- Fiona takes on an unlikely protege. A guilt-ridden Zoe tries to give Kyle his old life back. Madison has a fiery exchange with Joan Ramsey, a new neighbor.
- Fiona wakes up in the middle of the night and goes for pills and booze.
New Orleans 1971 Teenage Fiona asks the reigning Supreme Anna Lee when she became Supreme. Mimi De Lampre called a council and Anna Lee performed the seven wonders and was proclaimed to be the heir to the supremacy. But Anna Lee says she knew before that, when she was about the age Fiona is now.
Still, Anna Lee cautions Fiona, having four or five powers doesn't mean she's the Supreme, that can't be confirmed until she masters the seven wonders.
Fiona is ready to prove herself. "You don't want to be replaced, by me. They say when a new Surpeme starts to flower, the old supreme starts to fade. You've been fading, Anna Lee," Fiona says.
Anna Lee is suffering from diabetes, heart trouble and liver failure. Anna Lee is firmly against Fiona taking over as Supreme and tells her she'll bring ruin on the coven. She vows to do whatever it takes to keep Fiona from taking over.
But before she can go on, Fiona slits her throat, right there in the living room. Spalding the mute butler, sees it all.
Later, in the present, Fiona waits at a bar to be picked up, knowing it will happen as it always has. But she's passed by.
Fiona goes to see a doctor, asking to see a video of the surgery, which involves the skin being pulled back from the face.
Zoe goes to see Kyle's mom to pay her condolences. Alicia Spencer is an aging hippie who's getting through her grief with Kyle's weed stash, and sleeping in his room. She calls him "a natural gentleman in his bones."
She tells Zoe she was about to hang herself when Zoe called. Zoe assures her she'll see her son again. "Kyle's not left us," she says.
Queenie, Madison and Nan watch the new neighbors move in. One is a hot young teenager, whose mother cites scripture when he takes his shirt off, telling him to cover himself up.
Up in her room, Madame LaLaurie weeps as she learns that the US has a black president. Fiona tells LaLaurie she's going to learn about the world as the maid.
Downstairs, Queenie recognizes LaLaurie as the one who brained her with a candlestick. But when she says so, LaLaurie forgets her new place. "How dare you open that foul mouth to me negress?" LaLaurie says.
When Queenie asks for her breakfast, LaLaurie hurls it against the wall -- it's just too much for the former slave owner and torturer to wait on a black person. Fiona is having none of it, she orders Queenie to consider LaLaurie her personal slave from now on. There's nothing she hates more than racists.
Out in the swamp, Misty communes with reanimated Kyle, listening to Fleetwood Mac. He seems stunned from being brought back to life.
Zoe comes to see. Kyle stitches are gone, except for the one on his neck. Misty attributes it to the healing mud. Kyle's still not talking and doesn't seem to recognize Zoe, but then he reaches out and strokes her hair.
Zoe wants to take Kyle home to his distraught mother. Misty tries to convince her to stay, saying she's the one who nursed Kyle back to health. But Zoe promises to come back. Misty tries one more time to get Zoe to stay, but she leaves. Misty doesn't expect to see her again.
Nan and Madison bring a cake to their new neighbors, the Ramseys, including Luke the shirtless mover. Madison is wearing a skintight dress and comes on to Luke blatantly. Meanwhile, Nan brought a yellow cake with buttercream frosting -- Luke's favorite.
Luke's mom Joan comes and tries to cool the temperature in the room. She says they're going to church and will take the cake to share. Madison scoffs, telling them religion is all a "crock of s---."
Madison starts to cut the cake, but Joan reaches for the knife. They each grab for it until Madison uses her magic to fling it across the room. Joan throws the girls out of the house telling them never to come back.
As they're leaving, Madison lights the drapes on fire.
"I didn't know you could do that," Nan says. "Neither did I until now," Madison says.
Cordelia goes back to see the fertility doctor. Her husband Hank doesn't know she's there. The doctor tells her there's a problem with her blood work.
At her doctor, Fiona gets similar news. Her immune system is in revolt.
The doctor tells Cordelia she can't have a baby. "Times like these I wish I had a magic wand I could wave, but I don't," the doctor says.
Zoe drives reanimated Kyle back in to town to see his mother. She thinks everything will make sense to Kyle when he sees his mother.
Zoe helps a wobbly Kyle to his front porch and leaves him propped against the door. His mom screams and helps him in the house.
Joan Ramsey pays a visit to Fiona, bringing her a Bible, as she does each time she visits someone's house for the first time. She tells Fiona that two of her girls "invaded" her space and one was dressed so scandalously, she's worried about the long term effects on her son.
Fiona mocks her religious attitude and Joan warns her she'll call the cops and press charges next time, including arson. This catches Fiona's attention.
Madison joins them, taunting Joan about how easy it'd be to get Luke in bed.
When Joan leaves, Fiona asks Madison to light her cigarette, and she does from across the room. Fiona is interested in the girl.
Back home, Kyle's mom comes to his room to check on him. She checked on him in the shower earlier and recognized that his body was different. And then it becomes clear why she knows her grown son's body so well, she starts making out with him and he's too weak to push her off as she touches him.
Cordelia goes to see Marie Laveau about her fertility problem. Marie says the spell is no picnic for anyone involved. She describes the ritual, which involves dozens of people drumming and chanting around a fire. They need two ounces of sperm from her husband to go in a fire in a mason jar, Marie eats the hottest pepper there is to get the attention of the gods. Then a goat's throat is slit over Cordelia's naked body.
The cost is $50,000 and they have to do it over a full moon, but they have a 100% success rate. Cordelia says she'll do anything to get the money.
Marie busts out laughing. Cordelia is the daughter of her sworn enemy, she's not helping her for any amount of money. She mentions that Fiona came by to see her and "messed with the wrong witch."
When Zoe comes home, Nan can tell she's thinking about Kyle and she likes him. Alisha calls, telling Zoe that Kyle has come home, but he's not the same.
Fiona takes Madison to brunch and probes. Madison's mother had her working at a young age and wouldn't let her quit because she was the only one in the family making money. She once snorted half Madison's coke and then let the cops bust Madison with it.
Fiona says she was a terrible mother to Cordelia. It's too late now, but it's a shame because she has so much to teach.
"Teach me," Madison says.
Fiona looks across the street and tells Madison to make a man disregard his own safety. A man walks into the middle of the street, oblivious to the cars screaming by. Madison isn't sure if she did it or Fiona did.
Back at the school, Queenie directs Madame LaLaurie to make her dinner and dessert. Madame suggests Queenie won't find a man if she keeps eating like that.
Madame hears a noise outside that startles her. She looks out the window and sees her minotaur. She screams and locks the door. Queenie doesn't believe her, but then sees him.
Queenie asks who she is and recognizes the name from the tour when she says LaLaurie. She gives Queenie a brief recap and then begs her to let her go hide.
Queenie slices LaLaurie's hand, dabs the blood with a towel and tells her to run. She heads out to face the minotaur with the towel, using the scent to lure it to Cordelia's green house.
Once there, she drops her guard, talking to the minotaur like she understands him, knowing that all he wanted was love, just like her. She offers herself to him. He walks around behind her, caressing her, but the clamps a hand/hoof over her mouth.
Alisha tells Kyle she invited Zoe for dinner. He sits on the floor, rocking back and forth, not saying anything as she talks to him. She acknowledges she's been possessive and never meant for it to go this far, but she thinks he needed it as much as she did. But now she thinks it's time he get on with his life.
Then she asks him what happened and why is his body different. She starts rubbing on him until he manages to get out one word: "No!" He screams it over and over again as he grabs a trophy off the wall and brains her with it repeatedly.
Fiona and Madison go to a bar and play pool, drinking as every man in the place stares at them.
Fiona imagines when she was the pretty young thing everyone stared at.
Zoe goes to Kyle's house and goes inside when she finds the door open. She finds Alisha with her face caved in and Kyle standing there spattered in blood.
When they return to the house, Fiona tells Madison that she's the next Supreme. She can feel it, because she's dying. "My time is up, and you're killing me," Fiona says.
Madison's powers have been growing stronger as Fiona has gotten weaker -- she has cancer. Fiona scoffs at the suggestion of chemo. "I've led a disreputable life, but I've done it in style and I'll die likewise," Fiona says.
Fiona laments squandering her gifts on herself. "I was a s---y Supreme," she says.
She says her mentor Anna Lee was "majestic and powerful" and taught her everything she knew. She tells Madison she thanked Anna Lee by cutting her throat, right where she's standing. She has the knife. She takes it out and gives it to Madison, telling her to use it. The two women start struggling over it, with Madison saying no and Fiona telling her to do it.
Then suddenly Fiona drags it across Madison's throat, slitting it. Again, Spaulding watches. He hands Fiona a handkerchief as she tells him to bury Madison.
Fiona assesses Madison bleeding out on the carpet. "This coven doesn't need a new Supreme, it needs a new rug," she says.
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