Then Graham caught Freddie Lounds snooping around his farm and dragged her off, kicking and screaming, before showing up for dinner at Hannibal’s house with a suspiciously sourced cut of meat. Which he implied was lady meat. Human lady. Which they then cooked and ate. But the weirdest scene for this viewer, hands down, was when Hannibal taught Bloom how to play the Theremin as a prelude to sex. A sexy time Theremin session? I know when I think foreplay, I think obscure electronic instruments. Anywho. This week finds Graham and Hannibal continuing to make sexy eyes at one another during dinner (of small, drowned birds). The burning corpse of Freddie Lounds is tied to a wheelchair and pushed down the ramp of a parking garage (a familiar image to all fans of the franchise), after the funeral the body gets dug up and posed as a grim sort of Shiva (additional arms sourced from nearby graves; boy Graham’s new hobby seems labor intensive). Bloom suspects Graham of killing her, Margot is pregnant, and Mason annoys Hannibal during his therapy sessions. The implication is that a place has opened in Graham’s life since he is expecting a child with Margot. Unfortunately, neither Margot nor Graham can catch a break (SPOILERS AHEAD). Mason, alerted to Margot’s plan, arranges for his sister to get both an abortion and a complete hysterectomy. Graham, who had come to terms with his impending fatherhood, attacks Mason but stops short of killing him. And there we see the heart of the entire situation. Graham is not really a killer. Sure, he beat that one weirdo to death, but to be fair it was in self-defense. He did not kill Lounds. It was all part of the setup, the lure that Graham and Crawford have cast in an effort to catch Hannibal (how cannibalism fits into that ploy beats the hell out of me – lets be real here, you know Graham showed up to Hannibal’s house with actual people meat; the good doctor would have known the difference). Body parts eaten this episode: None, but they did swallow some wee birds whole. How do you make that: Ambelopoulia? Yeah, I’ll let you Google that one on your own time. Den of Geek Rating: 4 Out of 5 Stars
