Will rejects Hannibal again and tells him that he doesn't want to know where Hannibal is or what he does and that he doesn't want to think about Hannibal anymore. Will Graham is the main protagonist of NBC's Hannibal. Will Graham survives the attack at Hannibal Lecter's hands because Hannibal wanted him to live and thus deliberately inflicted a non-fatal wound, though it takes Will several months to recover. They attempt to shield her from Crawford, who suspects she aided her father's crimes, and from predatory tabloid reporter Throughout the season, Graham's sanity deteriorates from the toll of more murder cases and undiagnosed encephalitis, causing sleepwalking, hallucinations, The method with which Graham discerns Lecter's identity as the Chesapeake Ripper in the novels' At the start of the season, Graham is institutionalized in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, under the care of While preparing to stand trial, Graham insists to his skeptical former colleagues that Lecter is the real killer, while pulling strings from the confines of his cell to expose him. The scene post-credits shows Bedelia with her leg amputated and served on the table in Hannibal's style, with three places at the table, hinting that Hannibal and Will survived and are now hunting together.

In the post-credits of Season 3, it is implied that Will and Hannibal pay a visit to Hannibal's friend Bedelia, mutilating and consuming her leg.
After Freddie Lounds' funeral, her grave is found disturbed, her body posed like Shiva, which Alana deduces was done by an admirer of Lounds' killer, a courtship for Lound's killer.

Will is a deeply complex man. Margot Verger visits Will again and they have sex. Hannibal accepts Will the way he is and even wants him to "embrace his true nature". Hobbs had his daughter in his arms and started to slit her throat when Will shot him. Will appears to lack remorse for the killing of those who died because of him, such as Hobbs, Randall Tier, Francis Dolarhyde, Mason Verger, Chiyoh's prisoner, FBI agents, etc. Brown confesses the murder of Andrew Sykes. When Bedelia asks him, if he aches for Hannibal too, he doesn't reply.

Once they made their way there, theories started to form in Will's head after an intense conversation with Dr. Lecter, Will told him, "The scales have fallen away from my eyes. Although it's not in the main focus of S1, Will's and Hannibal's relationship is the underlying plotline in all three seasons. Hannibal breaks Mason's neck, leaving him alive but paralyzed. Will did his best to apply pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding.
If Graham accepted his offer to leave the country together, she would have accompanied them. To ease his guilt, Jack Crawford risks his job by confessing that he may have pushed Will too far. He sent Will his broken heart. His family was poor. Her sudden death eventually drove Lecter into madness.The new setting will also find Will acquainting with a "mysterious" woman named Chiyo, who will help him locate the cannibalistic doctor.According to the media outlet, Chiyo was loosely based on Thomas Harris' character in novel, Lady Murasaki.Meanwhile, Laurence Fishburne's Jack Crawford will be on the look-out for Will's welfare in Europe. He spares Mason's life but suggests that Mason should feed Hannibal to his pigs.

Will breaks into Hannibal's house and threatens him with a gun. He has no recollection of his mother, who left his life when he was very young.