I thought season 1 ended with a bang but it doesn’t compare to the opening of season 2. After the climactic ending of season 1 with Will’s arrest and imprisonment, the opening scene of season 2 didn’t disappoint. I was not expecting the awesome fight scene between Hannibal and Jack, it has a muted soundtrack and amazing camera work, but the best part of the scene was seeing Hannibal’s true strength. Even though Jack is more well-built than Hannibal, they are evenly matched in the fight and for a moment you don’t know who is going to come out on top, but ultimately Hannibal gets the upper hand and stabs Jack in the neck. Jack bleeding heavily locks himself in Hannibal’s pantry as Hannibal tries to bust his way in.
We then jump back to twelve weeks earlier, and this opening scene tells me Hannibal’s ruse of framing Will isn’t going to last forever. This opens the new season with a ton of questions as we don’t know what has led to this fight, but the viewer is eager to find out. We learn that Will is now confined in the Baltimore Hospital for the Criminally Insane, the same hospital where Hannibal eventually ends up, but this isolation is working in his favour as he is beginning to try and unravel what he believes Hannibal did to him. He also refuses to speak to anyone except Alana, and he does initially ask to speak to Hannibal which he agrees to, despite Bedelia’s objections to this meeting.
This Will isn’t the mad and scared Will from season 1 as his mind is a lot clearer being away from the F.B.I. and the prospect of the conflict between newly empowered Graham and an almost-revealed Lecter has me practically salivating. We see that Alana has made an investigation against Jack and that he and Hannibal are going to be investigated because of Will’s accusations. Alana seems to be the only person fighting to prove Will innocent, especially after Hannibal is investigated and nothing is found that can remotely connect him to the murders. Hannibal is getting close to Beverly, played by Hettienne Park and she comments that he is the new Will Graham, so we see Hannibal fill the role Will has left absent in the F.B.I.
Beverly seems to have very mixed emotions about Will, and Lecter has suddenly focused his dangerous attention on her and considering the fairly overt threat that Hannibal made at his own therapist, Gillian Anderson’s Dr. Du Maurier, I would not be surprised to see her emerge as a player on roughly Graham and Lecter’s level, which would be fascinating to watch. Only Cynthia Nixon’s monotone Kade Prurnell seems like she has nowhere to go. We are beginning to see that Hannibal and Will aren’t the only players in Hannibal’s twisted game as a lot more people are being drawn into it and I can’t wait to see what this season has in store for me.
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