Baltimore, 2013
"And you?" he asks, because ultimately their discussions aren't about the cases - Hannibal was largely uninvolved in them, save his tertiary contact with Will. "Have you come to believe you deserve punishment?"
"I think every killer deserves punishment," Will replies, and there's no hesitation, but when he looks up his gaze isn't as stable and he doesn't hold it long. Perhaps that's the reason he relates to this killer so keenly, because the punishment is deserved, it's anticipated and almost goaded, but it is also feared. This is not a man who wants to die, but who knows he should.
Will Graham encounters a killer he can't shake, finding the freedom and abandon with which the kills were committed both grotesque and enviable. Hannibal offers a solution.
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There is never just one lifetime, not for people who are meant to meet. In Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter's case, they shared five. Four which they could not share fully, and one which they did. This is their last, and current one.
Wangxian Prompts