4. Takiawase

Complete story — includes the ending

After an elderly man is found dead and lobotomized with his skull turned into a beehive, the BAU visits his acupuncturist when another patient of hers, identically mutilated, turns up alive. She admits to lobotomizing both to give them "a dignified end." As Bella Crawford ponders suicide with her cancer growing worse, Hannibal subtly encourages it, and she shows up to a session after taking a lethal dose of morphine and gives him a coin as thanks. He flips it after she passes out, and the result prompts him to resuscitate her against her wishes. Will agrees to Frederick Chilton giving him psychotherapy via strobing flashes of light, which makes him realize that Hannibal was preying on his encephalitis and encouraging blackouts. Chilton goes to Lecter, relating to his "mistake" after accidentally spurring Abel Gideon to murder. Katz finds that James Gray, the Muralist, had his kidneys removed, and Will realizes that Hannibal likely eats his "trophies." Will tells Katz to go to Jack, but with him looking after Bella, she breaks into Hannibal's house alone and finds something in the basement that horrifies her. He arrives and confronts her, so she draws her gun and several shots are heard.