Hannibal/Kaiseki

Kaiseki
Season 2, Episode 1
Airdate	February 28, 2014
Written by	Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot
Directed by	Tim Hunter
← 1x13 Savoureux	2x02 → Sakizuki
Hannibal — Season Two

Kaiseki is the first episode of the second season of Hannibal, and the fourteenth episode overall.

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

and Laurence Fishburne (Jack Crawford)

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

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

Guest Starring: Cynthia Nixon (Kade Prurnell), Raúl Esparza (Dr. Frederick Chilton)

Co-Starring: Ryan Field (Roland Umber), Patrick Garrow (Killer), Kalen Davidson (Stag Man), Eli Ham (Parks & Rec #1), Kevin Whalen (Parks & Rec #2)

Uncredited: Jonathan Tucker (Matthew Brown)

Plot Overview

As Will sits in prison, he is desperate to prove Hannibal set him up and hopes Bloom can help him recover some of his missing memory. Will is also paid an unauthorised visit by Katz to help tie several missing persons to washed up bodies, a case Hannibal has been brought on to.

Notes

Locations

• Baltimore, Maryland

• Quantico, Virginia

• Rockville, Maryland

• Washington, D.C.

• Wolf Trap, Virginia

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Twelve weeks after the episode begins, Hannibal and Jack get into a fight that ends with Hannibal stabbing a shard of glass into Jack's neck.

• An internal investigation is opened by investigator for the Office of the Inspector General Kade Prurnell after Alana files a report of lapse of judgement.

• It's revealed Chilton survived his ordeal with Gideon.

Characters

• Chilton has the delight of having Will Graham in his hospital, but can't manage to get Will to talk to him.

• Hannibal begins working with the FBI as the "new Will Graham".

• Will works with Alana to recover his memory and succeeds in recalling Hannibal stuffing Abigail's ear down his throat.

Trivia

The Show

• Kade Prurnell is an analogue to the character of Paul Krendler from The Silence of the Lambs.

Behind the Scenes

• Due to not having the rights to the character of Paul Krendler, the character of Kade Prurnell came about by anagramming the original character's name.

Quotes

• Investigator Prurnell: (to Bloom) A federal examiner is someone who arrives at a battlefield after the battle, and bayonets the wounded. You have wounded Agent Crawford. Who do you think is going to be getting the bayonet?

• Hannibal: Friendship can sometimes involve a breach of individual separateness.

Will: You're not my friend. The, uh, light from friendship won't reach us for a million years. That's how far away from friendship we are.

Hannibal: I imagine it is easier to believe I'm responsible for those murders than it is to accept that you are.

Will: Sure is.

• Will: What you did to me is in my head and I will find it. I'm going to remember, Dr Lecter. And when I do, there will be a reckoning.

Hannibal: I have huge faith in you, Will. I always have.

• Katz: I'm not mad at you. Not anymore than I'm mad at myself. We all missed it, whatever it was... is.

Hannibal: We all are not suspects.

Katz: You're not a suspect. You're the new Will Graham.

• Hannibal: It would seem Jack Crawford is less suspicious of me than you are.

Du Maurier: Jack Crawford doesn't know what you're capable of.

Hannibal: (leaves a moment of silence) Neither do you.

• Hannibal: Will was never my patient.

Chilton: The irony is that he is my patient, but he refuses to speak to me. It makes me feel like I'm fumbling with his head, like a freshman pulling at a panty girdle.

• Bloom: Declaring Hannibal's guilt is more important to Will than establishing his own defence.

Jack: Hannibal's not guilty.

Bloom: Neither is Will. But he's clinging to the hope Hannibal did this so he doesn't have to face what he did.

Jack: Convince me he didn't know what he was doing. I would really like to be convinced, Alanna.

Bloom: A psychopath wouldn't be so scared of the truth, Jack. Will's terrified, but that's not stopping him from trying to find it.

Jack: (to Will's dog) Somebody's got to find the truth, eh, Winston?

Bloom: If he doesn't remember what he did, he'll never accept the truth.

• Will: What are you doing here?

Jack: I needed to remind myself of who you once were. You know, that man whose classroom I walked into months ago.

Will: I remember that man. Memories are all I have.