Remember how during Season One (about this time last year) of American Horror Story, FX used to release an actual clip from the upcoming episode to Dread Central around Monday or Tuesday?  Hell, I think towards the end they’d even release two.  They didn’t drop any huge bombshells, but at least they threw us some table scraps. Well, maybe they’ll start doing it again. There’s got to be at least one minute of the episode they can show us that doesn’t spoil anything. Guess I took those  for granted!

OK,  so here’s the preview for American Horror Story Asylum Episode 5, I Am Anne Frank Part Two*, and it’s supposed to be a DOOZY. First, take a look…

OK, so I won’t lie, I usually watch these a few times in a row, then go frame-by-frame. Probably more practical ways I could utilize my time, but hey, it’s American Horror Story Asylum and I have it on good authority that the reveal (as to Bloody Face’s identity) will be sick and amazing. Actually, the whole episode is probably going to be insane. Literally every reviewer, critic, blogger, and writer who has seen it all say they cannot wait until the episode is aired, because they’re dying to be able to talk about it with us fans/writers who don’t get to watch the show in advance and share the twisted secrets and new developments.

There were some interesting shots from the “I Am Anne Frank, Part Two”* preview,  and I have some speculation. If you consider speculation for an upcoming episode SPOILERS, then you should probably skip this. I have friends (not who watch AHS, but True Blood and Breaking Bad, off the top of my head) who turn the channel before scenes from next week come up. I do NOT have the willpower, especially with BrBa and True Blood (they will usually release a short clip from the next episode, too). You want to talk about willpower, I know someone who just DVR’d every Breaking Bad episode for the first half of Season Five that aired this year (there were right) and SOMEHOW waited eight weeks so they could watch them all in a row. So yeah, SPOILER ALERT on SPECULATIONS coming up now.

Let’s see, I’ve been keeping my ear to the wind and we’re going to find out that Shelley is not the only “sex addict” (though she didn’t seem to need to be locked up for it, but fifty years ago …yeah in the cast of characters. I hear three patients will be leaving Briarcliff–actually, it could be three characters (meaning staff or patient), but I know one of them is a patient, probably more– but NOT in a way that works out too well for them. I fact, at least one will wish they *could* go back to Briarcliff. Yes, that bad.  I hear at least one person presumed dead will be re-united with their soul mate (I’d say, “other half”, but that might be an unfortunate word choice), but also in a terrible way.  The kinds of things one spoiler was hinting at, I’m not sure could be shown on American Horror Story Asylum, that’s how gruesome and sick it sounded. I have two theories, one I’m just going to keep quiet about until after the show, in case it does not get that sick and I end up sounding like a freak.  My theory is that Lana will be outside Briarcliff, brought by Dr. Thredson.  Dr. Nazi could finish up destroying Shelley’s humanity inside and out, and wheelbarrow her out into Rasper-ville in the woods. Whether or not she’ll be joining them dead or alive is another matter. Maybe with Sister Mary Eunice’s help…

OK, let me back up here. In the preview, we see Dr. Thredson quietly telling Lana (in a slightly scary monotone) that he’ll be taking her out of Briarcliff Manor with him after dinner. She’s so dazed and relieved at this news that she asks him if this is real. Sadly for her, it is.

Oh, but Lana, you forgot what show you’re on. Later we see her screaming in visceral horror and raw panic, more terrified (and broken-looking) than she did when they strapped her down to give her shock treatment, when she fought them all off as much as she could, actively frightened at what was happening to her, and equally terrified at the idea of her memory being erased against her will (very, very frightening concept for any sane person). In the shots of her screaming in the preview for tonight’s episode, it looks like she’s in some kind of tiled room. Maybe a bathroom? Maybe Dr. Thredson takes her back to the home she and her lover Wendy shared? Wasn’t Wendy showering when she heard a noise, and felt a breeze (as the song “Wishing and Hoping” played), went to investigate, turned around and RAAAAAARR!  There was Bloody Face. I don’t know if we saw her being killed onscreen, and there weren’t those heinous, grisly Foley effects added like when, say, Theresa stabbed one of the Bloody Faces with a trans-orbital lobotomy tool in the present-day wraparound story. Clearly whatever she does get revealed to her will be the stuff of nightmares. Dr. Thredson walking into the room wearing what is clearly Wendy’s skin, maybe? Oh, this is going to be brutal.

I feel bad for her already.

Next, Sister Jude takes a look in Dr. Nazi’s** lab. “I see you finally got a chance to stick your nose in my lab,” he says in that tone he usually gets right before he does something scary and/or violent. She responds that it wasn’t too interesting. He goes on to tell her that she’s through here, and she knows it. Quick flashes of her looking like she’s weeping, or trying to pull herself together.

Later in the preview she’s almost certainly speaking to the “Nazi Hunter” she hired/contacted to look into the possibility of Anne Frank being right. “His name is Hans Gruper …he may have been an SS doctor.”

We see a shot of what looks like Dr. Nazi closing the door on a (very) padded cell on Anne Frank (or is she? Franka Potente‘s character, anyway). This does not bode well for her claims being taken seriously, though in several official promo pics released for the episode, we see her actually talking with the investigator, along with Sister Jude in some shots.

Cut to Dr. Nazi seemingly sincerely thanking Sister Mary Eunice “for protecting me”. “For protecting us  ,” she responds. There’s a quick shot of her dragging a body down a hall. I swear, in the first preview they showed right after the first airing of Part One, it looked like Sister Mary Eunice was either pulling her skirt up, or pulling something under them down, if you get my drift. Guess I must have imagined that part… we’ll see.

Next, it gets horrible for other characters. We see Kit being dragged down a hall by what look like two cops. fighting but losing.

THEN things get very dire, there’s a shot of someone’s open eye (I am sorry to break the news that it looks like Grace’s)  and the icepick-like trans-orbital lobotomy tool being tapped in (the tool in question was inserted in the corner of one of the patient’s eyes. I don’t even want to think about it). But here’s some photos.

Finally there’s a shot of an older heavy-set Far Side-esque woman getting a better look at something–with a group of small children around her, no less– down a recessed stairwell, outdoors. She screams at the top of her lungs when she recognizes the sight for what it is – my money if on a mangled corpse, possibly of a skinned and decapitated woman’s body that had been dumped there. Whatever it is, the poor woman looks like she’s in for a lifetime of therapy…

There’s a few very, very quick flashes I caught, and it’s harder to tell what the fuck we’re seeing. A couple of what looks like Grace’s head fighting against an ECT machine, or just some kind of scary, painful device of Dr. Nazi’s.

A shot of a patient (it’s unclear who, but I personally narrowed it down to Kit or Grace) wrapped in bandages – after some hideous “therapy” procedure? Before? Eeek!

Those are my speculations from the preview. Feel free to share yours below in the Reply section!  Just in case you’re unclear on what a trans-orbital lobotomy is… well, was, thank God they stopped using the device (and lobotomies)… and you really want to know, you can check out this Wikipedia article. I suggest you don’t read it if you have A. a headache B. sore or irritated eyes for whatever reason. The visuals are bad enough, trust me–yep, I woke up with a head cold today, sinus pain and pressure behind my eyes, didn’t get enough sleep and it felt like, for the first hour I was up, someone had tossed sand in my eyes when I hadn’t expected it.  Therefore, this article going up later than I wanted it to. Sorry! I just couldn’t stand to think about it, let alone look, until the Aleve I took kicked in as much as it was going to. I am pretty sure it is Grace, from the eye color, plus there’s an earlier quick shot of her being picked up bodily by what looks like an orderly as she fights back like a tiger.

And here’s some of those official photos released by FX I mentioned earlier… not a lot of variety, but I hope Sister Jude is ready for a fight. I don’t have a good feeling about Ann Frank’s future…

* I absolutely love everything about the show (which you’ve probably gleaned by now) but the titles are pretty bland. I recall Nip/Tuck episode titles would just be the name of the surgery seeker of the week… you know, the  So, Tell Us What You Don’t Like About Yourself patient. Last season on AHS, I think the most adventurous were “Smouldering Children” and “Spooky Little Girl”. Oh well, if they want to skimp on the creativity for the title and use it all for the episode, fine with me.

**I literally had a nightmare about the character the other night. He only made a brief cameo, but still, scared the hell out of me.

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