My opinion: the show runners on SHIELD are good at serialization, and not good at stand-alone stories (you can see this on the Dollhouse episodes they worked on). The serialization on SHIELD mostly had to wait until after Winter Soldier, so there were problems. Add to that the casting issues (also I think Whedon as…

Wow. You made me realize that none of the female main characters on this show have been love interests for any of the male main characters. That's actually mind-boggling.

Maybe The Machine provided the number so Harold could figure out what was going on. They're trying to stop Decima, and now Harold know how Decima is going to take over and who is involved in Washington.

I don't think anyone knows that Hand is dead yet. Garret lied to the guards at The Fridge that she was somewhere else (right before they murdered them), and no one knows Garret is HYDRA yet. Coulsen and team are off the grid, only keeping in touch with Agent Traitor McHYDRA, and he's not going to tell them anything.

I think Roger's not conniving enough to be Littlefinger. How about Maester Pycell?

I think the point of his character was the Kings thought him being on the show would go somewhere, but it didn't. They recognized it, and very smartly just got rid of him instead of trying to shoehorn him in somewhere.

One of the late-night talk shows needs to get McConaughey to perform that.

I wouldn't describe my feelings about Tompkins as either unconditional or love, but I think he's consistently funny whatever he does, and so I'm always glad to see (or hear) him. When he appears somewhere as himself, I don't get the impression that he is irritating or arrogant. He's always seemed nice to me.

Because he was funny on Mr. Show, his stand-up is funny, he's funny when he's a guest on TV shows and podcasts, and he's funny as the host of TV shows and podcasts.

When was this billed as "a cat and mouse game between many extremely intelligent, competent people"? The FBI, specifically Jack Crawford, had no leads on the Chesapeake Ripper before the show started. Alana has known Hannibal for years and is one of his closest friends. Chilton's known him professionally for a…

Why did Chilton run? Well, Gideon was in custody and Hannibal got to him there, so maybe Chilton didn't think he would survive through the trial. Or, you know, maybe it was just blind panic.

You have a typo in your comment - it should be "Guess who DIES in forty minutes". You wrote "Guess who DIE in forty minutes", which if done deliberately is a way of expressing a racist stereotypical Asian accent.

Maybe they filmed that scene last year and used the recording, knowing they would use the video this season? It sounds like something Fuller would plan ahead of time.

She hasn't really had anything to do with the situation since Abigail disappeared. Her professional involvement after that has been to report Jack for what she thought he did to Will, and then try to be Will's advocate. Once that fell apart, her only connection to the case has been as Hannibal's alibi.

I really hope there is no love triangle. I'm pretty sure neither Alana nor Will is going to want to revisit that, even when everything comes out later.

I think the gun was in Jack's shoulder holster. While Jack was hugging her to his chest, she reached inside his jacket, unsnapped the holster, and grabbed the gun.

Huge waste of Garret Dillahunt, as well as Roger Rees.

The best thing this bunch of episodes does is bring Louis back to "ally" instead of "adversary". I like it better when the danger comes from without and everyone at the firm has to pull together.

But she rearmed herself in her last scene.

Could be. I did comment last week that he seemed to be competing with Hannibal on the fashion front as well as professionally. That or he carried it as a constant reminder to everyone of the trauma he went through. He was a bit of a drama queen.