As Will Graham slowly gets crazier by the episode, what new mystery will help Hannibal ones again open the cracks inside Will's head?
And will Crawford bring his wife to tea with everyone's favorite chef at the moment (please no food jokes, we are all above that aren't we?)
***SPOILER***
Will is sleep walking, so he is finally getting even crazier. He thinks he's being followed by a giant deer. A police car pulls up in front of him and he admits to the police officer that he isn't even sure if he's awake now. Poor Will. Of course he goes straight to Hannibal and we get to see him making tea like a boss.
Now we have another crazy dude though, whilst filling up a bucket of ice at what looks like a hotel he see's a couples face burning. Are we getting a pre-title scene look at our killer?
Now if I thought the mushroom killer was something this one... He's basically skinned their backs and used strings to hold not only the body up but the skin on their backs to make them look like angels in prayer. The killer slept in the bed then threw up on the bedside cabinet.
And YES Crawford's wife has came for dinner! She seems a lot happier with him today though she doesn't seem so happy about eating animals. She does like his nose though.
Back in the crime scene and we're trying to profile the murderer. The women lived at least about 50 minutes after she was skinned. Graham goes the total opposite way, he is scared for himself. He is afraid of dying in his sleep because he has a brain tumor.
Suddenly we find out that Crawford's wife is having an affair, for some reason after one meal she goes to Hannibal. She resents that her husband has too much to worry about so that he can't worry about her, which Hannibal says is her fault so she now wants couples counselling.
Once again Hannibal uses the case on hand to slip his knife into a new crack in Will's brain. This time about abandonment issues. Whilst he is trying to get inside Will's mind Jack is having a heart to heart with his wife and actually being quite nice. Unfortunately all these heart to hearts must come to an end and they do when another angel is found.
Ohhhhh too much information the killer has castrated himself. Yucky.... Apparently he is getting ready to become an angel, as we all know from Dogma angels don't have the downstairs department. But still, I didn't need to know that. Ever.
Oh and it turns out that the two people killed in the hotel were evil and the new one was criminal too. But there is something to it really, he see's the heads as burning skulls so I wonder how he's gotten these things right so far.
It turns out that Crawford's wife has cancer and she won't live. That is actually really sad, the conversation with Hannibal about it was worded in such a strong way. Back at home with Will and he is thankfully woken by the sound of his dogs whilst he sleep walked onto the roof of his building.
When Crawford finally finds out who the angel maker is he talks to her wife and finally a little bit of intelligence is seen in Crawford. The way that the wife of the angel maker talks about how her husband was acting before she left him hits home and it dawns on him that this is what is happening to his wife (yes guessing again but I bet I'm right!) We find out that the angel maker (Elliot) was never religious but he nearly died when he was a kid and the fireman said he must have had a guardian angel, hence wanting one now that he is about to die.
They find him hanging in a barn, he made himself into an angel. He choose to die, he didn't let anyone else god or the tumor choose for him. This finally leads Will to talking to Jack about how he feels about this whole situation. The looking is driving him insane. Jack tells him he can quit, but as Will turns around the angel somehow has came down from his hanging place still alive and says that he basically could turn Will into an angel... Just he didn't because we'd have noticed him falling to the ground, Will is still just going batshit crazy.
Jack goes to Hannibal's office and confronts his wife. She isn't going to have chemotherapy and it seems like she'd have left it to her deathbed to tell him she was dying. He tells her he doesn't want her to be alone and doesn't do the "we'll fight this together" speech he knows that she'll have to fight alone but he'll be there for her. But she doesn't feel the sentiment in his words. Then Will and Jack have a bromance moment.
This episodes strength was in last episodes weakness. It didn't leave us wanting when it came to explaining the angel maker. We knew he had cancer and was dying, we found out that he was told he had a guardian angel so he made himself angels and then turned himself into an angel. The only thing left was how he managed to choose criminals? Well that'll never be explained even if he lived, like anything that has that kind of thing going on we'll never know.
The episode was the biggest bit of development that Crawford has so far been given. Before he's been pushing the development of Will and the others but now we finally get some background and story surrounding him and find out that his home life is now as fucked up as everyone else's. All the Hannibal and his wife scenes were well written and even for such an unemotional women (and her husband as well as Hannibal) the actual conversation they were having moved me. You didn't need her to break down, she was always in control of what she said and did but the raw emotion was there.
Will going crazy is actually turning into a lot of fun. I can't help it but I do like to see what stupid things he gets up to. Sleep walking, deers.... What the heck next?
This episode didn't really do much with Hannibal, he was mainly there to tell us exactly what other people were thinking as well as pushing Will in the right direction. It was also a breath of fresh air having no Abigail who I find weirdly off putting at times because you don't know her true intentions. Though it did miss Alana and her badassery!
The series doesn't mind using some really messed up imagery first the mushroom killer (as I will call him) now the angel maker. It is kind of unique, most programs like this just have dead bodies and flashes of any real horror those scenes might have. This series will keep the camera on the scene longer at times then on the characters themselves. That mixed in with Will's ability to get inside the killers head makes it one of the most graphic shows on the TV. But it doesn't overdo the gore which is always a bonus. I really did think that The Walking Dead became more about how much gore they could fit into the episode over how good the stories could be, yeah I get the you want zombie deaths in a zombie show but sometimes it just felt they'd tack on a zombie to remind you it is a zombie show and never deal with anything non-zombie.
It was a very easy to watch episode as well, it just flew by. Didn't feel like I'd been sat here as long as I had been, the story was just immersing. I really do like all the characters other than Freddie and it shows when she and Abigail aren't in the episode you can just relax without being taken aback by the two characters.
Also I can't help but to hang on every single syllable that comes out of Hannibal's mouth. His tone of voice is so melodic you could never imagine him losing control of changing his composure. Mikkelsen has done a wonderful job in the role and I will say this in every blog post because I think he is worth his weight in gold that man.
Another very strong episode.
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