It’s morning at Briarcliff and two nuns are arriving for
work. They talk about seeing Lilies of the Fields the previous night and one is
reading the book. Nuns! They’re just like us! Morning rounds have begun and the
nuns check in on Grace…who is bleeding like woah under the covers. In a haze,
Grace sees a woman dressed all in black standing in the corner the nuns can’t
see. The woman approaches Grace with a smile, suddenly sprouting huge black
wings. She leans in to kiss Grace when one of the nuns revives her, snapping
her back to awareness.
Act I! Sister Eunice finds Dr. Arden in his lab and chastises
him for Grace’s botched sterilization. Arden insists that he never performed
any sterilizations and she had better not raise her voice at him because he’s
in charge here. He slaps her to make this point, clearly not appreciating that
you NEVER SLAP A DEMON. Arden is thrown across the room for his attitude. In
the kitchen, an inmate, Miles, is helping the nuns prepare lunch but he keeps
hearing voices in his head telling him how worthless he is. In an effort to
silence the voices, he persuades a nun to let him use the meat slicer and oh
dear God in Heaven, are we really going to go there, American Horror Story?
Yes. Yes, we are. Miles slices his arms open but good. The doctors get Miles
stitched up, but as Eunice arrives to check things out, she notices that Miles
has scrawled a word in Aramaic on the wall in his own blood. Eunice is
outranged, and demands that Miles tell her if he “summoned her”. In his room
later, strapped down, Miles is left alone in the dark when the black angel
steps from the shadows. She tells Miles she’s here to help and Miles begins to
pull out the stitches in his arm, letting out streams of blood. The angel leans
in and kisses him, her wings unfurling. As Miles slips away, the angel senses
someone else in the room – Sister Eunice. Eunice tells her to leave, but the
angel recognizes that she’s more than human and sees something else in her,
“one like me, but fallen.” For a moment, the real Sister Eunice surfaces and
begs the angel to release her, but the demon regains control. Meanwhile, Arden
is treating Grace for a massive infection. He tells her that he’s all about
letting her die, but he’s not going to take the fall for her bad treatment.
Nazism being all well and good, apparently, but being thought a bad clinician
is just too much. Meanwhile, what’s Lana been up to? Getting raped repeatedly
by Thredson. I’d say this couldn’t get more disturbing, but I’m betting this
show will find a way.
Yes, Zachary Quinto is naked in the rape scene. You can find your own pics of his ass if you want them that badly.
Act II! Kit is meeting with his lawyer (‘bout time) who
wants to know about his confession. Kit asks why they can’t just ask Grace to
testify that she saw Alma, proving the Kit didn’t murder anyone? The lawyer
reminds Kit that A) Grace is a mental patient, and B) she’s apparently quite
sick and near death so let’s not get our hopes up. Kit decides to make a break
for it, starting with beating his lawyer with a hole punch, which I can’t
imagine that’s going to help his legal case. In Thredson’s basement, the angel
comes to Lana. Lana sobs, saying death would be better than this, but when the
angel offers to help her end it, Lana defers. At which point, Thredson comes
down stairs to apologize for everything, saying he’s not angry and he probably
shouldn’t have brought her here to begin with. He needs to correct this
“impasse”, but don’t worry, he’s not going to hurt her. He doesn’t believe in guns,
so would she rather die by strangulation or throat slitting? As he moves toward
her to finish her off, Lana fights back eventually going all Leia on him,
strangling him with her chain and fishing out the key to the lock. With that,
she’s out and to the street and jumping into the first passing car. The driver
of the car wants to know what happened, fight with the boyfriend? Well, it was
probably something Lana did, since all women are lying bitches who just leave
you after 10 years of marriage. The driver pulls out a gun, saying he can’t
take it anymore and shoves the gun into his own mouth. He pulls the trigger,
sending the car crashing and securing a place for Lana in the Unluckiest Person
Ever Hall of Fame. Lana awakes, where else, back in Briarcliff with Eunice
standing over her gleefully telling her that the accident was horrific and that
she must be in terrible pain but she’s safe now.
Act III! Sister Jude is with Goodman’s body. She attempts to
call 911 but stops when she notices the Eunice has left newspaper clippings
around the room about the girl that Jude ran over and “murderer” written on the
TV in blood. Flashback to 1949, as Jude remembers getting kicked out of her
band who have grown sick of her drunk antics after the incident with the girl.
In her misery, Jude drinks herself into a stupor and drives off. When she wakes
up, she’s crashed her car right in front of a nunnery. Back in 1964, the phone
rings in Goodman’s room – it’s Eunice calling to taunt Jude. Jude wants to know
how Eunice knows about the girl, and Eunice confesses to being the demon. Eunice
tells Jude not to come back to the asylum. Oh, and she left Jude a bottle of
whiskey and razor blade okaykissesloveyoubye! Jude retreats to a diner. In the
bathroom she slices her wrists before dying in a pool of her own blood.
Kidding! Just a fantasy, although with the way this show is going, I wouldn’t
have been surprised if it had been real. Back at the booth, the angel is
waiting for Jude. Rather than be afraid, though, Jude tells the angel that she isn’t
going to try anything, unlike last time. Wait, what? Turns out Jude can see the
angel because she attempted suicide a few years back after her fiancé left her when
she told him that he gave her syphilis. Jude confesses all she ever wanted was
a child, which she can now never have. The angel tells Jude that it goes to
prove that God had a plan for Jude, but she deserves real peace now, and not
the whiskey-induced kind. Jude says that she’s ready, but she has one thing she
needs to do first.
Act IV! Jude is at the house of the parents of the girl she
ran over, Missy, intending to confess everything when in walks an adult Missy,
hale and healthy and working as a nurse, apparently having survived the
accident all those years ago. Back at the asylum, Lana tells Sister Eunice that
Thredson is Bloody Face. Eunice tells Lana that she believes her, the demon in
her recalling seeing the truth about what Thredson was back in the exorcism. As
she leaves Lana’s cell, though, she tells Frank the guard that Lana is
delusional. In the death chute, Kit has found his way back to the asylum but
unfortunately he’s been sloppy getting in and one of the zombie things from the
forest is right behind him. Grace is in the kitchen, looking much better, when
Kit finds her and the two begin to flee. Unfortunately, they are spotted
immediately by one of the nuns who screams for security just before the zombie
lunges from behind her, biting a chunk out of her neck. The zombie goes for
Grace, but Kit distracts it, impaling it with a kitchen implement. All the
commotion has brought Frank, who sees Kit and raises his gun. Grace jumps in
front of Kit, taking the bullet square in the chest. As security takes Kit
away, the angel appears to Grace, spreads her wings and asks if Grace is ready.
Grace accepts the angel’s kiss, saying, “I’m free.”
It's saying something that this is what passes for a hopeful image in this show.
Next week: a Very American Horror Story Christmas
Special.
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