How does Will Graham discover Hannibal is the murderer?
In the movie Red Dragon, Will Graham pays a visit to Hannibal and discusses his new discovery:
- Will thinks the Chesapeake Killer is eating his victims.
Then when Hannibal goes away for a while, Will browses Hannibal's office and discovers a dictionary (French?) that has sweetbread written in it by Hannibal.
Then Will realizes Hannibal is the killer he has been looking for.
Why? What is the logical connection between sweetbread, the French dictionary and murders by Hannibal?
Best Answer
Graham finds Larousse Gastronomique, a French encyclopedia of gastronomy, and finds its bound bookmark to be located on a page describing a recipe that uses sweetbreads, organ meat from the thymus gland and pancreas.
Note that the term sweetbread is often used in a broader sense, as per Wikipedia:
a culinary name for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork. The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, while the "throat" sweetbreads are more cylindrical in shape.
Various other glands used as food may also sometimes be called "sweetbreads," including the parotid gland ("cheek" or "ear" sweetbread), the sublingual glands ("tongue" sweetbreads or "throat bread") as well as ovary and testicles (cf. Rocky Mountain oyster, prairie oyster, or lamb fries).
Graham has just had a conversation with Lecter where he has discussed a cannibal killer who cuts out exactly those parts from humans, and expressed surprise at Lecter failing to notice this when he had helped him compile a profile of the killer.
Undoubtedly, he now flashes back to the conversation he's just had. Lecter asking "Have you shared this with the bureau?" Himself saying that "he's starting to think like the killer" and feeling that he's close to grasping some truth which seems to elude him.
And then he realizes that Lecter is the killer and that he's been sabotaging their investigation.
Pictures about "How does Will Graham discover Hannibal is the murderer?"
How did Will Graham catch Hannibal Lecter?
Behind the scenes Orphaned at a young age, Lecter moved to the United States of America, becoming a successful psychiatrist. He was eventually caught by Will Graham, who later consulted him for advice on capturing the "Tooth Fairy". He escaped incarceration whilst assisting Clarice Starling in capturing "Buffalo Bill".Do they find out Will is innocent in Hannibal?
In time, Will was finally able to prove his innocence to former boss, Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne). Unfortunately, it was not soon enough to save an old friend\u2026What episode does Hannibal get discovered?
Instead, the premiere episode of season 2 opens with a fight between Dr Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) and Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), and from the looks of it, Jack seems to have found out Hannibal's secret. The fight turns gory as Jack's hand is sliced and blood spurts from the wound.Does Hannibal confess to Will?
He doesn't allow himself to be genuine with her unlike he does with Hannibal, to whom he opens up. Will confesses to Hannibal that he loved killing Hobbs in E2, which got him down and made him panic. Hannibal supports him, and Will keeps coming back to him.Will Graham finds the truth about Hannibal Part 2 || Hannibal 1x13
More answers regarding how does Will Graham discover Hannibal is the murderer?
Answer 2
Sweetbread is an edible part of an animal, specifically...
Sweetbread is a culinary name for the thymus (also called throat, gullet, or neck sweetbread) or the pancreas (also called heart, stomach, or belly sweetbread), especially of calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau), and, less commonly, of beef and pork.1 The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, while the "throat" sweetbreads are more cylindrical in shape.
Will is already starting to think like the killer and has already deduced that the killer is eating human body parts...he says to Lecter
"Then suddenly I had a flash of the third victim...
Darcy Taylor.
She was missing flesh from her back. And then it hit me.
Liver, kidney, tongue, thymus.
Every single victim lost some body part used in cooking."
AND he finds it odd that Lecter hasn't come to the same conclusion...
"You're the best forensic psychiatrist I know... and somehow, in all our time together... this possibility never occurred to you."
Then on perusing Lecter's collection of rare books, he comes across a French cooking book in which, apparently, Lector has written the word "sweetbreads".
Basically, at that point, he puts it all together.
Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Images: RODNAE Productions, Jeremy Bishop, Lennart Wittstock, Kyle Loftus