American Horror Story Recap: The Dead

Kyle rocks out to some Toto, before he was all Franken. He really was a good kid, with dreams and aspirations before his death. He refused to get a tattoo because he wanted to be more than her was he wanted engineer, a knight in shining armor, and now his memories haunt him. He has his friend’s leg, and tattoo, and nothing to comfort him, chained like a dog. Zoe considers ending his existence.

Madison ponders her existence, and her generation’s defining characteric.  Coming back from death has made her numb to everything. She’s desperate to feel, and she finds something worse than pain, the nothingness inside of her.

Zoe wants to right the wrongs, which starts with Kyle. He was a great guy, but death has changed him. But he’s fast, and he takes the gun from her, wanting to take his own life, but Zoe stops him. He’s broken, and she hasn’t tried to really heal him yet. She’s not ready to let him go yet.

Queenie laments to Delphine about the lack of food. The two go for some burgers, and they find some common ground, and painful truths. Queenie may have left her home to join the coven’s sisterhood, but Delphine points out that the girls, witches or not, will never be her sisters.

Hank calls Cordelia asking to come home, but she hangs up on him. But he plans for a reunion soon, ready for an assault. Cordelia looks for Delphine, but finds Madison instead. Madison saves her from falling down the stairs, and she sees her death.

The Axeman is quite the smooth talker, and has Fiona enchanted. They seem to be two peas in a pod. She likes danger, and he is danger. She takes a moment to herself in the loo, but doesn’t see the body in the tub. Does no one have a sense of smell on this show? Last week was Madison’s rotting corpse, and this week the bludgeoned body in the tub. Before they get to the kissing and bedding, Fiona has cold feet, but the Axeman thinks its more destiny. When love isn’t the answer he offers her good old fashion sex, and Fiona. He gives her a little demonstration, and its electric, there are literally sparks.

Zoe tries a different method with Kyle. She wants to trust him, but they need to communicate. She knows he’s still in there, she just has to help him. But he lashes out over everything. Madison doesn’t remember Kyle, but she offers to take care of him while Zoe talks to Cordelia. Being dead, she tries to make a connection together. Her death was cold and dark, but felt less empty. Her revelation, brings out compassion in him, and he holds her.

Queenie pays Marie a visit. Marie plays on Queenie’s fears, trying to make Queenie see the worse in the White witches she lives with. She tells Queenie that she can join her, if she brings her Delphine. She promises Queenie what she’s always wanted, power and a place of belonging. Queenie asks Marie’s plan for Delphine, but Marie remains tight lipped.

Cordelia has a little chat with Zoe. She has a big bullseye on her back with her recent power surge. She warns her that Fiona is dangerous, and like any rabid animal, needs to be put down. Zoe leaves torn, shocked and finds Madison and Kyle fucking in her room.

Fiona prepares to leave. Seems that she did notice the body in the tub, but it didn't stop her from sleeping with him. She tells him that she called the police, but he doesn't believe her. He knows her far better than she could imagine. He's been watching her for a long time, since she was eight, which makes it a way gross. He protected her as a child, when she was bullied, and suddenly warning flags come up. He viewed her as a child to be protected at first, and later he fell in love with her fire, forced to only watch her unable to act. So finding her in that bar was no mistake. He loved her from afar from her whole life. he sounds like her every wish, and yet she refuses to fall for his pretty words.

Spaulding finds himself tied up, and for the first time in years he finds that he can talk again. Zoe found his tongue, and returned it to him. Myrtle kept his tongue all these years, but wasn't powerful enough to restore it, but Zoe had no problem with it. She asks him for the truth, and Spaulding is powerless to refuse her. He gives her the names she asks for, and she plunges a knife into his heart. Our sweet little Zoe has grown some teeth! Maybe she is the next Supreme.

Delphine prepares supper, and Queenie asks for the worst thing that Delphine ever did. Delphine wants to let the past stay there, but Queenie presses. Delphine did many things in the name of youth. She killed one of her husbands byblows, taunted the maid, his mother with his blood and she killed herself shortly after. She explains to Queenie that it was not only a different time, but a different world, and she's now glad to have a true friend in Queenie. 

Fiona loses a chunk of hair, a side effect of the chemotherapy likely, and struggles over shaving her whole head. 

Zoe washes away the blood from her hands. Madison pokes at Zoe, trying to get a rise or something out of her. She doesn't think that Zoe's little curse will kill Kyle, but she's not ready to give him up either, since being with him was the first time she felt anything. She's willing to share Kyle, and proposes a threesome.

Fiona watches the Axeman play his sax, and offers to buy him a drink. I guess dying, she has nothing to lose.

Queenine brings Delphine to get a new hair do, but really she's turning her over to Marie. Betrayal on that level cannot be forgiven. Delphine is taken, and even with all the horrible things she's done, I'm not sure she deserves this. Marie has Queenie make the first cuts. Marie takes a page from Delphine's book, and uses her blood to paint her face, like she needs it, she's already immortal.