6. Entrée

Complete story — includes the ending

Murderer Abel Gideon, incarcerated at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, kills a nurse in a manner similar to the Wound Man diagram, mirroring the "Chesapeake Ripper" killer. Will quickly deduces Gideon to be merely imitating, as his murder was much less methodical and sadistic than the real Ripper. At dinner with hospital administrator and psychiatrist Frederick Chilton, Hannibal realizes that Chilton unintentionally planted the idea that Gideon was the Ripper in his mind during a session. Jack, having lost his trainee Miriam Lass to the Ripper while she was investigating two years prior, begins receiving calls that play a recording of the call for help she made after being caught by the killer. He asks Lounds to run a story claiming Gideon is the Ripper in hopes of luring out the real one, and the calls are traced to an observatory where Miriam's severed arm is found holding a phone. A flashback reveals that Miriam was interviewing Hannibal, who encountered the latest Ripper victim, and was choked unconscious upon realizing he was the killer.