And then it felt like, with where we were going in the story with all of the parenthood thematics, that if Hannibal had plotted this escape for all three of them, and then Will had betrayed him, it’s basically like a violent breakup: This is where we were going, but you screwed it up, so I’m going to make sure that all of the happiness that was planned for us can never happen, because you betrayed me. And it is such a brutal, spiteful, vengeful, vicious act to spare this girl’s life, and then, everything that she meant to Hannibal was so intrinsically tied to Will Graham that he just had to raze the Earth of their relationship. Unfortunately, that included poor Abigail. 编剧的解释,博士心想的是:“这是我给你准备的,但是你搞砸了,所以我要确保安排的幸福永远不能发生,因为你背叛了我。" 她对于博士的意义和威尔脱离不了干系,所以一切和他们之间的感情有关的事物都得被摧毁。