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American Horror Story Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
12 Episodes 2015 - 2016
Episode 1
Checking In
Wed, Oct 7, 201562 mins
A pair of foreign sisters check into the Hotel Cortez, while L.A. detective John Lowe investigates a brutal chain of gruesome murders in L.A.
Episode 2
Chutes and Ladders
Wed, Oct 14, 201574 mins
In the Hotel Cortez, Will Drake hosts a party with a fashion show to promote his new acquisition. The model Tristan Duffy is the great attraction, but completely drugged by cocaine, creates havoc in the show and is expelled by Drake. When Tristan leaves the hotel, the elevator stops, and he meets James March. Then he goes to the penthouse looking for cocaine and Countess Elizabeth turns him into a vampire, and he becomes her new lover, sending Donovan away. Lachlan shows Scarlett coffins in the empty swimming pool in the hotel, and she recognizes her brother Holden inside of one coffin. Then she returns and meets Holden in the secret video game room. When she tells her parents, Det. Lowe goes to the hotel and asks Iris what is happening there, and she tells him the story of the evil builder of the Hotel Cortez.
Episode 3
Mommy
Wed, Oct 21, 201556 mins
While treating her client with measles, Dr. Alex recalls that Holden was her favorite child, and she loved him more than John or Scarlett. Meanwhile, Tristan visits James March that tells him about the secret dark places hidden in the hotel. However, Will Drake is talking to Claudia and intends to open March's floor to be his office and atelier. Tristan promises March that he will take care of Will. He meets the gay Will and seduces him and when Tristan is going to stab him, Countess Elizabeth says no to him. Iris tells Donovan that she will buy a house for them to live, and he says cruel things to his mother including that she should kill herself. He walks in an area of homeless people to satisfy his urge for blood and is lured and captured by Ramona Royale. She tells her story to him. Elizabeth seduces he gay Will and when questioned by Tristan, she says that she is broken and needs to marry Will to have money again. Alex meets John at the Hotel Cortez with divorce papers. While leaving the hotel, she has a surprise. Iris Asks Sally to OD her to commit suicide.
Episode 4
Devil's Night
Wed, Oct 28, 201550 mins
Miss Hazel Evers recalls when her son Albert was abducted and killed by a serial-killer in the Halloween of 1925. John sees blood dropping from the room above his and he meets Miss Evers washing the bloodstained sheets in the bathtub. She tells him how her son was kidnapped, and that his body has never appeared. John finds later at the police station that the murders mentioned by Miss Evers happened eighty-five years ago. Alex brings Holden home to exam the boy. He says that he is thirsty, and Alex brings orange and apple juices to him, bur he killed her dog and is drinking its blood. Alex takes him back to the Hotel Cortez and Holden goes to his glass coffin. Elizabeth appears and takes Alex to the penthouse to explain what has happened to Holden. John returns to the hotel and asks a double martini to Liz Taylor. Then he meets the weird Aileen Wuornos, and he believes she is lying since she said the name of a serial-killer already dead. When he goes to the front desk to call the police to arrest Aileen, Liz gives an invitation from Mr. March to go to the Devil's Night party he gives in his room. John dresses a smoking and goes to the dinner party, where he meets some of the most notorious serial-killers of America.
Episode 5
Room Service
Wed, Nov 4, 201550 mins
After being infected by The Countess, Alex uses an unconventional and controversial method of treatment for a child in hospital. A demanding Halloween-hating couple push Iris to her limits and make her snap, and Liz Taylor's background with The Countess is revealed.
Episode 6
Room 33
Wed, Nov 11, 201554 mins
In 1926, Countess Elizabeth delivers a three-week-baby, and she brings him to room 33 of the Hotel Cortez. Holden wakes up John and he runs after his son. He sees Alex and Holden sleeping in a glass coffin in the empty swimming pool and faints. Alex asks Liz Taylor to help her to remove the coffins from the spot. Ramona and Donovan come to the hotel to kill the vampire children. She does not find them, and she goes to room 33 to kill the Countess' son Bartholomew. Meanwhile Donovan sees Agnetha and Vendela and tells them to find a purpose to be in the hotel. They kill a guest and then Alex asks them to haunt John to make him crazy. When Alex meets John, she convinces him to move from the hotel since he is insane. John goes home with Scarlett and Bartholomew goes with him, hidden in his suitcase. When John sees the monster at home, he shots is gun scaring Scarlett. Liz Taylor is secretly in love with Tristan Duffy, and she resolves to tell the Countess to be with him. The Countess gives Tristan to Liz, but not the way she wanted.
Episode 7
Flicker
Wed, Nov 18, 201545 mins
During the renovation, the foreman calls Will Drake to show a thick steel plate behind the wall. Drake asks him to open and remove the plate. Soon the foreman and a worker see a corridor and are attacked by two decomposed vampires. Iris comes with the Countess to show what has happened and the Countess seems to be scared. John goes to the West Los Angeles Health Center saying that he needs a psychological evaluation, but he is indeed looking for the Ten Commandment Killer. He glanced at the name of the hospital in the case file. The guest Marcy hears someone knocking on her door and she believes it is room service; however, the two vampires attack her. In 1925, the actor Rodolpho Valentine invites the aspirant actress Elizabeth to have dinner with him. While they are flirting to each other and dancing tango, his wife Natacha Rambova appears, and the trio becomes lovers. While attending the Hotel Cortez opening party promoted by James March, Elizabeth learns that Valentine has died. Soon she marries March but grieves Valentino's death visiting his tomb every day to leave a rose for him. Out of the blue, Valentino and Natacha arrive, and she learns that they are alive. They tell that Murnau turned Valentino into a vampire, he turned Natacha and they both turn Elizabeth. But soon they disappear and Elizabeth learns their fate later, while having dinner with March.
Episode 8
The Ten Commandments Killer
Wed, Dec 2, 201548 mins
After the death of Wren, John goes to the Hotel Cortez and asks Liz Taylor who the Ten Commandments Killer is. Liz refuses to say but Sally brings him to room 64, where the hideout of the serial-killer is. He learns that the murderer is completing James March's masterpiece. He heads to Detective Andy Hahn to tell him who The Ten Commandments Killer is, but Andy says that his statement is full of holes, such as his alleged partner Sally McKenna, who died many years ago.
Episode 9
She Wants Revenge
Wed, Dec 9, 201547 mins
The bisexual Will Drake and Countess Elizabeth plan their wedding. Will intends to have a party to be the event of the year, but Elizabeth asks for an intimate one, and he agrees. A private investigator finds the whereabouts of Rodolpho, and the Countess visits him in a low-budget motel. She goes to the Hotel Cortez with Donovan, and he is seduced again. She tells him that she will marry Will on Wednesday and kill him on Thursday. Mrs. Evers warns Will that the Countess will kill him after the wedding, but he does not believe in her. Donovan looks for Ramona Royale and tells her that he has drugged the Countess. They go to the Hotel Cortez to kill her. Alex learns what Max did with his schoolmates and discovers that his house is full of corpses murdered by the vampire children.
Episode 10
She Gets Revenge
Wed, Dec 16, 201552 mins
When an elderly couple checks into Hotel Cortez, Liz follows them and confirm that they made a suicide pact. Then Iris and he make a suicide pact, since they lost Donovan and Tristan. But Hazel schedules a visit of Liz's son Douglas to the Hotel Cortez before Liz is gone. Meanwhile, Donovan visits Rudy and kills him while the Countess Kills Natacha. John gets his ninth trophy, killing a false prophet and severing his ears. Then Alex visits him, and he meets Holden; then she asks for his help to get rid of the children. They lock the children in the Hallway where Ramona is. They have sex and decide to return home. Out of the blue, Sally appears to John angry with their decision and promises to kill him. Douglas meets Liz and has a surprising reaction. Liz and Iris decide to revenge Tristan.
Episode 11
Battle Royale
Wed, Jan 6, 201649 mins
Liz Taylor and Iris shoot Countess Elizabeth but Donovan protects her using his body as a shield. The wounded Countess flees and Donovan asks his mother to die outside the Hotel Cortez to be not forced to live forever inside. Sally rescues Elizabeth, since she wants her help to kill John Lowe inside the hotel to live with him forever. She brings two of her "children" to feed and save Elizabeth. Liz incinerates Donovan and gives his ashes to Iris. They resolve to release Ramona to help them to kill the Countess, and they bring the voodoo witch Queenie to feed Ramona. James March helps Ramona to defeat Queenie, since he is a ghost and cannot be affected by her voodoo power that does not work in ghosts, and he wishes the Countess is murdered inside the hotel to live with her. John arrives home with food and finds that his family is missing. John goes to the Hotel Cortez and Sally says that March has brought them to the hotel expecting that John completes his masterpiece. John commits his last murder and brings the head of his victim to the collection.
Episode 12
Be Our Guest
Wed, Jan 13, 201652 mins
Iris and Liz Taylor used Countess Elizabeth's belongings to renovate a few rooms of the Hotel Cortez. However, they do not have good reviews since Sally and Will Drake kill the guests. They summon the ghosts at the bar and tells them that the hotel is now under new administration and asks to not kill guests. James March endorses their words; however, Sally and Will are bored and say that they will not stop. Iris buys a cellphone to Sally and shows her how to access the social medias and soon she gives up drugs and murders. Meanwhile Liz Taylor convinces Will Drake to continue to design his fashion to save his company and to appoint Liz as the new CEO. He also uses the ghouls for his fashion shows at the Hotel Cortez. Iris invites the medium Billie Jean Howard to communicate with Tristan since Liz still misses him. Liz keeps contact with Douglas and his family, but when he learns that he has a terminal cancer, he asks his ghosts friends to kill him inside the Hotel Cortez to live forever. Billy Jean brings bad reputation to the hotel with her shows at the Hotel and on Devil's Night, John Lowe brings her to the dinner party promoted by James March.
