[S1 Ep9:Trou Normand]

*Totem pole of bodies on a beach in West Virginia. The arms in the middle are posed like Shiva, which, given a reveal later on in the episode,can't be a coincidence.

*Will loses time and winds up at Hannibal's. Hannibal makes a comment about Will being abused which Will quickly refutes. I don't think Hannibal meant it in the way Will was thinking though. Will admits his hallucinations to Hannibal and Hannibal just shines him on for the whole episode-and it doesn't get any better in later episodes this season.

*Abigail is in a support group with all the girls-and Nick Boyle-that she killed.She wakes up..it was all a dream.

*Abigail is talking to Freddie-she  is going to go along with Freddie's plan to write a book about what happened to her.

*Joel Summers is at the top of the totem pole- a place of honour. They speculate that there will be some sort of link between Joel Summers and Fletcher Marshall, the man at the bottom.

*Will is lecturing to his class..but we quickly see that he is talking to himself.Alana walks in in the middle of his "lecture".

*Will and Hannibal find out that Abigail want to write a  a book with Freddie and they try to talk her out of it. Abigail has a typical teenager's reaction.

*Nick Boyle's body is found. Jack wants Abigail to ID his body  but everyone else(especially Alana) thinks it's a bad idea. Jack gets a positive ID but just can't leave well enough alone. Jack doesn't completely believe Abigail, you can tell.

*I have a question:Why is Abigail in a facility where it is SO easy for her to escape?

*Alana seems so sure that Hannibal is a stand-up guy. How things change!

*There is indeed a connection between Fletcher Marshall and Joel Summers;they were father and son;but they weren't. Joel Summers' father was Frank Black  Lawrence Wells. Lawrence had had a affair with Joel's mother;Joel was the result. Fletcher Marshall probably had no idea that Joel wasn't his son.

Laurence posed the arms like Shiva, as I mentioned earlier; Laurence is Joel's destroyer and benefactor(though he had no idea Joel was his son when he killed him and put him in the totem pole.)

Laurence killed Fletcher Marshall, then as a extra f-you killed Fletcher Marshall's son. Except Joel was *his*(Laurence's) son. Congratulations,dipshit.You just killed your own  flesh and blood.

*Will hallucinates Nick Boyle's body coming to life.

*Will knows Abigail killed Nick and Hannibal's like "Yep" and then says that it was self defense. Riight. Hannibal talks Will into not saying anything and says "we are her fathers now". *Murder dad powers activate!*

*Dinner at Hannibal's; I suspect Freddie's dinner wasn't 100% vegetarian, knowing Hannibal :P

*Abigail knows what she's eating is people.

*Abigail helped her father get the victims;we get a flashback to Abigail and her father on the train with Elise Nichols.

Episode insight:

 So we have several threads running through this episode;Abigail, who Will and Hannibal deeply care for(even if she does escape from the facility she's at to dig up people she's dug up, and seriously contemplate writing a book with someone that both  Hannibal and Will can barely stand to be around; in any other situation Hannibal would probably consider it rude;but they are her Murder Dads after all.

Then  there's the killer of the week;it seems implausible that someone who is going into a old folks' home would be able to dig up a bunch of bodies and turn them into a totem  pole; but there you go;I have to suspend just a little bit of belief!

Quotes:

My mom always said start with the corners.-Price

I have feelings for you,Will.-Alana