American Horror Story

Lillian: The medical community has always

Been fascinated by freaks of nature.

They highlight the strange wonders of the human body,

And illuminate the horrors of disease and disorder,

Death.

For these poor souls,

Halloween must have come as a great relief.

The one ordained day they were allowed to hide behind costumes.

And here at the american morbidity museum,

We not only embrace their differences,

We celebrate them.

So, please have some candy.

Enjoy that, enjoy the tour.

See you in the next room.

Dr. Mansfield. Miss hemmings.

Have you met my lab assistant miss rothschild?

Oh.

She may be my brightest pupil yet.

Oh. That's not true. Now, we don't mean to rush you,

But we do have a bona fide offer that expires in an hour.

Did your appraiser look at the specimen?

He has.

Let me go get him.

These poor people.

Doomed to lie here and be gawked at all day.

Well, they were losers in life.

At least now they have some value.

Careful.

The smithsonian offered me $500 for that.

Then they're a bunch of fools.

I beg your pardon, sir.

I have a double degree from harvard university.

You can't talk to me like that. Yes, about your double degree.

We called harvard, asking after a sylvester mansfield.

They have no record of you.

Did you know that it's a felony

To sell a fraudulent medical specimen?

We have every right to call the police.

And I will call

The new engld journal of medicine.

I'll tell them how rudely we've been treated here.

I brought you an authentic baby sasquatch.

It is a fetal goat with the jaw of a cat sewn onto it.

A what?! This is outrageous.

We're leaving.

Oh.

Take your sasquatch with you.

you're obviously

Inventive people.

If you brought me something authentic,

Something truly priceless, I...

Well, I wouldn't ask many questions.

In fact,

My business is in trouble.

Without new exhibits, even our most loyal patrons

Would rather stay at home and watch ed sullivan.

Where does this stuff come from?

All over. Private collectors, and...

And, you know, I used to get calls from freak shows

When one of theirs would pass, but they're mostly gone now.

Just maybe one or two.

Um...

Coney island and south florida.

What's this over here?

Oh.

The conjoined liver of famed siamese twins chang and eng.

Just the liver?

How much is that worth?

$5,000.

That's fascinating.

Well,

We have to catch our plane. Catch our train.

Oh.

Have a lovely day.

You, as well.

Coney island's a little cold this time of year.

How about florida?

Child: Trick or treat.

Child: Trick or treat!

Jessie, go up and get some candy.

I want to wait.

What was that all about?

She's terrified of clowns.

So guess what her brother dressed as.

I had to drag her to come out

And go trick-or-treating.

Kids.

It seems like a good idea at the time.

Jane: Is it me, or is it

Much more crowded this year?

It's those kids from jupiter.

No trick-or-treating because of the curfew.

Hmm. I thought they caught the guy.

Some circus performer? Mm.

Jessie.

I saw a clown. It was a really scary one.

Remember what we talked about? How sometimes

We can get confused because of our imagination?

He was real.

It's Halloween, jessie.

There's clowns everywhere.

Now, come on.

Let's go get some more candy with these kids.

I swear, I'll never understand that girl.

I find clowns delightful.

Ethel: Ow.

You're awful quiet.

That must mean the biopsy came back positive.

Uh, yes.

You tested positive for cirrhosis of the liver.

It says here that there's a good deal of fibrosis.

Yeah, well, my liver's tough as an old boot.

We can fix her up, can't we?

I don't think so.

Well, I ain't touched a drop since jimmy's 18th birthday.

Well, you could've had this for a long time.

Cirrhosis can be sneaky.

Well, I ain't gonna die anytime soon, am I?

I never liked that question.

I believe hope is strong medicine.

I don't like to tell patients to, uh, give up hope.

Eh, we're all hopeless, doc.

We're all gonna die.

Pardon me, miss, but the older I get,

The harder it gets for me to deliver the bad news.

Never been good at it.

Especially for someone like yourself,

Who must have had a hard life

And seen the worst in human nature.

Eh, I got plenty to be grateful for.

Give it to me straight.

How long have I got?

Anywhere from six months

To a year.

Well, shit.

Shit. Shit. Shit.

Ain't nothing we can do, huh?

Keep the meat to a minimum.

And don't take

A single drop of alcohol.

That'll only accelerate things.

I'm sorry.

I just couldn't be more sorry.

Really.

You know what, doc?

I ain't crying 'cause you told me I'm gonna die.

I'm crying 'cause you're the f...

You're the first doctor ever treat me with respect.

I just c-can't help thinking

My whole life might have gone different if I'd met you sooner.

Paul: Hey, come on, suzi, have a go!

Whoa!

Whoa! (laughs)

Hey, come on, girls!

Between the two of you, you could win this game in one dunk!

No, thank you.

We just washed our hair.

Where have you been?

I was digging a grave.

For meep.

He was a child.

They all are.

I can't protect any of them.

You can't blame yourself.

Why not?

They needed a leader and I failed them.

Stop!

Stop it! What's wrong with you all?!

bette: Dot.

Meep is dead!

Don't you care?!

You're being disrespectful.

Look how much pain jimmy's in.

This is wrong!

We should remember meep by working even harder.

Maybe dedicating the show today to his memory.

The show?

It's Halloween.

No freak performs on Halloween.

Any idiot knows that.

It's not fair. They're new. They don't know

About that old superstition.

Not superstition.

It's true.

Bette: What is?

Why we don't perform on Halloween.

On accounts of edward mordrake.

Who?

Edward mordrake.

Aristocrat who lived in the middle 1800s.

He was heir to all kinds of titles.

Could've been a duke or a lord or some shit,

Things had been different.

Things are never different.

An englishman of noble birth,

Edward was a young man with fine attainments.

He was a scholar.

He was a poet.

Musician of rare ability.

Dot: So what was wrong with him?