like 32 hours into my drive last month i was talking to my friend about a House MD/NBC Hannibal crossover in which House also figures out Will has encephalitis and he becomes obsessed with Will as a medical problem so now it's House vs. Hannibal bc House refuses to lose when he gets his little claws in a case and House 100% knows for a fact Hannibal is serving human meat at dinner but he first puts it together at a dinner party so he's cornered and he's soooo committed to meeting Hannibal's bluff that he does eat it and Hannibal knows he knows
and he makes an excuse to avoid the next several dinners Hannibal hosts but he doesn't tell ANYONE else so when the entire thing unravels there's a scene where Wilson and Cuddy realizes House knowingly let them all eat people on multiple ocassions and they almost kill him themselves
Hannibal knows he knows because as House is actively consuming a Human Person he makes snide little puns about it at Hannibal while everyone else at the table is like please can you stop embarrassing us why are you being so rude rn
you might think Hannibal will simply kill House but what's he gonna do? Break into his home? Subdue him using lethal doses of sedative medication and tie him up? House is expecting that because they're pages from his own book. for some fucking reason.
