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It’s too late

I have a three-piece suit. I’m an art collector. I have a funny accent. So I’m probably the killer.

Hannibal’s motto is ‘eat the rude.’ He refers to his victims as ‘free-range rude.’ This is a killer who’s not so much someone wearing a hockey mask or hiding in the bushes — this is a gentlemen dandy who sees eating you as an appropriate response to your behavior.

Will has a remarkably vivid imagination. Beautiful, pure empathy. Nothing that he can’t understand, and that terrifies him.

His feeling toward Will Graham are absolutely sincere and genuine. In Hannibal’s mind, everything he has done to thwart Will’s psyche has been a radical, unorthodox form of therapy. So it’s almost bad parenting, in a way, where I want what’s good for my child or the person of my affections, but my point of view on the world is going to greatly determine whether that is actually good for them or if it is actually quite damaging. In Hannibal’s mind, everything that he has done to Will Graham and for Will Graham has been to get Will to a place where he can more truthfully see himself and accept what it is he is as an empath, as a human being, as sort of a pure thing in Hannibal’s mind. It’s part of the attraction. For Hannibal, he wants an equal of sorts, and Will Graham is in some ways, on the other side of the mirror, a purer soul than Hannibal is, but they have a similar intelligence and they have a similar understanding of the darkness that lies in a man’s soul. Hannibal’s just trying to convince Will that it’s okay to be the way you are. It’s okay to think about killing people. It’s okay to kill people. Those are all the things that Hannibal is just trying to help Will accept about himself, and I think now that we’ve crossed this benchmark in their relationship, that’s not going to stop Hannibal from trying to convince Will that he did do these things and he should just accept it.