Speculation: Is Episode 7 a "Silence of the Lambs" homage?

O.K., this is pure speculation, but here's my reasoning 

that Episode 7 ("Entrée") a "Silence of the Lambs" homage:

In November it was announced that Eddie Izzard (wonderful actor, mad charity marathon runner and hopefully the future Mayor of London) is guesting in Hannibal as an inmate at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane (the same facility where Hannibal Lecter is eventually incarcerated). 

 

Eddie’s character is claiming to be “the infamous Chesapeake Ripper.” More on this at the very bottom of this article with potential spoilers.

Also in November we get the announcement that Anna Chlumsky be playing Miriam Lass, a young FBI trainee under the tutelage of Laurence Fishburne’s Jack Crawford. Now we know how Jack treats FBI trainees, he gets them to establish relationships with serial killers to see if they can extract information about other active killers, so _maybe_  Miriam Lass will be sent in to interview “the Chesapeake Ripper”.

UPDATE:  Anna Chlumsky is listed in IMDB as being in Episode 7 - this is looking better!

Finally we get the announcement that Raul Esparza has been cast as Frederick Chilton, possibly the director of Baltimore State Hospital, bringing all the elements together for a Silence of the Lambs homage (comedy?), based on the assumption that it makes sense that Jack would have tried the strategy he used in Silence of the Lambs more than once.

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We know the Hannibal  is in fact the Chesapeake Ripper, therefore Eddie is either a complete loon who isn't a serial killer at all (and maybe the episode is a comedy?) or he is some kind or killer and is just taking credit for other people's work!