I'll make a proper Fancy Chapter Post eventually, probably, but when I read that AO3 are pushing their planned outage tomorrow two hours earlier I figured why the hell not post this chapter that's technically been sitting around in drafts for 1.5 months. Or more. Probably more
Chapter 46: Radio, what's new?
Summary: Angel spends a long overdue weeknight unwinding with Lily and not worrying about any supernatural mysteries. Meanwhile, Anthony keeps worrying about problems that are nae his business.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
s1. our introduction to freddie shows her as self serving, she breaks into the shrike’s nest, uploading multiple photographs of the untampered crime scene before anyone else can. gaining herself an exclusive advantage. she uses agent zeller to get information about graham. ( as well as information about the shrike’s nest most likely. ) she shows her distaste for will, writing a smear campaign against him, and the competence of the fbi. she then meets will, and furthers her stance on his instability, after a meeting with abigial, as he threatens : it isn’t very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living.
she lies to protect agent zeller, putting the blame on detective pascal during the mushroom murders, this results in pascal being fired, when he comes to her hotel to confront lounds, paul stammets shoots pascal in the back of the head at close range, before asks about will graham. ( this that could, inadvertently / subconsciously further her distaste toward will as it connects him to her trauma. )
she meets up with nick boyle for an interview, and informs him that abigial is alive / has just been released from the hospital. her motivation being unclear. ( this inadvertently leads to the murder of nicholas boyle. )
freddie is escorted off the hobb’s property by local police. in passing she mentions she isn’t the only trespasser, offering quid pro quo, an interview for information.
later in the season, she works with the fbi and alana bloom in order to interview abel gideon, writing that he is the chesapeake ripper even when jack and co allude to the idea he isn’t, in order to bring the real ripper out of hibernation. a mix of her desperation to be recognized as a real reporter, and her skewed moral compass, as this article could have gotten others killed. ( which everyone in the room is guilty of. )
during the course of this season, she is invited to hannibal’s home to have dinner with him, graham and abigial hobbs as she has begun helping the young girl to write a book describing her life with her father, and her perspective during his killings.
she is eventually lured into a trap by abel gideon pretending to be a psychiatrist wanting to work with her on a paper, which results in her being kidnapped by gideon, and forced to write articles about his murders as he commits them. this is when witnesses the mutilation of chilton. when gideon leaves her and fredrick in the observatory, she has a chance to flee, and every chance to do so in her panic, instead she waits with chilton, pumping air into his lungs to keep him alive.
will is arrested for the suspected murder of abigail hobbs.
s2. further proving her distaste for will, she testifies against him, saying abigail had told her she was afraid of will, which may or may not have been true. it is revealed during this trial, she has been sued for libel six times, and has settled each time. making her statements unreliable.
an anonymous tip leads fred back to the observatory where she and chilton had been held captive in the season prior, here he learn freddie has begun carrying a gun, it is also where she finds the vertically section body of fbi agent beverly katz, displayed in tableau. she photographs the scene before calling the fbi, outside of the observatory she runs to intercept jack crawford, begging him to send someone else inside, and warning that “she’s one of your’s.” will is called to the crime scene, and freddie snaps a few pictures of him in restraints.
she takes a handful of candid photos of hannibal lecter as he is seen leaving the baltimore state hospital for the criminally insane. they have a short and ultimately unimportant conversation, during which freddie admits she is there to interview will at his request. he offers her the exclusive rights to his story in exchange for the interview which is a calling card, a way for will to get in touch with a copycat killer, drawing his attention to graham.
the next appearance of freddie is after will is released from the bsh, she is investigating graham’s house, breaking into the barn where she finds the animal suit and ( after picking the lock of his deep freezer ) the jaw of randall tier. slamming the freezer closed, she finds will watching her from the other side, after a short and rather one sided conversation, freddie fires a warning shot, causing will to duck back behind the freezer, she attempts to flee. as she runs, will manages to catch her by a handful of hair, pulling her back, she accidentally fires a second shot toward the ceiling of the barn, dropping the gun in their struggle, graham slams her against a metal shelving unit, giving her a bloody nose. fred does however, manage to mace will, giving her another chance to flee, he blindly attempts to catch her, pulling out a handful of her hair as she manages to momentarily escape.
she attempts to call crawford while running back to the safety of her car, she manages to make it into the jeep, locking the door and starting it before will catches up, breaking the car’s window with a tire iron, and forcefully pulling the struggling lounds through it. that night, graham has dinner with lecter, claiming the meat is “long pig” and alluding to the idea it could be lounds.
alana bloom and will are seen at freddie’s funeral service.
in the next episode it is revealed that freddie is in hiding, conspiring with the fbi in an attempt to catch lecter.
s3. freddie is not seen until the second arc, she is apparently well established in her field and doing rather well after the publishing of her book lounds is married to wendy “windy city” lounds, an ecdysiast she met some time between this season and season two.
freddie catches will leaving the bsh where hannibal is imprisoned, and again at a crime scene where he berates her for trespassing and writing that he and hannibal were co-conspiritors, freddie apparently coined the term murder husbands. he refuses to give her a statement. she responds by pointing out that they did run off to italy together.
it is revealed that tattle crime has inspired the toothfairy to contact lecter, meaning he regularly reads the articles. this prompts will and crawford to call in a favor, needing her help in getting the tooth fairy’s attention. she interviews both graham and chilton who describe francis as ugly, impotent and the product of incest, the idea being to anger him to the point he may make a mistake. ( contrary to the novel ) it prompts him to disfigure and burn chilton in freddie’s place.
Daehyun: “Eric benet - chocolate legs, I’ll recommend this song. I’m going to listen to this song on the way”
Me:
.......
Eric Benet: “ I need you to wrap them chocolate legs 'round me
So when I come home tonight, you'll make everything alright
When you gon' wrap them chocolate legs 'round me
The memory of my day will quickly just fade away
When you come wrap them chocolate legs 'round me
Please baby, wrap them chocolate legs 'round me”
“Isaac?”
Her voice was quiet, steady, and her palm pressed gently to the place between his shoulder blades. It had been quite some time since she had seen him fall apart like this. Lizzie could only remember one time before that she actually saw tears fall from his eyes and that was when she broke him out of the icebox only a few days before his father had died. Now he was sitting in her room, in the middle of the floor, and his shoulders were shaking. She could have said it was because of the rain that had soaked his clothes, but Lizzie knew that shake. She had encountered it many times before Dimitri…well.
Lizzie dropped down to her knees, and her arms wrapped around his shoulders. She was never good with words, and comfort was beyond her, but she knew that sometimes words were useless anyway. It was the actions that made it work out better. So she just rested her cheek on the crown of his head and held him while he broke down before her.
“It’s okay Isaac,” She didn’t know what had happened, what had caused him to break, but Lizzie didn’t really care. She just wanted him to be better, to hit the road to recovery running and just keep moving forward. Even if Lizzie was a poor example of that, at least Isaac could get better. He could get better for the both of them.
