Purification by fire. I’m a fan of it, dramatically speaking. At the same time, Shelby and Matt see a little girl out the window.
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That’ s when Shelby does the first dumb thing of the episode.
Spoilers abound for Chapter Two of American Horror Story: Roanoke. There’s really no getting around that at this point. “I said I would trade”, she explains.
Who but I am both the tree… I look forward to seeing how all that shakes out. There was also a wandering pig-man. It was then that I began to realize how annoying I was finding the mockumentary format. This is American Horror Story after all! That makes them much more powerful than the ghosts in either Murder House or the Hotel Cortez. But it’s Shelby who says, No.
Lee’s daughter, Flora, comes to stay with them at the house. She likes old fashioned things like jacks and chickens and pigs and stuff.
Scene from “American Horror Story: Roanoke.” They find her sitting in a small cupboard, once again talking to her imaginary friend. There’s talk of a bonnet and being “tired of all the blood”. “Don’t let them hurt me”. I’m already exhausted of it. Could it be the cult that is messing with Matt and Shelby? He came to the house to research the story of two deranged nurses (sound familiar?) Miranda and Bridget Jane, who had run a twisted assisted living facility out of the very house Shelby and Matt were now inhabiting.
Where Are They Getting All These Pigs, Though? Next time, the cops won’t be so quick to show up.
Now it’s Matt’s turn for a creepy hallucination. They see her but she runs away and gets out just in time. However, the inseparable sisters only got to “Murde” before something happened to them, which Cunningham doesn’t elaborate on. That’s not as good.
The narrative shifts quickly to talking head Lee, who admits, with the help of hindsight, that she understands why her husband won custody of their daughter. Priscilla, naturally, wants to kill the whole family.
NEXT: “They’re going to kill us”. And with that, Flora’s dad grabs her and runs. Technically, Matt says, his sister had committed a felony kidnapping. He promises that he’s coming right there to get here, but Flora’s gone when they go to warn her. She attributes her next two “hallucinations” – a throng of bloody, wriggling larvae-like creepies on the hallway wall, and a human-sized pig man in the mirror behind her – to herself being “two sheets to the wind”. Priscilla, as the entity is called, hangs out in closets and outside where parents aren’t lurking, but she’s not very friendly at all.
When she groggily wakes up later, there are several knives stuck into the ceiling above her head, which Matt and Shelby chalk up to a drunken moment of rage on Lee’s part because these people are deeply in denial. Inside, they find what looks like a bunker, and a camera, complete with a new home video, which they promptly play. He’s Doctor Elias Cunningham, the guy we saw burned alive earlier. He says the forces in the house have physically harmed him and are trying to kill him. They investigate by flashlight (because that makes the most sense), and they find nothing. Then there’s some nonsense about reappearing letters spray-painted on the walls. They chose elderly people to take care of (too soon?) based on the first letter of their names, killing them one by one in order to spell out their favorite word: “M.U.R.D.E.R”. The answer is probably no, so I guess we have to stick with it. And we know that the reenactors (Sarah Paulson, Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Angela Bassett, respectively) are taking part in the most realistic fake show ever.
Guessing that this will cause Mason to go batshit insane, Matt and Shelby talk Lee out of this insane scheme. Elias was a professor at a university who bought the house to write a true crime novel on Helter Skelter.
Now we’re all back at the house and it’s been about.0001 seconds since anything terrifying happened. But, of course, when Matt brings the police in, they find nothing. That’s it. They’ve had it. They search all over the house and outside. They go back to the house and play the tape. Finally they just covered it with wallpaper. Even she realizes quickly what a awful idea that is. I’ll tell you, the same kind of woman who responds to creepy noises in the house by going into the damn basement like a fool. The episode ends with Lee screaming as she discovers Flora’s yellow sweatshirt at the top of a tall tree. Now that we know about the nurses, can we banish their spirits? And what’s with all the pig tails?
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To spice things up for the sixth season of the series, the team behind the well-loved series “American Horror Story” kept the theme for the upcoming season a secret. From raining teeth, to pig-like monsters, to serial killer nurses – it seems nothing will be enough to convince the married couple, newly moved into the North Carolina Farmhouse that they’re new home is being haunted. Naturally, this rattles Flora’s father who angrily takes the little girl to the vehicle, claiming he plans to talk to the judge about changing their custody agreement.
