"Hannibal" concluded its TV series run last Saturday with the finale episode titled "The Wrath of the Lamb." According to Entertainment Weekly, it ended much in the same way that the previous two seasons ended for the show -- a reference to the fact that the series could have been cancelled at any time and viewers would have been left without an official conclusion.

But the final season was unique, given that it relied heavily upon the source material from Thomas Harris' novels, but also deviated quite rapidly from the situations that Harris originally laid out for the characters.

The last scene before the finale in the penultimate episode clearly showed that Francis Dolarhyde (Richard Armitage) had laid out his pans for death, and Reba (Rutina Wesley) was entirely convinced that he was dead. But in the finale, there was one last dance to be had, and the trio of psychopaths were destined to waltz at some point.

In the official exit to the series, Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and Dolarhyde were alone at last in Hannibal's previous abode, which once housed Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky) and Abigail Hobbs (Kacey Rohl).

It was Dolarhyde who attacked the convoy, which gave Graham and Lecter their grand reunion and set them on the path to one last evening together, alone.

The two spiraled into each other with such fondness that viewers were left to think they were doomed lovers. But it was Dolarhyde that crashed the party, and the classic tale approached its grand conclusion with a sociopathic standoff. The three psychopaths in their own rights, with their own skills and knowledge that would make them dangerous to society, were on level ground with each other.

But in the end, it took both Graham and Lecter together to finally bring down the Red Dragon. They both, in turn, took a leap off the seaside cliff, and the finale wrapped up. Their fates will never be determined, unless another network picks up the series for a true finale season.