Hannibal/Fromage

Fromage
Season 1, Episode 8
Airdate	May 16, 2013
Written by	Jennifer Schuur and Bryan Fuller
Directed by	Tim Hunter
← 1x07 Sorbet	1x09 → Trou Normand
Hannibal — Season One

Fromage is the eighth episode of the first season of Hannibal.

Starring: Mads Mikkelsen (Dr. Hannibal Lecter), Hugh Dancy (Will Graham), Caroline Dhavernas (Dr. Alana Bloom), Hettienne Park (Beverly Katz)

and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford)

Special Guest Star: Gillian Anderson (Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier)

Guest Starring: Scott Thompson (Jimmy Price), Aaron Abrams (Brian Zeller), Dan Fogler (Franklyn Froideveaux), Demore Barnes (Tobias Budge)

Co-Starring: Vladimir Cubrt (Garret Jacob Hobbs), Darren Josephs (Officer Stewart), Kevan Kase (Officer Dormau), Zachary Bloch (Pre-Teen Cello Player), Carter Siddall (Douglas Wilson), Daniel Von Diergardt (Dead Man)

Plot Overview

One of Hannibal's patients confides in him that he believes his friend Tobias is a murderer. He's right and Tobias seems to be trying to get Hannibal's attention by making a public show of one of his murders. Meanwhile, Graham begins hearing things and questions his relationship with Bloom.

Notes

Locations

• Wolf Trap, Virginia

• Baltimore, Maryland

• Quantico, Virginia

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Will and Alana kiss.

• Hannibal kills Franklyn.

• It's alluded that Bedelia was attacked by one of her patients and that he later died.

Characters

• Tobias tries to court Hannibal and befriend him because of their similarities. However, he rejects his advances and seems to increasingly favour Will's friendship.

Referbacks

• Tobias states he changed his mind about killing Hannibal after following him to a lonely road and to a bus yard. This made him witness to Hannibal killing the independent medical examiner in "Sorbet".

Trivia

The Show

• One might notice a resemblance of the relationship between Franklyn and Tobias and that of Benjamin Raspail and Jame Gumb from The Silence of the Lambs. The original intent was for this to be background for the characters, but the idea fell through when the show couldn't get the rights to the characters from MGM. The name Franklyn Froideveaux came from Benjamin Franklin and Froideveaux, a street that runs parallel to Raspail in Paris.

Allusions and References

• Tobias killing the trombonist for the Baltimore Metropolitan Orchestra is clearly based on Hannibal killing the flautist of the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra as revealed in Red Dragon. In both cases, the players were bad and Hannibal feels the respective orchestra is better off without him.

Memorable Moments

• Hannibal snaps Franklyn's neck.

Quotes

• Hannibal: I know exactly how you feel, but I don't want to be your friend.

Tobias: Then why did you invite me here for dinner? Wasn't just to restring your harpsichord.

Hannibal: I was going killing to you. I didn't poison you, Tobias. I wouldn't do that to the food.

• (Hannibal snaps Franklyn's neck)

Tobias: I was looking forward to that.

Hannibal: I saved you the trouble.

• Will: I feel like I have dragged you into my world.

Hannibal: No. I got here on my own. But I appreciate the company.