Hannibal/Mizumono

Mizumono
Season 2, Episode 13
Airdate	May 23, 2014
Written by	Steve Lightfoot and Bryan Fuller
Directed by	David Slade
← 2x12 Tome-wan	3x01 → Antipasto
Hannibal — Season Two

Mizumono is the thirteenth episode of the second season of Hannibal, and the twenty-sixth episode overall.

Starring: Hugh Dancy (Will Graham), Mads Mikkelsen (Dr. Hannibal Lecter), Caroline Dhavernas (Dr. Alana Bloom)

and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford)

Guest Starring: Cynthia Nixon (Kade Prurnell), Gina Torres (Phyllis "Bella" Crawford), Lara Jean Chorostecki (Freddie Lounds)

Guest Starring (end credits): Kacey Rohl (Abigail Hobbs), Vladimir Jon Cubrt (Garret Jacob Hobbs)

Uncredited: Gillian Anderson (Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier), Jessica Malka (French Stewardess)

Plot Overview

Hannibal invites Jack for dinner to kill him, so then he and Will can flee the country. This is where Jack and Will plan to spring their trap. However, the Office of the Inspector General has learned of this investigation and their swift attempt to shut it down endangers the chance to capture Lecter.

Notes

Locations

• Baltimore, Maryland

• Quantico, Virginia

• Wolf Trap, Virginia

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Inspector General Prurnell discovers Will and Jack's plot to catch Hannibal. She issues warrants for their arrests, with Will's being accessory to entrapment and the murder of Tier.

• It's revealed Hannibal didn't kill Abigail.

• Hannibal leaves the country with Bedelia.

Characters

• Hannibal mentions his memory palace and that he would live there should he ever be apprehended.

• When Alana confronts him with a gun, Hannibal offers a chance to leave or be killed if she chooses to be brave. She pulls the trigger, only to find Hannibal had taken her bullets.

• Hannibal feels betrayed by Will, but expressed forgiveness. He then asks for forgiveness for what he is about to do to Abigail.

• Hannibal makes his escape, leaving the fate of the others in question.
  • Jack is bleeding out from a punctured neck wound.
  • Alana is left on the ground after being pushed out of a window by Abigail.
  • Will has been nearly disembowelled.
  • Abigail is left bleeding out on the kitchen from a wound identical to the one she received from her father.

Referbacks

• Will calls Hannibal and tells him, "They know." This is a callback to "Aperitif" when Hannibal called Garret Jacob Hobbs to tell him the exact same thing.

• This episode reveals the context and lead up to the opening of the season, "Kaiseki", of Hannibal and Jack getting into a deadly fight.

Trivia

The Show

• Instead of the usual black backdrop, the closing credits play over a cloudy sky. This leads into a post-credit scene.

Allusions and References

• Hannibal using a linoleum knife on Will is based on the backstory to Red Dragon when Will discovered Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper.

• The exchange between Hannibal and Will where Hannibal accuses will of denying his life or at least his freedom is lifted from the exchange between Hannibal and Clarice in the film adaptation of Hannibal.

Memorable Moments

• Hannibal takes a linoleum knife and drags it across Will's stomach and then holds him in his arms.

Quotes

• Alana: I was so blind.

Hannibal: In your defence, I worked very hard to blind you.

• Will: You were supposed to leave.

Hannibal: We couldn't leave without you.

• Hannibal: I have let you know me. See me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it.

Will: Didn't I?

Hannibal: You would deny me my life.

Will: No. No. Not your life, no.

Hannibal: My freedom then. You would take that from me. Confine me to a prison cell. Do you believe you could change me, the way I've changed you?

Will: I already did.

Hannibal: Fate and circumstance have returned us to this moment, when the teacup shatters. I forgive you, Will. Will you forgive me?