Брайан Фуллер (Chris Brancato and Bryan Fuller)HANNIBAL
"Tome-wan"
TEASER
INT. MUSKRAT FARM - PIG BARN - NIGHT
(NOTE: This is a direct pickup from the end of Ep. #211.)
WILL GRAHAM is relaxing in Mason's chair, stroking Verger's
SUCKLING PIG swaddled in a blanket on his lap. MASON VERGER, bloody-nosed and annoyed, stares at a confident Will.
MASON VERGER
Why would Dr. Lecter wanna kill me?
WILL GRAHAM
This isn't about you. This is about me. Killing you would just be a hoop for me to jump through.
It's sauce for the goose that you're not particularly likable.
MASON VERGER
I like me.
WILL GRAHAM
You just stole your sister's womanhood.
MASON VERGER
She weaponized her uterus.
Shouldn't have been waving it around like a gun.
WILL GRAHAM
Then it was self-defense.
MASON VERGER
Damn right.
WILL GRAHAM
And butchery.
MASON VERGER
Are you lecturing me on butchery in my own slaughterhouse?
WILL GRAHAM
I wouldn't deign. You could disappear me with a wink. I heard about the "embalmed beef" scandal.
MASON VERGER
What did you hear?WILL GRAHAM
One of the Verger packing plants in
Chicago was investigated for dangerous conditions. They found several whistle-blowing employees had been rendered. Inadvertently.
MASON VERGER
Canned and sold as Li'l Ivy's Pure
Leaf Lard. A favorite of bakers everywhere. We didn't lose a single contract.
WILL GRAHAM
Blame doesn't stick to the Vergers.
If I kill Hannibal Lecter, that's going to stick to me.
Mason studies Will, very curious what game he's playing.
MASON VERGER
It is providence itself when a destiny like yours couples with a man as resourced as I am.
WILL GRAHAM
I'm just pointing out the snare around your neck. What you do about it is entirely up to you.
OFF Will Graham --
CUT TO:
INT. HANNIBAL LECTER'S OFFICE - NIGHT
ON WILL GRAHAM
Center punched. Looking straight at us.
WILL GRAHAM
Can you explain my actions? Posit my intentions? What would be your theory of my mind?
REVERSE to Hannibal sitting across from Will, mid-therapy.
HANNIBAL
I have an understanding of your state of mind. You understand mine. We're just alike. This gives you the capacity to deceive me, and be deceived by me.
HANNIBAL Ep. #212 "Tome-wan" FINAL DRAFT 03/22/14 2.WILL GRAHAM