Jack Crawford (Lawrence Fishburne) and FBI agent William Graham (still Hugh Dancy) are still on the Garrett Jacob Hobbes' case, even though he's super dead. So they drive up to the Chippewa National Forest to Hobbes' creeptastic antler-filled cabin, where Graham uses his spidey sense to find a human hair hidden in the antlers. Clearly, this does not mean that Hobbes is a poor housekeeper, but instead that Hobbes either had an accomplice or there is a copycat killer out there that they must stop.

Crawford wants Graham to get therapy from Lecter, which with our knowledge of Lecter is pretty insulting. Graham tells Lecter that Crawford thinks Hobbes' daughter helped him kill those girls. Lecter thinks it is possible.

Young boys going on a "Stand By Me" sort of hike through the woods find a little mushroom garden, with a lot of human hands sticking out of the ground. The bodies (nine of them) are dug out and it's not pretty – decaying bodies with lots of mushrooms growing out of them. Surely Lecter is already writing out recipe cards. It's the work of the copycat.

Graham hallucinates that Hobbes is lying in one of those graves and he decides to tell Lecter. Lecter psychoanalyzes Graham and they discuss copycat theories. They are being listened to outside Lecter's office by Miss Kimmel, who we just saw was a bystander to the mushroom garden, and who has just set up an appointment with Lecter as a possible therapist for her. Lecter easily figures out she is a "tabloid journalist."

Meanwhile Graham and his team think the new copycat killer might be a doctor of sorts because of how the mushroom victims died. They might be right as the next scene is a girl picking up her prescription and a creeper pharmacist asking her, "Is that your correct address?" Then, he switches her prescription on her. The pieces are all put together quickly and SWAT team circles the pharmacy, but the pharmacist escapes thanks to a blog post by the pesky tabloid journalist. (Damn you bloggers!) When they break into his car there is a girl covered in dirt in the trunk, but luckily she is alive and really in need of a bath. The pharmacist is still MIA, but they know his name, address and make and model of his car.

The journalist knows too much information not to have inside information about the case. While talking to the detective who is giving her all the gory details, the pharmacist sneaks up and shoots the cop, covering the journalist in blood spatter. Without even letting her have a bath, he demands information about Graham. The journalist alerts Crawford that the pharmacist is looking for Graham and that he wants to help Graham "connect with Abigail Hobbes" (who is still in the hospital after her serial killer dad Ginzu'd her last episode). How is he going to help? By burying her. Graham rushes to Abigail's hospital room, but it's too late. She is gone. Luckily Graham is still armed and shoots the pharmacist before he can escape the hospital. Graham goes back to Lecter for a little more therapy.