Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.After last week’s HOLY FREAKING EVERTHING and the semi-season finale feel of it all, it’s not shocking that this week’s Hannibal would slow things down a notch. No doubt we’re going to once more gain momentum in the coming weeks, heading towards the season finale (and the Jack vs. Hannibal battle we know is coming), but for now, it’s time to settle into a new grove.

The famous Mrs. Dead.

So here we have Will as Hannibal’s patient again and the two working alongside each other… yet Will is open about knowing who Hannibal is. And Hannibal? Man, that guy can play it cool. There’s something delightful about how he won’t admit to Will that he’s a killer, and yet won’t outright deny it either. His “Will you return the courtesy?” when Will said he was fine with omissions, but not with lies, was one of many great moments between them.Jack meanwhile is interesting to chart. He and Will had an amusingly on-the-nose chat about fishing at the start of the episode – “You gotta make him bite even if he isn’t hungry” -- and coupled with where we know this story is going, it’s hard not to think that Jack is still keeping his eye on Hannibal, even when he says things like “You pointed in the wrong direction.”Hannibal doesn’t usually go the whodunit route, but there was a bit more of that in play this week, with two likely killers, both played by familiar faces - Chris Diamantopoulos (The Office, Arrested Development) and the master of weirdoes, Jeremy Davies (Lost, Justified). Will bonding with the clearly damaged Peter was both sweet and also worrisome, as it looked like perhaps he was off his game, as Peter appeared to possibly be guilty.Ultimately, he wasn’t the killer – just someone who decided to give the real killer the same punishment he’d given a victim, via this week’s outrageous/amazing/”What the hell am I seeing!?” visual of being sewn into a horse!!!There was a lot of macabrely funny moments on this episode thanks to what was occurring, including Alana’s line, “The only thing stranger than finding a woman inside a horse is seeing Will Graham back in therapy with you” and, of course, Will’s, “Is your social worker inside that horse?” However, the best had to be when Hannibal actually saw Diamantopoulos burst out of that horse and just looked so utterly unaffected by what he was seeing, coupled with him saying, “You might want to crawl back in there if you know what’s good for you.”Hannibal’s wish to mold Will into someone like him continues in its totally bizarre, fascinating way. Here he watched as Will was going to murder someone – and stopped him! “If you’re going to do this Will, you have to do it for yourself.” Dr. Lecter has one hell of a method, wouldn’t you say?Speaking of which, we also met another patient of Hannibal’s this week, Margot (Katherine Isabelle, whose many genre credits include Being Human, Ginger Snaps and Freddy vs. Jason). It’s already been revealed who exactly this is and how she connects to the Hannibal mythology, but I won’t get specific here. These scenes were certainly tantalizing though, as she recounted the story of her brother attacking her (accompanied by some trippy visuals), only for the good doctor to tell her, “It actually would have been more therapeutic if you had killed him.” Is this another potential disciple for Hannibal? Perhaps someone he can cultivate instead of (or alongside) Will?Lastly, I wanted to mention that nice moment between Brian and Will. Jimmy and Brian still remain on the periphery of the show and I was a bit concerned Beverly's murder wouldn't seem to resonate for them beyond the episode in which they first found out. Thus, it was good to see that it had made an impact and to get that moment of truthfulness about how Brian felt pangs of guilt, because Beverly didn't see him and Jimmy as people she could have gone to with what she believed.