I usually don’t display my “Hannibal” reviews on this site first
it’s usually done somewhere else first (try and guess where) but last night
episode of Hannibal was too good to sit on.
In
a few weeks NBC will decide on this show. If this show goes out it will do it
with a bang.
Hannibal
- Episode 9 - Trou Normand
The
episode we see the world’s sickest totem pole of human beings Will and Jack are
in Grafton, West Virginia and Will immediately goes to work. Will
pictures that this killer has planned out this murder spree for month’s maybe
years.
(Will
as the killer) with the last piece of his puzzle (and top totem pole victim
looking on). Will stabs the male, an drop of blood hits him in the eye.
Will blacks-out or just awakens and is in the hallways of Dr.
Lecter's Office. Hannibal is worried about him and we are faced with
wondering is this reality or a compilation of Will's investigations.
Abigail
Hobbs is in a mental institution speaking to a counseling circle and
admitting her father told her he killed girls so that he didn't kill her. As
she looks up she sees she is talking to her father’s victims and also the man
she murdered. Will is trying to tell Jack about his blackout in West VA and
appearing at Dr. Lecter's offices but decides not to. Also,
Abigail Hobbs is agreeing to write a book to tell her side with
Freddie Lounds.
Seventeen
bodies were found in the totem pole. The coroner suggests that all seem to
be accidental deaths but Will feels they are all murders. While going over
the notes of the case in the FBI center Dr. Bloom tells Will she wants to get
involved with him but he is unstable. Abigail Hobbs tells Will and Dr. Lecter
that she intends to write a book in order to tell that she is not a murderer
and Dr. Lecter wants her to realize that even more out lash that could
come from even that. The scene closes with a person in the cold with
an ax digging to reveal another body in the ground.
Nicholas
Boyle is the man uncovered. Jack wants Abigail to identify the body
and Will and Dr. Bloom disagree with it strongly. Jack don't care and
has Abigail ID the body as he puts
her thought vigorous question standing in front of Nick's
corpse. Dr. Lecter knows that Abigail is the one that uncovered the
body and states that he may not be able to trust her anymore.
So
apparently the guy who killed everyone on the totem pole (Lawrence
Wells) is the father of the guy at the top (Joel Summers) although
he doesn't know it until Will and Jack confronts the
octogenarian in his home.
Mr. Wells tells them that he lead them to him.
Because apparently murder and prison is basically better than living in
West Virginia. And apparently Mr. Wells is shocked to find the only
relative he has he murdered because he thought it was fun to smile on the
inside at funerals. (He actually said
that) Will finally gets the revelation that Abigail killed Nick. He confronts
Hannibal about it abut Dr. Lecter convinces Will not to tell Jack stating “They
are her fathers now”
Dr. Lecter has Abigail, Freddie and Will over for
dinner. Afterwards Abigail asks Hannibal if Will knows, he admits that he does
but their secret is safe. Abigail tells Hannibal that she did in fact help her
dad meet and find out where the girls’ lived so that he could kill
them professing that it was her or them. Hannibal is revived and
wondered when she would tell him. The closing scene shows Abigail and her dad
on a train and her "meeting" one of the girls while her dad sits back
and smiles As a proud papa would albeit he is a serial killer.
The
Analysis
It
does seem like the bond between Hannibal Will and Abigail isn’t going anywhere.
Now the question of how far will they go with her or what influence will she
have on them? Every time I think I know the general direction of where this
show is going it throws me completely off. At first I wondered how long was
this obsession with Hobbs’ daughter would last. Now I have myself routing for
the newly found “The Avengers” of crazy serial killers. Marvel can sue me, this
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