Hannibal: The Secret Meaning Of Every Murder Tableau Explained
Content Warning: Disturbing images of fictional crime scenes are shown and discussed below.
The series Hannibal explores the psyche of various serial killers, including Hannibal Lecter himself, but there is hidden depth behind each scene that the various criminals leave behind. Consequently, the context of every murder tableau in the critically acclaimed horror show is important for either character development or narrative exposition. There is a hidden meaning to be found in nearly every design that connects with the overarching story surrounding Hannibal.
Hannibal is based on novels by Thomas Harris, primarily Red Dragon which focuses on Hannibal's Will Graham. Due to his emotional and cognitive empathy, Will Graham s able to get into the minds of the killers that he is hunting and this allows him to deduce evidence at crime scenes that eludes trained professionals. Nearly every episode in Hannibal season 1 features a unique murder tableau as he is enlisted by Jack Crawford, the head of the Behavioral Science Unit, to hunt down murderer Garrett Jacob Hobbs amid working to profile other dangerous killers. To prevent himself from spiraling due to these crime scenes, Will undergoes therapy with Dr. Hannibal Lecter who spends the entirety of season 1 gaslighting him into believing he is a killer before framing his own murders on him. Will Graham does not discover that Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper until the season 1 finale.
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The tableaux following season 1 become more personal when Will starts creating his own murder scenes to gain Hannibal's trust as a ploy to eventually catch him red-handed, but the bait Will is casting turns out to be more of a honey trap as
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