1. Apéritif

Complete story — includes the ending

Will Graham, an FBI special investigator and academy lecturer, uses his uncanny ability to empathize with serial killers to catch them, the strain of which causes him to frequently have disturbing thoughts and visions. Behavioral Sciences head Jack Crawford asks him to help catch a killer that abducts similar looking girls, who breaks his pattern when he returns a victim's body to her home because of her liver cancer. Academy psychiatry professor Alana Bloom recommends that psychiatrist and secret serial killing cannibal Hannibal Lecter be brought in, who kills a woman, Cassie Boyle, in a style similar to the other killer to clue Will into his motivations. Will realizes that the cannibalized victims likely resemble the killer's daughter. A shred of metal on the returned victim's clothes leads him to Garret Jacob Hobbs, who Hannibal alerts as he and Will go to arrest him. Hobbs kills his wife and mortally wounds his daughter Abigail, but is killed by Will while Abigail is stabilized by Hannibal, who later sits with Will in her hospital room.