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American Horror Story Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2013 - 2014
Episode 1
Bitchcraft
Wed, Oct 9, 201349 mins
A young girl, Zoe, is shattered to discover she possesses a strange genetic affliction tracing back to the dark days of Salem. Zoe is whisked away to Miss Robichaux's Academy for Exceptional Young Ladies, a mysterious school in New Orleans devoted to safeguarding the few remaining descendants who share this unique bloodline. Harboring a secret agenda, Fiona Goode, the most powerful witch of their generation, returns to town, reigniting old rivalries with the Coven's deadly enemies, the Voodoo.
Episode 2
Boy Parts
Wed, Oct 16, 201341 mins
Two detectives go to the Academy to interrogate Zoe and Madison about the bus accident, but Fiona uses her powers to make them forget the case. Zoe is grieving the death of Kyle, and Madison takes her mate to the morgue to revive him. They find only body parts of the dead teenagers and Madison builds Kyle using the best available parts. However, the spell does not work well, and Madison flees, leaving Zoe alone with Kyle. They hijack the car of an employee to flee from the morgue and are surprised by Misty Day and taken to her house by the swamp. Fiona meets Marie Laveau and proposes a deal with her. Cordelia wants to have a baby with her husband Hank, but she is infertile and uses black magic while having sex with him.
Episode 3
The Replacements
Wed, Oct 23, 201351 mins
Fiona recalls when she was young and how she killed her mentor and former supreme Anna Leigh Leighton, while drinking at the Academy. Zoe visits Kyle's mother Alicia Spencer, who is bereaved with the loss of her son and has almost committed suicide. She visits Misty Day and brings Kyle, who is not totally cured yet, to his mother's house without knowing an infamous secret between them. A new neighbor of the Academy, Luke Ramsey, arrives and Madison and Nan visit him. Madison wants to shag him but his pious mother, Joan Ramsey, expels them from her house and Madison reacts. Cordelia visits Marie Laveau expecting she casts a spell to resolve her infertile problem, but the witch says no. Fiona sees Madison with the future supreme of the coven and surprisingly takes her as her protégé.
Episode 4
Fearful Pranks Ensue
Wed, Oct 30, 201343 mins
In 1961, three Caucasian men hang a black kid on a tree. When Marie Laveau learns, she uses her voodoo to revive several corpses in the cemetery to kill the men. In the present days, it is Halloween and Zoe visits Kyle at his mother's house and sees what he did to her. Kyle is covered in blood and Zoe will prepare something for him to eat but when she returns, he has fled from the house. Fiona uses her magic to revive Queenie and sends the head of the Minotaur to Marie Laveau, breaking the truce between their covens. Meanwhile, Hank has an encounter with his lover, the beautiful Kaylee, and she tells him that she is infatuated with him. The Witches Council visits the Academy without any previous announcement to interview the evil Fiona about the murder of Anna Leigh Leighton and Madison's disappearance. Myrtle Snow invites Spalding to testify, but he lies to protect Fiona and Cordelia defends her mother. Marie Laveau casts a voodoo spell to revenge the Minotaur.
Episode 5
Burn, Witch. Burn!
Wed, Nov 6, 201340 mins
The Academy is under siege of zombies, including Madame Delphine LaLaurie's daughters. Luke believes they are kids disguised as zombies and Nan saves him. But Zoe saves them all and discloses a new power. Meanwhile, Fiona is at the hospital with Cordelia that now is blind. Fiona revives a newborn baby while in the hospital with her daughter. She confronts Hank when he visits Cordelia. When the Witch Counsil returns to the Academy to accuse Fiona, she accuses Myrtle Snow of blinding her daughter and shows her burned hand to the Counsil. Myrtle Snow is sentenced to burn at the stake.
Episode 6
The Axeman Cometh
Wed, Nov 13, 201341 mins
In 1919, the serial-killer The Axeman scares the population of New Orleans. When he orders the residents to listen to jazz music in a certain night, the young witches in the Academy decide to get rid of him. They listen to opera and when The Axeman comes to kill the listener, the witches join forces and stab him to death. In the present days, Zoe, Queenie and Nan use a Ouija board to learn what happened to Madison.The spirit of The Axeman is awakened and Queenie interrupts the contact; however, Zoe contacts him alone and finds the decay corpse of Madison. The trio interrogates Spalding, but he protects Fiona and says that he killed Madison. Zoe brings her to Misty Day and asks her to revive Madison. Meanwhile, Hank visits Marie Laveau and discloses the fate of Kaylee and others young women.
Episode 7
The Dead
Wed, Nov 20, 201348 mins
Fiona has one night stand with The Axeman, and then she learns that he followed all her life since she was a child. Cordelia meets Madison and learns that Fiona killed her through her new power, and she plans to kill her mother. Zoe kills Spalding after learning that he protected Fiona. Madison and Kyle have sex and then a threesome with Zoe. Hank is prepared to kill the witches. After provoking the death of Myrtle Snow forging that her hand was burned with acid, Queenie betrays Madame Delphine LaLaurie delivering her to Marie Laveau.
Episode 8
The Sacred Taking
Wed, Dec 4, 201344 mins
Fearing for their lives, Misty and a resurrected Myrtle arrive at the coven. While Fiona's away, the group performs a ritual of protection, led by Cordelia. They all decide that, no matter who is to be the next Supreme, Fiona must die. Madison gives Fiona a choice: death by suicide or be burned at the stake. Feeling more ill, Fiona chooses to take sleeping pills. Before she dies, a ghostly Spalding convinces her that they were both murdered. She vomits out the pills, swearing to avenge them both. After an assassination attempt on the witches, Fiona and Cordelia make peace, but an unmarked package arrives from Marie, containing Delphine's head with its eyes still blinking.
Episode 9
Head
Wed, Dec 11, 201343 mins
In 1991, the boy Hank goes with his father to a park to hunt and kill witches for the first time. Fiona brings Delphine's head to Marie Laveau and proposes an alliance to fight their common enemies, the witch hunters, but the voodoo witch refuses the offer. Hank meets his father, who is the boss of a corporation of witches' hunters and is ordered to kill the witches in their coven. He also learns who blinded Cordelia. Myrtle Snow receives Pembe and Quentin to have lunch with her, but she poisons them and steal one eye from each one. When Cordelia wakes up, she has new eyes and can see again. Nan visits Luke with Zoe and Madison. But his mother is reluctant to let her see him. When Nan tells Luke's thoughts to Joan, she let her in and Luke discloses a dreadful secret that God told him. Hank breaks in Laveau's saloon and kills several witches.
Episode 10
The Magical Delights of Stevie Nicks
Wed, Jan 8, 201445 mins
Fiona and Marie Laveau team up at the Academy and Laveau wants to sleep. During the night, she is visited by the Voodoo King Papa Legba, who tells her that she must pay the price. Marie Laveau goes to a hospital nursery and kidnaps a black baby. In the morning, Marie Laveau tells Cordelia that Hank was a witch hunter and she hired him. Fiona hits Cordelia and tells that witch hunters are never alone. Fiona believes Misty Day is the next Supreme and brings Steve Nicks to the Academy to please her, and Madison becomes jealous of Misty. Cordelia tells Fiona and Marie Laveau that Harrison Renard is Hank's father and runs the billionaire corporation Delphi Trust of witch hunters, and the two witches cast a spell to break the company. Nan and Zoe go to the hospital and learn that Luke is dead. They visit Joan and find that she cremated Luke. Further, Nan learns that she killed Luke and forces Joan to drink a bottle of bleach. Madison lures Misty Day, takes her shawl and locks her in a casket. Fiona tries to sell her soul to Papa Legba, but he finds that she is soulless. Fiona and Marie Laveau drown Nan in the bathtub since Fiona intends to kill any possible Supreme.
Episode 11
Protect the Coven
Wed, Jan 15, 201445 mins
In 1830, in New Orleans, Delphine is bored and not happy since she left Paris. But soon she finds a hobby torturing the black slaves. Queenie returns to the Academy, bringing Delphine in one piece, and she returns to her bad habits with the gardener James. Cordelia removes both eyes to retrieve her second vision and protect the coven. Fiona schedules a meeting in New Orleans with Harrison and the witch hunter Corporation and Marie Laveau and out of the blue, the Axeman posing as butler kills all the members but Harrison with his axe. Fiona kills Harrison using the same axe. Spalding sees Delphine with the dead James and lures her saying that she can murder Marie Laveau using certain medicine. Myrtle Snow gives her jewelry to Zoe and advises her to flee with Kyle to another place.
Episode 12
Go to Hell
Wed, Jan 22, 201445 mins
Fiona explains to Queenie how the Seven Wonders ceremony is, when the candidate succeeds or dies, and tells her that she will be tested on the next Saturday. Cordelia meets Madison to test her second vision, but her power does not work. Queenie summons Papa Legba to know Marie Laveau whereabouts and he brings her to hell. She learns that Marie is cut into pieces and Delphine is not immortal anymore. Queenie meets Delphine at her former house and after a discussion, she stabs her in the heart, killing Delphine. Fiona poses at the Academy for a painting at the Gallery of Supremes. Then she gives Cordelia the necklace of her mother and she sees the real intentions of her mother is killing all the witches in the coven. She visits the Axeman and tells him the true intentions of her mother to leave him. Cordelia goes to the cemetery with Queenie, and they find Misty Day's grave. They return to the Academy, where Zoe and Kyle have just arrived. Misty Day fights Madison, but out of the blue, the Axeman arrives and tries to kill the witches. Cordelia learns the fate of Fiona before they kill the Axeman. Marie Laveau and Delphine will spend eternity in Hell.
Episode 13
The Seven Wonders
Wed, Jan 29, 201448 mins
Cordelia gathers the four witches and tells them that Fiona should have identified the next Supreme. As she did not, they will have to be tested in accordance with The Seven Wonders procedures. The competition begins and when they have to descent to hell, Misty Day is trapped and never returns. Madison seems that will win the competition, and Myrtle Snow convinces Cordelia to participate in the dispute. Zoe dies and Madison refuses to bring her back. When Madison finally fails, she says that she will leave the coven and denounce the witches to the media, but Kyle strangles her and together with Spalding, they hide her body. Cordelia becomes the next Supreme, but she need to take tough decisions.
