*I'll talk a bit more about the beginning of the episode in a second but initially it's assumed there is one Ripper-but then they're called to the crime secene at the hotel.Never mind that the MO's seem to be slightly different(Devon Silvestri is doing it for one reason(which is never specified but *could* he have been involved with black market organ transplanting?). Hannibal is doing his killing because the victims pissed him off.
*Sounders of three-he sees his victims as pigs.Will says "He's consistently theatrical" which segues into..
*vocal chords, which zooms out and it's a opera singer. I am struck by the colours in this scene-red, and white, and wood, and the gold of the opera singer's dress.
*The opera singer is performing at The Concert For Hunger Relief. LOL
*We get a close up of Hannibal's ear. It's interesting to note that the music is VERY loud in the mix.I think it's very much deliberate.
*Hannibal talks to Mrs. Komeda(I always have to LOL that her name sounds like comida,the Spanish word for food.)
*Franklyn is SO stalking Hannibal.
*Jack is having nightmares about Miriam.
*"Any more phone calls,Jack?" "Why yes.."
*Crime scene at the hotel-I would have hated to have been the person that found the body.. "Houskeep..OH SHIT!!"
*The victim did not have a good death(that's putting it mildly..)
*Will sees the nightmare stag is his recreation.Funny that he sees it there because Hannibal clearly did NOT commit that murdder-the stag represents Hannibal in Will's subconscious.
*Will deduces that the killer was trying to save the guy's life but screwed up.
*Sherlock shout-out with Will closing the door on Zeller :)
*Hannibal has a session with Franklyn. Hannibal would prefer it if work and pleasure(he ran into Framklyn at the opera) separate.
*Then we see Hannibal with his psychiatrist.That's such an interesting relationship. Co-dependent for sure.
*We have a flashback to Hannibal getting his blood drawn by an insurance agent...who is about to become dinner.
*BAU scene with Team Sassy Science and Will alternating with Hannibal in his kitchen doing prepwork for his next dinner party.
*Body parts are compared to USB cables(I love that!)
*Alana is hanging out with Hannibal and drinking his beer(which we now know was NOT Beeriam Lass.)
*Alana wants everyone to leave Will alone(this, in hindsight..)
*Jack is having nightmares about dead armless Will coming back to life.
*Le veau de or
*Franklyn gives himself away by admitting he goes to the same places Hannibal does.But that he didn't say anything to Hannibal because he didn't want to make him uncomfortable.
*Will is late for his appointment with Hannibal. Hannibal is upset. We get a soundtrack of Mozart's Lacrimosa which goes into Will's dream(nightmare?)
*"Dad?" "Yes?" "There's someone else here". Interesting that Abigail calls Will "Dad" in his nightmare.
*Beverly figures out how the killer of the week is doing his organ harvesting-time to round up Will and Hannibal.
*Hannibal: "This is very educational". OK Hannibal...calm your tits.
*"Show me your hands" "He'll die". Fair point, but they *do* just happen to have a doctor there. Will sees Hannibal trying to fix Devon Silvestri's handiwork and you can see his mind going a mile a minute-he's *just* starting to figure it out but he doesn't.
*Hannibal saved Devon Silvestri's patient/victim.
*Hannibal's dinner party- "Nothing here is vegetarian". You don't say!
Episode insight:
For some reason,I was remembering that the second time I watched this that it goes right into the opera scene(it doesn't).It's a much better set up for the episode to have Will talking about the Ripper case then it goes into the opera scene.
What strikes me about the opera scene is how it was filmed-you could say that of the entire episode-indeed of the whole series!
I've always wondered how they got that shot of the vocal chords-in the script which is online it says that it's stock footage.But I kinda doubt it.It makes sense if they were going to do that with a real person that they would do it someone who was REALLY an opera singer.
The other scene that is very striking is Will's nightmare with Abigail.
Jack is feeling responsible for Miriam going missing-to the point where he's not the only one having nightmares.
He sent Miriam into a certain situation thinking that she would be OK..but he sent her to her(presumed) death.And he has to live with that.
Jack's had a lot put on him in S2-it will be interesting to see what everyone's dynamic with Jack is-and for that matter, with each other!
We never found out what Devon Silvestri's motive( MOTIVE!!) for doing what he did was. He was trying to get practise, certainly but aren't there better ways to go about that?
I can see why he chose the places he did though. The hotel made sense, as did the ambulance-though both of those went a bit wrong.
The people Hannibal kills..Hannibal feels that they would be better off as dinner(the moral of the story?don't piss Hannibal off.)
Whereas Devon Silvestri, meant well, and tried to save the life of the guy in the hotel room only for it to go horribly wrong.
It's amazing to me that people never(until midway through S2) questioned where Hannibal gets his food from.
Hannibal and Franklyn don't want to be alone.There's a paralel there in that they have friends,but they don't want to be alone.Someone to latch on to-in Hannibal's case it's Will.In Franklyn's case it's Hannibal.Both Hannibal and Franklyn have their neuroses-we see that when Franklyn is in his session with Hannibal and Hannibal's sessions with Bedelia.
There is some commonality with Will as well-a lack of family(Will may or may not have family-Dad?Cousin?Aunts?Uncles? somewhere.Hannibal has Chiyoh, but who knows how much he talks to/sees her.
Quotes:
It's a dinner party, not a unicorn.-Mrs. Komeda
"Yes" I think is the answer to that.-Will
He was removing his kidney.Poorly.-Hannibal.
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