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"Edward Mordrake: Part 2" is the fourth episode of Freak Show. It premiered October 29, 2014.
Synopsis
Edward Mordrake continues his search for a Freak to add to his ghostly coterie. Elsa tells the grisly story of her days in Germany. Jimmy and Maggie have a run-in with the Twisted Clown. [1]
Plot
Edward Mordrake's emerald mist flows across the grounds into Suzy's and Paul's tents. He finds Salty and Pepper play-fighting on the stage. Each tells a story. Suzi's legs were taken at age two, and she was abandoned by her parents at a children's home; she killed a fellow beggar on the streets. Paul arrived during the Depression, and got tattoos to intimidate oncoming attackers. He finds no shame with the playful Pepper and Salty. None of them are his choice.
He arrives in Elsa's tent, and she admonishes him for his leaving her performance before it was done. He waits patiently for her to show her deformed legs, though she is intent on talking about her talent. She has mistaken him for a talent manager. His compatriots hold her to her bed and rip off her prosthetics. He bids her to tell him all about "her darkest hour" while she cries.
Jimmy and Maggie stall the motorcycle on a backroad. He is eager to get off the road during the curfew, but she argues that he has bad intentions towards her. Hearing a car, they hide in the woods.
Mike, the new captive in the bus asks if he is going to die. Bonnie laments that Corey is getting weak, since Twisty doesn't feed them. She quickly describes their situation, and has him rety her bonds when Twisty arrives. When Twisty enters the coop, she rushes past him for an escape. Jimmy and Maggie observe the escape, thwarted when Twisty tackles and retakes the girl. Jimmy follows to try and help over Maggie's protests.
Elsa tells Mordrake about the sex club she used to work in in 1932 Weimar as a Minette (dominatrix). One of her clients is instructed to sit on a nail spiked toilet seat. She drew a crowd of observers for her depraved dominations. Mordrake insists on hearing about her legs. In Brandenburg, Elsa's downfall performance was a drugged bondage snuff film, where they cut off her legs with a chainsaw. Her soldier client (from the toilet seat) saved her. Her film was passed all over Germany, and her career was over. The face says that she is the one. She says she is ready for him to take her, and he nearly stabs her, but he is stopped when he hears a toy piano playing.
Jimmy and Maggie track Twisty and the unconscious Bonnie to the bus, where they are discovered by the costumed Dandy. Jimmy awakes, bound, to see Maggie gagged and stuffed in a box. Dandy's performance is sawing Maggie in half, not as a magic trick. Jimmy knocks Dandy over and saves her. Twisty is delighted, but makes to stab Jimmy anyway. Mordrake arrives to watch how the show ends.
The captives run for the road while Maggie leads a pursuing Dandy away. BAck at the bus, Twisty removes his mask and is able to tell Mordrake his story. He was a childrens' clown in 1943's Rusty Westchester's Travelling Carnival. The carnie dwarves talk to him around a fire, and establish that he is a simpleton. They insinuate that he is a child molester and that he should run from the imminent police. He was unable to re-establish work, and he returned to Jupiter, making toys from reclaimed items. He tried to sell them to Hanley's Toys, but the owner would have none. After rejection from a child and his mother, Hanley accuses him of being a child molester also. Full of fury, he wrecks a shelf and runs.
Distraught, Twisty attempted suicide by shotgun, but succeeded in blowing his jaw off instead. He evolved his clown persona, then thinking that he was rescuing the children from the freaks. He sees himself as a good clown. He has "caused the demon to weep", according to Mordrake. Mordrake stabs him, and Twisty's ghost is welcomed as their new brother. The ghost rises, jaw once again whole, and the company departs.
Dandy returns to find his slain mentor and claims his rictus mask for his own. He runs when sirens approach, leaving behind a bound and captive Jimmy.
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