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If I had killed them, it would be because...they were worthy of me.
~ Ingram bragging about his murders in the abstract.

Clark Ingram is a minor antagonist in Season 2 of the TV Show, Hannibal. He is a misogynistic, egotistical serial killer who murders young women and puts their corpses inside those of animals, and who tries to frame a brain damaged gamekeeper for his crimes.

He was portrayed by Chris Diamantopoulos, who also portrayed Sotto Voce in Red Notice, Doc Seismic in Invincible, and David Willard in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Overview[]

Ingram is employed as a social worker, specializing in helping women from abusive backgrounds. Beneath his compassionate façade, however, he is a misogynistic psychopath who tortures and murders many of the women he "helps". His signature as a serial killer is to strangle his victims to death and place their dead bodies inside of animals so they may be "reborn" when police or medical examiners remove them. By the time the episode takes place, he has murdered 15 women, and buried them all in a mass grave.

In order to cover his tracks, he uses animals owned by his client Peter Bernardone, who suffered extensive brain trauma after being kicked in the head by a horse; he also falsifies reports that Bernardone is emotionally disturbed and prone to violence so the police would suspect him if the bodies were ever found. Bernardone eventually finds out what Ingram had done, but he is too afraid to tell anyone because he thinks Ingram will make sure no one will believe him.

Biography[]

Ingram kills a woman named Sarah Craber and sews a live bird into her chest before sewing her body into the womb of the horse responsible for Bernardone's head injury, which he then kills by smashing its skull in with a hammer.

FBI profiler Will Graham and Agent-in-Charge Jack Crawford investigate the murder, eventually finding the mass grave. They talk with Bernardone, who seems more upset about the horse than Craber. Graham intuits that he either is the killer or knows who the killer is.

Graham later talks with Bernardone one-on-one about the case, and the fear he exhibits convinces Graham that he knows the real killer and once considered him a friend, but that he now knows what his "friend" is capable of and is terrified that he will be next. Under Graham's gentle questioning, Bernardone implicates Ingram as the killer.

Graham and Crawford take Ingram in for questioning, and forensic psychiatrist Alana Bloom interviews him. Ingram says that Bernardone was obsessed with Craber and exhibits paranoia, delusions, and violent rage, an assessment that contradicts that made by his previous social worker. Bloom also notes Ingram's total lack of empathy for Bernardone and barely contained anger at being questioned by a woman. He becomes especially agitated when Bloom tests him by "offhandedly" remarking that society needs psychopaths to "keep us on our toes" and asks to leave. Graham, Crawford, and consulting psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter watch the interview and realize that Bernardone is telling the truth about Ingram.

After being released, Ingram goes back to Bernardone's farm and releases all of his animals. He then menaces Bernardone with the same hammer he used to kill the horse while trying to manipulate him into believing that he is guilty. When Bernardone refuses to submit and accuses Ingram of committing the murders, Ingram smugly replies that "if" he killed the women, it was because they were "worthy" of him. Angered, Bernardone knocks Ingram out with the hammer and sews him up, alive, inside the dead horse.

At that moment, Lecter and Graham arrive at the farm and persuade Peter that, while Ingram deserves to die, committing murder will only bring him more pain. Ingram, meanwhile, bursts out of the horse's womb and grabs the hammer, intent on killing Bernardone. When he sees Graham pointing a gun at him, however, he drops the hammer and says that he is an innocent victim. An enraged Graham prepares to shoot Ingram dead, but Lecter - himself a serial killer who has his own plans to turn Graham into a murderer - puts his thumb between the hammer and the firing pin of the weapon just as Graham pulls the trigger, thus saving Ingram's life. Graham then arrests Ingram, who is presumably imprisoned for life.

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