Milked in the modern fashion by cattle prod, naturally.

Haha, you're welcome! I got it off the metal collar/choker she was wearing in her first scene, which reminded me of a gorget. (If you want to really have fun, consider her gold choker at the end of the second season: very Elizabethan, really.)

I mean, maybe, but the implication is he killed a lot of goons. If he did kill Cordell with the mallet, he never hit him in the face, since that was the face that slid off Mason after he woke up.

The technical term is teartinis.

"I KNOW THERE'S A FACE/OFF MACHINE! YOU'RE JUST HIDING IT FROM ME!!"

"I'm gonna fuck you up and it's gonna be hilarious."

HANNIBAL: SWINGIN TRAUMA VICTIMS

I went deep into a whole comparison of her with Joan of Arc a while ago—not necessarily as a conquering hero or hand of God (though that would be more appropriate now) but just as a dignified pain-bearer. I similarly felt that she presented, at the time (after her forced hysterectomy) a rare point of union for Will…

We see Hannibal surrendering through Chiyoh's scope, suggesting the possibility that she might take out the LEOs to secure his escape (given that she had already promised to "watch over" him "not in a cage"), but through that scope we see him look at her and give a slight nod, indicating that this is his plan and his…

PLEASE STAY TOGETHER FOREVER AND DRAMATICALLY PUT ONE ANOTHER'S CLOTHES ON

Last season I couldn't stop feeling like Mason was out of step with everyone else (Margot fit in perfectly, though). It could be the story and/or writing just as much as the actor change, but Mason this season felt much more like he came from the same world as everyone else than Pitt Mason.

Truly incredible. Mads Mikkelsen should go to heaven when he dies just for that (said the atheist who doesn't believe in heaven).

BOOOO!!!!

I read somewhere that the "dirty secret" of the cancellation was that both the Hannibal creators and NBC knew they'd never get the SOTL rights, which is why the show was canceled, all the main actors' contracts came up, etc. at the same time—they'd done what they could do without running up against that issue. What…

Something that always fascinated me about Margot's interplay with Hannibal was that unlike all his other project patients, his interest in her seemed to be less her capacity for violence than her capacity to bear violence and remain herself. To some degree she shared a quality with Abigail in that, which might explain…

I like where your priorities are.

God, his whole "surrogate" gambit was just unbelievable. If any character has ever been set up for a sympathy-less death, it was Mason in this episode.

I honestly don't think he did that on purpose, though he did do it. I feel he sincerely wanted to be rid of Hannibal; Hannibal's surrender was his way of denying Will that separation. Hannibal definitely wouldn't have given himself up without that hopeless rejection from Will (hopeless for Hannibal, that is), but I…

I have never believed the problem was the violence. The problem was the weird. (Which I will treasure forever.)

Yeah, no, I thought the show made it extremely clear that her confused brainwashed act was an act. She and Hannibal discussed the "version of events" she "wishes to be told," and she has never acted this way when Hannibal was present.