Hannibal

Desperate to find a new angle into the case of the Minnesota Shrike FBI Special Agent Jack Crawford recruits unorthodox profiler Will Graham, whose ability to empathize completely gives him a unique insight into crime scenes. Noted psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter is also invited to assist when a copycat killer escalates the case.

Will's therapy sessions with Hannibal intensify, as he tries to find respite from the disturbed minds he inhabits and hunts.

There are still seven girls missing, and their families desperately seek answers. Against Dr. Alana Bloom's advice but at Hannibal's behest, they escort Abigail back to Minnesota, where she discovers violent hostility against her and her family.

A massacred family is discovered seated at a perfectly-set dinner table. Jack notes that the family's son was abducted not long ago; could the murder be an extension of that?

Jack, Will, and the Team are called in to investigate a truly disturbing scene-two victims with the skin on their backs cut and tied to the ceiling to mimic angel wings.

Dr. Frederick Chilton, the administrator of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, asks the FBI for help after an inmate, Dr. Abel Gideon, kills one of his nursing staff and claims to be the Chesapeake Ripper.

Jack has Will profile the murder of a man in a hotel room, discovered dead in a bathtub with his kidney removed. Will refuses to support Jack's (and the Team's) theory that the Chesapeake Ripper has finally resurfaced after years of inactivity.

Will begins to suffer auditory hallucinations, confusing his investigations. He turns to Alana for help, and the two begin to grow intimately closer.

The Team works to untangle the elaborate construction of a human totem pole. Comprised of seventeen bodies, some dating back to the 1970s, the pole is obviously meant to tell a story that only Will can decipher

Will is serenely fly fishing when he blinks and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a grisly crime scene. Confused and scared, Will accidentally contaminates the evidence, his lost time a further indication that his sanity is slipping.

During a routine prison transfer, Dr. Abel Gideon escapes after slaying the officers inside the transport van. Hanging their organs on a tree like fruit, Gideon hopes to lure the real Chesapeake Ripper into the open.

Seeking his own therapist's advice about his complex relationship with Will, Hannibal wonders how he should handle Will's deteriorating mental health.

Waking up from a blackout, Will vomits up a human ear. Tests prove it was Abigail's, but Will has no memory of events after Abigail left him at her father's cabin.