Hannibal: Every Person Will Graham Killed | Screen Rant
Dr. Hannibal Lecter naturally did most of the killing on the Hannibal TV show, but Will Graham ended up claiming a few victims himself. Will and Hannibal have been worthy opponents since the original Thomas Harris novel Red Dragon, which introduced both characters to the world. Neither likes the other, but they respect the other's mental capabilities, leading Will to seek Hannibal's help in capturing another serial killer, and Hannibal to entertain that prospect even though he could easily blow him off.
At least that's how it worked in the book, its 1986 film adaptation Manhunter, and its 2002 film adaptation Red Dragon. For Bryan Fuller's Hannibal TV show on NBC, the dynamic between Will and Hannibal was altered quite substantially. Whereas Will didn't know Hannibal very well before discovering his crimes in the book and movies, the Will and Hannibal on the show are colleagues for a long period before Hannibal's true nature is revealed. In that time, they form a strange sort of friendship, and arguably something romantic, as much as a sociopath like Hannibal can truly feel emotion.
Will and Hannibal's small screen relationship is much more complex than it ever was before, and that's part of the reason the show worked so well that fans still pine for another season, five years after cancellation. Thanks to this closer interaction with Hannibal, Will was repeatedly put in a position to take lives, and sometimes he did so.
The first victim claimed by Will Graham on Hannibal actually met their demise in the very first episode, in a plot turn taken right out of the Red Dragon book. Will and Hannibal were attempting to solve the Minnesota Shrike murders, and eventually pin the crimes on Garret Jacob Hobbs. Being a perennial troublemaker, Hannibal gives Hobbs an anonymous heads up, so when they reach his house, Hobbs is ready, killing his wife, and trying to take his daughter Abigail with him as well. Will, justifiably, shoots him to save her. Will's next victim was a lot less justified, at least in manner of death.
Hannibal manipulated an animal-obsessed serial killer named Randall Tier into attacking Will, and Will killed him in self-defense. However, as Will imagines Randall saying to him later, he didn't force Will to enjoy the act, or display Randall's remains in an artistic fashion that would make Hannibal blush. Will's third and final victim - since Bryan Fuller has made clear that he and Hannibal survived their fall off a cliff in season 3's finale - was the Red Dragon himself, Francis Dolarhyde. In all prior versions of the Red Dragon story, either Will or his wife Molly killed Dolarhyde, but in the TV universe, Will and Hannibal kill him together, seemingly cementing their bizarre bond.