Beverly I Miss You Everyday😔🔬

There's something about the way Hannibal says "Love" so plainly and immediately because that's truly what it is. The way he just breathes it out almost like a sigh, "Love," like he adores just saying the word when it comes in the context of Will. And the way the notes of the piano punctuate his words... It's said plain and simple, but in reality it carries so much weight.

It carries the weight of their entire relationship prior to this- betrayal and forgiveness and all... "bones and all." Loving Will gives Hannibal great joy, but it has also caused him great sorrow. Here Hannibal acknowledges that his love for Will is "beyond his conscious ability to control or predict," which mirrors his words from earlier in the episode:

"You cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love."

This scene has always stood out to me, and it's still one of my favorite moments. When I was doing my anniversary post series and came up with the idea to do the quotes for each episode, what I immediately thought of was this-

"Love. He pays you a visit or he doesn't."

I think it's safe to say Love has certainly paid Hannibal Lecter a visit.

Hannibal 3x03 - "Secondo"

10 years ago today, "Antipasto" first aired (June 4, 2015).

"Once upon a time..."

"At this point, there is absolutely nothing I have to do. But I don't want to spoil the fairy tale, do I? You and your gingerbread house."

"Let it be a fairy tale, then. Once upon a time…"

Hannibal 3x01 - "Antipasto"

antony dimmond really thought he had rizz when he actually just looked like hannibal's ex.

anyway look at this gif I found

The way Hannibal sees Will, and how Will sees Hannibal.

Their perception of one another for sure, but there's this fact that they reflect each other. Two standing mirrors, face to face: Will sees his own beast within when looking at Hannibal, and Hannibal sees the light he still owns in his soul. The ability to love so intensely, and the state of being comfortably violent. Two aspects of them people mostly assume nonexistent.

george russell attends a tennis match in paris - june 8, 2025 📷 pierre suu / getty

Will, who looks at Hannibal... with remorse? Regretting how much time they wasted, how he actually loves to see Hannibal free out of that glass box, his "beautiful" personality not lowered to a wild, bloodthirsty creature.

Will, who can't stand the thought of not being able to hear Hannibal's heartbeats when they come to take him away from him again, who can't stand existing in a world where they don't share blood, breath, touch, warmth, life and death.

Will Graham, who chose Hannibal in death over the rest of the world in life.

Wonderful video by Via Cinema on Christoph Waltz in Tarantino's films.

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Currently thinking about how Hannibal probably left the book of time equations open so Will could see cuz it was his way of apologizing.

And we see that Will sees it and looks away quickly. Maybe like it was too much for him to handle, Hannibal being sorry. Or he didn’t want to accept it. Or maybe didn’t think Hannibal set it up, and didn’t want to be caught looking.

And maybe that was the final nail in the coffin for him to realize Hannibal cared for him.

Saw this on Reddit today