EPISODE

9. Shiizakana

The FBI is called in to investigate the discovery of a truck driver's body, seemingly torn apart by two separate species of animal working in tandem, neither of which consumed their kill. After one of his therapy sessions, Will meets Hannibal's strange new patient, Margot Verger. Will and Margot compare notes on Hannibal and his unconventional advice. Continually encouraging his patients to revel in what they are, Hannibal aims to determine Will's true self by sending him a test, the results of which surprise even Hannibal.

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Will dreams of decapitating Hannibal using the stag. He admits in therapy that he regrets not killing Ingram, as he wanted to remember what it was like to kill Hobbs and how it might've felt to kill Hannibal, which Hannibal is pleased by. Will encounters Margot, who later come to visit him, and learns that she had already tried to kill Mason before and Hannibal is pushing her to try again. He informs Hannibal of Du Maurier visiting him in the hospital. A series of murders occur with the victims bearing wounds akin to animal maulings. Hannibal connects this to Randall Tier, a former patient of his who suffered from an identity disorder where he wanted to be an animal and uses his job at a museum to assemble a mechanical suit out of fossilized skeletons. Hannibal sends him after Will, who kills him when he breaks into his house and lays his corpse on Hannibal's dining room table, declaring them "even."

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