



“He’s happy duckling and life is beautiful”
- Hannibal Lecter, according to Mads Mikkelsen
hannibal advent - day 9: trou normand
I helped him. I knew what my father was, I knew what he did, I knew. I was the one who met the girls, talked to them, laughed and joked. Found out where they lived, where they were going, when they’d be alone. Girls that looked just like me. They could’ve been my friends. I couldn’t say no to him, I knew… I knew it was them or me.
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Well clearly there’s something you don’t want to tell me.
Missed opportunities that break my heart, Trou Normand (S1E09).
I think Jack was open in that moment to truly hearing Will if Will had shared any of his concerns about his health, both mental and physical, at that moment.
But Hannibal has been effective at planting both the ideas that Jack only sees Will as a means to an end, and that the root cause of Will’s current extraordinary level of instability is mental, not at all physical.
So Will won’t take the chance of accepting Jack’s invitation to confide that yes, there is a problem, nothing’s fine.
And Jack knows that Will isn’t being honest, that something is wrong. But since Jack can’t begin to imagine just how wrong, he lets Will give the answer he wants to hear, that Will is OK.