Hannibal Episode 3.06 Dolce

Following his near-defeat at Jack's hands, Hannibal makes his way home in the early morning hours, where Bedelia sponges him clean and stitches his wounds. Their intimacy is almost that of lovers now. As Bedelia clips the final stitch, we cut to a shot of Pazzi's body being cut down from the Palazzo balcony. Jack oversees this process, but he's interrupted when a familiar voice calls to him from the crowd. Reunited, Will and Jack discuss their next steps. Jack explains that telling the questura they're after Hannibal Lecter will only tempt more policemen to try to sell him to Mason. Will wonders why Jack didn't just kill Hannibal when he had the chance. Jack considers this and responds, "Maybe I need you to."

With their time in Florence coming to an end, Bedelia presents Hannibal with a packed bag and tells him it's time for him to leave. She asks what he'll tell the authorities about her involvement when he's caught. Just as he promised before, Hannibal says he will help her tell the story she wants to be told. After sharing a lingering kiss, he and Bedelia part.

In Baltimore, Mason's dreams of dining on Hannibal are interrupted by news from Florence. An Italian newscast on Pazzi's death catches him, Cordell, Alana and Margot up to speed. Mason is not overly concerned, but Alana warns that he needs someone close to the investigation to win the hunt for Hannibal. Margot suggests buying another cop; Alana advises the entire department.

Retrieving a needle kit from a vent in her apartment, Bedelia sits down in front of a mirror and readies to inject herself. But Chiyoh's unexpected arrival pauses her plans. Hannibal's two women trade stories about their relationship to Hannibal, and Chiyoh rightly recognizes that they're both his birds; he puts them in cages to see what they'll do. Bedelia asks if Chiyoh witnessed Hannibal become Hannibal. She did, and she also watched him grow. After Chiyoh leaves, Bedelia returns to the task at hand and injects a red liquid into her arm. Shortly after it takes effect, there's a knock at the door. Will and Jack have come to pay Mrs. Fell a visit.

Bedelia gives nothing away while continuing to assert she's Lydia Fell. Jack and Will realize she has injected herself with the same cocktail Hannibal used on Miriam Lass; that's her alibi. Even more impressive to Will, Bedelia has managed to stay alive. When Will and Jack continue to press her about Hannibal's crimes, she wonders why the police haven't come to see her. Jack explains that the police are all being bought. He also notices then that Will is no longer in the room. Bedelia wonders who will find Hannibal first, Mason's henchmen or Will?

Confirming Jack's theory, Margot tells Mason she's made some new friends in Italy. Mason admits his sister has done so much for him, perhaps it's time he do something for her. Margot reminds him that he took her ability to have children away, but Mason counters that, with his sperm and a surrogate, there's still a chance to raise a true Verger heir.

Will finds Hannibal in the place where it all began: seated in front of Botticelli's Primavera. Only this time, it's Will and Bedelia's faces Hannibal is drawing. The pair's long-awaited reunion forces them both to admit that the lines between them have blurred. Hannibal even believes that's how Will found him. Will wonders if either of them can survive separation. They leave together to find out, but Will is not the only one that has discovered Hannibal's location. Chiyoh's shotgun is trained on her childhood friend from a nearby rooftop as he walks through the courtyard. Its gaze, however, soon shifts to Will. When Will slides a knife into his hand, Chiyoh quickly pulls the trigger and shoots him.

Alana has taken not just Mason as a business partner but Margot as a romantic partner. The two share a passionate lovemaking session before getting back to formulating an escape plan from Mason. Alana thinks they should call in the FBI once Mason captures Hannibal. Margot's on board but reminds Alana there's one thing she needs from her brother before he goes to jail: his sperm.

When the questura finally arrive to question Bedelia, she continues to impress that she is Lydia Fell. A policeman explains that they believe her husband is responsible for the two missing people from the Capponi and that he killed Pazzi after Pazzi figured that out. Jack, still at Bedelia's side, adds that if the questura check the FBI's most wanted list, they'll see Dr. Fell is actually Hannibal Lecter. When the policeman asks Jack why he didn't go to the police with that information earlier, Jack implies that the police can be bought. Not taking kindly to his insinuation, the policeman orders Jack to leave. Bedelia, on the other hand, he tells to stay put.

Hannibal brings a badly injured Will to Professor Sogliato's apartment. He cuts away Will's bloodied shirt and prepares to remove the bullet. But first, Hannibal places the knife that Will was going to use on him in Will's hand and confronts him. Too weak to protest, Will just sits there as Hannibal rails against him then injects him with something. Will's hand goes limp, dropping the knife into Hannibal's hand, and he passes out. When he comes to, he is seated at the head of Sogliato's dinner table and strapped into his chair. Hannibal takes a seat next to him and feeds him soup. Will objects that it's not very good. Hannibal explains that it's a parsley and thyme infusion - and it's more for Hannibal's sake than Will's.

Around the same time, Jack arrives at Sogliato's apartment building. He gets in the elevator and is joined by Chiyoh. It is not lost on her that Jack is heading to the same floor. Neither is it lost on either of them that their elevator companion is armed. When they reach the seventh floor, Chiyoh exits first. After a few steps, she says she went to the wrong floor and takes the stairs down a flight. Jack enters Sogliato's apartment with his gun drawn. He hears music playing and the sound of butter melting and fears the worst. When he sees Will, he slowly makes his way to him. But Jack's relief is short-lived: Will reveals Hannibal is under the table. Before Jack can react, Hannibal slashes his ankle and sends him falling to the ground.

Now alone with Bedelia, the policeman tries to break her by showing her pictures of the actual Fells. When Bedelia still doesn't budge, the policeman makes it clear that he doesn't care who she is or what she did; he just wants to know where her husband is. Realizing the man is not asking as a policeman but as an employee of Mason's, Bedelia relents. She explains that Hannibal was hoping to meet a friend before he left the city and that they will be somewhere no one is supposed to be.

Hannibal's dinner table is now complete with Will at one end and Jack at the other. As he brings something to the table, Hannibal muses that it was Jack's idea to get into Will's head, and now, he and Jack will do it literally. With Jack incapable of stopping him, Hannibal turns on the miniature bone saw he retrieved and begins cutting across Will's forehead. As blood pours down Will's face, his mind loses focus. But he does not die. Eventually, Will returns to reality. Only instead of being seated at Sogliato's dinner table, he and Hannibal are now hanging upside down on meat hooks in a truck. And Mason Verger is welcoming them to Muskrat Farm.