Hannibal
Hannibal
Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist, Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), and his patient, a young FBI criminal profiler (Hugh Dancy), who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.
Apéritif
The head of the FBI Behavioral Science unit, Jack Crawford, calls on profiler Will Graham to assist them with catching a serial killer. The killer has now kidnapped eight women, all similar in appearance, and always on a Friday.
Amuse-Bouche
Will and Jack hunt a killer who is burying his victims alive, so they will become fertilizer for his garden of fungus. While the tabloid journalist Freddie Lounds sets targets in on Will.
Potage
Determined to give Abigail closure, Will and Hannibal take Abigail back to the scene of her father's crimes. But things take a turn for the worse when the copycat killer strikes again.
Oeuf
A series of family murders takes place, and Will determines they were conducted by each of the families' missing children, who were abducted and brainwashed into killing their old families for their "new family."
Coquilles
A murdered couple is found in a motel room, posed in praying positions with the flesh of their backs opened and strung to the ceiling to give them the appearance of wings.
Entrée
A nurse at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is brutally murdered by a patient, Dr. Abel Gideon, in a manner similar to the "Chesapeake Ripper", who hasn't committed a murder in two years - the same timespan as Gideon's incarceration.
Sorbet
The BAU is called in when a man is found in a hotel room bathtub with his kidney removed and Graham must determine whether this is the act of an organ harvester or if the Chesapeake Ripper has claimed his first victim in two years.
Fromage
Lecter's patient, Franklyn Froideveaux, worries that his friend Tobias may be a psychopath, but Franklyn's growing obsession with Lecter is what concerns the latter more.
Trou Normand
A totem pole of human bodies ranging from freshly killed to decades-old are found on a beach, and while Graham is investigating the crime scene, he suddenly finds himself in Lecter's office, 3 ½ hours away, with no recollection of how he got there.
Buffet Froid
Beth LeBeau is found murdered, having drowned in her own blood as a result of her face being cut into a Glasgow smile. Graham's mental state continues to sharply decline.
Rôti
Dr. Abel Gideon escapes from custody and begins targeting the psychiatrists who attempted to treat him, displaying their bodies with a Colombian necktie. Meanwhile, Graham's undiagnosed Encephalitis raises his temperature, causing severe hallucinations.
Relevés
Graham deduces that several recent murders were all the work of a copycat patterning after recent serial murders, and that Georgia was killed because she may have remembered the face of whoever had killed Dr. Sutcliffe.
Savoureux
Following his strange trip to Minnesota, Graham is taken into custody by Crawford for the probable murder of Abigail Hobbs. They find her severed ear in his kitchen sink and her blood under his fingernails.