3x12 || 3x13

the "diagnosis" Chilton gave Will during his trial was the one closest to the truth ("Will Graham has never been diagnosed. He won't allow anyone to test him. He has carefully constructed a persona to hide his real nature from the world. He wears it so well, even Jack Crawford couldn't see past it. (...) There is not yet a name for whatever Will Graham is.")

unlike Alana Bloom or Jack Crawford, he saw what a manipulator Will was and that in front of them he played a poor, confused, wounded bird ("(...) A particularly-manipulative one at that. Poor, confused, wounded bird for Agent Crawford and Doctors Lecter and Bloom. And for me, well, I get the psychopath's triumvirate: charm, focus and ruthlessness. The charm, of course, being debateable.")

he believed Will that Hannibal may be the Chesapeake Ripper and said Jack Crawford: "Hannibal once served me tongue and made a joke about eating mine. It's hard not to at least consider it.". Jack ignored him. (I think Jack was already planning some large-scale action against Hannibal, but that's a topic for another post)

he called Dr Lecter "Hannibal the Cannibal"

he understood that Will Graham was alive because Hannibal Lecter liked him that way

criticized Jack for letting Will and Hannibal get closer to each other and then leaving Will alone ("You dangle Will Graham and now you cut bait. You are letting Hannibal have him hook, line and sinker.")

when Jack expressed hope that the relationship between Hannibal and Will was one of those friendships that ends after the disemboweling, Chilton told him: "I would argue, with these two, that's tantamount to flirtation. Will is going to lead you right to him." and let's be real, he was right.

Hannibal Season 4 Predictions:

Frederick Chilton gets hit by a meteor. And Lives.

Abigail Hobbs is revealed to be alive, after Will Graham successfully faked her death at the end of season 2.

Winston the dog swims to Cuba to reunite with Will Graham.

Hannibal has a 2,000 page long Wedding binder. He is still waiting for Will Graham to propose.

Will Graham takes up deep-sea fishing.

Jimmy Price and Brian Zeller celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary.

A wing in the BAU is named in Beverly Katz honor.

Alana Bloom and Margot Verger happily raise their family.

Jack Crawford heads task force dedicated to locating the Murder Husbands. Clarice Starling is his first draft.

That one scene where jack is saying there’s no way Hannibal and Will have a good relationship bc they’ve sent assassins after one another and chilton is the only one to pipe up and say that’s basically foreplay for them…iconic

Hannibal as Court Transcripts [Part 4]

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god bless dr. chilton. he really told jack that disemboweling each other was will and hannibal’s idea of flirtation and then jack did not believe him. he was there for reputation and the money. i can understand that. my king really be making a lot of points that no one listens to. he said yo hannibal makes a lot of jokes about eating people maybe we should look into that. and he was RIGHT!! curse of cassandra goddamn

it's interesting that it pans to will fishing in the stream when chilton says "he likes to play god" bc speaking of religious allegories, will graham is a fisherman and a "fisher of men." both in the profiler sense (he catches criminals), and in the sense that he captures men's hearts (jesus urged his followers to be fishers of men to the gospel). except will's gospel is darkness, and while he doesn't forcibly push people towards it like hannibal, anyone involved with will gets dragged down into the inferno. for he is a fisher of (damned) men. subsequently, the "saving lives is just as arousing as ending them" bit could be said about god, which is a sentiment hannibal shares throughout the series.

NBC Hannibal is so funny cause Chilton came to Will’s house covered in blood pissing himself and shaking like “Your boyfriend framed me! They think I’m the cannibal, but I’m a vegetarian!! Please tell them I’m not the Ripper they won’t listen to me” and Will is just calmly sitting like “damn that’s crazy, anyways I called the FBI to arrest you”

HAPPY 10th ANNIVERSARY TO HANNIBAL!!

Hannibal (2013-2015)

2x05 || 2x07

Raúl Esparza as Frederick Chilton HANNIBAL | 1.06

I have spent 2 days making memes for no reason other than my own amusement and then I realized oh I can post these for my 3 followers so I emerged from my depression room state to post this be proud of me

I need more bestie Will and Bev content so I make it myself. They are the only cool people to ever exist in the FBI.

Also the Fred(dies) whom I despise (I love them with my whole heart). They are my favorite AO3 authors.

Hannibal 2.06 Futamono

Happy 10th anniversary of this episode!