The hints of darker characteristics that we see in Will throughout the show are always so interesting. Baggy clothes hide a muscular physique and the notion of strength. His character lends itself to the acquaintance with something quietly unsettling in their gaze, the strangerās car idling on the side of a dark road. He openly admits that he looked through Hannibalās patient notes to read about Margot. āDrinking with a patient?ā has the snap of interrogatory jealousy that seems to cool when Hannibal mentions his own therapist, but then he addresses Bedelia by her name and that very title, never mentioned. Alana tells Jack she avoids being alone with Will. āI donāt think weāve ever been in a room alone together.ā She then says sheās never noticedā a lie. Will slowly circles around her in the empty lecture hall. āThe Chesapeake Ripper wants to perform. Every brutal choice has elegance, grace.ā He gets unusually upset by the notion that the butchery in the hotel bathtub is the Ripperās work. He spins sentiments over corpses, blasĆ©. āDeath makes angels of us allā¦ and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravenās claws.ā He casts a long shadow, never erased, even when he lets the glare of conventional societyās light bleach him to the boneā¦ā¦ ideas like Will having a sort of dark parasocial fixation with the Ripper or having been just as invasively obsessed with Hannibal as Hannibal was with him are very tantalizing ones as a result, in my mind
