We open again with Teresa screaming her head off. Why wouldn’t we? In present day Briarcliff Manor, she watches from behind a metal door as Bloody Face brutally stabs Leo, whom she has already left bleeding and helpless (just wanted to throw that reminder out there). I imagine it’s getting harder and harder to breathe…. That metal door isn’t too helpful though as Bloody Face makes his(?) way in and attacks her quickly, and at this point we’re expecting a twist, right? Well Adam Levine still lives! He and the bloody stump that was his right arm dash in to save his lady love, knocking down Bloody Face so Teresa can stab the shit out of the killer while still screaming. She helps Leo up, dialing 911 for rescue – time for the escape! We know this isn’t over for them though. Sure enough, there’s Bloody Face. And….there’s another Bloody Face. What?!?! One Bloody Face pulls a gun and shoots Leo and Teresa dead. Again, what?!? The mystery Bloody Faces take off their masks and it appears we have two young men who I assume are some sort of Bloody Face worshipers. Bloody Face #1 is freaking out that Bloody Face #2 killed the lovebirds. I guess they were just supposed to scare them, but it doesn’t matter – enter Bloody Face #3 (another twist!) to advance hastily down the hall toward his fans…
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Back to 1964, where a newly possessed Sister Mary Eunice drops off the mail to Sister Jude and alerts her to the storm a brewin’. Funny thing about the mail though – it includes a newspaper from June 28, 1949, which when Sister Jude was Slut Judy and ran over a little girl in the blue dress while driving home drunk from a club. Understandably, Sister Jude is freaking out. Dr. Thredson approaches her about the corporal punishment she administers and encourages her to use positive reinforcement and compassion instead. Where did they find this guy? Sister Jude asserts that she is a beacon of compassion, so much so that she has arranged for a movie night at Briarcliff to take the patients’ minds off the pending storm. I’ve got my fingers crossed for Psycho (1960) or Cape Fear (1962), but Sister Jude goes with The Sign of the Cross (1932). Makes sense – what better way to calm down a mob of mentally unstable individuals that to show them a film where Emperor Nero orders that Christians to be fed to the lions? The mind reels.
As Sister Jude tries to regain her composure from the newspaper delivery, Sister Mary Eunice bursts in with the communion wine, claiming it has been watered down and someone must be drinking it outside of mass. Does this mean we are going to see a church service in Briarcliff at some point? Oh, I do hope so. She encourages Sister Jude to taste the wine to confirm the theory but then notes that Sister Jude has not drank alcohol since 1949 when she renounced all worldly pleasures. Interesting. Sister Jude starts to respond, but she notices the young nun is wearing a ton of lipstick as Sister Mary Eunice proceeds to drink a generous glass of the communion wine. Sister Mary Eunice informs us the lipstick is called “ravish me red” and is a gift for Sister Jude from Dr. Arden. I am now giddy with anticipation. Shit is going to hit the fan in this episode.
Elsewhere in the asylum Dr. Creepy is still trying to figure out what on earth is going on with the microchip looking object he pulled from Kit’s neck in Episode 1. He dismantles it, but it has a life of its own, and the pieces heal and re-form each time he breaks the chip apart. He puts Kit back on his table for examination, and the chip sprouts legs again and desperately wants to reconnect with Kit. The mad scientist asks Kit who he is working for, convinced that the chip was inserted in Kit’s neck because he was sent in to spy on Dr. Creepy’s lab listing the East German Stazi, the KGB, and Jews (all of them?) as possible suspects. As he explains this as he pokes and prods Kit’s neck again and again, finally slicing back in. Ow.
In this episode we also meet (albeit briefly) “The Mexican.” No, not the 2001 critically slammed movie starring Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts….man, I wish that had been better. The Mexican in this instance is a older woman who knows immediately that Sister Mary Eunice is evil. She flees from “Satan! Satan!” in the common room, making her way back to her dark and ominous quarters to pray. Enter Sister Mary Satan to slap away her rosary beads and command her to her knees. The Mexican calls her Satan several more times, pleading for her life before the devil nun opens her neck with a pair of scissors. Worried about the body? Don’t be – the creatures outside were hungry anyway.
Just a side note before we move forward – Lily Rabe is beyond fantastic in this episode. I’m so glad her character has been expanded beyond the meek wuss we started out with. I’m incredibly impressed with her as an actress, and it’s refreshing that Jessica Lange isn’t the only scene stealer this season.
Anyway, Sister Mary Eunice is not quite finished stirring up trouble, so she enters Dr. Creepy’s chamber and is just all kinds of nasty....dirty with several “r”s. You have some work to do now, Shelley. She offers herself to Dr. Creepy, but he calls her a “whore,” slaps her, and tells her to shut her filthy mouth. He then orders her out of his office.
As Dr. Creepy shuffles about, baffled about his encounter with Sister Mary Eunice, Sister Jude pays him a visit to give him hell about the red lipstick and newspaper. He gives her hell and explains that he had admired Sister Mary Eunice’s purity. He believes now that Shelley has corrupted her. They both kind of talk over each other – her not addressing how the nasty nun became so nasty, and he never saying anything about the newspaper. Odd scene.
Back in the common room (that always makes me think of Hogwarts) Dr. Thredson is helping to set up movie night. Stupid Lana approaches him to get a message to Wendy. He pretends to act like he would never go against Sister Jude, but he puts the note in his pocket. Stupid Lana now has escape on the mind again, as does Shelley. She approaches Grace in the bakery (it’s real!) and asks to be part of Kit’s next escape plan. Shelley tells Grace she needs to get to Paris. “Here, I’m a freak. There, I would be celebrated.” Hold that thought, kid.
The storm is beginning to rage, and Sister Jude retreats to her office to pray. The phone rings, and on the other line is the voice of the little girl she killed. “You never even bothered to get out of the car.” Sister Jude begins to crack…she cries “I’m sorry, I’m so sorry” into the phone and hangs up. She looks down on her desk and sees the little girl’s cracked glasses, and it’s just too much. She reaches for the communion wine, and now we have ourselves a party.
Showtime. The patients assemble in the common room, and a drunk Sister Jude walks shakily down the aisle to “introduce the picture.” Is she ready for her close up? The thunder booms, and the audience is terrified. Sister Jude is a hot mess and calms them by saying the lyrics to “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel, a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. This song comes at the very end of the show/movie after the male lead is killed while committing a crime, leaving his daughter (a girl in a blue dress) behind. Well played, Ryan Murphy.
Stupid Lana sits next to Dr. Thredson, who doesn’t have the best news for her. He had gone to see Wendy before the storm. The door to her house was open, as was the hallway window, and he found blood but no Wendy. He thinks Wendy may have met the same demise as the other Bloody Face victims. A light bulb goes on in her head – wait, if Wendy was alive when I came here to interview Bloody Face….and Bloody Face got to Wendy….but Kit didn’t escape…oh shit. Yes, Lana. This is why you’re stupid.
At this point she, Kit, Grace and Shelley are all roaming the hallways with the same idea in mind: escape (anyone else alarmed by the lack of security in this place?). Stupid Lana is sorry – she was wrong about Kit, but someone she loves is in danger and she must get out. The plan is thwarted when Karl the orderly approaches. Shelley offers to “distract” him so the others can get away. She asks them to wait for her. Shelley takes too long, and they leave her.
Outside in the raging storm, Kit, Grace and Stupid Lana have a Shawshank Redemption moment before running through the woods to freedom. Just kidding. They find the remains of The Mexican…as well as the creatures Dr. Creepy has been hiding in the forest. I’m sure they are failed experiments, but I’m not sure why they are flesh eaters who look like Sloth from The Goonies. Back through the death chute and into Briarcliff the three patients go. Well, at least they can finish watching the movie?
Drunk Sister Jude is also wandering through the asylum looking for The Mexican. What she finds instead is A FREAKING ALIEN! WTF?!?!?! This is a face to face, up close and personal encounter. She (rightfully) passes the eff out. She awakens to the evil nun telling her three patients have escaped (The Mexican, Shelley and Pepper, who I thought had just gone to the bathroom). She shuts off the movie, telling the audience missing the ending is fine because “they all die.” Foreshadowing?
Dr. Creepy seems to have lost his marbles at this point as well. He stands in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary with the “ravish me red” lipstick, no doubt thinking of Sister Mary Eunice’s loss of purity. He puts that red lipstick all over the cheeks and, um, nipples of the statue and calls it a “whore” over and over again, eventually toppling it over. On his way back to his lair, he finds Shelley….another whore.
He takes her to his chamber to collect on her episode 2 offer to see her candied apple, and he proceeds to try to rape her. She screams, but he tells her “no one is going to hear you here.” So, I assume he did kill the prostitute from the last episode. Dr. Creepy mounts Shelley but is not able to rise to the occasion. She laughs (so do I) and he clocks her. She awakens to find that Dr. Creepy has removed her legs at the knees, making any kind of escape impossible now. We end the episode with her screams.
So at this point, we are left with a ton of questions. Was the alien really there, or was it a manifestation of someone who hasn’t had any alcohol in 15 years downing a bottle of wine? If the alien WAS there, was it trying to recover the chip from Kit’s neck? Allllllso, do we have ghosts and hauntings to look forward to in addition to demons and aliens, or are these just mind games Sister Mary Eunice is able to play given her evil powers and such? How long will she be possessed before anyone figures it out? Where the hell is Monsignor Timothy? Time will tell.
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