The cops have brought a woman to Briarcliff because she
attacked two businessmen after they used a Jewish slur. Jude says she isn't immune to the atrocities “your people” suffered and wants to know if the woman
lost someone in the Holocaust. The woman just whistles a tune and Jude sighs,
yup she’s bonkers, we’ll start in on her in the morning. In the lab, Shelly isn’t
looking too good – she’s got blisters and growths on her face and she asks
Arden if she’s going to die. Arden injects her with something and tells her
that she’s going to live forever.
Act I! Arden has been beating Kit to find out more about
the implant which has gone missing. Kit recounts what Arden’s been doing to him to Grace and
asks her to tell him why she is here. Grace says she awoke in her family’s
farmhouse to strange thumping sounds before finding her father is his room,
blood everywhere and a man burying an axe into his back. Grace ran to hide from
the man in a closet, but wouldn’t you know it – the remains of her stepmother,
all multiple segments of them, were already there. She tells Kit that the
murderer was her stepsister’s secret lover and that they killed the family and
framed her for it in order to make off the with farm. Thredon tells Lana he
doesn’t believe she’s dangerous and that if he can convince Jude that he’s
cured her, they’ll let her go. Lana reminds him that perhaps she doesn’t need
curing, homophobe. In the common room, the new woman writes a letter to someone
named Kitty saying how she is once again imprisoned but vows to hold on to
hope. Lana warns her not to let the guards see her writing anything. Just then
Arden enters the common room. The woman approaches him, screaming that he was
there at Auschwitz and that he’s a Nazi. The guards hold her off as she screams
that Arden should remember her – she is Anne Frank. This show’s penchant
for historical cameos continues, apparently.
I know that first diary worked out well for you, but you may want to hold off on a sequel in here...
Act II! Jude meets with Anne in her office telling her
that her identity will be a relief to a lot of school children. Anne says she
escaped the mass graves before meeting a US Army Private and coming with him to
America, but he was killed in Korea. She never came forward because she
realized she could do more to tell people about the Holocaust as a martyr than
a living woman. Anne says that Arden was one of the Nazi doctors going by the
name of Hans Gruber. At first he seemed kind, bringing sweets to the woman and
holding off guards. He would select particular girls for treatment, though they
never came back well. Anne shows Jude a tattoo of a number on her arm as proof
that she’s telling the truth. Thredson tells Kit that he must own up to what
Thredson believes really happened – Kit married Alma in secret and became
ashamed of it until the pressure built and Kit began to attack other women,
beheading them and removing their skin to compensate for Alma’s skin. When
the “friends” who threatened Kit in the first episode came to the House,
Kit snapped and bludgeoned his wife to death. In the common room, Lana begins
to imagine that rather than standing in line for meds, she is accepting a Pulitzer
Prize for her writing about the asylum, recalling the treatment there and how
she did whatever she had to do to get out. Coming out of the reverie, she asks
Thredson to begin his therapy. In the Kitchen, Kit doubts his own memories and is
beating up some dough. Apparently stress baking is a common trait in this
place. Grace tells him to trust his own memories before you know it, another
round of tabletop sex begins but the two are caught by a guard.
Act III! Sister Eunice is gleefully selecting a large
cane for Jude to use to beat Grace and Kit with. “I don’t know what’s gotten
into you lately,” says Jude, “but it’s a decided improvement.” Heh. I see what
you did there, show! Jude decides that while the cane would be nice, sterilization
is the best option. As Grace is dragged off, Euince shows Kit Grace’s file,
saying Grace isn’t what she pretends to be. Jude meanwhile has been tipped off
that there are detectives in Arden’s office who are looking into a report from
a prostitute
about Arden. The detectives are looking for a character witness. Jude says
when it comes to Arden’s character, she has plenty to say. The detectives
report that the prostitute found Nazi memorabilia in Arden’s house, which
catches Jude’s interest. The detectives are also curious as to how Kit could have
had the skill to remove a woman’s skin and head and isn’t it possible someone
else may have been involved? Meanwhile, Thredson is showing Lana pictures of
pin-up girls while giving her a drug to make her vomit. One of the images in
particular is of Wendy, taken from the house. Pictures and vomit not being
enough, Thredson has also arranged for a young man to help “liberate” Lana by
allowing her to touch him while Thredson orders her to masturbate.
Incidentally, only in Hollywood would you have a gay man ordering a straight
woman who is pretending to be gay to please herself while performing a sex act
on a male model. Sister Jude tells Monsignor that Arden has been hiring
prostitutes and is probably a war criminal and the cops are getting involved
and Jesus H. Christ where the hell did you find this guy and why is he here?
Jude confesses that her information comes from a patient who is claiming to be
Anne Frank, which coupled with Monsignor learning that Jude was pretty much
three sheets to the wind during movie night, pretty much undoes her argument. Once
Jude leaves, Monsignor calls Arden to tell him, “they’re on to you – time to
ditch the legless sex addict you’re keeping down there.”
Act IV! Jude tells the Mother Superior about Arden and
says that Monsignor is disinclined to act. Mother Superior tells Jude to follow
her compass, like she did when she first came to her for drinking. Locked in
their separate cells, Kit wants to know why Grace lied to him about her story.
Grace tearfully confesses that her father was molesting her for years and her
stepmother was complacent in it and that’s why she went all Lizzie Borden on
them. Thredson comes to Lana in the common room and gives her the picture of
Wendy. He tells her that he’s going to get her out of the asylum at the end of
the week. Crap. This totally means that Thredson is going to become a patient before this whole thing is over, right? Kit comes to Jude, saying he wants forgiveness for his crimes, saying
he doesn’t remember anything and that he must have made up his story because
aliens can’t really exist, right? Jude has a look on her face that says, “Ha!
Yeah..um..about that…” Arden has gotten a hold of Anne and dragged her into his
lab. Anne again accuses him of being at Aushwitz, but Arden insists he’s never
been there and is from Scottsdale. He locks the door and starts to unbutton his
pants, but Anne pulls a gun that she stole from a guard earlier. She shoots
Arden in the knee before hearing a sound from one of the room’s closets. She
opens the door to see a badly mutated Shelly on the floor, who begs to be
killed.
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