The night before, Lecter suggests to Graham that the two of them leave the country immediately and forgo their plan to kill Crawford. Will's lawyer receives a parcel with an ear in it, which was cut off within the last 49 hours. Will had spent some time in the Will kills Randall Tier, sent to him by Hannibal, with his bare hands, inspired by his and Hannibal's conversation about guns lacking intimacy. While committed to the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally insane, Will befriends an orderly, Matthew Brown, who happens to be an admirer of his. During September 2014 the first episode title Antipasto was revealed on Bryan Fuller's Twitter.

Lecter stabs and cuts open Graham's belly with a linoleum knife, and explains that he faked Abagail's death to protect her from arrest. After finding out, that Hannibal was manipulating and betraying him all along by framing Will for his own murders, Will is full of anger and desire for revenge, he rejects Hannibal's friendship. His corpse misses an ear, his face was cut into a Glasgow smile and set on fire. He derived a sense of pleasure in killing Garret Jacob Hobbs and often dreams or fantasies about committing murders, though he tries not to act on them. He says that killing Hannibal would feel right but doesn't kill him. 'Hannibal' Season 3 News, Spoilers: Will Graham Finds New Alliance With Jack Crawford'Hannibal' Season 3 News, Spoilers: Will Graham Finds New Alliance With Jack CrawfordThe top 7 stories of the day, curated just for you!

Before he is successful though, Jack and Alana rack down Hannibal and shoots Brown. He begins teaching at the FBI Academy (Quantico, Virginia) because he doesn't like to socialize with other people. Graham breaks down the door and shoots Hobbs, who is repeatedly stabbing his own daughter in the neck, to death. The stag had to heave a sigh, go to black. Mason cuts of pieces of his face and feeds them to Will's dogs. He says he wants Will to know exactly where he is and where he can always find him. When Will is brought to Verger's farm to witness Hannibal being fed to the pigs, he helps Hannibal by cutting him free. Hannibal accepts Will the way he is and even wants him to "embrace his true nature". The scene post-credits shows Bedelia with her leg amputated and served on the table in Hannibal's style, with three places at the table, hinting that Hannibal and Will survived and are now hunting together. Afterward, Jack confronts Will about Hannibal's almost-murder but Will denies it and tries to convince Jack that Hannibal's the Chesapeake Ripper by claiming that Hannibal is going give a dinner party, shortly after the next Chesapeake murder. Will constantly struggles to hold back his dark side.

The fight ends up outside, where Will and Hannibal team up and savagely attack Dolarhyde, which results in his defeat and death. The light of friendship won't reach us in a million of years, that's how far away from friendship we are.") However, Hannibal finds out that Will is betraying him and stabs Will. Will commented to Crawford that's what he would go do if he were to quit.) Will Graham survives the attack at Hannibal Lecter's hands because Hannibal wanted him to live and thus deliberately inflicted a non-fatal wound, though it takes Will several months to recover.