Didn’t your mother ever tell you not to talk to strangers? Someone learns their lesson on tonight’s extra-bloody AHS: Freak Show episode 9.

Tonight’s AHS: Freak Show, “Tupperware Party Massacre,” is the one that nudges the characters over the edge. Trying to preserve the past gets most of the troupe in trouble tonight. (Especially the ladies who want to keep their old food fresh in tupperware!) When the people who bailed you out suddenly aren’t there anymore, at least not in their once lively form, causes each character to take a good long look in the mirror. But will they like what they see?

Dandy’s idea of preservation comes not with a container, but a few strings and a second opinion from the local fortune teller. Maggie assures Dandy that his life will become clear after the rain passes, but through her vision we get a glimpse of the kind of enjoyment Dandy finds to pass the time. These hobbies include inviting the Avon lady in for a human puppet show, staring his very own Bette and Dot puppet. Her head is the perfect attachment to Gloria’s body for the final production.

Speaking of Bette and Dot, the Twins are discovered in a hotel room a few miles outside of town where they went under the instruction Ethel. Jimmy spots Dandy on the compound and demands to know where the Twins are. Dandy leaves Jimmy with a look of disgust and the promise to destroy everything Jimmy loves for taking away his only shot at happiness.

Stanley and Elsa devise a plan to take the Twins to a remote location under the guise that they will meet the doctor who will perform their surgery. But not the doctor who saved the Brody twins that Stanley claims to know through a friend of a friend of a surgeon. Meanwhile back at the camp, Desiree and Maggie do another sweep of the grounds, but the only thing that turns up is Desiree’s secret beau and Maggie’s Jimmy nearly passing out on top of Ima.

But Jimmy isn’t done with his dirty work for the day. He heads over the the “tupperware” party to fulfill his side job on some housewives. Too drunk to perform to his standards, Jimmy is dismissed, but has a vision of Ethel in the living room. Cowering at her knees, Ethel lays the truth out for him as harsh as it is to hear; by protecting the past he is losing the future. After Ethel laments over wasted time on another drunk, Jimmy comes to and makes his way out of the house. No sooner does the door close then another man comes a knockin’. But this handsome chap with the charming eyes is no innocent Joe looking to call the local auto club.

Instead, the tupperware party now comes with a pool of blood, complete with floating housewives, brought to you by the kind services of Dandy Mott.

Bette and Dot are left to mull over the details of their operation until the doctor arrives for the initial examination. But Bette is no fool. She understands that the surgery will not allow them both the survive. But the Twins have done nothing but beaten the odds their entire lives. They conquered the challenges of learning to tie their shoes, to needlepoint, melding two minds into one. What others would think of as a burden, they took as an opportunity to know what it means to truly love another person as they love themselves. Taking a look at the big picture, Bette makes her decision to be the one to die if it comes down to a choice between the two.

At chez Mott, Dandy adds a bit of blood to his bath as one would bath salts and is just about to settle in when Regina arrives to announce she has been to the cops. Tired of people’s games, Dandy admits to killing Dora. And Gloria. And, just a few hours ago, a house full of women. To anyone else this comes off as insanity, but Dandy is a fully realized person, or in his case, god, in his mind. The fear of others gives him a feeling of control that he cannot describe. Their pain and confusion satisfies his urge to keep moving forward as the grantor of death, a god who has chosen to walk among mere men. Regina tries to placate to his emotional terror, but rejects his invitation to bathe in the spoils of his recent venture. Feeding off her fear, he is disappointed in her decision to leave, but excuses her from any further torment.

On the compound the Strong Man takes a good hard look at his title. Drowning himself in liquor, Dell composes a few lines of a letter addressed to, “My Son,” and is haunted by the demons of his past. But the strongest is Ethel’s appearance in the corner enjoying her front row seat to watch the coward’s own weight take his life away as he climbs the chair to hang himself. With the rope around his neck death creeps in, but Desiree cuts him down just before the blackout. No matter the number of steel bars he bends, the strong man will never be truly strong.

Regina has had enough of Dandy and returns with the Jupiter, PD. Showing the proper display of hospitality, Dandy sips bourbon and goes along confirming all the accusations Regina can throw his way. But his family fortune and a bank roll of 1 million dollars is enough to turn the detective’s gun away from Dandy and right at Regina’s head.

Jimmy’s the last person to truly take a good hard look at himself this week. Bette and Dot make their way to his trailer where Dot confesses her love and proposes an agreement she worked out with Dot for a relationship. But Jimmy kindly declines claiming to be in love with another woman. Hopefully his outrage at his behavior and smashing the liquor bottle is the last we will see of his drunken fall out. But he has plenty more to worry about than an impending detox. The police arrive, tipped off by Dandy, to arrest Jimmy Darling for the murder of the housewives. His gloves were at the crime scene.

Regardless of what family you believe you have, this week’s episode asks people to take a good hard look in the mirror. If you don’t like what you see looking back at you, then you better fix yourself. Everyone, even family, can leave you, nothing stays… unless you have tupperware to keep it fresh.

Watch AHS: Freak Show episode 10, “Orphans,” Wednesday, December 17 at 10:00 p.m. ET on FX.