- The BAU team narrows in on the origin of the discarded bodies from the soupy crime scene, working to discover the killer's artful plan, while Will Graham begins an artful plan of his own from within the asylum.
- PREVIOUSLY
Hannibal visits Will and Will denies that they ever were friends. Hannibal visits DuMaurier and accuses her of being more suspicious of Hannibal than Jack Crawford. DuMaurier says Jack doesnt know what Hannibal is capable of. Hannibal counters, neither does she. She thinks Hannibal wants her to lie to Jack about Hannibal. Of the river bodies, Jack notes that someone went to a lot of trouble to preserve the victims by putting them in a resin. Katz gives the river bodies file to Will. The young man, the most recent victim, screams from inside the silo.
NOW
The young man continues to scream. He separates his thighs from the resin, causing skin and flesh to tear off. He struggles to disconnect from the victim behind him, and tears off the sutures that are joining them. Now freed, he steps over the bodies and breaks out the padlocked door. A truck with deer lights comes up and he runs into an area filled with junked cars. The driver comes out with a flashlight and a long-barreled rifle. He manages to hide in a car, but the driver finds him. The man escapes into a corn field but the driver pursues and shoots at him. The man, exhausted, makes it out of the corn field but finds himself at the top of a cliff, overlooking fast-running water. The driver gets closer and the man jumps. On the way down, he hits some rocks before hitting water. The driver looks over and sees the man, dead, floating down the river.
Alana and Hannibal are meeting with Will at the State Hospital. Will, clearly frustrated, apologizes for not being a good witness as he cannot remember important details. Alana says they need to find the truth and that neither Will nor Hannibal is responsible. Hannibal offers to help him, Will, crying and shaking, says he needs Hannibals help. When they take Will back to his cell, he is still shaking, but then he calms and looks normal again.
CREDITS
DuMaurier visits Hannibal and says she is ending their patient-psychiatrist relationship. She says she has been questioning Hannibals actions especially in regards to her attack. He asks and she says she hasnt spoken to Jack about what happened. She says it would make her look as guilty as Hannibal, which is what Hannibal probably wants. He walks up toward her, menacingly, causing her to back up as she speaks. She concludes he is dangerous. He is sorry she feels that way. He asks him not to visit her again. As she is about to leave, Hannibal tells her he is resuming Wills therapy. She asks why he would do that since it would lead to Hannibals end, and Hannibal replies that Will had asked for it. DuMaurier says then, they probably deserve each other.
At the lab, Price reports the young mans name is Roland Umber, who lived alone, disappeared from home, and had lots of heroin in his system, just like the other victims. Jack notices Umber was ripped from his moorings, thus not set free. Katz notes the body was found in a tributary four hundred miles from the river killings. Hannibal compares this to the casting of dandelion seeds everywhere but the original location. Zeller says there were so many post-mortem injuries that its hard to tell from the original injuries. Hannibal gets underfoot of the techs and Jack calls him aside. Hannibal notes that there may be evidence within the cracks of the resin layer. Jack asks what the victims had in common, Katz says maybe its about their differences like in their skin tone (this is what Will told her when she visited him without Jacks knowledge). Hannibal thinks the perp does and has only ever seen people in terms of their skin color. Katz thinks there are more victims. Hannibal is impressed with Katzs observation as if Will had thought it. Jack agrees, suspiciously.
Jack has Katz in his office and she says she didnt tell him she was going to see Will because he would have said no. She says she knows Jack wanted to go but didnt. Jack says Will is either delusional or a psychopath, but Katz counters that he could just listen to Will for his insights. Jack is frustrated because he has been bending the rules for the sake of saving lives and now the Office of the Inspector General has ordered a psych eval to determine Jacks competency as head of the department. Katz says she wont go back if Jack doesnt want her to. Jack says they never had this conversation and that Katz should do whatever her job is.
In the lab, Hannibal sniffs at Umbers body and pictures the cornfield.
Hannibal visits Will, promising to stay behind the visitors line as he was told. Will tells him the mine is there because some patients have urinated at their visitors, but that he has no interest in a pissing contest with Hannibal. Will asks Hannibal to sit closer and he does. Hannibal questions their relationship if its not a friendship. Will says a patient-psychiatrists relationship is unbalanced and Hannibal says he understands that from his relationship with his own psychiatrist. Will says they are just
having conversations. Hannibal reminds Will he had threatened him with a reckoning. He warns Will that any memories he recovers will be distorted. Hannibal asks and Will admits that Katz came to see him. Hannibal says Alana would disapprove since she thinks Will should be kept from anything morbid. Will says its the only thing that makes him feel normal. Hannibal asks him what else he saw in the file. Will thinks the perp sees each victim as a brushstroke.
Katz visits Will. Will says he will help if Katz forgets the evidence against him and restart her investigation of him. She agrees, reluctantly, and gives him an envelope. He asks for privacy, she refuses and sits down just beyond the cell bars. Inside the envelope are close-up photos of Umber. Will envisions himself in the lab, examining Umbers body. Will guesses correctly that Umber was in therapy for addiction to opiates and that is how he was able to overcome the large amount of heroin the perp injected into his system. Will guesses then that when Umber woke, he tore himself free and escaped. Since the body was found in the water, the perps hideout must be near water. Will comes out of the vision and asks Katz what Hannibals theory is. Katz says Hannibal thinks Umber was dumped like the river bodies. Will warns her that that might be what Hannibal says, but not necessarily what he thinks.
Hannibal, in plastic coveralls, crosses a cornfield and finds the silos. He looks around and sees a new padlock and latch on one of them. He climbs to the top and looks through the porthole. The bodies are arranged in a pattern like an iris. Suddenly, a man enters the door below. Hannibal calls down and says, Hello, I love your work.
The FBI swarms the crime scene. Body bags are lined up on the road. Katz tells Hannibal that he told them what to look for (evidence in the cracks of the resin, in this case corn dust) and Will told them where to look (an isolated area near water). Hannibal thinks the perp is in some existential crisis and that this may either be the beginning or the end. The bodies are merely a means to some end. That
He is creating a mural.
At his psych eval, Jack admits that Will was a means to an end to save lives -- and that he, Jack, went too far with him and was wrong about how strong Will was. Jack says he has failed he now looks at his friend and sees a killer.
In the lab, they examine a body (its the perp) with no identification, and part of his leg amputated. The scenes in the lab are cut with Hannibal in his kitchen preparing osso buco with the mans leg. Hannibal sits down to dinner.
DuMaurier meets with Jack for closure. She insists this has to be their last meeting, that she cannot offer him any more insight into Hannibal. She tells Jack that she and Hannibal were traumatized by dangerous patients Hannibal by Will, and she with hers and this situation has reminded her of the trauma. She doesnt feel she is emotionally secure enough to help Jack or Hannibal. Jack wonders why she doesnt ask Hannibal to help her resolve her issues. She only says she is trying to avoid that.
Hannibal and Katz visit Will. Hannibal notes that people used to think that the last thing a person sees will be fixed on his retina. Katz hands Will a photo of the birds-eye view into the silo. Hannibal asks Will what this dying man sees.
Will has a vision of him standing in the middle of the silo floor. The arrangement of the palette is different than before, especially one white body in the dark-toned center. Will tells that body that it doesnt belong there and wonder who put him there. He looks up at the porthole and sees the stag man. Will becomes the body in the center, then has a vision of himself, hand stuck to face, with Hannibal sewing stitches into his thigh. Will wakes from his vision and says the perp has been sewn into his own mural. Katz asks what happened to his leg and Will says it must have been taken as a trophy. Hannibal adds that the perp must have had a friend. Will glares at Hannibal.
In a flashback, Hannibal injects heroin into the perps arm. He tells the perp he is not unique as other muralists have painted themselves into their frescoes. Hannibal says he is helping the perp finish his work.
Kade Prurnell of the Office of the Inspector General FBI Oversight visits Will. She tells him his trail is not about whether he did it but whether he knew what he was doing when he did it. She tells him Alana is hard at work on his unconsciousness defense as if the FBI made him a murderer. The prosecutions perspective is that he is an intelligent psychopath, conspiring with his neurologist to create some kind of alibi for the murders. She says if he pleads guilty, it would spare everyone a trial and she will personally see to it that he is comfortable in the Hospital. Will says he will plead innocent. She says he publically, and theatrically, lost his mind. If he is found guilty, he will be given the federal death penalty.
Will is fly fishing. From overhead, we see the river bodies float just under the surface, downstream.
DuMaurier visits Will and introduces herself. Shes heard so much about him that she feels she knows him. She wanted to meet with him before she withdraws from social ties. She tells him she is convinced Hannibal is doing what he is doing because he thinks its best for Will. She says traumatized people behave the way they do because they know they can survive; and she assures Will he can survive. She walks up to the bars, as the guards yell at her, and whispers to Will that she believes him. As the guards lead her away, Will shivers.
Hannibal, in plastic coveralls, sneaks into DuMauriers home. The furniture in her patient room is covered in drop cloths. He hears DuMauriers voice, saying that her conclusion is that he is dangerous.
NEXT WEEK
Will puts on a suit. In court, his attorney tells him they have to create the desire to find him not guilty. Another severed ear shows up in the lab. It is not more than 48 hours old, so Katz states that it couldnt have been Will. Prurnell thinks Will is playing a game. Jack is outside in his car as he sees a house explode in a fireball. Jack argues to the judge that the ear raises doubts about Wills guilt. Hannibal thinks the ear shows the killer wants to be caught. Alana tells Will that Hannibal is taking the stand against him. We see Hannibal on the stand.
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