By Joe R
Happy New Year from American Horror Story! With its first episode back from Christmas vacation, AHS has a present for us, in the form of the brand new jukebox Devil Eunice has brought to the common room to replace dearly departed "Dominique." This comes into play most spectacularly when, after Eunice and Dr. Arden have subjected our friend Judy Martin to a particularly severe bout of electroshock, Jude breaks into a Technicolor reverie and leads a fully choreographed performance of "The Name Game." Sorry, Glee, you had a good run.
In other, less amazing news, Dr. Arden is having a rough go of it. He's keeping pregnant Grace in his lab, sure, but Pepper makes sure he knows -- in the harshest terms possible -- that their alien overlords will not allow him to operate on her. Later, Arden comes across the unfortunate sight of his lady love Sister Eunice straddling atop Monsignor Howard.
About that... so the good Monsignor survived his crucifixion and as an added bonus, our Angel of Death did him a solid by informing him that Sister Eunice is possessed by the devil. But Howard's first attempt to get the jump on her backfires -- he's still very weak, after all -- and she ends up, essentially, raping him. Arden sees it and is so distraught that he heads out to the woods and shoots all the Creatures, ending his experiment with extreme prejudice. He then makes to off himself, but he can't follow through with it. Devil Eunice, as you can imagine, finds it all rather pathetic.
Monsignor Howard, for his part, is deeply ashamed for losing his virtue and for having not believed Sister Jude about the whole "Eunice is the Devil" business. Hey, great! So he can get the ball rolling on Jude's release, then… right? Uh, I guess we're putting a pin in that, as Jude manages to croak out instructions for Howard to kill the bitch. He tries, of course, but he's weak. Devil Eunice stares him down and then tempts him with advancement, with glory and with Rome. Monsignor Howard takes it all in ... and then shoves her over a third-story railing anyway. Good night, sweet demon. The man who slayed you was unfit to hold your wimple.
She's actually dead, too. The Angel of Death even assures us that she's taking both woman and demon out of this world for us. Dr. Arden is devastated at the news and he insists on cremating her body. Which he does... and himself along with it.
Just in case you were worried we'd be out of villains, however, Dr. Thredson is back working at Briarcliff. He manages to bribe Kit with his own son (by Grace, who gives birth) to tell him where his recorded confession is hiding. Only by the time he gets to the tub room, Lana has gotten the jump on him. She's a slippery one!
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