Hiatus is over, American Horror Story is back, hold on to
your hats and your turkey because the whacky and weird and often awful has
returned.
Much to everyone’s shock, Arden actually does try to
bring Kit back from the dead. Kit is dazed from his harrowing experience and
Arden is callously clinical. He tells Kit that the aliens didn’t come – even
while the flashbacks show us what a liar he is.
Arden has Grace and marvels over the aliens healing of
her bullet wound and wants to do more testing. Which is where Alien!Pepper
steps in, Grace’s Guardian. Arden mocks her, just because she can speak doesn’t
make her intelligent he claims and she counters by mocking his primitive
experiments and how he thinks that even remotely puts him on the alien’s level.
He steps it up by threatening to cut Grace open and his scalpel is ripped from
his hand by an invisible force. Pepper then proceeds to lay on an awesome smack
down, telling him how she, as a Microcephallic person, as a “freak” was often
blamed and used as a scapegoat – how her own sister murdered her baby and then
blamed Pepper – and the judge took one look at Pepper and condemned her. She threatens Arden with the aliens’ “stirring
his brain with a fork” so he can see how people treat people like her.
Pepper also does scary quite quite well.
Monsignor Timothy has been pulled down from his cross – and
isn’t dead. When Scathach came to see him on his cross it wasn’t to take his
soul, it was to give him a job, to exorcise Sister Demon Lettuce. She reminds
him that his rosary is his shield against Sister Demon Lettuce
Which is probably why he’s a little perturbed that Sister
Demon Lettuce is his caregiver while he recovers and why he clutches his rosary.
In the common room, blessedly free of that damned singing
nun, the destruction of which is mentioned snarkily by Sister Demon Lettuce to
Jude’s truly awesome “like I give a shit” demeanour. Sister Demon Lettuce has
brought in a Juke Box, just perfect to torment Jude and her hatred of worldly
ways. Even Lana seems to be impressed by Jude (as she should be)
But Lana’s quicker still to go to Kit to tell him
Threadson’s loose – something he already knows as Dr. Oliver Threadson walks
into the room and sits down for a nice chat with them both – after moving the heavy glass ashtray out of Lana’s
easy reach, anyway. He’s not going to kill them because she’s carrying his kid
and he has Threadson’s taped confession. But it was Sister Demon Lettuce who rescued
him – and Sister Demon lettuce who gave him a job at Briarcliff – so he will be
treating them.
That night there’s a room search and Lana takes the
chance to confront Sister Demon Lettuce – which gets her carted off to
hydrotherapy. Sister Demon Lettuce moves on to try and shame Jude for
masturbating with a marrow – but Jude’s not having that and throws even more
epic “like I give a shit” in Sister Demon Lettuce’s direction. Shaming failed –
Demon Lettuce sets Jude up for electroshock – an extra strong dose. I’d feel
more sympathy for Jude if a) she hadn’t done this to Lana and b) I didn’t
suspect that electricity would only make her stronger.
Back to Monsignor Tim who tries his hand at a bit of
exorcism. It does not go well, but Sister Demon Lettuce has some nifty limericks.
Oh and telekinesis. Which starts out fun
– but this is American Horror Story and quickly turns into yet another rape –
this time Sister Demon Lettuce raping Monsignor Tim while he begs her to stop
and talks of his vows. And Arden walks in to see them at it
Jude staggers into the common room, disorientated from
the electroshock, witnessed by Lana who comments to Kit that she doesn’t feel
any better seeing Jude hurting. Defiant to the end, Jude staggers to the juke
box and tries to unplug it. Lana goes to her and helps her up and comforts her –
and asks her name. To which Jude hallucinates a song and dance number, with all
the inmates, with Lana and Kit as main dancers, to The Name Game.
American Horror Story sets new records of weirdness every week. I’m almost in awe. I thought the aliens were weird. She comes back to reality with Lana reminding her of her name.
It’s feeding time for the monsters and Arden is being
pouty with Sister Demon Lettuce after seeing her rape the monsignor (he’s still
invested in Mary Eunice’s “purity”). He then shoots and kills all of his
monsters that have arrived to eat – the experiment is over. Demon Lettuce
comments on his tantrum and he says it’s a farce and puts a gun to his head (I guess
Pepper’s words hit home) but can’t pull the trigger, he collapses in tears
instead. He clutches her and tells her she has no idea what it’s like to have
lost her – she pushes him aside contemptuously.
