By Joe R
This episode was almost too much for me. Almost. I've managed to weather all the rape and murder and mayhem and terrible New England accents, but titling an episode "Coat Hanger" and then essentially dangling the upcoming DIY abortion in front of us like some kind of twisted enticement almost turned me away. Like I said, almost.
So let's start with the present day. Dylan Face seeks out a hypno-therapist to help him conquer his addiction. To, you know, killing. So he goes to Dr. Catherine Martin, overly helpful daughter of Senator Ruth Martin, who breastfed her through toughened nipples, but that's neither here nor there. Dylan doesn't take long to confess his true fixation and says that he started killing after he found out who his real father was: Oliver Thredson.
Back in '62, surprise, Devil Eunice informs Lana that she's pregnant. Lana immediately goes to Kit and renews her application to kill Thredson ASAP. Kit still needs to not get the electric chair, though, so Lana first gets him Thredson to confess, which Kit secretly records. She does so on the threat of harming Ollie's unborn baby inside her, but once his confession is on tape, she tells him she went through with the coat-hanger procedure last night. And now that he's confessed, she prepares to kill him, and she's kind of too into it, as a concept. But when she shows up to finally do him in, she finds he's escaped. Then Devil Eunice finds her and informs her that the abortion didn't take: the child lives in her belly, and it's a boy.
Finally, last week's encounter in the tunnels has made Dr. Arden a true believer in the aliens, and he tells Kit so. He also has formulated a theory that the aliens keep abducting women Kit has impregnated (Alma, Grace) because they're studying him. He further theorizes that the aliens will fight to keep Kit alive. So, logically, Arden's plan is to put Kit at the brink of death, to goad the aliens into saving him. Even more logically, Kit's response to this is, "SURE! What time?" So Arden injects Kit with a drug that stops his heart, the aliens show up, Arden leaves the exam room and ends up stumbling upon Pepper (who I never realized hadn't returned since Movie Night and was probably abducted too) and a naked and hugely pregnant Grace. Pepper is now incredibly erudite and Grace incredibly serene. She places Arden's hand on her belly, and he looks like he might be having a religious conversion.
Meantime, Sister Jude wakes up in restraints and a patient's gown and is informed that she killed someone last night. Not Leigh Emerson, though. He survived. Sister Jude killed Frank, though. Or so say Leigh, Devil Eunice, and Dr. Arden, and of course Monsignor Howard buys it all. So Sister Jude is now once again Judy Martin, and an inmate at Briarcliff to boot. She tries to make amends with Lana about everything, and puts her money where her mouth is by breaking the "Dominique" record. R.I.P. you gorgeous singing nuns.
As for Leigh, he's convinced that idiot Monsignor that he's a repentant, redeemed, and rehabilitated man. Howard, papal robes dancing in his head, decides to baptize the former (?) monster and thus reap the credit for the man himself. He gets exactly what he deserves, when Leigh shoves his head underwater and nearly drowns him, and probably a little more than he deserves when Leigh CRUCIFIES HIM TO THE CROSS IN THE BRIARCLIFF CHAPEL.