scene: Will vs. Rendal Tier/ Hannibal
script: Hannibal is facing Will across the dining table. Randall Tier's corpse lies across the table. His head lolling at an unnatural angle. A piece of paper is pinned to his chest. On it is written: "Return to Sender." Finally Will steps out of the shadows.
Will: "I'd say this makes us even. I sent someone to kill you... you sent someone to kill me. Even-steven."
Hannibal: "Consider it an act of reciprocity." (deleted line: "One positive action begets another.")
Will: "Polite society normally places such a taboo on taking a life."
Hannibal: "Without death, we'd be at a loss. It's the prospect of death that drives us to greatness. Did you kill him with your hands?"
Will: "It was... intimate."
Hannibal: "It deserves intimacy. You were Randall Tier's final enemy." (while holding Will's hand)
script: They sit at one end of the dining room table, Randall Tier's body still splayed across it. Hannibal removes Will's hands from the Epsom salts bath, drying them. Will stares absently as Hannibal treats his wounds. Hannibal clocks the retreat.
Hannibal: "Don't go inside, Will. You'll want to retreat." (deleted line: "You'll want it as we want to jump from balconies.") "You'll want it as the glint of the rail tempts us when we hear the approaching train."
script: Hannibal applies salve to the cuts and bruises on Will's hands, gently rubbing the ointment into his open wounds.
Hannibal: "Stay with me."
script: Hannibal carefully wraps gauze bandages around Will's hands.
Will: "Where else would I go?"
Hannibal: "You have everywhere to go." (deleted line: "As long as you buttress your mind against deterring forces like guilt.") "You should be quite pleased. I am."
Will: "Of course you are."
Hannibal: "When you killed Randall, did you fantasize you were killing me?"
Will (deleted line): "Yes." script: That makes Hannibal smile.
Hannibal: "Most of what we do, most of what we believe, is motivated by death."
Will: "I've never felt as alive as I did when I was killing him."
Hannibal: "Then you owe Randall Tier a debt. How will you repay him?"
Jack: "The killer chose not to dispose of the body, but to display it."
Hannibal: "A jarring reminder of the informality of death."
Jack: "Randall Tier was denied the respectful end that he himself denied others."
Hannibal: "This is a humiliation, a final indignity."
Will: "He isn't mocking him. This isn't disdain. He's... commemorating him."
Hannibal: "This killer has no fear for the consequences of what he's done."
Will: "No guilt. ... Hello again."
Randall: "Come closer. I want to see you. Can you see you?"
Will: "Clearer and clearer. You forced me to kill you."
Randall: "I didn't force you to enjoy it. You made me a monument."
Will: "You're welcome."
Randall: "The monument is not to me; it's to you." (deleted line: "This is pride.")
Will: "I gave you what you want. This is who you are. What you feel finally matches the reality of what I see."
Randall: "This is my becoming. And it's yours."
script: Will shakes his head, this is not his becoming. Will: "This is my design. He knew his killer. There's a... familiarity here. Someone who met him, understood him. Someone like him. Different pathology, same instinct."
Jack: "His killer empathized with him?"
Will: "Don't mistake understanding for empathy, Jack. No, if there's anything, it's... it's envy."
Jack: "Envy?"
Will: "Randall Tier came into his own much easier than whoever killed him."
Hannibal: "This was a fledgling killer. He's never killed before, not like this."
Will: "Not like this, no. This is the nightmare that followed him out of his dreams."
deleted scene
script: Hannibal sits still in the chair as Will Graham moves around him, picking things up, putting them down. Amped somehow. An athlete after the race, adrenalin still coursing his system.
Hannibal: "You're playing a dangerous game."
Will: "We once caught a killer who went to his victims' funerals just so he could console their loved ones."
Hannibal: "Jack Crawford is no grieving widow. Not so long ago, we were both suspects for crimes just like this."
Will (turns to Hannibal): "That's why I can't be a suspect this time. Or you. When you framed Chilton, you exonerated me and yourself. He was the broom that swept our tracks."
Hannibal does not react to this, instead: "Why didn't you dispose of the body? It was the prudent course."
Will: "Randall deserved to be seen."
Hannibal: "Randall, or your work on him?"
Will: "You called it artistry. Is that how you see your own efforts?"
Hannibal: "I also called it savagery. You mutilated the body. Displayed it."
Will: "The bird is leaving the nest, Dr. Lecter. Spreading his wings."
Hannibal: "A newly-fledged bird is at his most vulnerable. Still relies on his parents for food. He can fly, but he has to learn to hunt."
Will: "And they learn via imitation. There is a mantra in medical tuition you must know: watch one, do one, teach one. I've seen plenty, Dr. Lecter."
Hannibal doesn't answer to that, instead: "How did it feel? To manipulate what was a living man into a message all of your own."
Will: "Like I wasn't finished till I had."
Hannibal absorbs this, then: "Did you take a trophy too, Will?"
Will: "A memento of my first rodeo? What do you think?"
Hannibal: "I think it would be the act of a serial killer."
Will: "By definition, one body doesn't make me a serial killer."
Freddie: "You were so certain the Chesapeake Ripper was Hannibal Lecter, you tried to kill him."
Will: "You neglected to say allegedly."
Freddie: "No, I didn't. Hannibal Lecter is your psychiatrist again. What's up with that?"
(German dub: "What's your reason?")
Will: "I was wrong about him; that's what's up with that."
(German dub: "I was wrong about him; that is the reason.")
Freddie: "Maybe you were. Maybe you weren't." (...)
(German dub: "Maybe. But maybe it isn't.")
Will: "My story with the Chesapeake Ripper already has an ending, Freddie."
Freddie: "Mine doesn't. Do you really think Dr. Chilton killed Abigail Hobbs? I don't. Even if I let this story go, I will never let that go."
Will: "Trust me, Freddie... neither will I."
Margot: "I may have missed my opportunity."
Hannibal: "Do you know why you failed to murder him, Margot? You failed to murder your brother because you still love him. In love, you take leave of your senses, but in hatred, you must be present to calculate your actions. Allow yourself to hate him. Do you think Mason will just give you what you want? You'll be begging him for the rest of your life. Did begging help when he tore you?"
(Another masterful foreshadowing to Mizumono, when Hannibal will stab Will in a deliberately non-fatal way because he wants him to live. Also, his actions will be far from logical and controlled there.)
Alana: "It's a very psychological instrument."
Hannibal: "Yes, we work with people the same way. Never touching... but guiding them from dissonance toward composition."
Alana: "But people are not instruments. Whatever it is you're playing, Hannibal, you have to listen very carefully to what you're creating."
Hannibal: "I am listening. I'm listening to you. You and I went so long in our friendship without ever touching, yet I always felt attuned to you."
I have a feeling he doesn't talk about Alana here.
scene: Hannibal and Will are having sex
I think we can all agree that Will was never emotionally interested in Margot. Like with Alana, it is Margot who seeks him out, and Margot is the one to initiate sex. Why does Will agree to it? Just because he wants it? I think it is possible, but I also think it’d be a little out of character for him for several reasons. Will knows Margot has some agenda. He knows she is not interested in sex with him because she admitted she is a lesbian. When she makes her move, Will tells her, "I've got the wrong parts for your proclivities". So he knows the truth, yet still agrees to sex with her. It’s quite disgusting of him if he just grabbed what was swimming his way and had sex with her just for his own pleasure. However, we see it is not the case because he doesn’t really see Margot during their sex. He sees Alana, Hannibal, and Wendigo - a being that symbolizes his and Hannibal’s connection. More than that, he reaches orgasm only when Wendigo appears. So, it is equally possible to read this scene as Will’s attempt to engage into the most 'natural' seeming activity in the world - sex with a woman, but he still fails at it by dragging a man and a monster into it.
script: As Hannibal pulls back out of frame, we follow his movement, but it is now Will that we see, darkness of the room behind him. Beneath him, Alana; they kiss passionately, rolling onto their sides. Will opens one eye, looking beyond Alana to Hannibal watching him intently as he makes love to her. Alana turns away from Will and embraces Hannibal in a kiss, as if they were all three in the same bed together. Alana turns from Hannibal, back to Will, rolling on top of him. (...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58wUyEysLN0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jORGaIBl704&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wattpad.com%2F
deleted scene
Margot: "I had sex with one of your patients. Will Graham. How does that make you feel?"
Hannibal (off her look): "Curious. Will Graham is not a lesbian."
Margot: "He sure made a go at it."
script: Hannibal smells the air, processing what he breathes in.
Hannibal: "Was Will aware of your intention to get pregnant, Margot?"
Margot: "Wasn't it your intention for me to get pregnant, Dr. Lecter?"
Hannibal: "There are those who raise livestock and have a genuine affection for them. The farmer who hand rears lambs loves them and sends them to slaughter."
Alana: "They love and kill what they love."
Hannibal: "And eat what they love. It's a paradox."
Alana: "Freddie Lounds thinks the two of you are a paradox. She sees something no one else sees."
Will: "What's that?"
Alana: "That neither of you is the killer she's writing about, but together, you might be."
Hannibal: "Freddie Lounds must consider you a bland interview subject if she's already resorted to fiction."
Alana: "She won't be fenced in by something as malleable as the truth. Freddie has no boundaries."
Will: "Someone with no boundaries is a psychopath. Or a journalist."
Alana: "Freddie isn't the only one without boundaries. Your relationship doesn't seem to know many. Patient and therapist, friend and enemy."
Hannibal: "Crossing boundaries is different than violating them."
Alana: "Boundaries will always be subject to negotiation. It's just hard to know where you are with each other."
Will: "We know where we are with each other. Shouldn't that be enough?"
deleted scene
Alana looks at Will and Hannibal, decides she has to speak: "Freddie was investigating a story about Will and Hannibal committing murders together. There's no reason to believe her, but someone believed Freddie was a threat." script: Alana truly wondering what she believes.
Will: "And I provide the ingredients. You tell me what we should do with them."
Hannibal: "What's the meat?"
Will: "What do you think?"
Hannibal: "Veal?" (smelling) "Pork, perhaps?"
Will: "She was a slim and delicate pig."
Hannibal: "I'll make you lomo saltado. We will make it together. You slice the ginger."
♪♪♪ (Mahler: Symphony #5, Adagietto)
Hannibal: "The meat has an interesting flavour. It's bracing. Notes of citrus."
script: Will savors the flavors of the dish. Will takes a bite. Hannibal watches him intently, proud.
Will: "My palate isn't as refined as yours."
Hannibal: "Apart from humane considerations, it's more flavourful for animals to be stress-free prior to slaughter. This animal tastes frightened."
Will: "What does 'frightened' taste like?"
Hannibal: "It's acidic."
Will: "The meat is bitter about being dead."
Hannibal: "This meat is not pork."
Will: "It's long pig. You can't reduce me to... a set of influences. I'm not the product of anything. I've given up good and evil for behaviourism."
Hannibal: "Then you can't say that I'm evil."
Will: "You're destructive. Same thing."
Hannibal: "Evil is just destructive? Storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and then there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God'. Is this meat an act of God, Will?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CGeKbgATNA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnTe7bQX4ow
essay about Will's sexuality:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HannibalTV/comments/7ttnf9/wills_sexuality/
