#CBS Clarice spoilers

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so now that we’ve gotten the first two episodes, I’m starting to get a proper feel for what CBS Clarice is and the stories it’s trying to tell and I’m really enjoying it. now, it goes without saying that a lot of the plot is tied with the events of The Silence of the Lambs novel, being set in it’s aftermath. so you have a post-Buffalo Bill Clarice, Clarice and Ardelia both out of the FBI Academy and establishing themselves. Catherine Martin’s serious PTSD, her mother Ruth Martin becoming Attorney General and her heavy influence over ViCAP, including basically forcing Clarice to be on that team. The media’s ongoing fixation with her, as well as her fellow FBI agents anger and jealousy over her attention. but this week especially, I feel like the cases have a focus. and that focus is addressing widespread corruption in not just police and government, but also by corporations. and it appears like next week’s episode will be directly addressing the fallout from the pilot episode with the hitman. i’m really enjoying myself. it’s a unique approach to the source material, and while it does reference the novels, it stands alone on it’s own story as well and that’s the best anyone could ask for from an adaptation of such an iconic novel and film. how’s everyone else enjoying the show?

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Peter McRobbie is surprisingly good at playing a decrepit old creep. Hard to believe he used to play a judge on Law & Order.

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Clarice Review (Spoiler Free): No Hannibal, No Problem

Clarice premieres Feb. 11 at 10/9c on CBS.

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Silence is Purgatory

I need to sing the praises of CBS’s Clarice again, while it’s not up there with the greats on the quality re props and camera work, the storytelling and acting is doing some massive lifting. such SOLID writing. Episode 9 addressed the unintentional but very real transphobic damage done by Silence of the lambs in a tidy, in universe, manner that‘s handled with the delicacy it deserves and highlighting the real life people affected by it. We’re also continuing the dive into the FBI culture which was recruiting diverse but operating by the old school “white men of a certain standing” books - and still is. The body count on this case is getting a little over the top but that’s a complaint I have a most movie shows and tv, they’ll add another murder to ratchet up the stakes when we already had victims to root for and agents in danger.

Long post and spoilers for SotL ahead

Catherine, the woman in the well from SotL is one of my favourite ‘final girls’ ever, she traps and kidnaps the killer’s dog to get leverage which is so badass and when Clarice arrives as a lone agent “FBI you’re safe” she responds “Safe shit! just get me outta here!” then when she goes to hunt the killer “No. Don’t you leave me here, you fucking bitch! This guy’s fucking crazy” because she knows it’s a really stupid move. Letting a woman be angry scared even though she’s powerless felt (and still feels) so fresh and oddly empowering if that makes any sense. During my childhood I was taught, inadvertently by my parents and explicitly by society, that anger was an unacceptable sinful emotion, the wrong reaction to injustice. Reclaiming the right to be pissed off is a big deal. Of course, it’s not like I actually can get angry IRL, not in a medical or legal situation, not with sociopathic social workers or even random strangers even if they start it, that would be a one way ticket to hell... but we can dream. Horror’s partly about the fantasy that you’d be able to fight for yourself and your loved ones. Some of the best horror is also the fantasy of being allowed to get angry, righteously angry, without being punished for it.

This episode saw Catherine allowed to be vunerable but as furious as she deserved to be and it was awesome. I really hope the story doesn’t do her dirty.

This episode also saw two plot lines where Clarice had to recognize that while she’s marginalized she’s also complicit if she stays silent to avoid trouble. What she asks for from witnesses when they put themselves at risk to bring down bad guys is what she must do herself in a bad society and a bad organisation and that’s HUGE for a mainstream network show. A white woman not deflecting to her tough childhood and misogyny in the FBI, just SOLIDARITY. Shouldn’t be groundbreaking but here we are. 100 different series with girlboss shite airing right now and Clarice is strong enough to listen and learn. This TV show did that and it makes me very proud that it’s continuing the legacy of the compassionate Clarice highlighted in SotL.

Not so excited about Clarice seeming to start to fall for puppy eyed dude who is probably a total dirtbag. Listen to your therapist and stay away from the broken ones tugging at your heartstrings!

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Well... here it is. 

Here’s my overview of CBS’ Clarice. What went right, what went wrong, and why the show didn’t do as well as expected. 

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least. But it wasn’t without its merits. But I also have my issues with that ride...

So, if you watch it and disagree with what I’ve said, that’s fine. But if you want to discuss what you disagree with me on, can we please be civil about it? Please?

With that said... if you do watch it, I hope you enjoy it. Oh but check the description box cos I’ve marked out the ‘timestamps’ and particularly what sections have heavy HEAVY spoilers. (Edit: aaaand i’ve just worked out that you can only do that if you have a vimeo account apparently?! Ugh, sorry darlings - also there are some stupid audio problems i couldn’t get rid of)

This video has been a pain in the ass to do, not gonna lie. But I feel some sense of relief after doing it. Like, not just in a “OH THANK GOD I’VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS SHIT FOR A MONTH!” sense but in a “ok I’ve got it all out of my system now, and now I can move on” sense. 

So... here it is :) 

(Also big shout-out to Eli for putting up with my clacks-style message reactions when I watched this show in real-time... now you’ll understand why I did that XD)

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Claricegifs​ is a new blog dedicated entirely to Clarice on CBS. 

All posts will be tagged. Not spoiler free. Following the #clariceedit tag.

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Two Dead, As Series Ends On CBS – Deadline

Two Dead, As Series Ends On CBS – Deadline

SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the season finale of CBS and MGM Television’s Clarice. On Thursday, Clarice came to the end of its first (and likely final) season, presenting resolution in the case of the Anacostia River murders, as well as signs of personal growth on the part of the titular FBI agent, and a couple of major deaths. By the time finale, “Family Is Freedom”…

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We have to agree to disagree, what Kurtzman said was diminutive, ignorant. Visual appeal was there definitely since Hannibal is an aesthete, but the goal was to tell the motives of the characters involved. The murders meant something for Will/ Hannibal or other characters, they enhanced the story of the main characters and defined key transformations (becoming) of the characters. Your attempt to dilute it feels insulting but maybe it's not your intention. I shouldn't linger here, it's your blog.

"Clarice emphasizes the victims of the cases over the killers. That’s a fact. Hannibal did not. " This is not what Kurtzman meant, he said the show will illuminate inner struggle of characters, not victims as such. Hannibal was bringing out inner struggle of the characters. "Hannibal’s emphasis was on the killers shocking acts of gore and hunting them down." Incorrect, it was about transformation, love, understanding and internal conflicts, hunt is totally secondary. //end of messages from anon/  - - - I think we’ll agree to disagree on lots of things, anon. I read the interview before the show aired and re-read it after I watched the pilot and I don’t see how Kurtzman was in any way being “diminutive, ignorant, insulting, or shallow” in his statement. It’s pretty obvious to anyone who watched both shows that they hold entirely different approaches to investigation. Hannibal’s investigations focused on the gory murder tableaus and the killer’s, getting into the minds of the twisted serial killers. Vice versa, Clarice’s approach to investigations is solely honed in on the victims, how did they get here, how did these victims correlate to one another, what ties them together? It’s a fairly canonical interpretation, given that Clarice’s own big breaks in The Silence of the Lambs were in investigating the past victims and figuring out those commonalities. Of course there was more to Hannibal than just the murders of the week. You can’t make a show about just snuff. Just like there’s a lot more to Clarice than just the crimes she investigates, a large part of the plot is also in Clarice navigating her career in a male dominated field whilst living with the PTSD stemming from the Buffalo Bill investigation, as well as Catherine Martin’s own severe PTSD. Kurtzman, in that quote, is specifically speaking about the way cases will be presented. The question Kurtzman was asked that lead to this answer was specifically about the cases. “As for just how intense the cases that Agent Starling and the VICAP investigate will get on the broadcast network, Kurtzman says it depends on what the case needs to say about our characters and their world.“

Idk why you think my interpretation comes off as “insulting” to you, I’m not trying to be. I’m just reading the interview.

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Clarice Episode 13 Review: Family is Freedom

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Clarice Episode 13

Clarice, episode 13, “Family is Freedom,” only closes some of the cliffhangers “Father Time” ended on.  We still don’t know whether Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) will be reinstated into the ViCAP team, and we never find out what happened to young Clarice when her Sheriff father left her at the mercy of some pissed off criminals.

The last image we saw of that encounter, when Clarice ran it through her repressed memory bank, was a young Clarice with a gun held to her head as her father hangs his head in shame in the distance. The men who said they were cheated, and called Clarice’s dad a criminal and a coward, warned him he couldn’t hide behind his little girl. We never learn how that scenario plays out. How does she live through that incident to become the wild card federal cop she is today? The gang in the alley do not appear like they’re going to accept partial payment, and the implications are Clarice became part of a deal. But we don’t know and may not find out, as Clarice has not been picked up by CBS, and hasn’t officially been claimed by Paramount+.

This makes “Family is Freedom” the probable series finale, and for that Clarice really pulls out all the stops. The River Murders conspiracy Agent Starling forced the ViCAP team to investigate turns out to be something far worse than expected, the entire episode is action-centered, including the dynamics of every conversation, and one of the main cast gets shot.

The main setting is an exquisitely efficient horror house, and Alastor CEO Nils Hagen (Peter McRobbie), who runs it, is a monster whose deeds go far beyond the crimes of Buffalo Bill. The episode digs deep into the Silence of the Lambs subconscious to rework its iconography. The central location is an everyday nightmare: An animal research facility with its own rendering machine. This is a wonderfully horrific pairing. It screams “you really don’t get much more evil than this.” And then it does. It turns out the machines are grinding up the medical students Tyson (Douglas Smith) has been bringing over as part of his volunteer medical team. This means the meat being rendered is humanitarian cuisine.

The season villain is truly horrific, clicking so much more than the usual horror cliché buttons. Nils Hagen is a mad scientist from a long line of mad scientists. His grandfather weaponized chlorine during World War I, and in tender moments, the family posed deceased children in death portraits. “Memento mori,” as Agent Shaan Tripathi (Kal Penn) puts it, were all the rage at the turn of the century. But photogenic dead kids leave a strange legacy. Nils has been a chemist all his life, it is in his blood. He was born knowing there is no need for fire to get rid of the even the most seemingly damning evidence. Bleach and steam is enough during company sale time, because DNA breaks down at 400 degrees. He says it incredibly matter-of-factly, like the epitome of a psychopathic chief executive. But it is part of his collective unconscious.

It appears Tyson has been trafficking the students because he wants a brother. But all his father’s offspring turn out still born deformities. The students used for breeding are kept in pens, like lambs before slaughter, as if this isn’t going to trigger more memories in Starling. But she dips into her childhood trauma to pull out the idea of all the trapped animals rushing out at once. It is unintentionally funny when the person they run into is Deputy Assistant Attorney General Paul Krendler (Michael Cudlitz), and they knock him to the ground beating tiny little fists into his burly chest.

Just when you think the Hagen family have had their fill of bad blood, the evil father gives his prodigal son a tasteless choice. “This girl is here for you to kill so you can prove you are here for me,” Hagen says. But Tyson’s third option is no less terrifying, nor less psychopathic. He points out Clarice’s strength, her intelligence, he almost pulls her mouth back so Hagen can inspect her teeth, and basically says have at her. Go forth and multiply, I’ll get the jars ready.

Clarice weaponizes psychiatry with a magic bullet. She really gets into Tyson’s head, possibly taking tips from her therapist, Dr. Renee Li (Grace Lynn Kung). Clarice not only gets him to kill his own father but blow his own head off. It’s amazing what you can get away with when you turn in your badge to people who want you to keep it. Hagen was right to have his “first doubts.”

Every major player gets some kind of personal satisfaction. Agent Ardelia Mapp (Devyn Tyler) files her own paperwork, and doesn’t care who gets papercuts. At the outset of the episode, we learn she’s been told to remain in her departmental office, and will be terminated if she plays around with ViCAP. She gets to tell Krendler she’ll be suggesting where her boss can stick his desk duty.

Agent Murray Clarke (Nick Sandow) gets to visibly enjoy it. It may be his happiest moment of the season, and that includes the ending when he is wrapping his ViCAP jacket around a young medical student he helps save. Mapp is also allowed some follow through. She lay her case out straight succinctly, and Special Agent Anthony Herman (David Hewlett) runs out of facial expressions long before she finishes citing out the most grievous offenses. He, like Hagen, hits every button on the cookie cutter of bad men with powers: top cops. It doesn’t matter what Herman says, or what he claims to believe. He was doomed to one-dimension the moment his first word of dialog was keyed into the script.

Agent Esquivel (Lucca De Oliveira) takes strong-arming a witness literally, brother. He has the head of CSA Security Specialists cheek-deep in paperclips at his own desk before arriving at the ViCAP meeting in time to answer a question hanging in the air. The timing on the show is amazingly fortuitous. His entrance into the scene is plays like an old Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse bit. But there are so many moments which coincidentally happen to occur at the last possible moment. Krendler happens to call Attorney General Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson) about extenuating circumstances, just as she’s getting spit on by a House representative.

Congressman Llewellyn Gant makes a hard choice easier for Ruth. He tells her to step down, and take care of her daughter Catherine (Marnee Carpenter). The Attorney General responds by giving the go-ahead on an assault which may have been caused by an out-of-control agent who assaulted a civilian. She also begins an investigation on which politicians were getting funding from Alistor, so she gets to stick it to the man. The entire team gets the tell-tale mourning music moaning low as the victims are escorted to vans, and Krendler is loaded into intensive care.

“Family is Freedom” is exactly the kind of ending Clarice promised from the beginning. It went through the paces far too steadily to have any other outcome. The biggest break in protocol is how Clarice Starling took down the two main culprits without lifting a finger. She raised her voice a few times, but the only triggers she pulled were in the minds of her prey. The main character gets what she wants as well, everyone appreciates her, apologizes to her or gifts her with new beads. She even gets time to visit her mother. Clarice gets enough closure to close out the series.

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CBS’s new federal cop procedural Clarice is a little bit grittier than the majority of crime shows on network TV. It also flips the perspective on the mainly male POV of the genre. Both of these innovations can be attributed to the source material. The series is a sequel to the story told in Jonathan Demme’s psychological horror classic The Silence of the Lambs. It distinguishes itself from the film and the original book in two ways. The first is the crimes which are being investigated. There is no traditional serial killer. Oh, there are people who fit the legal definition, that’s part of the setup, but Clarice is playing a longer game. The VICAP Fly Team, the exclusive unit on the series, is after something far more insidious...

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Clarice episode12 Spoilers under cut

I hesistated to watch this one without waiting for episode 13 as 10-11 were two parts of a whole and browsing the AVclub for something else caught a glimpse of a C grade review calling it "dumb" https://www.avclub.com/clarice-starlings-past-and-present-all-fall-apart-at-on-1847124928. I disagree.

Here's the basic of the episode: Agent Starling can't accept she's angry, she pushes back, reaches a breaking point, recognizes something very loud within her, names it: it is indeed anger, does the smart thing. She's in a job where you're supposed to gaslight yourself into working until burn-out, multiple characters say to compartmentalize or bulldoze on. She makes a choice not to. Not dumb.

*Adding the "you're a good father" line to Krendler leads to a messy surface read but that's where Clarice was at mentally (and where we are storywise): fathers and fatherhood. Her vicap crew had very slowly become family that have her back. Krendler has been a true mentor in the past few episodes: protective, trusting but honest about her limitations, not letting the punch slide.

*Catherine is fantastic, she knows her mother's flaws and strengths. It's good to see her healing in a psychiatric hospital. Can I just say how rare and precious it is to have a psych ward not shown as hell on earth but a safe haven for once, a place to rebuild yourself.

*The reviewer for the avclub seems to think we're in a normal crime procedural universe and the show has gone 'over the top' with the villain. Did the lack of name dropping Hannibal make you forget that this is the Harris-verse where serial killers become gods and monsters and make art from violence. DUDE. You really thought this was going to be about a bad guy who makes money off a bad medicine? LMAO. This is limb-sculpture, wolf-mecha, beehive-head and dragon who eats the sun territory. If CBS has guts, it'll end with a man eating a human in the style of that 'Saturn devours his son' Goya painting.

*Not mentioned in the review but adding the bad dad angle is new to the character and could be seen as cliché to turn the Clarice Starling into a "daddy issues" woman but that would be too simplistic: 1/ West Virginia lawman in the 70s who was a good father but also a bad copper - sanctified and cystallised into an ideal by early death and being sent away from home is not a stretch. 2/ Clarice isn't just driven by spite, empathy and intellectual curiosity there's always been something about needing to understand the nature of evil as a corrupting force beyond meat farming metaphors. Also I love that she gave Hannibal just enough to feel he was in but he was just one layer deep. He can hurt her but she's still protecting the core. 3/ Working a straight very white male institution is punishing, profiling bad men is punishing, working for the feds who are a very shady institution because it's also got quantico is morally punishing. Clarice engages in a punishing lifestyle AND risky behaviour: Krendler is right, she should never have gone in alone: repeatedly. Her actually listening to her therapist and profiling herself is good. Taking herself off the job is good. It doesn't fit the classic tropes but it makes sense that a smart woman finally listened to other smart women and made a change. I like this plotline far better than her soldiering on. It's intelligent. 4/ Her recognizing she has an empathy weakness and blindspots is probably going to allow her to pick up on something in the next episode that saves her life.

You build yourself on what you've got and then learn to build your own self when those foundations crumble, there was a sense there was always a little more to it than just losing a dad and being sent to live on a meat farm. My guess uptil recently was some unresolvable grief about something explaining why her mother couldn't keep her around, it was dad related instead. That's a 3 dimensional character. Sorry if that breaks your female badass ideal. I was really concerned with where they were going with the dad angle which is why ep10 gave me pause but it's been treated with a bit more subtletly; the perfect dad was a crutch she's been using that she needs to drop to be able to grieve what happened with Gumb but also how she was forced to sacrifice parts of herself to Hannibal for info and was thrown to that wolf by her mentor Crawford. The throughline the season has been drawing is parents and mentors: from Chronos and Alaster to Jame Gumb's mother to Catherine's mother to Clarice's father: what they give us, what we take and what we reject to build our own selves.

Of course the finale could bungle it all. pessimistic me says cliffhanger because they were told season 2 was guaranteed (it was but now it's not because streaming companies are fighting).

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[Huge spoiler for episode 1 of CBS Clarice ahead]

I just watched Clarice 3 times. I now understand why I feel conflicted despite coming in hopeful. Excuse me for rambling just a bit:

- I feel like the show is going to dive more into government corruption instead of crime solving in itself for this first section of this season due to...

- ...The whole plot point is “Clinical trial drug makes women give birth to kids with disabilities (The show uses a word it really shouldn’t I just learned), so big pharm hires a hitman to kill them when they try to whistle blow”.

I literally watched the show 3 times just to make sure I wasn’t mishearing information given to the viewers. This is legit the plot point of episode 1.

( timestamp at about 32:26 from Angie’s husband: “But a lot of the kids of those women... Turned out to be messed up in different ways”, the clipping on the wall talk about birth defects in babies, Esquivel mentions the drug doing this too I do believe.)

- That plot point in itself is... I... Can’t find the words to explain why it feels really messed up...? 

- Also what the heck was the lotion scene? 

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Who says all of us hate Clarice ? I like when people tell a sensitive story without saying / doing obvious and cliched things, this is the reason I love Hannibal, I love the subtleties and the fact that conclusions need to arrived at and not spelt loudly. Clarice - "You are a woman..with trauma etc" ok bye cringe. Very poor effort there ! I wish a better group did Clarice who knows how to write characters, she is a brilliant character to explore. It will sell maybe it's mass-y but I am a snob.

I didn’t say every Hannibal fan hates Clarice, lol. The people spamming all the tags do. I can’t tell you how many times in the past two weeks I’ve had to read awful takes like “Clarice is boring, a rip-off of Will, Will’s replacement. Why does she even get a show? No one cares. Hannibal deserves this slot” etc etc etc. It’s misogyny, plain and simple. And lol, we got totally different takes on that opening scene. It’s so obvious to me that the therapist in that opening scene is a misogynist goon, he’s terrible at his job and trying to get a rise out of her to rule her unfit for the field. Clarice herself calls out his antics in that same scene by pointing out that he was the one that left out that issue of the National Tattler for her to see and possibly be triggered by. That therapist wasn’t sitting there going “oh you poor delicate uwu flower, you’re so traumatized, here’s a blankey”. He was actively trying to trigger Clarice into tanking her own career at the behest of the male dominated FBI. They’re embarrassed that a junior agent cracked their case and saved Catherine Martin. They’re furious at Clarice, and it’s obvious that they’re continuing to retaliate against her that first day at the VICAP field office. Like I said before, if it’s not your type of show, then it’s not your show. Go re-watch Hannibal on Netflix. No one’s forcing you to watch Clarice.

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Clarice Episode 12 Review: Father Time

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Clarice Episode 12

In Clarice episode 12, “Father Time,” Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds) finally loses her shit and clocks someone, and the series is better off for it. The young agent who rose to the top of a media circus on her first serial killer case has been scrutinized, chastised, hypnotized, and downsized since returning to the field. She’s had to run amok straight into danger just to get a point across which will solve cases. Tonight, Clarice lashes out at everyone, packs her boxes, and runs until her legs give out. It provides the most satisfying episode the series has given so far.

Starling has even had enough of her chosen, as opposed to assigned, therapist. Dr. Renee Li (Grace Lynn Kung), is the very definition of calming. Just a few words from her mouth usually silence the lambs in Clarice’s head. But let her blame being late on a traffic cop and the Sheriff’s little deputy snaps her cuffs. Clarice sees the scars on Dr. Li’s arms, gets her fill of explanations that unprocessed trauma comes out as anger, and goes with it. She’s been getting SOS calls from her subconscious, and her therapist can’t decipher them.

It is very telling, however, how Clarice responds almost automatically to the mere validation “you’re not angry,” from the therapist. The agent is an expert in many psychiatric disciplines, and is prescribing for herself. She visibly wills herself, through the episode, to come to the conclusion Dr. Li suggests at the outset. Clarice has a memory, and she doesn’t need regressive hypnosis to bring it out of her. That would be too comforting. When it finally comes, Clarice faces the pain the therapist wants her to accept, and it stops her in her tracks.

The ViCAP unit gets official approval to raid Alastor Pharmaceuticals, and Agent Murray Clarke (Nick Sandow) is having a blast. He loves Raid Days. It would be a perfect afternoon for him if it wasn’t for the agent who can’t hold his bladder. Peeing in a bottle is unnecessarily rude, and probably another piece of unprocessed trauma for Starling. The entire episode could be chalked up as a very bad day for Clarice.

Attorney General Ruth Martin (Jayne Atkinson) is now serving a proper function: acting as a tool to work against a quickly ticking countdown. There’s a lot of money involved, and she could just as well have gone the other way and pocketed her retirement in a weekend. Her daughter, Catherine Martin (Marnee Carpenter), owns the line of fire. Their scene together is sweet, and serves to allow the audience to accept their premature bonding.

As the ViCAP team enacts an evidentiary warrant for ties to the River Murders, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Paul Krendler (Michael Cudlitz) makes Alastor CEO Nils Hagen (Peter McRobbie) do the perp walk in front of all the cameras. But the psychopathic pharmaceutical magnate does it big. He goes both Shakespearean and Jesuit, forgiving his arresting officers as he is cuffed in the round. Ready for his closeup while gasping for breath, his eyes are open now. There are bad apples in his company, he admits, and he’s going to worm his way out of it.

Agent Shaan Tripathi (Kal Penn) is consistently growing as more than a well-rounded investigator. We learn he really knows his art, the brush strokes and everything. He can tell the difference between a painting and a blank canvas. After a few words with the artist, he realizes there is something darker going on, and it’s not merely the pigments of the oils and acrylics. Marina Abramović only used pig’s blood in her massively misunderstood performance piece “Spirit Cooking,” but the mentored artist dabs from a much more human palate. Don’t tell Qanon, but there are fetal tissues of five babies in the painting of Cronus the team took from Nils Hagen’s office.

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The chief executive replaces the damaging artwork by putting Joe Hudland (Raoul Bhaneja) in a frame as a still life. The entire sequence is extremely well done. From threat to cleanup, the problems facing the megamerger at the center of the crime disappear leaving nothing but further suspense.

The depths of the debauchery on the corporate fronts appears to be much deeper as ViCAP airs Hudland’s concerns about “uncovered sex stuff,” which Starling pegs as power.  Her first reaction is to help what she sees as a powerless victim, Hagen’s heir, Tyson (Douglas Smith). Cronos is the god who ate all his sons but Zeus, and Clarice sees Tyson as an appetizer. The team later finds out the son is helping prepare the menu.

“This is what happens when bitches have badges,” an FBI agent says as he passes Starling after the ViCAP team are awarded jurisdiction of a compromised crime scene. The affront sets off Agents Esquivel (Lucca De Oliveira), who gets called “Taco Bell” for sticking up for his sister in arms. The situation could have given Esquivel the last drop in the law enforcement pissing match. But Clarice gets to crack the guy in the nose. It’s a good clean shot, too. We don’t have to see Murray to know he approves, and even Krendler looks like he’s biting his inner lip so he doesn’t smile out loud.

Clarice disarms and turns in her badge, but it probably won’t be for long. She doesn’t do it because of her anger. She doesn’t do it because Agent Ardelia Mapp (Devyn Tyler) and Agent Garrett (K.C. Collins) are right in naming her in their claims against the department. Yes, she got preferential treatment, and she sees how unfair it is. But Clarice turns it in because her father was more than a dirty cop. He was a bad daddy. The only thing stopping Clarice from walking back in that office to reclaim her name as a good cop is the show’s cancellation. And so, “Father Time” ends on a triple cliffhanger. The uncovered memory has to have an outcome, the son of Dr. Frankenstein is walking up the stairs, and Clarice turned in her gun.

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Oh my god y’all, I can’t believe Rebecca liked my Clannibal shitpost XD