Will Graham

This episode focuses on Will's further fall from reality as he experiences numerous hallucinations and becomes more uncertain about his mental stability. He also tries to grow close to Alana and is pushed away which makes him move closer to Hannibal. Script.

• In his living room, Will is working on a boat engine with the dogs resting around him. He hears an animal crying out in pain and goes out to look for it. In the morning, he invites Alana over to search for it but is not optimistic about finding it alive.
  
  ALANA: So, you invited me over to help you collect animal parts?
  WILL: I invited you over on the off chance we do find it alive. Hard to wrangle a wounded animal by myself. Did you think it was a date?
  ALANA: Honestly, it never crossed my mind.
  WILL: Oh, heh heh. Why not?
  ALANA: You just don’t seem like you date.
  WILL: Too broken to date?
  ALANA: You’re not broken.
  WILL: What’s your excuse?
  ALANA: For not dating? Why are you assuming I don’t date?
  WILL: Do you?
  ALANA: No. Seems like something for somebody else. I’m sure I’ll become that somebody some day but, right now, I think too much.
  WILL: So, what are you gonna do? Are you gonna try to think less, or are you just gonna wait until it happens naturally?
  ALANA: I haven't thought about it. ... Are you seeing anything?
  WILL: No, actually. I'm not even seeing any track. I mean, except for the ones we made.


• Will arrives at the opera, a man is positioned in the center of the stage with a cello neck down his throat. Beverly and Jack are also on scene.
  JACK: Will, is it me, or is it getting easier for you to look?
  WILL: I tell myself it’s purely an intellectual exercise.
  JACK: In the narrow view of forensics, that’s exactly what it is.
  WILL: It’s not any easier, Jack. (taking some pills) I shake it off. Keep on locking.
  JACK: Good. You shake it off. Get to work. We'll come back in when you're ready for us.


• While acquiring Tobias' mind, Will steps down from the stage to survey the work on the stage. He imagines the process of setting up the body and making it able to play music. After a note rings out, Will sees Garrett Jacob Hobbs clapping from the audience.


• In the lab, the team discusses the body. Will is still lost in the killer's mind, "Had to open you up to get a decent sound out of you.", but eventually switches back to himself.


• Will meets with Hannibal and discusses his newest case with him, sharing that he can still hear the killer's music when he closes his eyes. Together, they eventually land on the theory that the murderer is attempting to impress someone else by killing in a new way, showing how well he can play.


• At home, Will is tying off fishing lures when he hears something scratching from inside his fireplace. He takes the fireplace apart, searching for the animal, but Alana interrupts when she stops by.
  
  ALANA: What kind of animal was it?
  WILL: Might’ve been a raccoon.
  ALANA: Might’ve been?
  WILL: By the time I knocked a hole in the chimney, it crawled out the top.
  ALANA: At least it got out.
  WILL: What are you doing out?
  ALANA: Thought I’d come over, make some noise, shoo away any predators at your door, but looks like you were making plenty of noise all by yourself.
  WILL: You avoided being in a room alone with me, essentially, since I met you. I mean, you were smooth about it.
  ALANA: Evidently not smooth enough.
  WILL: Now you’re making house calls?
  ALANA: Just a drive-by on my way home. Since you’re not my patient.
  WILL: No. I’m not.
  Will closes in on Alana and kisses her.
  ALANA: I’m confused.
  WILL: You have to stop thinking so much.
  ALANA: I can stop the thinking if we’re not... But if we’re...
  WILL: Intimate.
  ALANA: The way I am in relationships... Not that this is a relationship. It’s just a kiss. A great kiss. But the way I am isn’t compatible with....
  WILL: The way I am.
  ALANA: I wouldn’t be good for you. You wouldn’t be good for me, and I wouldn’t be able to stop analyzing, because I have this professional curiosity about you.
  Will kisses Alana again.
  WILL: I am not your patient.
  ALANA: If I were my patient, my advice to me would be, "Don’t do this". I have to follow my own advice. I’m gonna go ahead and go now. Good night.


• Immediately, Will drives to Hannibal's house and tells him that he kissed Alana. Hannibal was having a dinner but the guest is gone, so Hannibal serves up dessert for him and Will.
  
  HANNIBAL: Tell me, what was Alana’s reaction?
  WILL: She said she wouldn’t be good for me, and I wouldn’t be good for her.
  HANNIBAL: I don’t disagree. She would feel an obligation to her field of study to observe you. And you would resent her for it.
  WILL: I know.
  HANNIBAL: Wondering then why you kissed her and felt compelled to drive an hour in the snow to tell me about it.
  WILL: Ah, well, I wanted to kiss her since I met her. She's very kissable.
  HANNIBAL: You waited a long time, which suggests you were kissing her for a reason in addition to wanting to.
  WILL: I heard an animal trapped in my chimney. I broke through the wall to get it out. Didn’t find anything inside. Alana showed up. She looked at me, maybe her face changed, I don’t know. But she knew.
  HANNIBAL: What did she know, Will?
  WILL: There was no animal in my chimney. It was only in my head. I sleep walk. I get headaches. I am hearing things. I feel unstable.
  HANNIBAL: That’s why you kissed her. A clutch for balance. You said yourself what you do is not good for you.
  WILL: Unfortunately, I am good for it.


• Hannibal hesitates but then discloses information from a patient that could be connected to the recent murder. Will is shaken to be pulled back into work.


• Will arrives at Tobias' shop to interview him and catches that Tobias is aware of more about the case than was shared with the press. Suddenly, Will hears a dog getting suddenly hit by a car and runs out to check the street; there is no dog or trace of it. When he comes back, an officer is dead. After calling in the death, he searches for Tobias in the shop's basement and discovers the corpse of the other officer. There is a struggle between Tobias and Will, but Tobias manages to slip away.


• Jack and Will are called to Hannibal's office after Tobias and Franklyn, the patient, have been killed. Hannibal is wounded from the new encounter, and Jack interrogates him about what happened. Once Jack is done, Will talks with Hannibal, "I feel like I've dragged you into my world." "I got here on my own. But I appreciate the company."