"The actor said that while fans would think that the show would transition to the events of Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs" after season 3, Fuller has an even more creative twist in mind for season 4, should it materialize. Bryan [Fuller] described to me in an overview with what he wanted to do with the fourth season, had there been an interest, and it was really fantastic. It was a complete restart, without describing it — because who knows, God knows, maybe some way we may be able to do it in the future — but it took us back to the first season in a very unexpected way, and made total sense of that cliffhanger ending; it seemed justified. It was born out of a part of one of the books so it was still coming out of that universe, but it wasn't the Clarice/'Silence of the Lambs' storyline," he explained."