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At the scene of a brutally murdered woman, Will imagines himself killing her instead of figuring out the method and contaminates the crime scene. In a session, Hannibal asks him to draw a normal clock to prove his grounding in reality, and does not show him when he draws it wrong. Hannibal takes Will to his neurologist colleague Donald Sutcliffe, who gives Will an MRI and determines that he has advanced encephalitis, which Hannibal asks to be kept from him. Suspecting that the killer was suffering from Cotard's syndrome and saw their friend, the victim, as an imposter, Will identifies her as Georgia Madchen when she breaks into his house. During another MRI, Will loses time and finds Sutcliffe murdered in Madchen's style. She breaks into his house again and he convinces her to stand down, having her placed in a hyperbaric chamber. A flashback reveals that Hannibal killed Sutcliffe so he could not tell Will about his diagnosis, and Madchen saw him but her Cotard's prevented her from seeing his face.
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