um Thaisa and Yellow Jackets. I don't know if we're a Yellow Jackets fandom here. I'm assuming we are. We love the gay cannibals, right? Gender not a requirement. Um, of her kind of of her, you know, eating the dirt and like running around at night and like kind of disassociating. Will is kind of having that too. He's his hands and feet are covered in dirt. He's clearly been running around the woods, which she was hallucinating about. And it's like, did it really happen? Did he what did he see? What is he doing in this lost time, or is it simply a hallucination? The world is kind of like um shaking, the camera's shaking. It doesn't feel like a stable reality. And our poor boy Will goes to the sink to wash his face and he throws up an ear. This is one of those moments in the show that I don't I think it's so gross, but it's like I remember watching it for the first time and being like, genuinely, what the fuck is happening? And you're so disoriented that you don't know what's real and what's a hallucination, and that is so, so, so on purpose. It puts you in the mind of Will himself. I do love that he takes all these aspirin because, like, that's the thing Will's been doing this entire season, and he barfs up the ear with like the aspirin on top. It's just this nice kind of silly little detail. But we're given no context, and I think again, that really puts us in the mind of Will Graham. Why is there an ear in my sink? Is it a hallucination? Is it is it real? Like, what the fuck is going on? Really strong way to start out the season finale. And then this next scene, this next like cut to Will, like in like the fetal position, like on the porch. Oh, it's so funny. He is going through it. And of course, Hannibal shows up at the perfect time because again, he's orchestrated this, so he knows to be available. He is knowing when to show up, he is keeping an eye on his chess pieces. I will say this entire episode, Hannibal Lecter, and Mads Mickelson, but um, Mads as Hannibal is doing a great job acting and seeming concerned and seeming upset. And I'm sure some of those emotions are real for Hannibal, but he is definitely repurposing them to frame Will. And Will confides in Hannibal. He lets him know that he went to Minnesota to find Abigail and he did not come back with her, and he is not sure where she is, and he has no idea what's going on, and he threw up an ear. Hannibal remains calm as he always does and directs Will to show him. Show me what you have done, Will Graham. Hannibal does a really good job in this situation, and I don't think it's fake, you know, being his friend and supporting him in this moment that he orchestrated himself. But Will very much sees him as a safe space at this point, and that is important to remember as we continue throughout the episode. Hannibal does a really good job of playing concerned here, despite knowing exactly what's happened to everybody. And Will is very very loose-lipped. He's like, I had an episode the last time I saw Abigail, we were in her father's cabin in Minnesota, and I attacked her, but it was fake. It was it was fake. It was a hallucination, it was fake. But at this point, we can't really trust Will's judgment. And I know I said this last episode, but like just be prepared to be very frustrated because for once, Willgram, not for once, Will Graham is right a lot, but in this case, Will Graham is super right, but Hannibal is just playing it so smart that nobody believes him, and it becomes very frustrating. And it's a great way to lead into season two, which continues this this narrative of Will Graham being crazy and wrong when he's actually right. Hannibal sees the ear in the sink and pretends to be like really horrified and disgusted. Again, just really great acting for Mads as Hannibal, and it's very I I remember watching this for this for the first time and like almost believing it, even though like I know Hannibal is a character, right? He Hannibal convinces Will to turn himself in. You have to call Jack. You can't run run from this. Hannibal is savoring this as the title suggests, and he is convincing Will to turn himself into the police. And if Will turns himself into the police, you know, he doesn't have to be his doctor anymore. He can just, you know, visit him in the hospital or in jail like a bug in a jar, a slutty little bug in a slutty little jar. And Jack comes to the house, asks Will, what are we gonna find in Minnesota? And Will does not remember. It's very sad seeing Will this way because he knows something is wrong. He doesn't know what he did. He gets processed by the FBI, and you're seeing the science thruple walk into his house. Everyone looks sad and dejected. Like nobody is happy that they're they have to process Will Graham and Beverly the most of all. You can just see the disappointment on her face. And this hurts me the most watching it because she felt like she really knew Will and she felt like she could trust him. And she was one of the few people that I think was his friend without wanting anything in return. And you can really see the hurt in her face, and I hate it. But nice job, Hannibal. It's a very somber scene, like nobody is happy to see Will Graham arrested. And that's a testament to his relationship with the people at the FBI, I think. As difficult as he was, they did like him. We get the be blue and yellow jackets at the FBI because remember, blue and yellow are seen as very safe colors in Hannibal, and they're supposed to be the like the colors that are protecting us and keeping us safe. So I love that little detail. And then we get to see why Winston looking at Will from the fucking cop car and being like, Papa, no. Just kill me now. Just fucking kill me now. And then jump cut to the next shot, which okay, again, the underwear trilogies of Hannibal. I know I've talked about it before, but we get this great shot of him being processed by the FBI, and we get this shot with Hannah with Will in season one, and we also get it with Childen and Hannibal as as we progress throughout the seasons. Spoiler alert, but we do get the same kind of setup shot. So we get these great parallels to compare later, which we'll talk about as I do the the next seasons. But keep that in mind when we're looking at this shot. He's standing there. It's it's the world is happening around him. You can kind of hear the dialogue of the science striple cataloging his belongings. He you can kind of hear like the pressure in his ears. It's like it's it's like when it's hard to explain, but it's like he's in his own head and he's very much like not paying attention to his surroundings, and it's just happening to him. And then we see Beverly scraping blood out from under his fingernails. I really love this scene. It hurts a fucking lot, but I I love every interaction with Beverly and Will. And she's like, you can't do the silent treatment to me. Like, stop pretending like this isn't happening, like we were friends, you're gonna give it to me straight. And she basically lectures him for being like, you know, you've always had a good balance of you didn't know if you don't know if something is real or not. You called me once asking for help because you weren't sure if something was real or not. But the blood under your fingernails is super real, and we can't just pretend like this isn't happening, Will. Like, what the fuck is going on? And she again is like one of the only people in his life to be like super direct with him, and I think Will needs that, and he's always really respected that from Beverly. But he's basically just like, I don't know how this happened. And there's this great moment where she's like, Okay, you you you deal with the evidence, will right? Like, you deal with the evidence. Analyze your evidence for me. What is your evidence telling me? And he's basically like, Yeah, it's telling me that I'm guilty. I see what it is. And I think the reason why she is like, go ahead, analyze your evidence will, is because I think she doesn't really want to say it. It it hurts deep down, right? And also I think making him say it kind of makes him confront it in a way that at this point, like, nobody else is really making him do. Will says, I can't confirm with any certainty like what happened to me. And Beverly is like, certainty comes with the evidence. Tell me what the evidence says.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Do your job on yourself. What does it tell you? She also kind of reprimands him. She's like, if you didn't think you were stable, why why were you here? This is the FBI, this is serious. And poor Will's like, I thought I would just get better. It just hurts. It hurts seeing Will so vulnerable and so framed and so sad, and like he can't even, he doesn't even know what happened, so he can't even be like, Yeah, it wasn't me. And at the end, you know, at the end of this conversation, he's like, The evidence says that I killed Abigail Hobbs, and he is like starting to tear up and like shake a little bit. It's very emotional, and it just sucks because you know he loved Abigail and he wanted to protect her. Cut to the next scene where um Jack Crawford is explaining to Dr. Bloom that Will is arrested, and all of the evidence is pointing to him killing Abigail, and she's she is starting to cry, and she's wearing the dress, it's the same style dress she's had this entire series, right? Those little like dress bar and like rayon dresses, but it's got this like it's almost like a giraffe pattern, but it's like red. Um, and it almost looks like like cells bursting. And I think this is a pivotal episode for Dr. Bloom because we kind of start to see her unraveling. She's no longer this like tiny, petite, quiet doctor. You see her lose it. She is so mad at Jack and she blames him, and she blames herself, and she was like, You promise you wouldn't get too close, and you see this kind of rage bubbling up from her, and you I think it's like the beginning of the end for Dr. Bloom and this transformation from hyper-feminine to maybe a little more masculine as we go throughout the series. Jack doubles down, it's like he was saving lives. Basically, I would do it again. And Dr. Bloom just like doesn't accept that as an answer. He's she's like, No, the Abigail's blood is on like literally all of her hands. She yells at Jack, which is not something we get very often with her, and it really is truly like a seasoned finale in that way where everything is coming to an head and like people are starting to unravel. We also get this great Dr. Bloom moment where Jack is like, Hannibal said she was suffering from dementia. Or he was Hannibal said that Will was suffering from dementia, and she's like, You fucking idiot. Dementia isn't a disease, it's a symptom of a disease. Now get out there and do your job and figure out what kind of disease he had. And it's like there was a very mic drop moment. Because like, I don't know that. I'm not doctor, but I'm like, okay, if she's right, go fucking figure it out. Hello. Jack reveals that the brain scan was clean, which we know was set up by Hannibal, and it's just like the whole thing is like maybe there's nothing wrong with him. Maybe he is just a cold-blooded killer, maybe he's just a psychopath. When in reality, the evidence was like heavily, heavily manipulated. But everyone trusts Hannibal at this point. Jack is like, maybe he, you know, stepped into the mind of Garrett Jacob Hobbes and did what Garrett couldn't do, which was kill his daughter. He finished his work because he was just too empathetic and like too involved. I love this. This cut to this next scene. There's there's just dramatic music playing. Dr. Bloom is like having a breakdown in the car, she's screaming, she's punching the wheel, her face card is fucking lethal. And it's you see our seeing the breakdown of Dr. Bloom. And I love it because we don't get to see her very vulnerable like this or angry. Mmm, mmm. Smash cut to Will in in the interrogation room wearing his little orange jumpsuit. I think that it mirrors the um the chair is empty, but it kind of mirrors like Hannibal in his in his office when they when they're sitting in the chairs. Chair placement is really important in Fuller's world, and we kind of see that here. Dr. Bloom is coming to visit Will after her scream session in the car. She has no makeup on, she is looking like a little like tampered down than usual, a little softer, a little defeated, broken. Will says, I could use a good scream. I feel one perched under my chin. And Alana suggests that he let it out, and he's like, I don't think I could stop if I started. And I think that's a great comparison, metaphor, allegory, whatever word you want to use for his liking of killing people and his kind of interest in the darkness. Is like, once I pursue this darkness, once I scream, like I'm not gonna be able to reel it back in. Will is surprised that Alana came to visit because of his romantic overtures, and Dr. Bloom's like, yeah, he didn't know, but now he does because he's watching. This is prison. What are we doing? It's a very, very painful scene between Dr. Bloom and Will. He says, you know, maybe you dodged a bullet by not dating me. Really ridiculous thing to bring up when you're being arrested for murder. And she's like, No, I don't feel that way. I feel hurt. But she's like, I will take care of your dogs as long as as long as you need me to. And he's like, that could be a long time. And she's like, I got you. I do really respect the sweetness of Dr. Bloom, even if there's a lot of guilt attached to it. She is mostly motivated by guilt in this first season, and I do think that eventually changes, but it is something to note now. Uh, this is a really good episode. Dr. Bloom's like, we have to do some tests on you. And Will's like, what, like, make me draw a fucking clock? Like Hamble did. And Dr. Bloom's like, Hold the fuck up, why did he make you draw a clock? She makes him draw a clock, and then she connects the dots and is like, something's fucking wrong with his brain because this clock isn't normal, but he sees it as normal. This scene's really beautiful too, because we have Dr. Bloom in this in this red dress and Will in the orange, and they're the only colors in the room that you can really see. Your eyeline is is brought to them because everything else is dark, and they are the color in the scene. You can see the relief on Dr. Bloom's face, realizing the clock isn't normal and that she isn't losing her mind and that Will is potentially sick. And then we cut to Hannibal. Looking kind of sad with Bedelia in therapy. He is crying. We have Hannibal is crying, and you can definitely, I think, attribute the tears to real emotion. But remember, this entire thing was orchestrated by him. So again, superb acting from Hannibal. He does a really good job kind of pulling the wool over everybody's eyes. Even Bedelia in this moment, she's like, I know you're sad about your friend. He does, she does suspect that there is more going on because she's smart, but I don't think that she understands the full grasp of what's happening. She said, you know, Hannibal tries to say death is a part of life, billions of people die. And Bedelia's like, yeah, but not billions of people, you know, affect your own personal life. And like very clearly, you felt something for Abigail Hobbes, and that surprises you. And there's this interesting diatribe about how he never considered having a child, and and and we Don't know if she's alive or dead, and we don't know if Hannibal killed her or not. Because remember, we are they were seen together last, and and she was like, Are you gonna kill me? And he was like, I'm so sorry, I couldn't protect you. So we assume that Abigail is dead. So he's crying about all of this, and maybe it's because he didn't work didn't work out the way he specifically wanted it to. Maybe the tears are genuinely fake. He is acting his ass off, and you get I don't really understand his end game. You know, is it truly just for the plot? And Hannibal's like, you know, I don't really think about death, I think about my life and maybe the legacy that I leave after, and like even more so now that Abigail is dead, and like Will Graham is a loss too. And Bedelia's like, yeah, you're sad about your friend, you're gonna grieve him like a death. This is also a good line, too, because Bedelia's like, if they find Abigail guilty, and Hannibal's like, no, when? He says it with such a confidence that it's always just like right in your face that he is orchestrating everything, but there is enough plausible deniability in in the way he uses words, the semantics of it all, that it makes sense with what you think is happening, but it's like, what do you mean when? What do you mean when? And he's like, Oh no, but the evidence is is really convincing because I put it there, you know? Tears running down his face, like it's just so good. And Bedelia's like, you can't fix him, you have to be done with him. This is it. Hannibal doesn't like that. He's like, I wanted to solve him. I was so confident that I could. He's really playing the martyr here. He's like, it's hard to accept that I could fail both of them. And I think Bedelia is like, this is odd behavior for Hannibal. And then it cuts to them zoomed in in a fishing war. I forgot about this. I watched it last night and I still forgot about this. Hannibal goes to such great fucking lengths to frame Will that it's almost like too clean and too good. Like we find out that that Will was making lores of with like bits of all the victims, Marissa and the other victims, the copycat's victims. Mind you, Hannibal's the copycat.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

So it's so good. This show is so fucking gay.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

It's like these men were so in love with each other. Hannibal like went to this like incredible effort to like do Will's hobby to sit down and make each lore with love and care and make it seem like it's something that Will made himself, and he made it with the bits and pieces of the people he killed piggybacking on these other murders as the copycat. So we see him in Will's house, you know, looking at the lures and learning about him, and and then we we see that reused now. So I imagine when Hannibal was doing it, he was feeling greatly connected to Will while setting him up. Because this is a crazy toxic relationship, and I'm so fucking obsessed. It's almost like Hannibal was fantasizing what Will would be like as a serial killer and then used that to like create his evidence. So he was like, Oh yeah, no, he would definitely make lores out of people bits. That's so good. Cut back to Will in the interrogation room in his orange jumpsuit. He is walking up to the the two-way window, seeing his own reflection. You can kind of tell we're like maybe in a hallucination. The Wendigo is staring back at him. It's almost like Hannibal is slowly starting to appear, but in the form as the when the Wendigo. And then we see him talking to Jack in his little jumpsuit. I love this line. Jack's like, we're gonna take you to a medical ward and see what's wrong with you. But you're like, you're still in trouble for whatever kind of even if you need treatment. And Will's like, and then what? I get to fucking sit in the BH SCI and just have Chilton fucking poke me and and prod me and test me for the rest of eternity, kill me instead. And it's like, that is exactly what's gonna happen. Bring on season two. Will admits that he can't confess to something he doesn't remember, and he's like standing kind of ten toes down. He's like, I'm not gonna admit to something if I I don't remember doing it because who knows what happened. Jack tells Will that they found the lures with the people bits in them, and I think something you can see something click in Will's head where he's like, Will's like, time out. I wasn't sick when Cassie Boyle was murdered, and then he's like, Oh my god, this is a plot to set me up. Like, you can see the cogs moving in his head. You see this like tiny bit of confidence, it's like maybe I'm not a murderer. And Jack, this is so unprofessional, but Jack admits to Will, he's like, My biggest fear is learning that you knew what you were doing the whole time and you were tricking us. And what what Will's like, you don't shouldn't be afraid of that. You should be afraid that someone's framing me. We're back on track. Will Graham is back on track, baby. He doesn't know who yet, but he's like, it's definitely somebody here. It's definitely someone that had access to the case files. And Jack, if it's you, I'm extra fucked. And I love this this concept of like throwing kind of Jack into the ring and being like, what if it's you? What if it's you? Because that would be crazy. And Will would stand no chance. Jack is like, I wanted to be the one to do this.

unknown 26:52

You're under arrest.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

He's such a dick. Like, why did he want to be the one to do it? Is it to take care of Will? Is it because he's his friend? Is it because he has this like power complex and like wants to catch the ripper? It's so many things. Jack is so frustrating, and Lauren's place is so nuanced that it's I'm mostly hating him, but like I also can't hate him all the way, you know? And then we get this perp walk, Will in his orange jumpsuit with the chains, his glasses are off, which is a great detail, being escorted into a van, much like Abel Gideon, and being taken off to be treated at the hospital. And then we see Will pull his thumb out of his socket, take his handcuffs off and lunch at the garden, and cut to black, and then it's cut to Hannibal and Dr. Bloom and Jack meeting together, being like, Yeah, and we find out that he stole the ambulance and drove away. And I don't think he killed the paramedics because he's not a murderer. Not in that sense. This is so fun. Dr. Bloom is like, here's the clock I had him draw. Look at it, something's wrong with him. And then Hannibal pulls out this perfectly drawn clock with like a timestamp on it, and Will's signature being like, This is his perfect clock that he drew a few weeks ago. And it's like, man, he just really has every single piece of evidence cued up to contradict what's really happening. And it's like, I love when killers feel unkillable because it just makes the stakes feel that much higher. And Hannibal is a really good example of that. I see, I feel like we see that a lot in literature. Sauron, Thanos is someone that I'm thinking of, but it's just like these characters that feel larger than life, uh, that have taken on different forms, that just cannot be killed. They feel supernatural even if they are just human. Alana diagnoses it correctly. She's like, I think it's autoimmune encephalitis. I think that's what's happening to Will. Everyone else is 10 steps behind. They figure it out, but Hannibal figured it out first, which allows him to control the narrative of what's going on. And Jack is like, this doesn't feel like dementia. It feels like an intelligent psychopath. And Jack is right, but it's not Will. It's Hannibal, right? So like he is seeing the evidence correctly. He's just not attributing it to the right person, which is something that Jack loves to do. He's not a bad FBI agent always. This is a genius interaction between um Jack and Hannibal as well. Because Hannibal, Jack is like, how do you think, how do you think that he was able to call Garrett Jacob Hobbes? Because we know that phone call was by the copycat. And Hannibal's like, I was with him that time. I was with him, which, if you're paying attention, that means Hannibal could also be a suspect, but they're not focusing on Hannibal, they're focusing on Will. So they're just ignoring that in general. And he's like, oh yeah, he was alone for a few minutes, so he could have, you know, made that phone call in reality. It's like also telling on Hannibal, like Hannibal was also alone. He could have made that phone call, but the magnoscope is not on him. So he is not being questioned, even though he is readily giving this information away. And I think that's just really beautiful and proof that Hannibal is so good at what he does. And Jack asks if Will could potentially fake the clock test, meaning drawing the clock wrong on purpose. And Dr. Bloom's like, yeah, he could. Cut to Hannibal in his office. You see him kind of perk up, he hears a noise. Will is there in the in the in the upper bookshelf in the corner. He came to his friend. Oh, I love them so much, even though this is like a fucking mess. And Hannibal, very he's always so casual and he's always so calm, and he's like, How do you feel? And Will's like self-aware. I was wondering how how Will got a gun, but he stole it from one of the guards. So Will has a gun. Hannibal reveals that he's skeptical, not confused about Will, and he will absolutely change his mind if the evidence says so. And it's again, it's it's like this fake olive branch that he's reaching out and being like, I still believe you, I'm still a friend, Will.

unknown 30:44

It's rough.

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And Will confesses he's like, you know, I would have believed that I killed Abigail, but it's the others that confused me. Which is fun because, you know, Hannibal thinks he's making all of the right moves. And I think he makes a mistake here instead of just pegging, you know, he gets kind of greedy. He wants all of the murders to fall on Will, so you know, they're not investigating them anymore, and nobody can realize that Hannibal was the one that was the copycat. So he wants to throw all of the copycat murders on on Will. And Will's like, I would have believed if it was just Abigail, and then I got so deep into Garrett Jacob Hobbes' head that I had to kill her. But the other ones don't make any sense to me. So now I'm convinced that I'm being framed. And I imagine Hannibal. I don't want to say I imagine Hannibal wanted Will to believe that he murdered them. It's also a test. There is this interesting element to it where it's like, okay, he's catching on. Can he solve his own murder from inside prison? Hannibal is, I think, interested in any in this this train of thought. So I think part of him wants to frame Will, but part of him is also like eager to see if he can get out of this trap on his own. And has Hannibal truly met his match? And Hannibal's like, why don't we walk through if you were to have done the murders and then we can disprove it? Get in my chair. And we get them back in the chair. Uh, the lighting is kind of facing them, so it's all very dark. They're pretty close in the chair, closer than they've been in a while. And Hannibal is doing this like old school therapy session on Will while he's like escaped from prison because Hannibal has no morals, and I love it so much. As they're talking through therapy, Will is hallucinating, and he sees. Oh, I forgot about this. So again, really, we we we're reusing the big the big props. We see Cassie Boyle's body impaled on the antlers, that very first copycat murder, but it's like doused in black paint. It's like very much looks like the Wendigo, and I it's it's connecting the dots for Will that Hannibal is the copycat. So we see the Wendigo appear. It's still starting to look like Hannibal just a little bit, and then we we see Dr. Sutcliff in the same like Wendigo style, and Marissa Scher as well. Ah, these props are good. I would have loved to have like been on the prop department for this show. I feel like so much beautiful art was made, and it's like kind of unhinged and kind of scary, but just the the craftsmanship is so stunning. And the the camera is circling around, and we see the Wendigo behind Hannibal. It's just really beautiful lavender. Ugh. Will says, take me to Minnesota. I want to see where Abigail died, and you know Hannibal does. He cannot resist. This is such a good plot for him. And of course, he drives himself, drives Will in his offensive car. It's raining, so dramatic. He's watching Will asleep next to him because I'm sure, you know, Hannibal still feels like Will's friend and he feels safe enough to sleep. I'm sure he hasn't been sleeping. And then we see Dr. Bloom and Jack going to see Bedelia. Again, not a character we see with mostly with anyone else, but Hannibal. So I love when she interacts with everybody else. And Bedelia's always playing a little dumb because like she definitely wants to stay in her lane and self-preserve. And Jack's like, I think he's going to Minnesota. Will's going to Minnesota with Hannibal. I think they're in trouble. And Bedelia stands up for Hannibal. She she stands up for him in this moment because she's scared of him. And I think she also kind of likes him. And she's like, you know, Hannibal's still maybe trying to help Will in this moment. Keep that in mind. And she's right. Will and Will and Hannibal pull up to Abigail Hobbes' place. And he is envisioning that first episode in the kitchen when Abigail gets that phone call. And he is, Will is Garrett Jacob Hobbs in this moment taking the phone call and hearing Hannibal's voice. Such a great reveal. This is a good episode. It's a good season finale. We all know the season two season finale is the finale of the show. But this one is good too. Will and Hannibal are walking through Abigail Hobbes' dark house. Will having flashbacks about the moment where Abigail was like, let's reenact the murder. You be my mom, you be my dad, and you be the guy on the phone. And it's Hannibal she points to. Will is slowly starting to connect all the dots of all the little moments that have happened. We're literally like taking a tour of his house of horrors, and Will is able to kind of tap into his idetic memory and just remember these like tiny moments that may not have seemed important at the time, but are connecting those dots now for him. And then we step into the kitchen where Garrett Jacob Hobbes was murdered and Abigail where her throat was slit. The blood is still dried and black on the floor. This is a traumatizing moment for Will because it's when all of this madness started. And then there's unmistakable blood that they're like, oh, it's Abigail, but they haven't found her body yet. They may never find her. Is she dead? Is she alive? Like traumatizing. And Hannibal drops this line. He's like, Perhaps you didn't come here looking for a killer. Perhaps you came here to find yourself. Again, always trying to convince him that he did it. Oh, we get this great Hannibal Will moment. Hannibal says, You're alone, Will. You understand your isolation because you're unique. And then and Will hits him with the I'm as alone as you are. Kind of being like, Yeah, we're the same. It's so good. If you followed the urges you you you kept down for so long and cultivated them as the inspirations they are, you would have become someone other than yourself. Hinting at Will Graham's becoming. But Will's like, I know who I am. I didn't kill these fucking people. You did. He says, I know who I am. I'm not so sure I know who you are anymore. Might drop. Boom. And Hannibal's face. He's and Will's like, I'm certain you or me killed Abigail Hobbs. I'm just not sure which one yet. And pulls a god on Hannibal. Hannibal's face is just, it's hard to read, but there is this like emotion in it. You know, he is, he's like, Are you a killer, Will? Are you gonna shoot me? And Will's like, I am who I've always been. The scales have just fallen from my eyes, which is a biblical reference. Meaning, you know, he is seeing the truth now. And he will says, I can see you now. Remember that for the season two finale. And Hannibal says, What do you see? And Will's like, you called here. You called, and Abigail knew it, and you kept her secrets, and now she's dead, and it's because of you. And Hannibal's unmoved. He's like, You said it felt good to kill Gary Jacob Hobbes. How about me? Would it feel good to kill me? You know he's bricked up in this moment. He's loving it, even though he's like on the brink of death. But you know that's when Hannibal finds shit most exciting. Hannibal's like, why would I need to kill anybody? What reason? That's the whole point of this, Hannibal, is that the sociopath didn't have a reason. There was no traceable motive. You would be impossible to catch. I've been saying that the whole time. Hello. We see Jack has snuck in the house. Nobody else knows he's there. I love this too because Will really figures it out. I love when Will figures it out. Anything. He's like, you just wanted to do this for the plot. You just wanted to see what I would do. You're crazy. And he's right. Poor Will. And then Jack shoots him. Will. Jack shoots Will. And he is unable to shoot Dr. Lecter. But the beauty of this scene is he shoots Will. Boom. One single beautiful shot. And he falls in the same corner that Garrett Jacob Hobbes did because this show is a cinematic masterpiece and an English major's wet dream, hence why I'm here. And then Will says, see, you see, which is what Garrett Jacob Hobbes said in season one. But it's about Hannibal, and he is the one to go. Being like, you see? So good. It just keeps getting better. Cut to Will in the hospital room with an oxygen mask on his face. It mirrors that first shot in the first episode with Abigail in the bed, but we have Hannibal and Jack, you know, his angel and his devil, this like fucked up Norman Rockwell moment, full circle coming season one. And Jack asks, Hannibal, would you have gone to Minnesota if he didn't have a gun on you? And Hannibal's like, yeah, I would have wanted to.

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Fuck.

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So toxic. He's so in love with that man. Hannibal's really playing the martyr, being like, this is all my fault. I didn't do will right. What I didn't do right by will. Like, this is it's just so, it's laying it on so thick, no, knowing what we know. And this is a loss that hurts everybody, even Jack. He's like, I've never seen someone unravel like this bad. And Hannibal says, nobody, no one in this room will be the same. And I do think that's something that really dries Hannibal and that he loves a lot is like being able to affect everybody on like a very emotional deep level. And him being like, Yeah, my actions fuck up their shit forever. Like I think he takes a lot of pride and joy in that. And like there's just like narcissistic satisfaction. Cut to Hannibal showing up to Bedelia's house with veal and like a platter and this like glass bowl. And she's like, Oh, come in, let's eat. And sh Hannibal reveals that like she won't come to his house. So he's like coming to hers. It's like very controlling, very tactical, very manipulative. But you know that food smells and tastes good, and it's probably people, but like whatever. Hannibal, um Bedelia's like, just cut to the chase. What is on your mind? She's so over it. And it just like gets worse as like the seasons progress. And Hannibal's like, I'm gonna go see Will tomorrow. And she's like, as a patient or a friend, like what are we doing here? I thought we've had this conversation like a hundred fucking times. And Hannibal's like, as a goodbye of sorts, fucking caveat. And Medelia's like, I thought this was gonna be the patient that finally cost you your life. Damn. And Bedelia gives him a warning. She's like, the cops are gonna catch on that you keep having these problematic patients that end up like dead or in like the hospital. So you need to be careful. Just a general blanket warning. And Bedalia says, Under scrutiny, Jack Crawford's beliefs about you may start to unravel. And Hannibal's like, what about your beliefs about me? Have they started to unravel? But Delia understands the warning that it is. Oh, and the ending scene of this season is like so. Brian Fuller, thank you so much for this. It's Hannibal walking into the Baltimore hospital for the criminal and he's criminally insane. This classical music is playing, it's like this religious experience. Him walking up to the cell. He is happy. He has got his bug in a jar. He has got his Wilgram in his museum. And he's walking to Will, his his jail cell. Oh god, it's so good. I'm probably gonna play it here because you guys just need to see it or hear it or whatever. And Will's sitting and Hannibal goes, Hello, Will. Wilgram stands up and they're facing each other, and there's this like palpable, romantic, angry tension. But the music, it's just goddamn, it's just so beautiful. Hi, Dr. Lecter. And the episode ends with Hannibal having this little smirky smirk on his face. Season one. The finale is so good. We see Will and Hannibal make this kind of like breakthrough connection. Will sees him for as he is, or he thinks he sees him for as he is, but he's kind of trapped. Hannibal has trapped him, and now Hannibal's like, Ken will work his way out of this trap, or is he going to rotten prison? And he's not the man that I thought he was. So that is what we're gonna explore in season two. I cannot wait. Season two is my favorite season. It has the most Chilton in it, it has such good plot. The story is just like so beautifully arced. I love it. We kind of get out of this procedural vibe of season one that definitely serves its purpose. And remember, this was on cable TV, so Fuller and Team were kind of against these like regulations and rules of like what was acceptable on television. So this was their way around it. Season two, we get a little more leeway because the show is doing better and we're able to kind of explore it in a different way. So I cannot wait to get into that with you. Next episode, we will do a recap of all of the episodes, giveaway some senior superlatives to the cat to the characters and like favorite moments and things like that. So keep an eye out for that next month, and then I will go on a little bit of a break and plan season two, which will come back in the fall. So do me a solid, follow me everywhere. I am quantifiably bitchy without that eye in bitchy. Thank you so much for joining, and I will see you guys next time. Bye.