Hannibal Episode 6 Recap: Forcing People To Eat Their Own Body Parts Is SOOO Over The Line

The screws tighten on Hannibal as Jack and Chilton openly discus if he could be the Chesapeake Ripper. Looks like Will is finally getting through to them. The next murder victim is grafted into a tree. He was a city councilor who backed a project that destroyed a rare bird habit. I didnt know Hannibal cared about wildlife?

Hannibal throws a dinner party (just as Will had predicted). But the main dish is not people this time (since Hannibal knows Jack will test the food). Alana finally turns her back on Will and ends up sleeping with Lecter... eeewwww! Poor Alana isnt long for this world. She really shouldnt go to sleep around Hannibal unless she wants to become meatloaf.

Hannibal breaks Gideon out of the insane asylum/hospital and forces him to eat his own leg. Extra bonus points to Eddie Izzard for looking thoroughly disgusted during dinner. And in a twist I really didnt see coming, Miriam Lass is still alive (minus an arm).

Wikipedia:

Episode 6 "Futamono"
Crawford confronts Graham about setting the orderly Matthew Brown on Lecter, and Graham denies it but tries to make Crawford see that Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper by explaining to him why he only kills in lots of three or four: he has to eat the meat he takes before it spoils. Graham assures Crawford that if the Ripper is killing again, Lecter will be throwing a dinner party. Sure enough, Lecter soon invites Crawford to a gathering he is hosting. Meanwhile, local city councilor Sheldon Isley is found surgically grafted onto a tree in a parking lot (for which Isley brokered the development deal and in the process destroyed the habitat of some rare songbirds), his chest cavity emptied of all organs except his lungs and stuffed with poisonous flowers. The autopsy reveals a number of Ripper tell-tale signs and that Isley was drowned. Price and Zeller determine from the water in his lungs that he was killed within a fifty mile radius. Chilton records Abel Gideon confessing to Graham that he was in Lecter's home, but Gideon denies this when questioned by Crawford. Gideon is beaten by a pair of guards and put in the infirmary. Lecter throws his dinner party and Crawford takes a few samples of the food to Price and Zeller to be tested. Alana and Lecter sleep together and Lecter kidnaps Gideon from the infirmary while she is sleeping (help by a drugged glass of wine). The infirmary guard is killed and strung up with fishing lines. Though they do not find any human meat in the samples of Lecter's food, they do find body materials in the fishing lures used on the infirmary guard from Ripper victims like the judge, James Gray, Miriam Lass, all the way back to Marissa Schur. They also find a piece of rare tree bark, which Crawford traces to an abandoned farmhouse in the initial search area, where he finds Miriam Lass still alive.

Odds & Ends:

Will continues to transform into a stag. I've said it before but I REALLY don't understand that imagery.
Is there anything Hannibal cant do-- cook, play the harpsicord, sew. If only he weren't a serial killer he'd be the perfect Renaissance Man.
Sorry, I'm not buying you can determine within a 50 m radius the location of the killer thanks to the water in his lungs and some rare tree bark.

Favorite Quotes:

"He's attracted to medical and psychological fields because they offer power over man. Cannibalism is an act of dominance."
"I'll give Alana Bloom your best."- Hannibal to Will after he slept with Bloom.
"Last time someone rang my doorbell this early, it was a census taker."- Hannibal to Alana (good reference back to the movie/book).
“You’re awake. I’m thinking about funerals. And how much they make us want sex."- Alana to Hannibal. Uhhh no. Doesnt have that affect on me.

Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). I like the show much better when it focuses on the main characters instead of the "kill of the week". Things are definitely heating up. Not sure how much longer than can keep this up since everyone now suspects Hannibal (except Alana) and he can't kill them all...or can he?