While Hannibal was under lock and key, Alana allowed him computer access once or twice a week, but he was only allowed to visit Tumblr. He couldn’t make any posts or save any bookmarks or files. He was only permitted to endlessly scroll through the dusty blue hellsite.
Although Alana thought this would be a sort of punishment for him, he began to mentally catalog certain things that he could share with Will once they were reunited. They were things that reminded him of Will, or of their relationship.
They were memes.
As they lie in a nondescript motel room together after pulling themselves bloody and battered from the sea, Hannibal begins to relay a few of his favorites.
“Do you know of the sea mammal known as ‘Awkward Moment Seal,’ Will? You must picture in your mind’s eye the most nonplussed seal, with its face slightly drawn into the ripples of its own neck fat, and its lips somewhat pressed together in an expression that does not know whether to be a smile. Now also picture text overlaying this which says ‘When you get a friend request from your boss.’ Can you imagine getting a friend request from Jack Crawford, Will? How awkward. That’s why I thought of you. Now, for the next 89 memes, you should be familiar with a Shiba Inu widely known as Doge…”
JESUS
this is my favourite thign in the entire world, i hate you so much, i ugly laughed
– Every family loves differently. Every love is unique.
I sometimes can’t believe how beautiful the dialogue in Hannibal is. But then again, we also have lines like “Is your social worker in that horse?” so it evens out lol
May I ask for your business card, please? For my records.
You guys ever think about Hannibal climbing under this car to fuck up the gas tank?
I did think about it when I was writing that whole scene in A Preference for Blood. I pictured a lot of Hannibal just following Caldwell around, learning his habits and movements, finding weak points. I’m not sure how long it would take for a car to run out of gas (obv Hannibal does know that or he couldn’t have timed this so perfectly), but he either broke into Caldwell’s garage the night before, or he got to his car in the parking lot/garage at Caldwell’s office. And honestly, I just want to picture Hannibal in one of his fucking plaid three piece suits kneeling on the ground in broad daylight taking a screwdriver or something to someone’s gas tank, and somehow NO ONE NOTICES.
here’s the thing though – if you saw someone in a three-piece suit in a parking lot kneeling next to a nice parked car doing something under it, you might pause for a moment and wonder what he was doing, until he looked up, smiled, and said “oh, thank you, but I’ve got it.” You’d smile back and then keep walking, right?
Very good point. Honestly, whenever people start wondering, “How does Hannibal get away with that??” I’m always like…dude. He’s white. And rich. In America.
I’m quite frankly surprised he got caught at all.
Not to derail this post completely or anything, but if he’d sued the FBI for harassment mid-to-late season 2 instead of throwing a tantrum he probably would have gotten away with everything forever.
but that would’ve been boring, because he wouldn’t have gotten to play with Will.
who just started to get really interesting to/interested in Hannibal 😁
"Technically, you killed him." 