9. And the Woman Clothed with the Sun

Complete story — includes the ending

After faking Abigail's death, Hannibal has a session with her where he convinces her to slit the throat of Garret Jacob Hobbs's stolen corpse. While she and Hannibal wait for Jack to arrive at his house, she worries about being caught, but he insists that they have to wait for Will. In the present, Hannibal agrees to help catch Dolarhyde, while Bloom, now the hospital's administrator and married with a son to Margot, warns him to stay in line. Studying the murders, Will deduces that Dolarhyde kills naked so he can "clean" himself in the full moon as he begins having nightmares about killing the families himself. He finds the Han for "red dragon" carved into a tree on a victim's property and runs into Freddie Lounds as he leaves, who photographed him leaving his meeting with Hannibal and wrote an article about their relationship. Dolarhyde reads it and watches film he took of his murder scenes. While developing film, he meets blind Reba McClane, who he drives home as she takes an interest in him. He calls Hannibal from his old office posing as his attorney and informs him that he is becoming "the Great Red Dragon."