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‘Hannibal’ 1×09 Recap: A Totem of Your Own Making

We're playing house at the Lecter place, and the freezer is stacked with red meat.

12:00 AM EST on December 2, 2025

Will looking up
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Hannibal Season 1, Episode 9
"Trou Normand"
Original airdate: May 23, 2013
Writer: Steve Lightfoot
Director: Guillermo Navarro
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Kacey Rohl


Something you might have noticed about Hannibal over the last few weeks is just how dramatic the crime scenes have become. Growing mushrooms on slowly dying humans was dramatic enough, but in the last few weeks alone we've gotten Wound Man recreations, a human cello, and now, an entire totem pole of bodies.