Amuse-Bouche (Hannibal)

Graham (Hugh Dancy) is shooting in a range when Garret Jacob Hobbs's (Vladimir Jon Cubrt) corpse replaces the target, which is gradually getting closer to him. He is then awakened by Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), revealing that they are in Chippewa National Forest in order to investigate a murder. Graham, Crawford and the FBI arrive at Hobbs' cabin in the woods to find dead animals and filled with antlers. Crawford adds that Abigail is a suspect in the case, with possibility that Hobbs used her to attract the girls. Graham discovers a lock of hair in the floor, confirming someone else than Hobbs was there. Elsewhere, a red-haired woman (Lara Jean Chorostecki) is revealed to possess pictures of the cabin and uploads it to a blog named "Tattlecrime.com".

After lecturing in the FBI Academy, Graham is informed by Crawford and Alana (Caroline Dhavernas) that he will need psychiatric help from Dr. Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen). Despite Crawford's insistence, Lecter has Graham declared sane so he can return to work. Nine bodies are discovered in Elk Neck State Park; the bodies were all buried alive while comatose and used to grow mushrooms. While Graham uses his ability in the crime scene, the red-haired woman appears taking pictures of the scenes and interrogates an officer to reveal information. During the use of the ability, Graham discovers one of the bodies is still alive.

Graham returns to therapy with Lecter, who states that Hobbs may not be a problem for him and claims that maybe the killer wants a "connection". Their meeting is recorded by the red-haired woman, who is Lecter's next appointment. Despite using a false identity, Lecter correctly guesses that she is Freddie Lounds, a tabloid blogger. He then finds she recorded Graham's meeting with him and makes her delete the conversation. In the BAU's labs, autopsies reveal that the bodies had kidney failure along with diabetes thanks to a change in medicines, deducing the killer must be a pharmacist. Detecting a pharmacist where patients have gone missing, Graham and Crawford lead an FBI raid in a market to confront a pharmacist named Eldon Stammets (Aidan Devine). Stammets has escaped but left a woman in his car covered with dirt.

Checking into Stammets' Internet browser, the FBI discover that Stammets discovered all the information from Lounds' blog and managed to escape thanks to the blog. Crawford has his team raid Lounds' hotel room and confront her, ordering her to stop writing about Graham, or she will be arrested for obstruction of justice. The next day, Lounds is confronted by the officer that she lied to at the scene when the officer is killed by Stammets, who demands to talk to Graham. The police arrives and Lounds reveals that Stammets wants someone who thinks just like him to understand him (Graham) and will lure him with Abigail's (Kacey Rohl) body. Eldon tries to take out Abigail from the hospital when he is shot by Graham, who replies that "he does not understand him." During his next session with Lecter, Graham states that he didn't see Hobbs' ghost this time and Lecter notes that it must be because he may feel that the killing felt good, and that killing Hobbs felt "just". Lecter likens it to a feeling of being God, who kills people to feel "powerful".

Chelan Simmons, who portrays Gretchen Speck-Horowitz in Fuller's show Wonderfalls, appears in the episode, reverting to her maiden name after her divorce. This is the second time Simmons and Dhavernas collaborated as Dhavernas was the main character in Wonderfalls.[1]

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