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“Hannibal” recap (2.13): Mizumono

Mizumono-it’s the last stage of a flying insect’s transformation, and it’s also the theme underway in this epic season finale of Hannibal. Hannibal Lecter has handwritten a beautiful invitation to Jack for a dinner, a very personal gathering in which he plans to kill Jack, but Will has tipped Jack off to the arrangement, so Jack has arranged to be armed and include a SWAT team outside. On one side of the line, Jack shows traces of doubt and mountains of hope that Will is his guy. On the other side, Will is telling Hannibal that Jack will be armed, reiterating to Hannibal a plan of action that signifies he’s really Hannibal’s guy. But hasn’t Will been playing with fire this entire time? Though Will and everyone else (Jack, Dr. Bloom, Abigail, Margot, and even Mason) has put themselves as close to Dr. Lecter as possible, following his orders, listening to his stories, gaining his trust in the hopes that they too will be able to trust him, the fear of his power and control remains steady, like a beating heart.

Will meets with Freddie Lounds and asks her to keep Abigail out of her book. She’s looking really smashing in witness protection, or whatever deal they have going on to keep Freddie safe from Hannibal. Regardless of Will’s interaction with Freddie, I still can’t help but believe that he isn’t Jack’s guy; he really is Hannibal’s. Their understanding of one another runs too deep.

Before any dinner even has a chance, Kade Prurnell (Cynthia Nixon) waltzes in wearing a fire-engine red bitch suit (much like Dr. Du Maurier aka Scully did in the last episode) to shut down this entrapment situation. I wonder how Dr. Du Maurier is doing. Kade tells Jack she’s putting him on compassionate but forceful leave, and when Dr. Bloom meets with her to plead over Hannibal’s guilty crimes, she tells Dr. Bloom that both Jack and Will are going to be brought into custody for their government misconduct. Kade is not messing around, and she’s really not all that interested in “catching Hannibal in the act,” she’d rather get a search warrant and do things the proper way. Only problem is: Dr. Lecter is a mad genius and surely hasn’t left anything behind as evidence.

Just the night before, he and Will huddled over the fireplace burning Hannibal’s countless notes and patient records, detailed ramblings of his crimes, his passionate and sadistic cannibalism, and who knows what else. Hannibal picks up on a familiar scent on Will he knows to be Freddie Lounds. This can’t be good. They eat lamb and express that this is surely their last supper, at least in this life. So strange-it’s almost as if Will really does know Hannibal will kill him and end all of this, but he keeps entering into the lion’s den regardless, inching closer and closer, playing to the foreseeable climax. As the SUVs roll up to Will’s house, he grabs his gun, gets out the back door, and calls Hannibal to warn him. “They know,” he says. This is good for Hannibal, but can he forgive Will for betraying him and keeping secrets in the final act?

Jack kisses his wife goodbye and leaves for Hannibal’s. The two hardly sit down to dinner before a scuffle begins and they’re throwing knives and punches. Jack almost has Hannibal where he wants him, but then he stabs Jack in the neck and Jack hides out in the pantry. Just then, Dr. Bloom arrives and tells Jack she was “so blind.” Duh, Dr. Bloom. You were the most blind! She tries to shoot him, but her bravery gets her nowhere-Hannibal tells her he took the bullets out of her gun. Since being blind and being brave didn’t work out, maybe dumb will work now, as she runs upstairs like she’s a damsel in a B-horror movie. I repeat: You never run up the stairs! When she gets into Hannibal’s office and finds a gun, she’s surprised to see Abigail is alive, and before there’s even time to process, Abigail apologizes and pushes Dr. Bloom out of the window.

Downstairs, Will has arrived to Hannibal’s. Oh, goodie. Hannibal has his mask off now, so to speak, covered in blood, armed with a curvy knife, and he presents Abigail to Will just moments before he guts him tenderly and cuts Abigail’s throat in front of him. As he holds Will, he asks, “Did you believe you could change me, the way I’ve changed you?” All this time, he had shown Will who he really was. “I already did,” Will responds, gasping for air. Now, bodies lay scattered about in Hannibal’s home. Everyone is still alive and breathing, but bleeding out something incredible as the rain beats down and it doesn’t seem apparent that help is on the way. It would appear that literally no one had their shit together-the cops Kade Prurnell had planned to search Hannibal’s home are MIA, the 911 call that Dr. Bloom made when she reported shots were fired as soon as she got to Hannibal’s was certainly not met with haste, and now everyone could basically die on Hannibal’s turf. But where has Hannibal gone, you ask?

Hopefully, if you kept watching through the credit roll, you noticed he’s on a first class flight to who-knows-where with Dr. Du Maurier. Whoa.

This episode was a complete orchestra of the entire season, perhaps even the last two seasons combined. Going into Season 3 will be wildly interesting, considering we don’t know who will survive the blood bath and who won’t. I have a feeling, somehow, Will has to survive, right? He’s the catalyst of the entire show. Jack is losing his wife, his job-there’s a strong chance he won’t make it alive out of Hannibal’s pantry-what a fitting way to go. No to-go boxes needed now, Jack. Then there’s Abigail, whose death was inevitable here because it was Hannibal’s most precious revenge against Will. She won’t get a second chance. Dr. Bloom could survive, and she could smarten up a bit and help Will now that she’s removed the blinding wool from her eyes, but was her timing so off that she got herself killed? Meanwhile, Hannibal is sipping champagne high above the clouds, feeling godly as ever.

What are your predictions from Season 3? Who do you think will survive? Where’s Margot? And where do you think Hannibal is off to with Dr. Du Maurier? Has she been in on “it” the whole time? Or is she as captive as any other character that was swept up into Hannibal’s forays?

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