This episode is focused on finding the Mural Killer while Will begins to fight back against the allegations that he is a murderer. Script.
Will admits to being confused, "I've lost the plot. I'm the unreliable narrator of my own story," to Alana and Hannibal. He keeps hammering that he felt betrayed and that he trusted Hannibal, but he receives platitudes from the both of them. When he returns to his cell, he drops the trembling charade and is secure, confident in the bait that he has left.
Hannibal visits Will alone. Will tests him on multiple areas, seeing his response, before delving into the crime itself. On the current killer, Will mentions him having missing pieces too, insinuating Hannibal.
HANNIBAL: You said the light from friendship won't reach us for a million years, that's how far away we were. I hope our friendship feels closer today. WILL: Friends have a symmetrical relationship. Psychiatrist and patient, that's unbalanced. HANNIBAL: There is a power differential between psychiatrist and patient. One that I'm well aware of, particularly with my own therapist. WILL: But we're just having conversations. HANNIBAL: You threatened me with a reckoning. WILL: I did. I can't claim unconsciousness on that one. HANNIBAL: You were searching for something in your head to incriminate me. I can only assume you didn't find it. WILL: Not much in there I recognize. HANNIBAL: Whatever you remember, if you do remember, will be a distortion of reality. Not the truth of events. WILL: I'm realizing that.
Beverly visits Will. They strike a deal: She will re-examine all evidence from his case without presuming him as guilty, and he will help to profile killers for her. When Will recreates the BAU lab, Beverly is there. He speaks to her as well assuming the persona of the killer. After Will determines what became of this victim, he asks Beverly about what Hannibal thought of the victim, claiming what he said may not be what he think.
Beverly and Hannibal visit Will after they find the killer's masterpiece in order to figure out where they're looking at. Beverly mentions that this case is taking up her time to devote to other cases, Will's case, and Will begins to examine the artifacts. He does not narrate his experience, but he sees Hannibal in his recreation with him as the killer sealed into his own work. Will spends the rest of the exchange staring down Hannibal, the killer's friend.
Katy visits Will at BHSCI, pushing him to plead guilty to wipe away tarnish from the FBI, but Will refuses. If he is found guilty, he will be given the death sentence. Will is determined to save himself while making glib jokes.
Will imagines himself fly fishing in a river, a common pastime in incarteration, but he watches sealed and sculpted bodies flow past him. He has a visitor that breaks his reverie, Bedelia, a new face.
BEDELIA: I've heard so much about you, I almost feel as though I know you. WILL: You don't. BEDELIA: No, I don't, but I understand you better than I thought.
BEDELIA: It may be small comfort, but I am convinced Hannibal has done what he honestly believes is best for you. WILL: No, that isn't small comfort. That would be no comfort. BEDELIA: The traumatized are unpredictable because we know we can survive. You can survive this happening to you. WILL: Happening to me? BEDELIA moves closer, whispering: I believe you.
NOT MUCH HERE . . . Will was ready to risk his life on the certainty that he did not kill anyone. While he was find resources to protect himself, Bedelia rocked him to his core by believing in him which is all he really needed.
Season 2 Episode 2: Sakizuki
HANNIBAL: You said the light from friendship won't reach us for a million years, that's how far away we were. I hope our friendship feels closer today.
WILL: Friends have a symmetrical relationship. Psychiatrist and patient, that's unbalanced.
HANNIBAL: There is a power differential between psychiatrist and patient. One that I'm well aware of, particularly with my own therapist.
WILL: But we're just having conversations.
HANNIBAL: You threatened me with a reckoning.
WILL: I did. I can't claim unconsciousness on that one.
HANNIBAL: You were searching for something in your head to incriminate me. I can only assume you didn't find it.
WILL: Not much in there I recognize.
HANNIBAL: Whatever you remember, if you do remember, will be a distortion of reality. Not the truth of events.
WILL: I'm realizing that.
BEDELIA: I've heard so much about you, I almost feel as though I know you.
WILL: You don't.
BEDELIA: No, I don't, but I understand you better than I thought.
BEDELIA: It may be small comfort, but I am convinced Hannibal has done what he honestly believes is best for you.
WILL: No, that isn't small comfort. That would be no comfort.
BEDELIA: The traumatized are unpredictable because we know we can survive. You can survive this happening to you.
WILL: Happening to me?
BEDELIA moves closer, whispering: I believe you.
NOT MUCH HERE . . . Will was ready to risk his life on the certainty that he did not kill anyone. While he was find resources to protect himself, Bedelia rocked him to his core by believing in him which is all he really needed.