EPISODE

6. Futamono

When a city councilman's body is found in a parking lot, intertwined with a tree, the artistry and missing organs suggest the work of the Chesapeake Ripper. Jack and the team race against time to catch the Ripper while he's still on his killing spree. When Will suggests the possibility that the Ripper is filling his pantry with the victims' organs, Jack crashes Hannibal Lecter's dinner party to collect evidence and test the meat for human DNA. Jack's growing suspicions drive Alana even closer to Hannibal, believing he is the victim of a witch hunt. Meanwhile, clues from the tree man help the BAU zero in on a location they believe the Ripper used. There they discover the most shocking revelation of Jack Crawford's career; Miriam Lass alive.

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Will denies sending Brown when confronted by Jack, and points out that the Ripper kills in small groups so their meat doesn't spoil, meaning that during his next wave Hannibal will host a dinner party. Chilton records Gideon mentioning to Will that he was given Alana's address by Hannibal, but he denies saying this when Chilton calls Jack and later baits the hospital guards into beating him. City councilman Sheldon Isley is found dead and grafted into a tree, and Price determines that he was drowned in a local body of water. At Hannibal's next party, Jack takes some food to be tested, while Hannibal has sex with Alana and drugs her so he can abduct Gideon, display the man guarding him on fishhooks, and return to bed so he can use her as an alibi. He later feeds Gideon his own leg. While Hannibal's food has no human meat in it, Price and Zeller determine that the hooks had pieces of Isley, Katz, Davies, Gray, the Copycat victims, and Miriam Lass in them, proving Will's innocence. The rare tree bark used in the lures leads Jack to a farmhouse, where he finds Miriam imprisoned but alive.

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