Hannibal/Kō No Mono

Kō No Mono
Season 2, Episode 11
Airdate	May 9, 2014
Written by	Jeff Vlaming & Andy Black and Bryan Fuller
Directed by	David Slade
← 2x10 Naka-choko	2x12 → Tome-wan
Hannibal — Season Two

Kō No Mono is the eleventh episode of the second season of Hannibal, and the twenty-fourth episode overall.

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

and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford)

Also Starring: Scott Thompson (Jimmy Price), Aaron Abrams (Brian Zeller)

Guest Starring: Michael Pitt (Mason Verger), Katharine Isabelle (Margot Verger)

Co-Starring: Lara Jean Chorostecki (Freddie Lounds), Daniel Kash (Carlo), Ezio Bondi (Garage Attendant), Samuel Faraci (Franklin), Ray Kahnert (Minister), Kalen Davidson (Stag Man)

Plot Overview

After Freddie's burned body is discovered, Alana begins having her doubts about Will and even his relationship with Hannibal. Will begins considering the prospect of fatherhood when he learns Margot is pregnant.

Notes

Locations

• Baltimore, Maryland

• Quantico, Virginia

• Wolf Trap, Virginia

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Jack reveals to Alana that Freddie is alive.

Characters

• Mason begins therapy with Hannibal.

• Margot learns she's pregnant, but while Will ponders fatherhood Hannibal's manipulation clues Mason in on her plan and he has her ovaries removed.

• Will gives Alana a gun and advises her to practice shooting. Hannibal later smells the gunpowder on her hands.

• Will appears to go to kill Mason, but instead lets him in on Hannibal manipulating them all and tells him it should be Hannibal he feeds to his pigs.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Freddie's burning body rolling in a wheelchair is taken from Freddy Lounds's fate in Red Dragon at the hand of Francis Dolarhyde. However, it rolling down the parking garage seems to have been inspired specifically by the Manhunter adaptation, as the novel has it rolling outside the Tattler building.

• Hannibal's mention of the teacup is directly from the Hannibal novel in which Hannibal recalls his sister. He was watching A Brief History of Time that shows a teacup fall off a table and smash on the floor with astrophysicist Stephen Hawking commenting "You may see a cup of tea fall off of a table and break into pieces on the floor. But you will never see the cup gather itself back together and jump back on the table." At which point the films runs backward and shows the cup reassembling itself. Lecter notes that Hawking believed the universe would stop expanding and would shrink again, and entropy might reverse itself. Hawking later stated he was wrong, but Lecter wanted him to be right the first time, for time to reverse itself and have a place for his sister in the world.

Memorable Moments

• Freddie's supposed body, wheelchair bound and immolated, rolling down into the parking garage, coming to a stop in her reserved parking space.

Quotes

• Will: What do you want from me?

Margot: Nothing. Or as much as you'd like to give.

Will: As much as I would like to give?

Margot: I always thought men were an optional extra in childrearing, so... I'm not opposed to a male influence. As long as it's not my brother. He's not good with children.

• Alana: I don't think Hannibal is good for you and I think your relationship is destructive.

Will: Hannibal's good enough for you. (beat) You should be afraid.

• Alana: I'm here to mourn Freddie Lounds. Can't imagine that's why you're here.

Will: There's all sorts of reasons why I'd go to Freddie Lounds's funeral. It's common for a killer to revisit their victims after death, attend funerals, return to crime scenes.

Alana: Anyone suspicious?

Will: Besides me?

Alana: That was implied.

Will: You were expecting me.

Alana: It's common for a killer to revisit their victims after death.

• Freddie: (to Bloom) How was my funeral?