This episode shows the aftermath of the finale for Will and Abigail. By the end, Will is back in form to hunt down Hannibal. Script.
After reliving the finale of the past season, the image of a teacup shattering rings out, but it slowly begins to form again in the shape of Will. He wakes up in a hospital bed and is greeted by a doctor who says he has a visitor. Abigail slips in while the doctor slips out, and Will and Abigail discuss the state of affairs now. This conversation is overlapped with Will's conversation with Chilton from the fourth episode.
ABIGAIL: He wanted us to live. WILL: He left us to die. ABIGAIL: But we didn't. He was supposed to take me with him. We were all supposed to leave together. He made a place for us. WILL: Abigail... ABIGAIL: Why did you lie to him? WILL: The wrong thing being the right thing to do was too ugly a thought. ABIGAIL: He gave you a chance to take it all back, and you just kept lying. No one had to die. WILL: It's hard to grasp what would've happened, could've happened. In some other world... Did happen. ABIGAIL: Having a hard enough time dealing with this world. Hope some of the other worlds are easier on me. WILL: Everything that can happen happens. Has to end well, and it has to end badly. Has to end every way it can. This is the way it ended for us. ABIGAIL: We don't have an ending. He didn't give us one yet. He wants us to find him. WILL: After everything he's done, you would still go to him? ABIGAIL: If everything that can happen happens, you can't really do the wrong thing. You're just doing what you're supposed to do.
As Will feels antlers beginning to creep through his bandages, he relives his last moments with Hannibal. He finds the clue that he needs to follow, and he bides his time for eight months while he heals from his wound.
Will and Abigail take in the Norman Chapel in Palermo. While they consider the place that Hannibal cherishes, they discuss God and Hannibal.
ABIGAIL: Do you believe in God? WILL: What I believe is closer to science fiction than anything in the Bible. ABIGAIL: We all know, but no one ever says G-dash-D won't do a G-dash-D-damned thing to answer anybody's prayers. WILL: God can't save any of us because it's inelegant. Elegance is more important than suffering. That's His design. ABIGAIL: You talking about God or Hannibal? WILL: Hannibal's not God. Wouldn't have any fun being God. Defying God-- Now, that's his idea of a good time. Nothing would thrill Hannibal more than to see this roof collapse mid-Mass, packed pews, choir singing. He would just love it. And he thinks God would love it, too.
Will returns to the Norman Chapel, like he has many other days, but the police are swarmed around a macabre piece of art. Abigail questions if it is Hannibal while a priest identifies Will as a person of interest. Before and after his questioning by the police of Palermo, Will speaks with Rinaldo Pazzi, an inspector from Florence, who is familiar with Will and also with Hannibal from his youth. He identifies the connection between Will and Hannibal, seeking to use Will as a guide to capture Hannibal, il Mostro, where he failed before.
Upon returning to the scene and seeing photographs, Will is able to recreate the scene. As he becomes entrapped in his creation, about to succumb, Abigail pulls him from the recreation. WILL, laughing: I do feel closer to Hannibal here. God only knows where I would be without him. ABIGAIL: What did you see? WILL: He left us his broken heart. ABIGAIL: How did he know we were here? WILL: He didn't. But he knew we'd come. ABIGAIL: He misses us. WILL: Hannibal follows several trains of thought at once without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement. ABIGAIL: He's playing with us. WILL: Always. You still want to go with him? ABIGAIL: Yes. WILL: He gave you back to me. Then took you away. Lucy and the football. He just keeps pulling you away... What if no one died? What if we all left together? Like we were supposed to. After he served the lamb. Where would we have gone? ABIGAIL: In some other world? WILL: In some other world. ABIGAIL: He said he made a place for us. WILL: A place was made for you, Abigail, in this world. The only place I could make for you.
With that, Abigail's wound opens. Once more, she is dead to Will along with his sympathy for Hannibal. When Rinaldo returns to Will, he is keen to hunt down and lure Hannibal back. Will follows Hannibal into the catacombs of the chapel, chasing off Rinaldo who follows him then offering forgiveness to Hannibal.
Important Points:
John has had many of these discussions about blame already, but he never switched to wanting to kill Hannibal.
While he doesn't disagree with that course of action, John does question if he ever could arrive at that point. The relationship has been romanticized in absence.
There is exhaustion with being used by multiple different people to track Hannibal when they don't have any place with whatever goes on between the two of them. Get. Out.
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Season 3 Episode 2: Primavera
Date: 2020-05-12 07:47 am (UTC)ABIGAIL: He wanted us to live.
WILL: He left us to die.
ABIGAIL: But we didn't. He was supposed to take me with him. We were all supposed to leave together. He made a place for us.
WILL: Abigail...
ABIGAIL: Why did you lie to him?
WILL: The wrong thing being the right thing to do was too ugly a thought.
ABIGAIL: He gave you a chance to take it all back, and you just kept lying. No one had to die.
WILL: It's hard to grasp what would've happened, could've happened. In some other world... Did happen.
ABIGAIL: Having a hard enough time dealing with this world. Hope some of the other worlds are easier on me.
WILL: Everything that can happen happens. Has to end well, and it has to end badly. Has to end every way it can. This is the way it ended for us.
ABIGAIL: We don't have an ending. He didn't give us one yet. He wants us to find him.
WILL: After everything he's done, you would still go to him?
ABIGAIL: If everything that can happen happens, you can't really do the wrong thing. You're just doing what you're supposed to do.
ABIGAIL: Do you believe in God?
WILL: What I believe is closer to science fiction than anything in the Bible.
ABIGAIL: We all know, but no one ever says G-dash-D won't do a G-dash-D-damned thing to answer anybody's prayers.
WILL: God can't save any of us because it's inelegant. Elegance is more important than suffering. That's His design.
ABIGAIL: You talking about God or Hannibal?
WILL: Hannibal's not God. Wouldn't have any fun being God. Defying God-- Now, that's his idea of a good time. Nothing would thrill Hannibal more than to see this roof collapse mid-Mass, packed pews, choir singing. He would just love it. And he thinks God would love it, too.
WILL, laughing: I do feel closer to Hannibal here. God only knows where I would be without him.
ABIGAIL: What did you see?
WILL: He left us his broken heart.
ABIGAIL: How did he know we were here?
WILL: He didn't. But he knew we'd come.
ABIGAIL: He misses us.
WILL: Hannibal follows several trains of thought at once without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.
ABIGAIL: He's playing with us.
WILL: Always. You still want to go with him?
ABIGAIL: Yes.
WILL: He gave you back to me. Then took you away. Lucy and the football. He just keeps pulling you away... What if no one died? What if we all left together? Like we were supposed to. After he served the lamb. Where would we have gone?
ABIGAIL: In some other world?
WILL: In some other world.
ABIGAIL: He said he made a place for us.
WILL: A place was made for you, Abigail, in this world. The only place I could make for you.
Important Points: