This episode of “American Horror Story: Freak Show” had the most eventful storyline yet.
The show starts with Stanley and Maggie Esmeralda making plans to kill a freak to receive money from a local museum for the body. Stanley tells Esmeralda that they will not be caught because whoever they kill will done in a way that seems to be an accident.
Gloria Mott finds Dora, the maid, and knows Dandy Mott is the one who killed her. They bury her in the backyard and Gloria hopes no one ever finds out. When Dora’s daughter, Regina Ross, calls to talk to her mom, Gloria has to hide the fact her mother is dead. She asks Ross if she seemed like a good mother to Dandy and Ross says that she allowed the nannies to take care of him instead of herself. This makes Gloria incredibly emotionally.
Esmeralda and Jimmy Darling get closer when she tells his fortune. She tells Darling to beware of a man coming for him and to leave town. Darling attempts to kiss her, but Esmeralda rejects it. Jimmy leaves defeated.
Afterwards, Darling goes to find Dell Toledo before the freaks start their nightly show. Instead he finds Desiree Dupree, who is depressed that Toledo has disappeared and their marriage has deteriorated. Darling and Dupree kiss and start to become physical, but then Dupree starts to bleed.
Immediately she is sent for doctor’s help and he discovers she is not a hermaphrodite, but a woman with extra testerone and an enlarged clitorous. This explains the third breast and the penis-looking part. The doctor also reveals the bleeding was caused by a miscarriage.
Excited she can have children and a normal life, Dupree tells Toledo she is leaving him. This makes decisions a little bit easier for Toledo, who was debating between staying with his wife for appearances, or reveal who he really is by being with his boyfriend, Andy.
However, this plan also falls apart when Dandy goes to the club Andy works at and pays to take him home. Dandy then proceeds to stab him, but Andy will not die easily and Dandy dismembers him instead.
While all this is occurring for the freaks, Stanley comes to town to approach Elsa Mars. He pretends to work for television and tells her she could be a tv star. Mars refuses.
When Mars becomes too difficult, Stanley approaches Bette and Dot Tattler. He attempts to poison them with cupcakes, but Dot does not trust him and does not eat one and tells Bette not to eat one either.
Mars becomes jealous of Stanley’s new found attention of Bette and Dot. To make things easier on herself, she kidnaps them and takes them to Gloria’s home.
RECAP: ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ (episode 5)
November 6, 2014
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