The Wrath of the Lamb Part VII— The Eroding Bluff
The bluff is eroding. There was more land when I was here with Abigail. More land still when I was here with Miriam Lass.
Now you’re here with me.
And the bluff is still eroding. You and I are suspended over the roiling Atlantic. Soon, all this will be lost to the sea.
Well that’s a double entendre if there ever was one. A cigar is never just a cigar in this show, and anyone who calls a cliff a bluff doesn’t do it by mistake. There’s been one great bluff throughout the course of this show: the one about Will’s true nature.
Hannibal believes he knows what Will really is, and that Will has been lying to himself about it for years. Hannibal’s first sight of the bluff, when he was there with Miriam, was before he and Will had even met. There was much more substance to the bluff, then. Later, when he was there with Abigail, he had already started to influence Will. By then Will’s bluff about himself had noticeably started to crumble.
Now that Hannibal is here with Will, there’s even less to the bluff. The roiling Atlantic is both what’s eating away at the bluff and what they’ll fall into when it’s gone. It’s Will’s becoming.
And where do they end up in the end? In the Atlantic. They leave the bluff together.
