Time Index
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Event
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Notes
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00:55-01:20
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Will:
“Sometimes...at night I leave the lights on in my little house. And ... walk
across the flat fields. When I look back from a distance, the house is like a
boat on the sea. It's really the only time I feel safe.”
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In
Thomas Harris’ introduction to Red Dragon he states that “In the fall of
1979, owing to an illness in my family, I returned home to the Mississippi
Delta and remained there eighteen months. I was working on Red Dragon. My
neighbor in the village of Rich kindly gave me the use of a shotgun house in
the center of a vast cotton field, and there I worked, often at night.
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Sometimes
at night I would leave the lights on in my little house and walk across the
flat fields. When I looked back from a
distance, the house looked like a boat at sea, and all around me the vast
Delta night.”
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01:20-01:30
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Hannibal:
“You stood in the breathing silence of Gareth Jacob Hobbs' home, the very
spaces he moved through.”
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From
Red Dragon Chapter 24
“Graham
had tried hard to understand the Dragon. At times, in the breathing silence
of the victims' houses, the very spaces the Dragon had moved through tried to
speak.”
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01:40
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Hannibal:
“You could sense his madness, like a bloodhound...”
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From
Red Dragon Chapter 2
“Madness
came into this house through that door into this kitchen, moving on
size-eleven feet. Sitting in the dark, he sensed madness like a bloodhound
sniffs a shirt.”
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02:45-03:00
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Will:
“Sometimes I felt like we were doing the same things at different times of
day like I was eating or showering or sleeping
at
the same time he was.”
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From
Red Dragon Chapter 24
“Sometimes
Graham felt close to him. A feeling he remembered from other investigations
had settled over him in recent days: the taunting sense that he and the
Dragon were doing the same things at various times of the day, that there
were parallels in the quotidian details of their lives. Somewhere the Dragon
was eating, or showering, or sleeping at the same time he did.”
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07:00
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Hannibal
examines a fish hook that Will is tying.
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Fishing
rods and hooks feature in the dénouement of Red Dragon and save Molly and
Willy.
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14:25-14:35
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Hannibal:
“Both my parents died when I was very young. The proverbial orphan until I
was adopted by my Uncle Robertas when I was 16."
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More
detail in Hannibal Rising.
Bryan
Fuller hopes David Bowie will play Uncle Robertas in Season 2.
Taty points out that Robertas is the Lithuanian equivalent of Robert, notably, Robertas Antinis and Robertas Antinis, Jr. are the names of famous father and son Lithuanian painters. |
15:25-15:40
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Will:
“We were poor. I followed my father from the boatyards of Biloxi and
Greenville, to lake boats on Eerie.”
Hannibal:
“Always the new boy at school, always the stranger.”
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From
Red Dragon Chapter 36
“Graham
had been a poor child, following his father from the boatyards in Biloxi and
Greenville to the lake boats on Erie. Always the new boy at school, always
the stranger.”
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18:20-18:40
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Will:
“Most of the time in sexual assaults, the bite mark has a livid spot at the center,
a "suck bruise." In some cases it does not. For some killers biting
may be
a fighting
pattern as much as a sexual behaviour.”
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From
Red Dragon Chapter 3
"Most
of the time in sex assaults the bite mark has a livid spot in the center, a
suck mark. These don't. Dr. Princi mentioned it in his autopsy report, and I
saw it at the morgue. No suck marks. For him biting may be a fighting pattern
as much as sexual behaviour."
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22:20-22:30
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Beverly:
“Ever heard of Willard Wigan? He's this artist that does micro sculptures, like putting the Obamas in the eye of a needle."
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Willard
Wigan, MBE (born 1957) is an English micro-sculptor from Birmingham. His
sculptures are typically placed in the eye of a needle or on the head of a
pin.
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29:50
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Hannibal:
“Have you ever tried Psilocybin?”
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Is
this the start of Hannibal’s attempt to convert Abigail into Mischa?
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31:30-31:40
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Will:
“Capture-bonding. A passive psychological response to a new master has been
an essential survival tool for a million years.”
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Capture-bonding
is also known as Stockholm syndrome, the FBI's Hostage Barricade Database
System shows that roughly 27% of victims show evidence of Stockholm syndrome.
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Time Index
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Event
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Notes
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00:30-01:30
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Abigail
Hunting
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Bryan
Fuller noted on Twitter that the hunting scenes at the start of this episode
were inspired by David Slade’s wonderful photography.
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14:00
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Freddie:
“Let me help you.”
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From
Red Dragon, Chapter 16
Freddy:
“Let me help you, Jack. I can, believe me.”
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14:10-14:20
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Freddie:
“A man named Will Graham ... works for the FBI, but isn't FBI. He catches
insane men because he can think like them ... because he is insane.”
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From
Red Dragon, Chapter 7
From
a car across the street, his long lens propped on the window sill, Freddy
Lounds got a nice profile shot of Graham in the doorway and the words in
stone above him: "Chesapeake State Hospital for the Criminally
Insane."
As it
turned out, The National Tattler cropped the picture to just Graham's face
and the last two words in the stone.
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16:40-17:00
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Abigail:
“So killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?”
Will:
“It's the ugliest thing in the world.”
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From
Red Dragon, Chapter 15
Willy:
"Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?"
Will:
"Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world."
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20:50
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“CANNIBALS”
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Bryan
Fuller tweeted a test image of Abigail's vandalized home with "Carrie"
and "The Shining" references:
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21:15-21:30
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Abigail:
“I was sort of expecting a body outline in chalk or tape.”
Will:
“They only do that if you're still alive and taken to the hospital before they
finish the crime scene.”
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Chalk
outlines are rarely used in reality, although they are so common in
literature and television drama that they have become a trope. They may have
occasionally been used in the 1930s and 1940s to allow the press to take
pictures of crime scenes without having to show the body, but in modern times
they couldn’t be used since they would contaminate forensic evidence.
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22:50-23:10
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Abigail:
“So you pretended to be my dad.”
Will:
“And people like your dad.”
Abigail:
“What did it feel like? To be him?”
Will:
“It feels... like...I'm talking to his shadow suspended on dust.”
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From
Red Dragon, Chapter 24
“Graham
filled his glass again and sat at the table by the window, staring at the
empty chair across from him. He stared until the space in the opposite chair
assumed a man-shape filled with dark and swarming motes, a presence like a
shadow on suspended dust. He tried to make the image coalesce, to see a face.
It would not move, had no countenance but, faceless, faced him with palpable
attention.”
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27:55
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Hannibal
covers up the stone in leaves
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Hannibal
takes Nicholas Boyle’s blood off this stone and later places it in Marissa
Schurr’s mouth, thus framing Nicholas for her murder. He may have done this
in hopes to convince Abigail that Nicholas was the copycat killer, so that if
Nicholas ever approached her, she would kill him.
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41:55-42:00
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Hannibal:
"I'll keep your secret."
Abigail:
"And I'll keep yours."
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Is this Hannibal setting Abigail up to later attempt to brainwash her
into thinking that she is Mischa?
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