Hannibal/Sorbet

Sorbet
Season 1, Episode 7
Airdate	May 9, 2013
Written by	Jesse Alexander & Bryan Fuller
Directed by	James Foley
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Hannibal — Season One

Sorbet is the seventh episode of the first season of Hannibal.

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

and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford)

Special Guest Star: Gillian Anderson (Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier)

Guest Starring: Scott Thompson (Jimmy Price), Aaron Abrams (Brian Zeller), Kacey Rohl (Abigail Hobbs), Anna Chlumsky (Miriam Lass), Dan Fogler (Franklyn Froideveaux), Ellen Greene (Mrs. Komeda)

Co-Starring: Demore Barnes (Tobias Budge), Emily Klassen (Soprano (Lenora)), Michael Park Ingram (Mr. Komeda), Shant Srabian (Andrew Caldwell), Rob Norman (Police Officer), George Masswohl (Garage Manager), Pierre Simpson (Devon Silvestri), Adam Winlove-Smith (Mr. Murray)

Plot Overview

Hannibal begins planning a dinner party, using an organ harvester's botched operation to cover his tracks. One of his own patient's desire for friendship causes Lecter to question his own relationships.

Notes

Locations

• Quantico, Virginia

• Baltimore, Maryland

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Tobias Budge is introduced as a friend of Franklyn's.

• Hannibal is shown to be seeing his own therapist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier, despite that she had evidently retired.

• Hannibal strikes again as the Chesapeake Ripper in order to cook a mean for dinner guests.

Characters

• Jack is haunted by the parallel of Will with Miriam Lass.

• The recovery of Lass's arm ignites Jack's determination to catch the Chesapeake Ripper.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The bathroom is designed after the bathroom in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.

Quotes

• Hannibal: (to his dinner guests) Before we begin, you must all be warned... nothing here is vegetarian. Bon appétit.