“American Horror Story:” Season Six Episode Nine

We begin episode nine of season six of “American Horror Story” with the introduction of three teenagers Sophie, Milo and Todd, complete with a hunger for Instagram likes and selfie sticks. We learn that they’re here exploring the set and surrounding the forest around the house because they were major fans of the show “My Roanoke Nightmare.” Things already seem bleak for their future but things turn for the worse when they begin to talk about all the Instagram likes they could cash in on if they take pictures of the shouse during the blood moon, a sure fire way to insure one’s bloody and painful death.

Next we it cuts to scenes of the three kids getting interrogated by the police, their concern over the dead corpse they found in the woods, and our original cast in the aftermath of things finding an actor at their door dressed as the pig man. He tells them that he was hired by Sidney, the TV producer, to spice things up. Sadly he doesn’t realize Sidney ,and everybody else for that matter, is dead, until he sees Lee’s injuries are definitely not special effects makeup. Turns out that war veterans have a penchant for acting (at least this one does ) and all three agree to go back to the Polks to save Monet because “no man is left behind” and they need a car to escape.

To no one’s surprise Lee doesn’t care about finding Monet and is preoccupied with searching for the tapes and the task of saving her falls onto Audrey’s responsibility and while she successfully finds Monet alive (albeit a bit crazy) the surviving sons of Mama (whom Audrey bludgeoned to death in the previous episode) are out for their slow painful deaths. The Hillbillies threaten to kill Audrey very painfully and slowly on tape, and as a form of defense she shoots their brains out. They escape back to house, except the military guy was murdered and Lee was left behind.

Audrey and Monet have nowhere to go so they run to the house where they feel the allusion of some kind of protection. Monet is not used to everybody around her dying so she’s freaking out. Meanwhile Audrey has the tape that Lee wanted so she decides to watch it, they learn of Lee’s murder of her ex-husband. Meanwhile, Lee is wandering the woods close to death when Scathrath has different ideas for her though. We see her kill and rip the heart out of a normal pig and then feed it to Lee. Lee is different and not in a new haircut kind of way. At this point the kids are trending on tumblr because of the pictures they’ve posted of the house.

The teenagers, Sophie, Milo, and Todd are back at the house and woods during the night to prove to the cops that they’re not liars.They encounter Lee, and like true fans, they fangirl until Lee straight up murders one of them (Todd), they run away in in fear and as they are crouched on the ground scarred for life they find Sidney’s control trailer. In the trailer they also find the dead corpses of Sidney, his assistant and the camera guy who was with them. The two kids don’t have long a long time to stare in horror at their bodies because the ghosts of the colonists are out to play and ready to kill them. As they run into the trailer for refuge, the ghosts are banging on the walls but after a few minutes it stops and the kids can focus on the wall of TV’s that show the various spy cameras still hidden around the house and in the forest. Through the cameras, they can see Audrey and Monet in the house and also Lee coming for them.

Sophie and Milo try to call the police for help, but of course they don’t believe them and write them off as prankster teens. They decide that they have no choice but to save Audrey and Monet from Lee, too bad that by the time they get there Lee has already thrown Monet down the stairs, stabbed Audrey and threw her barely alive body into the cellar. The teenagers find themselves watching the hoards of colonists descend upon the house. They see their missing friend Todd get his guts ripped out and as they get ready to bolt out of there Lee pops up behind them and captures them.

We now witness how the colonists savagely impaled Sophie and Milo and as they wimper in pain, they are burned to death. The following scene shows the next morning with the cops showing up to the house and finding the dead bodies of everybody. Everybody except for Lee. They find her in the grass scared and confused, whether she is actually traumatized or not is up for debate because last night she was not the helpless victim she appears to be now. All of a sudden Audrey, who appears to have crawled out of the cellar, appears. When she see’s Lee tucked safely into the cop’s car she cocks her gun and moves to shoot Lee, but before she could fire a shot the cops shoot down Audrey successfully making Lee the Survivor.

Tune in next week at 10 p.m. to see what happened to Lee and if she’s truly just another victim, or pig brain eating demon in disguise.