AHS: Freak Show summons the spirit of Edward Mordrake to take one of their own on tonight’s all new episode! Read our full recap!

As Stevie Wonder says, “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain’t the way.” Wonder has the advantage of a catchy funk beat to get his message across. Ryan Murphy chose another path in tonight’s episode, “Edward Mordrake: Part 1.” Setting up the two-part Halloween-centric episodes for AHS‘s Freak Show.

A Collector of Odd Things: Halloween comes but once a year when the “freaks” of the world can venture out hidden behind masks. However, calling back to the first episode, the medical community is fascinated by the odd medical specimen. For the right price, collectors will display the remains of the others and, as Stanley the con artist asserts, give their lives value in death.

Fraudulent specimens aside, the collector offers Miss Maggie and Mr. Stanley an incentive to take their creativity and use it to bring back something authentic from a real freak show. After all a conjoined liver brings in $5,000, what can the full twins bring back?

Trick or Treat: Jupiter, Fl’s curfew sends the children to West Palm Beach. A coulrophobic little girl hides from her tormenting brother who dresses as a clown, but Twisty lurking around the shrubs sends her “irrational” fear over the edge.

Across the town line a doctor does not deliver Ethel any treats when he informs her that cirrhosis is eating away at her liver. The prognosis? Less than a year. With Halloween in full swing under the tent, the crew bobs for apples and drinks in merriment, as Jimmy is off preparing Meep’s shallow grave. Jimmy’s disgust in their revelry, spreads to Dot’s lustful gaze and she calls the group to attention. Instead of goofing off they should be working harder to bring honor to Meep’s memory with a striking performance.

However, as Ethel points out, it’s Halloween and no freak performs on Halloween.

The Legend of Mordrake: Once an English man of noble birth, Mordrake was a scholar and poet, but it was his other face that led him on a downward spiral. No one else could hear the whisperings of hell, but Mordrake. He tried to kill it, but drowning and suffocating failed him. Eventually he went mad enough to enter an asylum, but his escape took him to a freak show circuit soon enough. There he performed his talents, but his second smiling face elicited screams rather than cheers. Eventually, it drove him to murder everyone in his troupe and commit suicide. As his body swung on the rope, the face smiled.

Ethel finishes her tale with a drink, much to Jimmy’s confusion. She leaves him with a few words, supporting Dell’s presence as the catalyst for Jimmy to leave.

Halloween with Dandy: Nora dons her best Woody Woodpecker for Dandy’s amusement, while Gloria sports Doris Duke again. Dandy throws a tantrum over a Howdy Doody costume, but it is Gloria’s fear of Dandy that is possibly more terrifying than his outburst. Luckily, his aggression takes a page from the Von Trapp family and he makes a new costume from the drapes.

He dons his costume and plastic mask grabbing a butter knife, yes a butter knife, to go after Nora. But sassy Nora gives him a run for his money, practically begging him to kill her. He drops the knife, resorting to a screaming fit once again. While his actions may not have panned out at first, he is slightly more terrifying when you take a beat to realize what he may be capable of doing.

A Bright Future: The twins’ shared dream is the nightmare for Bette and the blissful slumber for Dot. Once she saves enough money from their act, Dot plans to convince a surgeon to rid her of her sister and live a happy life. A heartbroken Bette asks if she would miss her at all. Even with the pain and constant torment, Bette would miss her sister. The life they have is not making them happy, with one gone, at least Dot would have a shot.

Another vision, in green and tight soda can curls, shows up ready to reveal Elsa’s bright future that will eliminate her dark past. Miss Elsa smokes her pipe and amuses the girl, but Esmerelda the Mystic has a few observational tricks up her sleeve that get the con job done. The cheers will rise again from the crowds. Elsa Mars will have a second chance at fame with the arrival of a refined gentleman.

However, the current recipient of the applause, Dot, is not amused by the spiritualist’s arrival or hold she has on Jimmy’s gaze. Off site, the pair place an update call to Stanley. While he is concerned over what type of display the twins will require, Maggie becomes concerned by her new digs and the prospect of murder. He may be interested in the money, but for now there is a Norse god who needs a new sword to handle. (Euphemism alert!)

“Gods and Monsters”: Dell and Desiree have some problems “keeping their relationship on the ups.” (Again, euphemism alert!) As he skulks off after her, he stumbles upon his ex sippin’ her liver away. She asks Dell if he can offer her one final kindness. Jimmy is floundering, he needs someone to keep an eye on him after she passes. Dell regrets his absence, but asks only one question, what did he like to dress up as for halloween. It was always the same thing, a soldier.

In an unscheduled, and ill advised rehearsal, Bette and Dot are cast off the stage by an aggressive and fabulously dressed Elsa Mars. Dot delivers biting demands, but they are no match for Elsa, who takes on Lana Del Ray’s “Gods and Monsters.”

The performance is enough to summon Edward Mordrake in a ghostly haze. His first visit is to Ethel’s trailer. When Mordrake arrives at your door, there is a sort of screening process that his evil half demands to determine if the carny is pure enough to enter their companionship in hell.

The monsters of Ethel’s past come spilling out as she digs deep into the pains she relives every day of her life. In her heyday she was a class act. Wrangling the prettiest girls and daring the audience to take their eyes off of her. Quickly, after going under Dell’s management, she became the butt of the joke, not the star of it. But her darker pain, comes with her confession that as a penniless performer she exploited her son’s birth for profit. From the moment he entered the world, Jimmy was set up for that life.

Mordrake offers her a tissue, thanks her for her pains, but she is not the one.

Meanwhile on the bus from hell: Dandy may not have Nora under his thumb, but there are two children who could use a little torment. Twisty arrives before he can do any real harm (aside from a trip into his psychological torment) with the body of the brother who tortured the little girl while trick or treating. More fun!

Watch American Horror Story: Freak Show episode 4, “Edward Mordrake: Part 2,” Wednesday, October 29 at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.