[S2 Ep 9: Shiizakana]

*Will's dream; Will wants the truth from Hannibal and he'll tie Hannibal to a tree and make the Ravenstag pull the rope if he has to-and he does!)

*Hannibal throws the word "Love" around way too easily(and people wonder why Hannigram shippers exist!)

*Will doesn't get what he wants from Hannibal so the rope goes so tight we see a geyser of blood.

*a dinner scene with Jack and Hannibal at Hannibal's house(I'd like to see more of people's houses on this show;we've only seen the downstairs of Will's house and the kitchen, the living room at Alana's, and the bedroom at Jack's)

*Guy out walking in the snow-by himself, late at night-you know(this being Hannibal)that it is not going to end well.And yes, he gets attacked by the manbearwolf.

*We get a flashback to the previous episode when Will is in therapy with Hannibal. There are lots of closeups in the therapy scene and in this episode in general.

*Will meets Margot Verger as she is walking into Hannibal's office and  he is leaving.

*Hannibal has the most redoinkulous hat on at the first crime scene.

*Will visits Peter Bernadone(from the previous episode) to see if he had any insight(which he does, and he tells Will that man is the only creature that kills to kill.

*We get a glimpse of Randall Tier, and of his manbearwolf getup.

*The second victims are killed, this time out in the woods.

*Eventually they figure out that it's a man who wants to be an animal.Of course, Hannibal just *happens* to have had a patient that fit that description in the past.

*We get a great Price/Zeller scene(hope we get a few of those in S3!)

*Hannibal goes to Randall Tier to warn him that the  authorities know what is going on, and will be paying him a visit soon

*Which they do. Randall insists that he's OK now and says  he knows who he is now(an echoing/parallel to Will, perhaps?)

*Margot shows up at Will's and they compare notes about Hannibal.

*The next day Will tells Hannibal this-and that Bedelia visited him before she took off-and that she believed him. So now that's out in the open.

*Will is at home and the dogs start freaking out. One of them gets out and run off. Will(rather wisely) gets a gun and goes after him. The dog is hurt. Then Will hears something. Sabre Tooth Randall comes crashing through his window.

*Then the scene goes to Randall Tier, dead, laid out on Hannibal's dining room table. He says that he and Will are even, Even Steven.


Episode insight:

This is a freaky episode. OK, you could say that about almost *any* episode of Hannibal,but this comes right after an episode where someone was stuffed inside of a horse.

This is also the same show that has had "angels",a mushroom farm(don't ask if you're not a Fannibal and are reading this and don't have a strong stomach) and a totem pole made out of bodies.

But this episode's manbearwolf-now *that* is freaky.Especially how he kills is freaky(it's "spot the horror trope" in the scenes where the victims are killed,especially the first victim.

Then we have Will and Margot and their respective damage. This is what leads to the Will-Margot hookup(and the desire to have an heir but more about that in next episode's episode insight!)


Quotes:

Typhoid and Swans..they come from the same place-Hannibal

Adapt.Evolve.Become-Will

The wrong parts and the wrong proclivity for parts-Margot