- A new patient claiming to be Anne Frank exposes Arden's past. Kit learns why Grace was admitted to Briarcliff.
- 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.—garykmcd
- A woman with no ID is brought in on an "involuntary psychiatric hold." Sister Jude goes to talk to her (Franka Potente). She got upset at an anti-Semitic joke at a bar and fought back. She won't give any more information, she only whistles.
Dr. Arden continues his medical torture of Shelley. Having taken her legs, he injects her with something, saying it'll make her live forever.
In the bakery, Grace sees Kit's split lip and guesses Arden did it. Flash back to Arden interrogating him about the microchip he found in his neck.
Grace says she believes Kit when he says the chip came from the creatures in the sky. Kit asks her story.
"I can still hear the sound if I let myself," she says.
Flash back to Grace waking up in the middle of the night in her house to hear loud thudding noises. She went down the hall to check and saw a man hacking her father to death with an axe. She runs downstairs and hides in the pantry. Then she turns around to see limbs on a shelf behind her.
She lost her father and step-mother that night and step-sister the next day, when she accused Grace of murdering them. Her step-sister was lovers with the murderer.
Lana meets with Dr. Thredson, who wants to know where she went during the movie. He promises not to tell Sister Jude.
After their attempted escape, Kit, Grace and Lana thought Shelley made it past the monsters.
Thredson tells Lana she doesn't belong there and was right to try to escape. She calls him a hypocrite for not believing his profession that she's a deviant for being a lesbian. He wants to try to "cure" her to get her out.
The nameless woman writes a letter to Kitty about the walls closing in, like in Amsterdam. Lana tells her to hide her pen so she doesn't get thrown in solitary. When the woman doesn't respond, Lana tells her she hopes she likes pain.
When Arden comes in, Anne runs at him, calling him a Nazi and saying he was in Auschwitz. She says she's Anne Frank.
Later, Sister Jude talks to "Anne," who says she was too sick to tell anyone her name when the camp was liberated and then she lived on the streets until Private William Snow of New Jersey brought her to America. She says William died when he was sent back to fight in Korea in 1952.
She didn't speak up because she saw the attention her diary was bringing to the Holocaust. She tells Jude they have a Nazi war criminal working there.
Thredson meets with Kit, telling him he doesn't think he's crazy, just deluded, but he doesn't want to declare him sane and send him to the electric chair. Thredson says he's willing to lie and say Kit's insane if Kit will try to accept what he's done.
Anne says Arden's name then was Hans Gruper. Flash back to Anne and other Jews being unloaded from the trains in Auschwitz. He used to bring the women sweets in the barracks. He said he couldn't treat them all, so he'd flip a coin to decide who to take. When the women came back they were sick and wouldn't talk.
Thredson tells Kit what he thinks caused Kit to crack, saying it was the pressure of keeping his marriage secret. Thredson thinks he attacked a woman near his work, skinning and decapitating her. Then another a few months later and then Alma.
Thredson tries to convince Kit that he snapped when his friends came by his house that night and attacked Alma when she wanted to tell the truth. Kit denies it.
Jude tries to convince Anne that Arden isn't Gruper.
Lana imagines the expose she'd write about Briarcliff and the awards she'd win. She tells the story of doing what she had to do to get out, including asking Thredson for his therapy.
Down in the bakery, Kit takes out his anger on dough. When Grace joins him, he wonders if maybe he is crazy and made the whole thing up. Grace assures him that self-doubt is a sure sign of sanity.
He grabs her around the neck and asks if he's a killer. She stays totally calm. And when he asks if he's a killer, she says she doesn't care. "Whatever you are, I'll be with you," she says. They go at it on the pastry table. Just after they finish, a guard walks in.
In Sister Jude's office, they're expecting the usual caning, but she's planning on sterilization instead. They're interrupted when Frank tells Jude that detectives are there interviewing Arden.
Sister Mary Eunice offers to take Kit back to his cell. When Grace and everyone are gone, Eunice shows Kit Grace's file, saying she's not as innocent as she claims.
Jude walks in on Arden, pretending to be surprised there are detectives in with him. They're following up on a complaint by a "lady of the evening" that he roughed her up.
Flash back to the prostitute finding his porn and bondage pictures, and Nazi memorabilia, which the detective tells Jude about.
Arden denies everything. When he leaves, the detectives identify themselves as homicide and explain certain details of the call girl's statement caught their eye.
They ask if Kit Walker seems like the kind of guy who would have the surgical skill to remove a woman's skin and her head.
Thredson shows Lana nude photos of women as she's hooked up to a kind of morphine, for aversion therapy. It makes her throw up. He shows her a picture of Wendy he got from her house when he was there. He lets her determine how much of the drug dose she can handle and stops when she's ready.
Next it's time for the conversion therapy, which involves a cute young inmate name Daniel taking off his clothes so she can look at him. She worries Thredson will make Daniel touch her, but instead he asks her to touch herself and then Daniel.
She cries through it as he tells her he's rooting for her. She has to stop and throw up. Thredson tells her he doesn't think aversion/conversion therapy will work for her.
Sister Jude goes to Monsignor Howard about the police visit. When she cites Anne Frank as her source on Arden's war criminal past, he calls her on her drunken movie night.
Howard calls Arden in surgery, where he's covered in Shelley's blood. She twitches on the table as Howard tells Arden: "They're on to you Arthur. If you have any housekeeping to take care of, I suggest you do it now."
Sister Jude takes a walk with Mother Superior to confess she slipped. She shares her concerns that Arden is a war criminal, but doesn't want to go behind Howard's back. Mother Superior assures Jude she doesn't owe him.
Sister Mary Eunice puts Kit in solitary next to Grace. He asks why she lied; she killed her step-mother and her father. She says she's not sorry. She tells him her father started molesting her when she was very young. Her step-mother gave her candy to keep quiet. In flashback we see Grace going after her with an axe.
She found out her father sold her horses, her only escape. It made her realize what her life was. "Once I opened my eyes there was no turning back," she says.
Kit says he admires her.
In the common area, Thredson apologizes to Lana that he couldn't help her and he's sorry he put her through it. He gives her the picture of Wendy. He tells her he's taking her with him when he leaves on Friday. He promises he won't leave her.
Kit tells Sister Jude he wants to confess to his crimes, even if he doesn't remember them. He thinks God knows if he did it. "I must have, I mean, everyone's saying that I did. And those creatures can't really exist," he says. He cries as he asks for forgiveness. He asks her to help him find God. He's convincing.
Arden brings Anne into his torture chamber, throwing her to the ground. He locks her in, but when he turns back around to face her, she's holding a gun on him. (We see she lifted it off the cop.)
She tells him to confess. There's a noise from the other room and he charges her, so she shoots him in the leg. She demands the key to the room and opens it to find legless Shelley, covered in sores and boils. She begs Anne to kill her.
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