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American Horror Story Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2012 - 2013
Episode 1
Welcome to Briarcliff
Wed, Oct 17, 201244 mins
Briarcliff, a former tuberculosis hospital, is now an insane asylum run by the Catholic church. The year is 1964, and the asylum houses some seriously disturbed individuals. The day to day administrator is Sister Jude Martin who works under the general supervision of the director Monsignor Timothy Howard. Her chief nemesis however is their in-house medical officer, Dr. Arthur Arden, who is frequently seeing patients in the night - patients who die and are disposed of immediately. Briarcliff's latest patient is Kit Walker, aka Bloody Face, an accused serial killer of several young women but is unable to stand trial due to insanity. Sister Jude is tough as journalist Lana Winters learns when she starts poking around the place.
Episode 2
Tricks and Treats
Wed, Oct 24, 201244 mins
A new doctor, Oliver Thredson, arrives at Briarcliff assigned by the courts to examine and report on Kit Walker. He's appalled by conditions he finds there and the fact that they still use electroshock to treat homosexuality. His view of how medicine is practiced is seemingly confirmed when a new patient arrives and Monsignor Howard decides that an exorcism is called for. In flashbacks, some of Sister Jude's life prior to becoming a nun is revealed. Meanwhile, Lana continues to be a threat and Sister Jude convinces Dr. Arden to give her shock therapy in the hopes it will affect her memory. Lana makes a plan to escape with her new friend Grace but it doesn't go as planned. Also, Dr. Arden engages the services of a prostitute but she can't quite seem to meet his requirements.
Episode 3
Nor'easter
Wed, Oct 31, 201241 mins
It's Halloween and a major storm is expected in the area. Sister Jude decides to have a movie night in an attempt to calm the patients. She is being tormented by someone who knows about the auto accident she had before becoming a nun and sends her a newspaper clipping about the accident dated 1949. She turns to the bottle, a problem she had previously overcome. Meanwhile, a possessed Sister Mary Eunice wreaks havoc in the asylum, killing one of the patients and makes sexual advances to an incredulous Dr. Arden. Shelley thinks the storm is the perfect cover to escape but is intercepted by Arden who has a permanent solution to her trying to escape.
Episode 4
I Am Anne Frank: Part 1
Wed, Nov 7, 201242 mins
A new arrival at Briarcliff Manor claims to be Anne Frank. She stabbed a man who made an anti-Semitic remark. When she sees Dr. Arden, she accuses him of being a doctor who worked at Auschwitz. Sister Jude is at first dismissive but soon begins to believe her. Arden gets help from a most unexpected source. Meanwhile, Kit tells Grace what Dr. Arden has been doing to him and she in turn tells him why she is in the hospital. She was accused of butchering her father and her stepmother after her stepsister accused her of the crime. Lana tells Dr. Thredson about their attempted escape and he offers to help her. She agrees to aversion therapy. Thredson also tells Kit that he sees no useful purpose in having him executed and is prepared to lie for him - provided he's prepared to face the truth.
Episode 5
I Am Anne Frank: Part 2
Wed, Nov 14, 201242 mins
Convinced that Dr. Arden is a Nazi, Sister Jude hires a Nazi hunter, Mr. Goodman, to look into his past. He tells her of Operation Paperclip where American officials created false biographies for known Nazis and helped them relocate in the West. He tells her that SS officers have their blood type tattooed on their left arm. It all begins to go wrong when Anne Frank's husband shows up to collect his wife, who has had a breakdown since the birth of their baby. She's soon back at Briarcliff and Arden has his own plans for her. Meanwhile, Kit is released from solitary but Grace is to go ahead with her operation. Dr. Thredson follows through on his promise to Kit and also to Lana. The identity of Bloody Face is revealed.
Episode 6
The Origins of Monstrosity
Wed, Nov 21, 201241 mins
Monsignor Howard is called out to a local hospital to tend to the creature that was found in the schoolyard - and he obviously knows who she is. Sister Jude receives a call from Mr. Goodman confirming that Dr. Arden is a former Nazi who escaped at the end of the war. He needs just one more piece of evidence to make a final confirmation. Someone is out to protect the evil doctor however. Flashbacks reveal how he came to stay on at Briarcliff when it was taken over by the church. A woman is convinced her daughter is evil and desperately wants to leave her young daughter Jenny at Briarcliff. Bloody Face tells Lana about his childhood - and the plans he has for her.
Episode 7
Dark Cousin
Wed, Nov 28, 201242 mins
The angel of death descends upon Briarcliff Manor. Grace is found bleeding to death after her operation but is brought back from the abyss just as she was to receive the kiss of death. When Sister Mary Eunice accuses Dr. Arden of butchering the operation, he doesn't know what she talking about. Lana manages to escape from Bloody Face but gets a ride from someone who definitely has a thing about women. She soon finds herself back in the asylum. Sister Jude visits Mr. Goodman with Arden's fingerprints and finds him on the bathroom floor bleeding to death. He has barely enough life left in him to identify his attacker. Sister Jude learns something about the incident that shaped her life. Kit escapes and returns to the asylum to rescue Grace who is finally set free.
Episode 8
Unholy Night
Wed, Dec 5, 201240 mins
It's Christmas-time at Briarcliff Manor and, with Sister Mary Eunice in charge, it's going to be a special holiday with a specially decorated tree. She entices Leigh Emerson, who killed 18 people from 5 families at Christmas two years ago, out of his solitary cell to attend. He had caused quite a commotion at Briarcliff the previous Christmas and she intends that he do the same this year. Lana realizes that Kit is also in the asylum and concludes that her own case has never been reported to the police. She tells Kit about Dr. Thredson. Sister Jude desperately wants to get back into the asylum and gets help from a totally unexpected source. Things don't quite go as planned. Dr. Alden has a close encounter while trying to dispose of Grace's body.
Episode 9
The Coat Hanger
Wed, Dec 12, 201240 mins
Lana learns that she is pregnant and desperately wants to rid herself of the child. Sister Mary Eunice has other plans. Lana also tries to convince Kit that they must kill Thredson, who they've locked away. Monsignor Howard visits Sister Jude who is now an asylum inmate after her attack on Lee Emerson. Everything seems to line up against her but the Monsignor wonders if he is somehow at fault for her breakdown. Emerson has apparently had a religious conversion but he has a surprise for the Monsignor. Dr. Arden tries to make sense of his close encounter and finds some evidence to prove it really happened. He convinces Kit to the next step in his investigation but something quite unexpected happens. In the present day, a new Bloody Face appears.
Episode 10
The Name Game
Wed, Jan 2, 201340 mins
Monsignor Howard is recovering from his wounds but Sister Mary Eunice continues to torment him. He decides there is only one way out for all of them. Sister Mary Eunice also has plans for Sister Jude, now known as Judy Martin - an extra powerful dose of electro-shock treatment which severely affects her memory in a particularly bizarre way. Dr. Thredson is hired as a staff doctor but Lana manages to stay one step ahead of him. Dr. Arden and Sister Mary Eunice share a destiny.
Episode 11
Spilt Milk
Wed, Jan 9, 201345 mins
Dr. Thredson tries to force Kit Walker to convince Lana to deliver the tape to him, but Mother Superior Claudia helps her to escape with her dossier and the tape. She waits for Bloody Face in his apartment armed with a pistol while the police is coming and asks him the fate of Wendy. Grace has shattered memories of what happened to her while abducted but tells Kit that Alma had problems with the aliens' experiments. Kit is released from Briarcliff and blackmails Monsignor Howard to release Grace. They go with their baby to Kit's house that is partially destroyed and have a huge surprise. Lana goes with two detectives to Briarcliff with a warrant to release Judy Martin, but Monsignor Howard says that she hanged herself and was cremated.
Episode 12
Continuum
Wed, Jan 16, 201343 mins
In Massachusetts, Kit Walker is living with Alma, Grace and their children in a polygamic relationship. Grace is always recalling her abduction and showing Thomas and Alma her drawings, while Alma wants to forget her experience with the aliens. Out of the blue, Alma has a breakdown and kills Grace with an ax. The Catholic Church delivers Briarcliff to the State, and Monsignor Howard looks for Judy Martin and tells her that he will move to New York City promoted to cardinal and will do his best to release her. Lana Winters becomes a famous writer, writing about her experience at the Briarcliff, and forgets her promise to close Briarcliff with journalistic reports. On the present days, Johnny Morgan goes to a library that is closing the door searching Lana Winters' successful book with a personal agenda.
Episode 13
Madness Ends
Wed, Jan 23, 201346 mins
In the present days, Lana Winters is a famous writer of several bestsellers and is interviewed by television at home. She discloses how she had shutdown Briarcliff, showing the deplorable conditions of the interns when she was a television reporter. She also tells the host the fate of Cardinal Howard, when she exposed him in the television. She discloses that she had not aborted her son with Bloody Face but given him to adoption. She also discloses the fate of Sister Jude, who was rescued from Briarcliff by Kit Walker and brought to his home, and what happened to Kit and his children. Meanwhile, Johnny Morgan is posing as part of the television crew expecting to kill Lana with a shot into her face to honor his father.
