“A Father’s Love,” The Magnus Archives // “Apéritif,” “Potage,” “Releves,” Hannibal
[Image description: The Magnus Archives transcript screenshots interspersed with grayscale screenshots of Abigail Hobbs from NBC Hannibal. The first and last images of Abigail are tinted red.
My father was a murderer. There’s no way I can reasonably deny it at this point; the evidence provided by the police was overwhelming, and I saw his shed myself.
A distressed Abigail holds a clump of human hair.
A man’s voice asked to speak with my father. It was a breathy voice, like that of an old man, and at the time I decided he had a German accent, though, when I was young, a lot of different nationalities and accents were lumped together in my mind under the label “German”.
Abigail answers the phone.
room got very dark. My father told me everything was fine
Garret Jacob Hobbs holds a knife to Abigail’s throat.
His hands shook slightly and I didn’t believe him, but I did what I was told anyway. I don’t know how long I lay there,
Abigail bleeds on the floor.
He whispered to me then, when he thought I was asleep, promised to protect me, to make sure that “it wouldn’t get me too”.
Abigail tells Will, Hannibal, and Alana: “he told me he killed those girls so he wouldn’t have to kill me.”
The one question they kept asking me over and over during the investigation into my father was whether I knew where the rest of the bodies were.
Abigail says, “No parts went to waste.”
I didn’t want to leave the house. I just sat in the living room, silent and still.
Abigail hugs a pillow.
Even now, after all that’s happened, and all I know about what went on there, I can’t bring myself to leave.
