By Joe R
SO MUCH, you guys. Where to begin? I guess with how the Angel of Death has arrived at Briarcliff, summoned by suicidal schizophrenic Miles and played with heavily powdered grace by Frances Conroy. She spends the rest of the episode visiting various characters in their moments of death or near-death. Like Grace, who tells the nuns who revived her that they should have let her die. Her hemorrhaging was from a forced hysterectomy that Dr. Arden insists he didn't perform. Devil Eunice seems to honestly believe he did, which means La Diabla has no idea about the whole aliens part of the story.
Back at Hostel 1963, Sylar Thredson rapes Lana in his basement -- during which Lana is visited by the Angel, but she resolves to fight on. So when Thredson changes his mind and decides that rape is bad but murder is better, Lana manages to get the better of him and escapes into the night. But when the car you flag down is being driven by William Mapother, you know you're fucked. He's some kind of misogynist crusader at the end of his rope, and when he shoots himself while driving, the car crashes with Lana in it and she wakes up in Briarcliff. There, she tries to tell Sister Eunice about Thredson's murders and Kit's innocence, but La Diabla already knew that. She placates Lana but keeps her locked up.
Meantime, Sister Jude, still freaking out over Sam Goodman's body, realizes that Sister Eunice is both a murderer and possessed. But Devil Eunice has set the motel room up to look like Goodman was investigating Judy Martin's crimes, so she can't go to the police. Instead, Devil Eunice leaves Jude a bottle of whiskey and a razor to kill herself with. Jude is visited by the Angel for what turns out to be the third time in her life. She says she's finally ready to lay it all down and accept death, but before she does, she visits the family of the girl she ran down fourteen years prior. Only the girl survived! This seems like a sign.
Kit attacks his public defender at the police station and escapes (how? He just does, okay?). He races back to Briarcliff, as he's heard that Grace was near-death. He's followed through the secret tunnel by one of the Creatures, however. Kit finds Grace in the kitchen; a nun finds them and screams for help; the Creature finds the nun and tears her throat out; Kit fights the Creature and disembowels it; Frank comes upon the scene and, with orders to shoot on sight, fires his gun; Grace dives in front of the bullet, taking it in the chest. Finally ready, Grace accepts the Angel's kiss and dies.
Featuring a mash-up of Constantine, Legion, Angels in America and Wings of Desire, as performed by Frances Conroy; Dreamgirls, as performed by Jessica Lange and Sean Patrick Thomas; and the opening scene of the Buffy episode "Dirty Girls," as performed by Sarah Paulson and William Mapother.
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