But Jack does not appear to give chase, even though he clearly could have caught his broken ass given that Hannibal just got destroyed and Papa Bear doesn’t have a scratch on him.
Which does beg the question: why? Why on earth did Jack not just kill Hannibal that night, you ask? Well according to the previews for the next episode, for the GLORIOUSLY fanfic-y reason of “I saved him for you, Will.” FUCKING BLESS. Who cares if it doesn’t make rational sense, we need emotional resolution damn it, and the more arbitrary dumb-butt “it has to be You” finagling it takes, the more I love it. I don’t care. Bryan Fuller don’t care. Have you not heard that this is just Thomas Harris fanfiction? Because this is just Thomas Harris fanfiction.