Anchors away and put on a happy face,
because we have episode 5 of "American Horror Story".
In this video, we'll be breaking down the latest episode,
and you'll want to stick around to the very end for my theory on
why some ghosts are reborn at Camp Redwood,
and why there are some we never see.
So heads up, because here we go.
The episode begins in 1980, four years before Brooke and the gang arrive at Camp Redwood.
We are here with Nurse Rita, or as we've come to learn in episode 3, Donna Chambers.
And for the purposes of this video, I'm just gonna keep calling her Rita.
She's on a stakeout, trying to find out where her father has been disappearing to,
after her mother told her that he's been sneaking out.
And judging by the amount of cigarette butts outside her car, Rita has been here for quite some time.
For those of you really paying attention, Rose Royce's "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" plays in the background,
which has such lines as "You abandoned me", foreshadowing the death of her father.
And speaking of her father, we see him get out with a woman who definitely isn't Rita's mom.
Rita demands that her father open the door, thinking that some hanky-panky is happening,
but something far worse is on the other side:
the mutilated body of her father's victim.
Now Rita has some balls, instead of getting the hell out of there, she's like,
"Man, I gotta check this shit out."
On the wall are conveniently Polaroids of all of her father's kills.
Men, women, black, white, it doesn't matter to him.
And around the room, you may have noticed that he keeps mementos of his kills,
like earrings, ties, belts, handkerchiefs, and sunglasses.
When the mutilated woman so rudely interrupts Rita, she tries to stop the bleeding.
Um, Rita, her intestines are out.
Before she's interrupted by dad.
And I love how this brand of bleach is just called "Bleach".
We learn that David, Rita's father, has spent his entire life as a killer.
And what he's about to say starts Rita on her journey to prove that
serial killing is learned, not something that you're born with.
Rita only knows the father who loved and raised her as a child, not this evil psychopath.
She doesn't want to believe someone she loves so much can be capable of so much evil.
She does disclose to him that she's a psychologist, so I think we can put to rest theories that
she was lying about being one when she first went to meet Jingles in episode 3.
She tells him he has the ability to change.
But before she can change his mind, he stabs himself in the neck.
This whole intro section gives us valuable insight into Rita's motivations.
She wants to prove to everyone that killers can change, that they can be redeemed.
It's the same speech she gave to Jingles in episode 3, telling him it's not his fault.
Society, war, trauma, play crucial roles in whether someone will be a killer or not.
We also saw this echoed with Richard Ramirez's backstory.
He's constantly traumatized as a child, even witnessing his cousin kill his wife right in front of him.
If Rita can prove her theory right, she herself gets her own redemption and peace of mind.
She so wants to believe some external factor made her dad kill
that she's willing to release a serial killer from jail just in order to prove her point.
It's really messed up and I'm here for it.
We're back where last episode left off with Rita having seen Ricky resurrect from the dead.
He tells her that he was raised by the Unholy One, and that Satan showed him everything about her,
how she released Mr. Jingles,
which led to the deaths of several counselors, pranksters, and even a porn producer.
He calls into question her very reason for being here,
contradicting her theory by saying that evil is born within you.
The ghost of her father even says,
Meaning if he was evil, it would pass on to her. She is his seed.
He then asks her to follow in his footsteps, so it'll be interesting to see if she does.
It's also interesting to note here that Ricky doesn't kill Rita,
which leaves me wondering if this was at Satan's behest.
We've seen striking similarities between Ricky and season eight's Michael Langdon,
but no hard connection other than Satan between the two.
Outside the burning wreckage of the porn producer's car, Xavier goes full psycho,
telling everyone that they need to burn everything as some sort of signal fire.
And it's ironic he's obsessed with fire, since he was put in an oven last episode.
He's knocked out by Margaret, who says he could harm someone,
but knowing that Margaret was the secret killer all this time,
she's likely making excuses to get some more kills under her belt.
Back in the cabin, the others decide what to do next, with Margaret taking control.
Notice how she still has the gun, conveniently out of bullets, according to her.
And the deer antlers, which make her look like some sort of horned demon.
Of course, they decide the stupidest plan of action, which is to yet again split up,
and who do they make go with Margaret?
Yes, the guy who just a few hours ago was impaled with a spike and had to be resuscitated with adrenaline.
So Chet and Margaret head off, leaving Brooke and Montana alone with a passed out Xavier.
Montana grabs a hatchet and is about to kill Brooke, but she chickens out.
Remember that Montana wants Brooke dead
because she believes her responsible for the death of her brother Sam.
Brooke runs out after seeing Ray, who we know was decapitated at the end of episode 3.
If you recall, Ray's last line at the end of the episode was, "Suck a nut Camp Redwood, see you in another life".
Well, another life sounds about right, as Ray has mysteriously come back to life.
And he shows the same symptom as the hitchhiker from episode 1: a loss of memory.
Chet and Margaret row, row, row their boat, and at least Margaret didn't make him row.
Hey, on the bright side, Chet, you now probably qualify for the Paralympics.
Margaret gets on the topic of death,
probably not the best thing to discuss after multiple people have been murdered,
but she wants to know if Chet will repent and ask for forgiveness before she kills him.
He doesn't, and then we get the most brutal paddle scene since "Animal House".
"Thank you, sir, may I have another?"
She attaches an anchor to his legs and makes sure to cut off his ear
to keep up the charade that it's Jingles responsible for these deaths.
Ray and Brooke have headed to the cafeteria in the hopes of evading Jingles,
who they've heard in the woods.
Remember that Jingles mysteriously vanished after Margaret shot him,
but with Ricky and Ray coming back from the dead, who the hell knows now.
Now, this scene doesn't offer a lot in the way of moving the plot forward,
but we do get a lot of character development for Ray and Brooke,
even a little kiss between the two, which I predicted in episode 1.
Brooke tells us that she always had to fake who she was in order to fit in.
That's how she met Joseph Cavanaugh, her fiancé.
Even telling Ray that she never really loved him,
which calls into question if she actually did sleep with Sam, Montana's brother, the night before the wedding.
I like to think she didn't.
And the two do what any sane people would do during a killer rampage: bang.
Rita arrives to the cabin after being scared shitless by Richard Ramirez,
and lets it out of the bag that she was the one to release Jingles.
Xavier is pissed because his career is ruined,
although there is still that porno of his around.
Rita says that if they can get to her car stashed away in the staff parking lot, they may be able to get away.
But Xavier attacks, jeopardizing a career for him, even in radio.
We see Ray and Brooke post ghost sex.
Now is it just me or was Brooke not too thrilled about her first sexual encounter?
You know what they say: Once you go ghost ...
She goes to the fridge, still thirsty, only to find Ray's decapitated head from episode 3.
And after finding it, she tells Ray,
Now, this is important, because in traditional slasher films, the virgin always survives.
But we just found out she lost her V-card.
But is it really losing your V-card if you have sex with a ghost?
So keep that in mind as we go along.
Brooke runs back to the cabin and we stumble upon Montana,
who looks to be preparing a tent. She's wanting to make her getaway.
Brooke tells Montana about Ray, but before she can barely get a word out,
Montana smashes in her face with a flashlight.
It's 20 minutes till sunrise and as predicted in my last video,
because this episode is entitled "Red Dawn",
we'll likely be seeing the rise of a bloody new day at Camp Redwood.
Montana beats the crap out of Brooke and finally reveals her true intentions,
showing us how she saw her at Perfect 10 Aerobics,
and that she was the one to give Richard Ramirez his blade.
We also get another brief discussion on whether Montana had it in her to kill,
which echoes the question this season is posing on whether people are born with evil or not.
And Montana is introduced to one of my favorite bands: Radiohead.
Rita runs into the nursing station to escape Xavier, when she runs into Jingles.
He's not too happy he's been brought here, taking out bullets from his last encounter with Margaret.
Rita reiterates the driving force of all her decisions.
And this question is answered with Jingles.
He was never a killer, outside the war, at least.
It was Margaret and the mental institution that turned him into this monster.
Not wanting to live with the guilt of what she's done, she asks him to kill her.
But Jingles knows it'll be worse for Rita if she's alive.
Montana has gone full psycho, seems to be a recurring theme this season, and battles it out with Brooke,
when we stumble upon Margaret and Jingles at the archery range.
He's not too pleased that she's been pinning all these murders on him,
and just when it seems like he'll have his revenge,
Xavier shoots him with a shitload of arrows.
When he goes over to check on Margaret, he's brutally stabbed by her,
which makes me wonder: If he comes back to life, will he still have those burns?
And will he make a deal with the devil to get his life back?
And that seems to be what's happening with Ricky and Jingles here.
Ricky is offering him a deal: accept Satan as his master to be reborn.
Hallelujah, it's finally morning at Camp Redwood, after almost 4 episodes completely set at night.
The kids have arrived for camp and
holy crap, Montana and Brooke are still fighting.
Brooke ends up killing Montana in front of the children,
and Margaret pins all the murders on Brooke.
Now this is interesting, because she probably knows that Jingles has made some sort of deal with Ricky.
She was there at the archery range and that pinning it all on him may not work anymore since well, he's not there.
Brooke is the next logical choice.
As police and emergency services arrive at Camp Redwood,
Brooke is taken away, and Ray's blood pressure is taken.
But since he's dead, there's no reading.
Forensics finds Ray's head in the fridge, and when he's taken off Camp Redwood's property,
he's magically brought back, unable to leave the grounds.
Now, whether or not his physical body leaves the grounds we're not sure,
but it looks as though there's a distinction between ghosts like Jonas Shevoore,
aka Jason Voorhees if you rearrange the letters in his name,
and that of Ricky and Jingles.
Why is it that Ricky and Jingles get to leave but not the others?
The clue lies in Ricky's earlier question to Jingles: Would he accept Satan?
Perhaps in return for accepting Satan, you are allowed to leave Camp Redwood reborn.
And if you don't or aren't even offered, you stay at Camp Redwood in what Montana calls "purgatory".
Also, bonus points if you caught the Ghostbusters reference, a 1984 movie,
when Montana says, "There is no Montana. Only Zuul."
The episode also leaves us with Ricky and Jingles off to Los Angeles.
Now, my best guess as to where they're going is the satanic cult.
In season 8, Michael stumbles across this cult in Los Angeles, so it seems like the logical place they would go.
We also don't know where Rita went. Her work isn't done, and she's struggling with all the deaths she has caused.
Perhaps she will now seek her own redemption and try to go after Jingles.
And this theme of redemption may just be what it takes for our campers
to release them from this cycle of purgatory.
Every character who has come back as a ghost so far
has some sort of traumatic past they want to be redeemed from.
This is why we see some people return as ghosts and some not.
And I'm sure this isn't the last we'll see of Brooke, who was seen being taken away by police.
Episode 5 puts a whole new spin on the show with characters branching out from Camp Redwood,
so it'll be interesting to see how the next few episodes tie everything together
and solve some of our most burning questions.
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