We have met the Ten Commandment Killer! Do you know who it is? Tonight’s AHS: Hotel episode 7 also exposes the origin of the blood virus.
Who among us is taking the Ten Commandments and using them as a tool for the greatest staged murder tableus since Hannibal went off the air? We have our guess! Who is yours?
And the killer is…
Detective John Lowe. This is our best educated guess at this juncture of the show. Let’s break down the evidence.
Wren knows the killer well
John may appear to be going insane, but he still retains some of his investigative faculties. In the opening of tonight’s episode John checks himself into a B-level mental hospital to seek professional treatment for his ongoing mental breakdown. Or so he wants Alexis to believe. Before going ballistic at the precinct over evidence and nearly assaulting his partner, John is able to catch a glimpse of a file folder that lists the hospital where the lead suspect in the murders is being held.
Now that he is on the inside, John steals away into the room where he finds one of the Countess’ children, a girl named Wren who was taken from her father in the late 80s. She has not only been assisting the Ten Commandment Killer with his murders, but she knows where to find him.
Granted, Wren has been dead for quite some time and admits that she is tired of feeding and living life on an endless loop. Her comfort with John could be due to the fact that she recognizes him from the Hotel, but we think it is much deeper than that. In the final scene between the two, Wren tells John they need to go “home” to the Cortez to catch the killer.
But before they leave Wren asks if John is going to kill the murderer if he finds him. John says if it is necessary then the answer is yes. With that tidbit of information, Wren recognizes that if she takes him back to the Hotel his life will end there, most likely at the hands of the killer and the killer’s captor. Because they are the same person!
Since she really likes John, she does not want to see his life end. Therefore she walks in front of a truck to put an end to her own.
Related: Why are you watching AHS: Hotel?
John is not in his right mind
John Lowe has only been lucid for about half of the series. He’s either drunk, sleepwalking, or believing himself to be going mad. The slightest bump in the night sends him into a tizzy and the mysterious circumstances that led him to the Hotel Cortez in episode 1 are starting to align.
Mr. March is training John
Mr. March is not innocent in this scheme. Before his death, March began the murders with the staging of the migrant workers bodies with the Bible to depict the commandment, Thou shall remember the Sabbath and keep it holy. Shortly after those murders, March committed suicide before he was captured by the police. Much like The Countess’ work, March most likely choose John out of a line up of people worthy to commit the murders with him as the architect behind the plans.
His marriage was crumbling, his son was already at the Hotel Cortez, and he looked like a man who needed a purpose greater than himself. With John at the Hotel, March could keep closer tabs on his weapon and even invite him for a meal or two. While the Devil’s Night gathering did not go quite as well as he hoped, March did give John a front row seat to the lives he enriched with the power of a well executed murder and hoped that maybe this gathering would alert him to others mistakes, lest he make his own.
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While we leave you ponder our theory, let’s take a look at the origin of the blood virus!
Just her type
The Countess certainly has a type when it comes to the men she collects and tonight’s AHS: Hotel reveals why! When Tristan walked the runway at Drake’s fashion show, The Countess was not only drawn to his attitude but to his striking resemblance to her first love, an actor named Valentino. The pair met on set in 1925 and she was invited into his marriage with an actress named Natasha.
The trio hit it off until Valentino’s sudden death in New York City left the young girl devastated and in the arms of Mr. March. Months later, Valentino arrives with Natasha to explain that his death was staged and that he met a man, director F.W. Murnau who discovered an ancient blood virus while working on his movie Nosferatu. (Did anyone else get excited for a Freak Show connection when a German film director was mentioned? We miss you, Jessica Lange.)
The couple invites the Countess back into their relationship, offering to give her the virus and they can then live anywhere in the world for the rest of their lives. But Mr. March catches wind of this plan and enacts a strategy of his own. Refusing to lose the Countess, he kidnaps the duo and seals off a floor of the Cortez with steal and brick so that they may never leave.
But Will Drake’s construction has now cut them loose and Mr. March informs the Countess of the news over their monthly dinner. What will happen if Liz Taylor runs into the ghost that bears a striking resemblance to her lost love? What about The Countess’ impending reunion?
Watch AHS: Hotel episode 8,”The Ten Commandments Killer,” Wednesday, December 2 at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.
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