8. Fromage

Complete story — includes the ending

Alana turns down Will's advances. A musician is found dead with his body converted into a cello, and Franklyn tells Hannibal that his friend Tobias Budge, secretly a serial killer that uses his victim's organs as instrument parts, confessed to the murder. Hannibal confronts Tobias, who freely confesses and, recognizing what Hannibal is, feels they can bond. Hannibal gives Will Tobias's information without stating he is the killer, and while Will hallucinates the sounds of animals in pain and goes outside to investigate, Tobias kills Will's police backup and tries to kill him when he returns. A wounded Tobias escapes to Hannibal's office during a session with Franklyn, who Hannibal kills before also killing Tobias in a struggle. In the aftermath, Hannibal goes to his own psychologist, Bedelia Du Maurier, and admits that he feels responsible for Franklyn and that Will could be a true friend to him.