BEFORE THE SHOW
@cleolinda: I am straight-up drinking through tonight's episode. #SOEXCITED #SOSCARED
AFTER THE SHOW
@cleolinda: I'm not okay, you guys, everything is terrible, I'm not okaaaaaay, oh God I can't wait to recap this
We're beyond Worst at Helping, guys. Beyond Kelvin Worst, beyond Unmitigated Fucker. We're beyond words for
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This seems like one of the reasons he's gotten overconfident about being "curious"--nothing really bad will happen, right? He sent that guy to her, but he saved her in time, right?
Also, I have to say that despite Abigail circling Hannibal’s activities for a while, I can’t blame her for not putting it together before now. Even if she thought something was off with him, I don’t blame her for not jumping right to ‘he’s the most evil serial killer ever’, because who would.
Well, and also, I think there's a survival mechanism--denial--at work here. I mean (let me pull this up), in EPISODE THREE, she says, "I think you called the house as a serial killer. Just like my dad." And the episode ends with her sort of thinking this over, like she's having an epiphany--but in retrospect, I almost wonder if it wasn't more like her brain was resetting itself. NOPE, CAN'T HANDLE THAT. She realizes what he's served everyone for dinner: NOPE, GONNA GET HUGS INSTEAD. And both of those moments came after he'd gotten her in his power with the "hiding the body" thing. You could probably end up having a lot of brain resets to get you through that kind of thing.
He just calmly, detachedly, talks about killing because he was curious, and for no other reason. He’s letting his mask fall, not just in a facial expression, but in his words.
The delivery on the line, “I was curious… what you would do,” was just SO creepy to me.
And the little finger point! "I was curious when I killed Marissa" was the line that got me, though. Because that was just unequivocal "I did that." And he NEVER says things like that, not even when Gideon asked if he was the Ripper.
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In 1.03, Abigail says, "They think whoever called the house is a serial killer, just like my dad." Which seemed to be a way of asking without saying what she thought. I do think there's a healthy bit of denial going on there. Because what are the odds that she's found ANOTHER serial killer. I'm just not sure why in this episode she confronts him, if not for the fact that she can't ignore all the little things that are adding up (and adding up quickly at this point).
And the little finger point!
YES. HOW CAN FINGER POINTING BE SO CREEPY.
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I think she figured out at that point that she'd gotten the pair mixed up. She thought of Will as shaky, crazy, too much in the head like her own dad, and not quite safe, while Hannibal was cool, collected, in-control and kept their secrets and promised protection. Oops.
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And he does end up being her only patient. But IDK, the way she talked to him in this episode still seemed to be coming from a place of power from her. This is one episode where they don't talk in vague circles as much. She tells him emphatically to stop what he's doing.
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