Murder Mystery Game Night: Zoe begins to clear out some of Madison’s possessions and discovers that the closet in their room has a false back. Inside the wall lies a treasure trove of past relics from previous boarders. Pictures of full classes, diaries, and a Ouija style board. The board, meant to call on spirits, can only mean bad consequences in the hands of a witch.
Zoe brings the information to the attention of the two remaining witches in the house. With a sip of absinth, Nan, Zoe, and Queenie make a pact to stick together. After a few more sips, the spirit board is on the table and they attempt to summon Madison. When the board begins to reveal a presence, the girls find out that not only is the spirit that of The Axeman, but that he believes they are the ones who killed him in that house.
With a little more digging, Nan discovers that it was the ladies from the class of 1919 who brought the Axeman into the house, but his spirit never left. Zoe takes matters into her own hands after Queenie’s lecture on the danger of summoning a spirit. They only want to be released and will do anything to make that happen. In the Axeman’s case, that “anything” means giving up where Madison is.
A.T.T.I.C. Zoe makes her way to the part of the house where the Axeman reveals Madison is. Once inside Spalding’s room, which reeks of death, Zoe finds Madison in a trunk, rotting away. Spalding is not strong enough to fight off one witch, let alone three, and submits to questioning. Nan reads Spalding’s mind as they ask him who killed Madison. He admits that he did it for a, let’s say graphic pleasure.
Zoe leaves the questioning with some doubt. Even though Nan could read Spalding’s mind, he does reside with witches and is close with a certain witch who could teach him a few things about controlling one’s thoughts. Instead of giving Madison a proper burial, Zoe decides to bring her back to life with the help of a certain woodland witch.
Once Misty Day and Kyle make it back to the Academy, Zoe chains Kyle to a wall. You know, for safe keeping. “You can help me dig a hole,” is Misty’s initial solution to Zoe’s dilemma. Not ready to give up that easy, Zoe insists that Misty at least try. Once they work together, Misty is able to push through the death and Madison rises with one request; a cigarette.
Misty wants to get back to the swamp, her kind are not the kind that dwell in the white walls of the Academy. Madison attempts to recover upstairs out of Fiona’s all knowing eye, but how long can they keep this from her? Madison does not remember much before the darkness consumed her. However, she is aware that she won two Teen Choice Awards and makes 7 million per movie.
“I want their heads” Marie Leveau is at her wits end with the Coven up the street. No longer taking “try” as an excuse, she lashes out on her top covert agent, none other than Cordelia’s husband. The murder of the red head? Turns out she was a decedent of Salem and rejected attending the school after a series of arsine brought her to Cordelia’s attention. Hank is a trained witch killer, but under Leveau’s employment he has not made much progress in six years.
Hank reminds her that all she initially wanted was access to the Coven, so why did she blind his “wife?” Cross the voodoo goddess off the list of suspects! At her wits end, Marie lays down how the rest of her story is going to happen. Hank will return to her from the flames of that house with the head of every single witch. Some people just like to watch things burn. After all, once you put a “cracker bitch” in the ground, you do not take kindly to seeing them walk around the streets 200 years later.
Hide and Seek: Not entirely satisfied with being left in limbo, the Axeman’s lingering spirit decides to pay Cordelia a visit. The gift of the sight allows her to make out his shape and face as he begins to torture her with “the dance.” Cordelia, struggling to maneuver around her room, cries out for the girls to come help her. Just as the Axeman wants.
When the girls cannot get in the locked room, Zoe admits that she may have promised the man’s spirit release and then blew him off. Closing her eyes and scanning the books, the right one calls to her and opens up to the page she needs to release his grasp on the house. Zoe grabs the girls’ hands and mutters the Latin, igniting the lights of the house. The Axeman picks up his suitcase and walks out on the street.
Only as he goes, he is greeted not by the sounds of soothing New Orleans’ jazz, but the thumping bass of hip hop from a passing car. With his top hat on, he whistles ominously down the block. Another prominent figure from that house also sits down the block nursing a drink at a jazz club. Feeling up for one last love affair, Fiona turns to take the Axeman up on his offer for a drink.
How was THAT for an ending?! Next week we get a taste for what Cordelia’s new vision does for her and Fiona’s trust issues, plus the Axeman returns!
Highlights:
•Marie Laveau: “When I plant a white ass cracker bitch, I expect her to stay there!” I do not know how they are going to top that line!
•Madison’s first line post-resurrection: “I need a cigarette.”
•Is Kyle still chained up outside?
Watch American Horror Story: Coven episode 7, “The Dead” Wednesday, November 20 at 10 p.m. ET on FX
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