Hannibal: 7 Burning Questions Left By The Season 2 Finale

2. How Much More Post-Traumatic Stress Can Will Graham Endure?

Will Graham's mind is far from a safe place. The first season tracked his complete psychological breakdown, and the second was largely spent rebuilding his sanity while he tried to hide his true mental state through a mask of psychosis. Of all the characters left bloodied in this finale - excepting, of course, Hannibal - Will Graham is the most likely to survive, which leads us to the question: how will his psyche take this abuse? Will has been bombarded from the outset of this series with trauma after trauma, and this latest was by far the most cruel he has had to endure - the reveal of Abigail Hobbs. Returning Abigail to Will before cutting her throat was possibly the cruelest thing Hannibal could have done to Will short of going back to his house and murdering every single one of his dogs. The way Lecter brutalised Abigail is nearly identical to the way her own father partially cut her throat before getting gunned down by Graham in the first season. While the ambiguous ending leaves many open possibilities, we know this for sure: If Abigail Hobbs dies of her neck wound this time around, and Will is facing a compounded guilt complex that can only serve to worsen his emotional state - especially since he is still seeing visions of Garret Jacob Hobbs.