AHS: Murder House

Episode 02 | Aired Oct 24, 2012

Sister Jude engages in spiritual warfare with a shrink, a possessed child and her own demons in 'Tricks and Treats'
By Jeff Jensen at EW



Twilight in The Asylum, and a devil is on the loose.

Bloody Face, an iconic serial killer, stands at one end of a corridor within the mischief-wrecked deathtrap that is Briarcliff Manor Sanatorium. The bogeyman cuts a terrifying figure -- trenchcoat, work gloves, a mask made of stitched human flesh. (What big green wolfish eyes te have, peeping through those holes!) He/She/It grips an orbitoclast, the ice pick lobotomy tool, invented...

(Scene: viola at the bathroom sink slitting her wrists)

( Knock on the door)

Violet: What?

Viv: I think we need to talk, it's important.

Violet: I'm kinda busy

Viv: Well just... We'll talk later ok?

Violet: Whatever

( Vivein leaves)

( Boy comes into bathroom)

Tate; You're doing it wrong, if you're going to kill yourself te need to curt vertically, they can't stitch that up.

Violet: How did te get in here?

Tate: Also if you're trying to kill yourself, might also want to try locking the door.

( Tate leaves smiling)


( Scene, Tate and viola in Violet's bedroom)

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