9 Stupidly Risky Plans From TV's Most Notorious Villains

2. Hannibal Stages A Crime Scene With The Police Outside €“ Hannibal

Recently, Hannibal showed his penchant for risky plans by waiting until an armed Beverly Katz could see him before he physically incapacitated her in an unseen (but heard) confrontation. aside from this, his other actions suggest he's no stranger to risk €“ in season one's Potage, he smuggled a body from a crime scene and cleaned it up with investigators outside and Alana Bloom upstairs, and in the most recent episodes is shown serenely working at the FBI, even though he's aware their most gifted criminal profiler knows he's a murderer and is plotting to bring him down. Yet ballsy as those two plans are, it has nothing on what he did to frame Dr. Chilton in Yakimono. Let's recap €“ following Will's release, Hannibal knows the FBI is onto him because he so precisely fits the profile of the Chesapeake Ripper, and that the now-free Will Graham has moved Jack into treating the good doctor as a suspect. Fortunately for Hannibal, he's got a unknowing patsy in Dr. Chilton who also fits the profile to a tee, and has mind-blasted a not-actually-dead Miriam Lass into believing said murderer was the unfortunate doctor. Hannibal plants this thought into Jack's mind to the extent that he send some police around to check on him, but before Chilton can get to the door, the besuited cannibal drugs him, and tells him when he wakes up, he's going to want to run. Lo and behold, when Chilton wakes up and finds himself in an orgy of evidence, including the dismembered corpse of Eddie Izzard, which obviously makes it look like he's the guy the FBI were after and forces him to run. But here's the question €“ how did Hannibal placate the police at the door, and move that much evidence into an already-under-surveillance house? Doing so couldn't have been an inconspicuous affair €“ he's moving large amounts of gore, as well as a hospital bed and props into place. If just one person had realised what he was doing, or he'd caught the glance of an errant policeman, Hannibal would be behind bars and outed as the Chesapeake Ripper in the most awkward of circumstances. Clearly, the fact he wasn't points to an insane amount of luck and chutzpah.