The biggest story, at least for me, is Lana. Now, the previews to next week make her seem a bit too calculating, a bit too return-to-the-beginning Lana for me, but this week, there was nothing but happiness in my mind for her escaping from Briarcliff. The entire time Kit was on the stairs, and she was walking out, I kept yelling "don't get caught!" at the television, which is probably a sign a television show is doing something right when you're that invested in the characters on the screen. Lana's showdown with Oliver in his apartment made for solid, if somewhat unrealistic television-after all the trickery she'd seen him pull, wouldn't Lana have wanted to get as far away from that man as possible? And wouldn't Oliver have bolted the second that Lana left Briarcliff, knowing that his jig was up? This is a man who destroyed his serial killer lair the second she got free-wouldn't he have reinvented himself once more?
But that's the way the story went, and we got to see Lana, large-and-in-charge, blow Oliver's brains out in a moment of solid karma, followed by her clearly gaining some press and (from the previews) a best-selling book. However, we also got to see her be foolish, and I will admit there is nothing I hate more in a television program than a person acting out of character. After all of the deceit she had suffered at Briarcliff, did she really believe that the deeply Catholic Sister Jude would commit suicide, a mortal sin, and wasn't instead locked up in the dungeon of Briarcliff? I thought that was a bit of a cop-out, and either Lana wanted to move on with her life after all of this horror (an understandable, if somewhat selfish decision) or the writers needed a way to string that story along for two more episodes.
We also got a lot of development on the Kit story, which still baffles me-why is Kit's sperm so special that the aliens have to have it? Is it that this baby will be the actual, eventual pope of this story? Is it going to grow up to become Tate Langdon's father? Is it just that the aliens have the hots for Evan Peters (again, understandable)? Whatever it is, from the ruined-hallmark moment at the end of the episode, with Alma showing up to end Kit and Grace's short-lived honeymoon, it appears that there's something that they want out of the wrongfully-accused Mr. Walker.
Does it feel weird that that was all the story we seemingly got this week? I didn't feel that way while I was watching it, but those are the two big things that really jump out at me. Oh wait, the Dylan McDermott breast-feeding incident-apparently I had blocked that one out. We saw more of Bloody Face, Jr's decent into madness, as he pays a prostitute for a little, well, you saw the title of this episode. Though we don't know the fate of the woman, I'm going to guess she didn't make it through that encounter. Amongst the most pressing questions remaining in the series (aside from the eventual fate of Sister Jude and the attraction of Kit's magical semen) is what is the relationship of Bloody Face, Jr. (does he even have a name-share in the comments!) to his mother, and how does he know the identity of his father? And where exactly are we in the timeline for Bloody Face Jr? Did he commit the murders that started the series before or after all of these mother-issues came to light? Time (and hopefully the final two episodes) will shed some light on this venture.
Finally, we end as we often do in these writeups, with our anti-hero Sister Jude, who has become more and more like a legit hero as the series has gone by. With Sister Mary Eunice, Dr. Arden, and Oliver all dead in the ground, it's now just a battle of wills between her and the Monsignor, which as I have mentioned, seems a bit anticlimactic, as the Monsignor seems so unknowable-considering how integral he seems to be to the conclusion of the series, it seems odd that he never once had an episode primarily focused on him, so that we'd know his motives a bit better. The Monsignor, wanting to rid himself of Sister Jude in the face of Lana's story, locked her in a dungeon (but not before another Emmy-worthy clip of Jessica Lange bringing the house down in front of the jukebox-hot damn that woman can act). Where and what happens to her next, we shall find out next week. Stay tuned...
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