Hannibal : Entrée

Episode 6

After the big heart to heart episode last time out (which was punctuated by the angel maker) how will the main cast carry on what with Will sleep walking nearly to his death and Jack finding out about his wife's cancer?

And now that Crawford's wife has sat down to dine with Hannibal who else will get a food like treat?

***SPOILER***

We start off in an asylum, Dr Gideon is on the floor and the security is giving him a chance to comply with them. He lies in a pretty bad state but when the nurse is seeing to him he brutually murders her. AND OMG IT IS EDDIE IZZARD MAJOR FAN GIRL MOMENT!

The murder looks like the MO for another murderer who hasn't been seen for two years, the same amount of time as Gideon has been incarcerated. Dr Chilton is just as slimy as ever. You never want to watch Hannibal whilst eating a biscuit.... But I'm impressed that Eddie Izzard could make so much mess in stilettos (joke). He kind of impales her on everything in the room after poking her eyes out with his thumbs. And of course because this is Hannibal we got to see Will Graham actually poke her eyes out (gorge them out? that kind of sounds like he took them out he didn't he just forced them inside her head, poke is all I could really think of to explain it.)

We flashback to a very Starling like scene with an agent Miriam Lass who went to work on the Chesapeake Ripper. From the Crawford meeting Lass scene to the very next one with Chilton and Graham talking it is Silence of the Lambs but Hannibal-ish. Alana is back (YAY) and she has yet another Starling moment of going to see Gideon in his cell.

Ohhhh Izzard is wonderful but I am such a giant Izzard fan anyway and was surprised he is in the series I hadn't heard that he was. Him talking to Alana and Graham was nearly as wonderful as when anyone talks to Hannibal. Oh I so want Hannibal and Gideon to meet.

Gideon is claiming to be the Chesapeake Ripper but saying that he didn't take credit at the time because he didn't like the name. Graham points out that the MO wasn't totally the same and thus realizes that he might be copycatting to help someone else out.

Jack goes to Hannibal to talk to him about his wife but Hannibal refuses to tell him anything.Talking about how useless he feels in the face of his wife's cancer Hannibal brings up a memory from the past "who else couldn't you save?" (not the actual words by the way). We go back to the flashback of Crawford and Lass as they stand examining one of the victims.

Jack gets a phone call in the middle of the night with the voice of Miriam Lass, guessing by his "We never found a body for the last victim" and this panic'd phone call and the fact that he had them trace the call and they haven't heard from her in two years. Yeah OK she's dead because they just said that her voice was a recording. After a reassuring "I know when I'm awake" from Jack we get a crazy Will day dreaming scene.

We then have a real Red Dragon moment using Freddie to bring the Chesapeake Ripper out into the open. Out of all the psychopaths in the room Freddie is the least believable, she's just still annoying. At last an angry looking Hannibal, but it is in one tiny look.

This time Jack gets a phone call from his house with the Miriam recording being played down the phone. They find her fingerprint and hair in Jacks bedroom and Will figures out that the person who is leaving these things for Jack knows that he feels guilty. For some reason Chilton and Alana are having dinner with Hannibal, now that is a strange duo to have for dinner. "An old friend for dinner" Hannibal behave yourself!

After another phone call we get a mobile plus Lass's arm with a note saying "What do you see?" As Hannibal asks Jack to tell him about Miriam which leads to a flashback where Lass meets Hannibal himself. Lass finds a drawn picture of the victim on Hannibal's table which leads to Hannibal attacking her and thereby killing her.

Really enjoyed the episode, it had such a lot of brilliant moments from the films (keeping in mind I've never read the books) and boy was Eddie Izzard lovely?

I have a feeling the Chesapeake Ripper thing will now take over from the Hobbs stuff as the main focus. I say this purely because along with the Hobbs copycat this is the hunting of Hannibal and there needs to be a reason they'd bring this up.

As for the episode itself I loved it. It was very similar to the episode when they took Abigail home, the real threat of the episode was over in a few moments, the rest of it dealt with something in Jack's past which just so happened to have something to do with Hannibal as well.

We finally saw Hannibal look angry, but it was just a slight twitch of the muscles whilst reading Freddie's article on Gideon being the Ripper. I'd like to understand why Hannibal kills people the way he does. I must say only having seen the films I always had the feeling that Hannibal's kills were very clean. Bodies weren't left to be found and he ate them. So far we've had a body full of stuff and one copycat killing. I'm hoping that by the time we actually see Hannibal properly being hunted we get to understand his mind a little more. Not understand, that might be the wrong word for it as he was a closed book and that is what makes him interesting, but at least see him work a little. And that just sounds morbid so I'm getting off this subject now...

Man isn't an episode full of Mads Mikkelsen and Eddie Izzard just beautiful?

That was going in the opposite wrong direction I know but I bet it made you giggle?

Thankfully Freddie wasn't in it for long, and Abigail seems to be lost to us now. The episodes really do gain a lot by having them two not in them. Sorry but I just dislike Freddie and Abigail is weird. In all the episodes meant to develop her character we really get nowhere and it isn't interesting at all to see her outwit people just to have not really outwitted them at all!

For all the wonderful episodes leading up to this one this finally feels like Hannibal has started. I mean I could be wrong and next episode there is nothing on the Chesapeake Ripper, but it just felt like finally we're actually seeing Hannibal and not some random detective show that keeps ramming it in our face like my bad jokey opening line that THIS is Hannibal Lecter and look he's eating peoples.

I mean it is interesting to see all these different psychopaths and all the different murders have been pretty unique and interesting to work out but finally we're getting what we really tuned into see and that is them starting to hunt Hannibal.