The homoerotic undercurrent to Will and Hannibal’s relationship has never exactly gone unspoken. There have been more-than-subtextual references to more-than-friendship between them all along, but it’s still startling to have it spelled out so fully in the opening moments of ‘The Number of the Beast is 666’, where the Brides of Hannibal get into some real talk.

“Is Hannibal in love with me?” Will asks Bedelia, in a gloriously twisted version of that rom-com moment where the main character finally picks up on the blindingly obvious – that their BFF is in love with them, and that maybe they feel the same way. It’s basically When Harry Met Sally with cannibalism. Not only does Bedelia say yes, but she asks Will if he “aches for Hannibal” too. And does he?