Hannibal Recap: “Relevés”

by Veronique Medrano:

Hannibal Recap: “Relevés”
Original Air Date (NBC): Thursday June 13, 2013
Season 1 Episode 12

A Spark

We pick up our tale with Will Graham visiting Georgia in her Oxygen Box. It is a very sweet moment as Graham comments on Georgia’s beauty and they make small talk. Dr. Lecter is then shown entering Graham’s room with a ‘fancy’ chicken soup. Lecter questions Graham for walking around the hospital and what he’s heard from Georgia on what she can remember about what happened. Graham tells Lecter that she hasn’t mentioned anything and further adds that it doesn’t seem that Georgia wants to remember what
happened.

We focus back on Georgia, who wakes up to a sound, but doesn’t see the cause. She shrugs it off and notices a comb in front of her. Georgia begins to brush her hair and look at herself in the mirror. Possibly thinking about what Will saying she was pretty, and then the spark starts. The friction of the brush through her hair ’causes a spark that ignites the oxygen in the box. She is set aflame, and slow pan of the camera, makes it all the more uncomfortable to watch as she burns alive.

Back home, Graham once again wakes up in the middle of the night to find Georgia creepily standing in front of him. Will follows her out the door and as he stand there in the snow, she asks for him to ‘See’. Stag horns pierce her chest and she begins to burn. When the ashes fade, the stag stands in her stead. He wakes up to find himself drenched in sweat still in the hospital. Graham checks himself out of the hospital and confronts Crawford on the status of the case. Graham doesn’t believe that she committed suicide or that she killed Dr. Du Maurier. The forensic team finds a piece of melted comb in the chamber and as Will breaks down her death and the murder of Dr. Chilton he chalks it up to another attack from the copycat killer.

Graham is pulling up red flags with Lecter and Crawford. As he sneaks Abigail out to try and find something that helps them figure out who the copycat killer is, Crawford meets with Lecter who places the puzzle pieces of Will’s dissociation of time. Crawford is angry at Lecter for not revealing this bit of information sooner, and as they start to think about where Will might have been there is a strong predilection that Graham may be the copycat killer.

All the while, Graham and Abigail head out to the cabin where they found her friend’s body. As they are surrounded by deer antlers, Abigail asks Graham if he fished. When he acknowledges, she replies that its a lot like hunting ’cause you use the stalk the prey and lure it in. This hits something in Graham’s thought process, and he asks her what her role in the murders was. When Abigail acknowledges that she lured the girls her father killed, he pins her to a set of antlers. He snaps back to reality and tells Abigail that he knows she had a role in the murder of Nicholas Boyle (which I thought we already covered), and had a hand in the death of all the girls killed.

Graham wake up in the cabin of the airplane, not sure as to how he got there.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Abigail Hobbs returns with a plan. She,along with Freddie Lounds, are planning a book about the killings her father committed. Freddie brings up the fact that Nick Boyle, the young man Abigail killed in fear at her home and blamed for the murder of her friend, was not a killer. This leaves Abigail visibly shaken. Freddie explains to Abigail that she’s interviewed enough killers to know the difference between one that is or isn’t.

Abigail and Will sit and talk about the feeling of killing someone. Abigail admits that when she killed Nick Boyle she didn’t feel bad about it, if anything it felt good. Abigail asks will if he felt the same when he killed her father. Will tells her that at first he was afraid, but that soon afterwards he felt powerful. They delve further into the idea of power that they attained when they killed. Abigail, goes on a small rant about how she wished she’d killed her father and put right all the destruction he caused by getting it at its source. Will asks for Abigail’s help in catching the person who’s acting as a copycat of her father’s killer.

Crawford meets with Dr. Lecter to try and get information about Will Graham’s state of mind, but comes out with nothing. He decides to meet with Lecter’s shrink Dr. Maurier He asks her about Lecter in an unofficial capacity, but she isn’t willing to give up any information. Crawford knows this and decides to discuss a report filed by her about one of Lecter’s former patients that went to see her. Maurier speaks about the incident and even though it was scary, he managed to choke on his own tongue in the midst of the attack. Crawford then digs further and states that a similar incident occurred with Lecter the patient and two others were found dead, and asked that in her opinion, how far would Lecter go in treating a patient?

Dr. Maurier breaks a little, and says that Lecter does not see Will as a patient, but more as a friend. Later on, when Maurier and Lecter meet. She tells him that Jack Crawford was snooping and that he asked her about being attacked in her office. Lecter looks slightly concerned, but Maurier assures him that she protected them both with ‘half-truths’. She didn’t tell Crawford how her attacker swallowed his tongue or the details of what happened, but she warned Lecter that despite her protection of him, he needed to stay away from Will Graham.  Lecter shrugs off the warning and says that despite needing boundaries, he finds a way to cope when his personal and professional world collide.

After her whole ordeal with Will, Abigail returns to her former home and Hannibal just so happens to be there. She confides in him that there was something wrong with Graham, but that she left him at the cabin out of fear. She uncovers something about Hannibal as they continue to talk, Hannibal called her father to see ‘what would happen’. He killed her best friend to see if it would spark the same killer instinct in her as her father’s and in that moment Abigail asks one last question: Was he going to kill her too? Hannibal affirms her inclination and he tells her that he’s sorry for not being able to protect her in this life the way he’d wanted.