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The series is based on characters and elements appearing in Thomas Harris ' novels Red Dragon and Hannibal, with focus on the relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham ( Hugh Dancy) and Dr. Hannibal Lecter ( Mads Mikkelsen ), a forensic psychiatrist destined to become Graham's most cunning enemy.
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"The Number of the Beast is 666" is the twelfth episode of Season 3. It aired on August 22, 2015.
Will Graham and the FBI enlist the expertise of Dr. Frederick Chilton in the hopes of luring Francis Dolarhyde into an ambush, using Freddie Lounds as their mouthpiece. As Will's empathy for Dolarhyde begins to affect his fragile psyche, Bedelia Du Maurier warns that the killer Will should be most concerned about at the moment is himself. Meanwhile...
Will meets with Bedelia Du Maurier and he sees Molly ending up like Mrs. Jacobi and Leeds. Bedelia sets the stage for Will to see that Hannibal may love or be in love with him, preventing him from finding happiness with anything other than with his ex-psychiatrist. Meanwhile, Jack meets with Hannibal in his cell to realize that Will is the Lamb of God and that his wrath should not be ignored. "The Lamb's wrath touches anyone who errs."
In a meeting with Jack and Alana, Will balks at their acceptance that he set himself as bait for Dolarhyde even though it was his suggestion to begin with. Will knows that they will have to involve Freddie Lounds interviewing him bad-mouthing The Tooth Fairy for her tabloid. Still, the latter will see it as a trap unless a professional is Will's bonafide which Alana refuses to be. Chilton visits Lecter to berate him for ruining his reputation by publishing articles that refute his own book about Hannibal the Cannibal. Chilton feels it a betrayal since he lied for Lecter about the fact. Continuing his venom, Frederick predicts that Hannibal will rot in his prison and lose his infamy and notoriety.
Jack, Alana and Will hold a meeting with Freddie Lounds and Chilton to strategize the best way to push Dolarhyde's buttons in crafting Lounds' baiting interview with Will. The purpose is to rile the suspect and most of the suggestions have to do with painting Dolarhyde as a frustrated, impotent and ugly homosexual fraught with an incestuous past. The group agree that the photo included in the article should be of Will with a background that makes it clear that he is in Washington, D.C. in order to bait the Tooth Fairy to come for him. Chilton agrees to pose for the cover photo with Will. Even though Jack thinks this cat and mouse game that they're playing is foolhardy, Will rationalizes that at least it will keep other families safe if Dolarhyde is focused on him alone; he reminds Jack that he blames Hannibal for putting his family at risk, not Dolarhyde.
Chilton is abducted by Dolarhyde. He wakes up glued to a chair and complains that he feels like he's been burned. Chilton tries to placate Dolarhyde when he realizes that this act is revenge for the tabloid intervew from which he participated. Francis turns him around and forces Chilton to see his face, but in that instance, the doorbell to his house rings and it's Reba. He threatens to kill her if Chilton makes a sound. Reba had tried to call Francis but got no answer; he lets her inside. She won't be long; her taxi is waiting. The office said that he was sick so Reba is there with soup. She is within feet of the incapacitated Chilton and he doesn't make a sound. She regrets how they parted and admits that she still loves Francis; she sees a kinship in their mutual ability to reject love because of their disabilities. Reba leaves and Dolarhyde then sets up Chilton in front of his projector. The slides are of The Great Red Dragon as well as the crime scene photos of the Leeds and Jacobi family murders, "do you see?" The last slide is the tabloid cover photo of Will standing next to Chilton. The latter promises to stop telling lies about the Dragon and confesses that Will and the police pressed him to tell these lies. Dolarhyde reduces Chilton's character to a "slug" and unrobes himself, showing his tattoo of the Great Red Dragon on his back in front of a white screen.
Dolarhyde forces Chilton to recite a message that he videotapes but before letting him go, he puts his grandmother's dentures in and bites off his lips and tongue. Francis sends Chilton's lips to Hannibal with the message "with these he offended me" and the latter certainly empathizes with that. By the time the FBI arrive, only one lip remains; Jack asks Hannibal about the other lip, it is shown Hannibal eating the lip. Much to their bemusement, both Jack and Alana realize that using Chilton in this way has backfired since the doctor's been missing since this package was received. Alana is to blame since she could've provided the same information to ensnare the Tooth Fairy.
Will, Alana and Jack watch the tape sent to them by Dolarhyde of Chilton's speech; in it, he places the lies about the Dragon on Will's head. Chilton implies that his fate will be more merciful than it will be for Will before Dolarhyde's back comes into frame and he assaults Chilton. After his distress, Will consults with Bedelia about "you play, you pay." Chilton was always seeking a face through Hannibal only to lose it to Dolarhyde. Bedelia analyzes the cover photo on the Tattler, specifically that Will put his hand on Chilton's shoulder, not to provide authenticity, but to set up Chilton as the instigator of Will's wrath against the killer. It's clear to Bedelia that Will is fully responsible for all that has happened since he put his hand on Chilton's shoulder, "that's participation." Will is Hannibal's agency in the outside world. At the same time, Chilton, stuck in his wheelchair, is set on fire and sent tumbling into a fountain in the same way that the FBI faked Lounds' death. Chilton is alive and horribly burned and asks to see Will. Frederick accuses him of setting him up and he tells him about seeing Reba arrive at Dolarhyde's home.
Aug 22, 2015 · The Number of the Beast Is 666: Directed by Guillermo Navarro. With Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Gillian Anderson. The FBI enlists the help of Dr. Fredrick Chilton in hope of drawing Francis Dolarhyde into an ambush; Will's empathy for Dolarhyde impacts his psyche.
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- Crime, Drama, Horror
- Guillermo Navarro
- 2015-08-22
Aug 22, 2015 · by Chuck Bowen. August 22, 2015. “The Number of the Beast Is 666” finds Will (Hugh Dancy) and Jack (Laurence Fishburne) turning desperate as Francis (Richard Armitage) remains at large, with their only pipeline to the killer embodied by an increasingly contemptuous, puckish Hannibal (Mad Mikkelsen).
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