From a case-to-case plot in Season 1, Hannibal returns on Friday with a new take on the story altogether, with Will Graham locked up and ready to take vengeance on his former friend Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
In an interview with IGN, Hugh Dancy revealed much of where his character will be at in the new season.
Said Dancy, "the one thing [Will's] got going for him -- the only thing he's got going for him -- in Season 2, is he's finally playing with a full deck of cards. He understands who Hannibal is, or maybe not fully, but he understands what Hannibal's done to him. Even though he's totally isolated, he is in a position to start fighting back, fully informed. That kind of clarity is so important to him. I think the worst thing that happened to Will in the first season was his fear that he was losing his mind, that his personality was breaking down. So in that respect, strangely, I always imagined Will -- even though he's in prison, even though he's locked up -- being more powerful than he's ever been before."
Dancy also said in Fresnobee.com, "It was a slow, steady buildup just starting from a place of basic depression. I felt last year, last season, that that spiral, that progression over the course of the 13 episodes, was so well charted out."
Here are five things that fans should know about what happens after the buildup, for the upcoming season as noted by fearnet.com:
1. Gillian Anderson will be back with a more important role in the season.
2. Beverly Katz will also have a bigger role that will keep her from becoming confined to crime scenes.
3. Will Graham remembers, or thinks he remembers everything, which prevents him from falling apart at the seams.
4. Hannibal Lecter will help Jack Crawford in criminal profiling the way Will used to, but of course, he had his own self-serving reasons.
5. The death tableaus will be bigger and grander, and decidedly more brutal than they were last season.
Hannibal Season 2 will premier on Friday, Feb. 28 at 10 p.m. on NBC.