This is the gayest way to end an episode. How am I not supposed to think that Hannibal is in love with Will? Who caresses someone’s face like that while telling them that they are in awe of who they’re being reborn as???
TheLacrimosa(Latin for “weeping/tearful”), also a name that derives from Our Lady of Sorrows, a title given to The Virgin Mary, is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass.
Hannibal: It is often assumed that the tower began to list in later centuries, a gradual revelation of inferior craftsmanship, or a realisation of unsuitable grounding. In fact, the tower began to lean very early in the construction process, yet the building was completed. What do you think, Detective? A monument to man’s tenacity? Our inability to admit defeat? Or a folly, the ultimate symbol of our arrogance as creators - a distorted mirror of what God achieved with ease?
Columbo: Yaknow, my wife’s cousin, she - you really gotta see it - she was here and she had her picture taken, and I don’t know, uh, I guess she figured out the distances and the angles, but this picture - I mean wow, it’s really somethin - it looks like. Like she’s holdin up the whole tower with one finger. Ya see? Like she, ah, like she stuck out her finger and, uh, the whole tower, it’s just resting there! Huh.
Hannibal:
Columbo: Hey, d'ya think we could take one of those pictures?
