#miriam lass

[mistikfir]

“Sorbet”

“An FBI trainee named Miriam Lass was investigating private medical records of all the known victims when she disappeared. She's believed to be the Ripper's ninth, but no trace of her was found until recently, two years later, when her severed arm was discovered.”

[rocktheholygrail]

Hannibal (2013-2015)

Jack + using Hannibal's own tricks against him

[fruitybugboyart]

“Is he safe?

From me, or for you?”

Flash piece inspired by NBC Hannibal Season 2 Episode 7: Yakimono

The metronome that Hannibal uses to hypnotize and manipulate Will and Miriam!

[localwhiskeyuncle]

NBC Hannibal not being able to get the rights to Clarice Starling was honestly a blessing in disguise; they were able to take all the best part of both book!Will and Clarice and make the most glorious version of Will Graham possible and it gave us Hannibal's dynamic with Abigail.

Regarding Will - I loved both characters so dearly, so to have them combined is honestly such a treat. He has book!Will's mind and temperament, but Clarice's fire, drive, and sharp sense of humor. I'm not kidding when I say the absolute best bits of each of their personalities were put into TV!Will and my God does he shine it's no wonder Hannibal is obsessed with him.

In the books Hannibal sees the potential in both Will and Clarice, but he misses his chance with Will, he pushes him too far. When Clarice comes along and is just as quick, and damaged, and bright (but younger and easier to mold), he is determined not to let her slip through his fingers like Will did. So with the two characters being of such similar significance to Hannibal, it is so perfect to blend the two of them together and makes all the sense in the world why Hannibal is absolutely bonkers crazy about Will Graham in the show - he's the amalgamation of the two most fascinating, promising people he has ever met in the source material. The show takes his obsession with two people and puts all that passion into an obsession with one person and it becomes, I think, all the more interesting for it.

Book!Hannibal is obsessive anyway (drawing Clarice as Jesus on the watch face, drawing her as a griffon on the copy of The Tattler in Florence, keeping close tabs on her career from another fucking country for seven years, Clarice being pretty much the only person he talked to Barney about, sending Clarice random gifts, etc.) but to have all of that obsession turned onto one person is delicious because Hannibal clearly finds genuine emotional longing/desire to be sort of grotesque but he cannot help but hope.

They also put some of Clarice's character into Miriam Lass (obviously - I would also say that Miriam's circumstances are a parallel to Jame Gumb's victims), but even more important, they gave some of her character to Abigail.

The books baaaaaarely touch on the Shrike and definitely have no mention of Abigail (WHICH SIDE NOTE - since she exists only in this universe she should've been called Hannah it would've tied into the books soooo nicely bc that name holds significance to Clarice and therefore begins to hold significance for Hannibal), but Abigail has arguably one of the most important pieces of Clarice, the one that kept Hannibal's interest aflame even after years of no contact: the parallel to Mischa. In the books his interest in Clarice is, at first, as a surrogate for Mischa. He attributed his connection to Clarice as a connection to Mischa for the longest time, I think partially because it confused him to feel that way for another person. He has displayed empathy at multiple points in the novels but it still doesn’t necessarily come easy to him. Abigail quite obviously steps into the surrogate sister/daughter role in the show and it's interesting to see how that plays out when you very deliberately subtract the (eventual) romance from the equation.

I guess to sum it up while I love Clarice Starling so dearly I'm glad she was not able to be included bc we ended up with much more complex relationships with the characters that do exist in the show

[siriuslymentalposts]

rewatching s1ep6 “entrée” and the way hannibal loudly clacks up the ladder in his office then comes back down deadly silent without his shoes on only to not make a sound when he choked miriam… he’s so scary wtf 😭

[will-graham-coded]

[daisies-on-a-cup]

an american white person describing a european white person as "exotic" is incredibly funny

[pesky--dust]

Tbh, one of the things about the series that I keep thinking about is where exactly Abigail was when she was presumed dead. According to the creators, they were considering showing in the third season that it was Abigail who was found by Beverly in Hannibal's basement (Takiawase). And in The Wrath of the Lamb Hannibal says Will that Abigail was with him in the cliff house.

I think Abigail really was at Hannibal's house, but after Beverly found her, Hannibal moved her to the cliff house but let me expand on that.

So my theory is that yes, Beverly did find Abigail at Hannibal's basement and this made him decide that Abigail was not safe in his house after all, so he had to move her somewhere. However, since he was still playing with Jack using Miriam, he had to get rid of her from the cliff house to two of them never meet (and team up maybe?) and so, when he moved Abigail to the cliff house, he left Miriam so that Jack would find her. He had to act quickly if he wanted to free Will from the facility and since he was connecting the Copycat's crimes with those of the Ripper.

[cringeworms]

The auto generated caption for the first photo was “this Barbie is figuring it out” which I contemplated leaving as is.

[thedarkmongoose]

[shinelikethunder]

sick but plausible: Hannibal using one of his utterly implausible pile of logistical complications in s2 to manage another, and bonding with Abigail by appointing her Miriam Lass's keeper whenever he wasn't there

we already have word-of-god hinting that Abigail was there in the cellar when Beverly was killed, so why not? more complicity, more capture bonding, more being "entrusted" with a role in the dirty work.

make it a matter of self-preservation by telling her that Miriam was Jack Crawford's protégée; insinuate that this woman will be able to ID her to the FBI unless Abigail follows Hannibal's instructions to the letter. her or you, Abigail. one more time. one more girl. you don't even have to help me kill her this time, just keep her drugged up and play the tapes for her from the other room, but you know what's at stake. you're a survivor. you know what you have to do to survive.

[tayasui-mono]

I love how Miriam Lass proactively searches for the Chesapeake Ripper but Will passively waited for him to happen. There's simply not much evidence that's useful to Will's methods versus Miriam who's more like a cop sniffing around for the next clue. Something bright and dog-like about Miriam versus something sedative and anchored about Will Graham.

[vertigoartgore]

Countdown to the 10th anniversary of the Hannibal Series Finale (34) :

Hannibal 1X06 - Entrée (airdate : May 2, 2013)

Directed by Michael Rymer and written by Kai Yu Wu.

[t3acupz]

people really do gloss over what hannibal did to miriam lass and i just want to know all the details of her captivity

[non-e-per-sempre]

the creepiest Hannibal moment for me

it gets me every time the build up of her finding the drawing the way he crawls down like a spider him in his socks without the suit jacket chills up my spine

[will-graham-coded]

The strength it took to not put Will in the first row and everyone else in "Asks personal questions"