EPISODE

1. Antipasto

Having successfully escaped FBI capture, Hannibal Lecter is moving through the European landscape, with Bedelia Du Maurier in tow. But Dr. Lecter's old habits and opulent tastes are still on display as he settles into a new identity and life in Florence, Italy, working at the Palazzo Capponi museum. Glimpses into the past help inform his relationship with Bedelia, a pairing not clearly defined as friend or foe.

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Several months after foiling Will and Jack's sting operation, Hannibal, in Paris, stalks and murders Roman Fell and his wife so he and Du Maurier can assume their identities. While Abel Gideon eats himself, he notes that Hannibal will be cannibalized someday. After being interviewed by the BAU, Du Maurier finds Hannibal showering in her home. Some years earlier, Hannibal finds her with the body of Neal Frank and helps her frame the scene as entirely self-defense. In the present, they travel to Florence, where Hannibal meets Sogliato, a professor who challenges his knowledge of Dante, and Antony Dimmond, an associate of Fell's he met in Paris. He invites Dimmond to a lecture he is giving on Dante to upstage Sogliato, which he attends, noting that Hannibal is using Fell's identity. When Dimmond confronts and tries to blackmail him, Hannibal kills him, mutilates his body to resemble a heart, and leaves it in the Cappella Palatina.

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