Hannibal/Naka-choko

Naka-choko
Season 2, Episode 10
Airdate	May 2, 2014
Teleplay by	Steve Lightfoot
Story by	Steve Lightfoot and Kai Yu Wu
Directed by	Vincenzo Natali
← 2x09 Shiizakana	2x11 → Kō No Mono
Hannibal — Season Two

Naka-choko is the tenth episode of the second season of Hannibal, and the twenty-third episode overall.

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

and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford)

Also Starring: Scott Thompson (Jimmy Price), Aaron Abrams (Brian Zeller)

Guest Starring: Michael Pitt (Mason Verger), Katharine Isabelle (Margot Verger), Lara Jean Chorostecki (Freddie Lounds), Mark O'Brien (Randall Tier)

Co-Starring: Daniel Kash (Carlo)

Plot Overview

Following his murder of Randall Tier, Will's relationship with Hannibal takes a more comforting turn. Suspicious of both Will and Hannibal, Freddie begins poking around to uncover something. Margot tries to exploit a loophole in her father's will that could free her from her brother.

Notes

Locations

• Wolf Trap, Virginia

• Baltimore, Maryland

• Quantico, Virginia

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Mason is training his pigs to eat a live man.

• Hannibal meets Mason and suggests therapy for him as well.

• Freddie discovers Tier's suit and his lower jaw in Will's freezer. She is last seen being attacked by Will.

Characters

• After killing Tier, Will displays his body in the museum where he worked.

• Freddie doesn't believe Chilton was the Chesapeake Ripper, but that Will and Hannibal are in cahoots.

• Margot has sex with Will with the intent on having a child that could be an heir and have her be rid of Mason.

Referbacks

• This episode picks up from "Shiizakana", showing how Will killed Tier.

Trivia

The Show

• This marks the first formal appearance of Michael Pitt as Margot's brother Mason.

Memorable Moments

• The dual sex scenes between Margo and Will and Hannibal and Alana that bleeds together.

Goofs

• Will turns his attention to the window when Tier breaks through, but in the previous episode he was seen with his sights fixed on the front door when it happened.

Quotes

• (Hannibal finds Will standing over Tier's body)

Will: I'd say this makes us even. I sent someone to kill you. You sent someone to kill me. Even Steven.

Hannibal: Consider it an act of reciprocity.

• Freddie: I've upped the ante on my publishing deal. There's been movie interest. Hollywood is a fine place for the obnoxious and wealthy.

Will: You're not wealthy, Freddie.

Freddie: I will be.

• Freddie: Do you really think Dr Chilton killed Abigail Hobbes? I don't. Even if I let this story go, I will never let that go.

Will: Trust me, Freddie. Neither will I.

• Bloom: Will understands that Hannibal Lecter can help him.

Freddie: Maybe what Will understands is, if you can't beat Hannibal Lecter, join him.