By LuluBates
Dark visions. Night sweats. Lurid dreams. Bloodied victims rising in the air on invisible wires. Welcome to the world of visionary-verging-on-nut job criminal profiler and ersatz FBI agent William Graham, as played by the adorable Hugh Dancy. Graham is brought out of pseudo retirement as a professor at the behest of Laurence Fishburne’s FBI agent and behavioral scientist, Jack Crawford. Graham’s help is needed to help track a particularly janked-up serial killer who is murdering a string of similar looking young women in uniquely horrifying ways. (Antlers? Antlers!)
We join the investigation when the murderer -- who strikes the savant Graham as “merciful” in his sociopathy -- kills a young woman and then returns her to her bedroom at her parents’ house. While Graham is called in to advise the FBI as an expert, he is stumped by the killer’s moves and motives. Additional help is needed in the form of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (played by the always creepy Mads Mikkelsen). Crawford recruits Lecter against Graham’s wishes, because while Graham thinks he has it all under control, Crawford wants all hands on deck. Plus, since this show is a prequel to the Thomas Harris books on which Silence of the Lambs is based, no one knows yet that Lecter is both a cannibal and a killer in his own right.
At another barf-inducing crime scene, Graham, who has the sixth sense that all TV profilers have, diagnoses the mysterious killer as an intelligent psychopath who probably has a daughter who looks like the victims. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Lecter is cooking up someone’s or something’s lungs.
At Crawford’s behest they team up (breakfast meeting, natch) and head out like a creeptastic Scooby Gang to find the killer and hopefully prevent another murder. They soon stumble on a likely candidate who is, in fact, the right guy. This is proven when Graham and Lecter show up at his house and he brutally attacks his family in front of them. While Lecter, the still-closeted sociopath, remains cool and calm, Graham hyperventilates, is quickly finds himself covered in blood and shooting to kill. At the end of the show, Lecter and Graham sit in the victim’s hospital room, clearly a team.
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