Home Invasion
Season 1, Episode 2
Air date	October 12, 2011
Written by	Ryan Murphy/Brian Falchuk
Directed by	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
"Home Invasion" on IMDB
Episode guide
Previous Pilot	Next Murder House

Home Invasion is the second episode of the first season of American Horror Story.

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Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Featured Characters 3.1 Gigi 4 Guest Stars 5 Quotes 6 Notes 7 Raised Questions 8 Videos 9 References 10 Comments

Synopsis Edit

Vivien and Violet find themselves in a dangerous situation; Ben goes back to Boston to fix a mistake.

Plot Edit

1968

Three young women leave for a concert by The Doors, teasing their roommates Maria and Gladys, who are staying behind. Shortly after they leave, a man arrives at the door, screaming for help. Maria allows him in, and while trying to clean his wound finds that there isn't one. The man strikes Maria with a nearby bowl, knocking her unconcious. He drags Gladys upstairs, chanting "Fatty Patty". Maria awakes to water dripping on her forehead. The man tells her to put on a nurse uniform. Maria begs the man's mercy, and tells him she is a virgin. He binds her, she prays for help and the man stabs her repeatedly in the back.

2011

Tate is in session with Ben . Tate taunts Ben, revealing he has sexual fantasies of Violet. Meanwhile, Ben's cell phone begins ringing. He answers, and grows irrate as the caller continues harrassing him, responding, "I'm pregnant."

At a skate park, Violet commiserates with Leah. Leah explains that she hasn't told anyone of what happened and as a result her hair has begun tearning white, out of fear.

Later, Tate begins watching Violet as she sleeps. The burglar alarm siren goes off, waking Ben and Vivien. Ben races downstairs to find the front door open. The door to the basement swings open, drawing Ben's attention. He finds Addy giggling downstairs, kneeling on the floor. He sends her home (through a door in the basement). He walks back upstairs, unaware of a red ball rolling across the floor from Addy's playmate.

Vivien feels something is wrong with the baby, but Ben thinks she is paranoid, given her last pregnancy.

Ben meets with a new client, named Bianca. Bianca dreams of being bisected by an elevator. Bianca reveals that the house is on the "Murder House Tour".

After the session, Ben begins trying to reach Tate's mother to inform her that he can no longer continue his sessions with Tate due to his interference with Violet. Bianca emerges unexpectedly, Ben assuming she had left. He escorts Bianca out.

In their kitchen, Constance is baking cupcakes while Addy is reading a magazine. Addy questions why she does not look like the women in the pictures. Constance has Addy spit in the batter as she mixes in syrup of ipecac, explaining the effects of severe stomach upset and possible internal bleeding.

Ben jogs, crying and guilty, thinking of his affair with Hayden (revealed to be the woman on the other end of the phone, and the student he had an affair with prior). He encounters Larry, who advises he lie about his upcoming trip to see Hayden.

Constance brings the toxic cupcakes as a "peace offering" for Violet. Constance detects that Vivien is pregnant and Vivien asks for Constance's advice on the pregnancy. Constance reveals that she herself has had four children (including Addy), three of which were born with defects. The remaining son was "a model of physical perfection", but Constance lost him to "other things". She insists that Vivien's baby is fine. She also reveals that Moira once worked for her.

Vivien presents the cupcake to Violet, but Violet is not in the mood. Vivien offers to have a "girls night" with Violet, but she declines, and goes on to inform her that she knows Vivien is pregnant, and tells her that if she thinks having a baby will save her marriage, she is wrong. Vivien leaves the room, hurt by Violet's comments, and Violet shouts that she is weak.

Ben visits with Hayden. She claims she is over Ben, and that she wants him there for support while she has an abortion, the next day.

Back at the house, a red-headed woman (later called Fiona) is at the door. Vivien sees through the peephole that the woman's scalp is bloody, in a similar fashion to the man in 1968. She demands help, but a suspicious Vivien does not let her in. Vivien attempts to call the police, but her phone is nowhere to be found. The banging at the door stops, and Vivien can not see Bianca through the peephole, but behind Vivien is lurking an intruder she does not see. Violet comes to the mezzanine, and Vivien tells her to lock herself in her room and dial 911. An intruder enters Violet's room as she searches for her phone. Vivien threatens the now masked woman through the door, but a third intruder is already behind her.

Downstairs, the three intruders unmask (who include Bianca) in front of a captive Vivien and Violet. They intend to re-enact the 1968 murders of Gladys and Maria, and have brought the bowl / ashtray their killer (R. Franklin) used. Violet is to play the role of Gladys and be drowned in the tub upstairs, but during a brief escape is found by Tate (who is inside the house, invisible to the intruders); he tells her that she must get the intruders to the basement where they will be dealt with.

In the music room, a bound Vivien trades barbs with the male intruder. She spies Addy behind him, and subtly tells her to get help. The man turns, but does not see Addy.

Upstairs, Fiona is filling the tub while Violet is forced to dress in the nurse's garb (reproduction, not vintage). Bianca enters, eating the toxic cupcake. She starts to feel the effects immediately and backs out, heading for a bathroom. Violet takes advantage, putting Fiona off balance by her mistaken authenticity: the tub used in the drowning was moved to the basement in a remodel.

Constance is at home, fondling a shirtless young man. As they dance seductively, Addy knocks on the door. An annoyed Constance mistakes Addy's warning about a "bad man next door" to mean Ben. Addy grows insistent, and Constance locks her in a closet surrounded with mirrors. Inside the "bad girl closet", Addy screams.

Bianca vomits in Violet's bedroom trashcan, calling for Fiona. She walks to the bathroom, where Tate (who clearly now can appear anywhere in the house) lures her further. He vanishes into one wall, and re-enters the room through the door with an axe in hand. He brutally strikes Bianca in the abdomen with the axe (ironic, given her elevator "nightmare") and she trails through the upstairs, leaving the walls painted with blood.

The male intruder cuts Vivien's bonds, intending for her to dress in the nurse uniform. She throws it in his face, and as they wrestle Vivien finds the "historic" ashtray and bludgeons him with it. She races upstairs, expecting to find Violet, but only sees the trail of blood.

In the basement, Violet leads Fiona and hides when the lights flicker. Tate calls to Fiona. He has filled the tub for her, and he and Gladys await her.

Vivien and Violet meet on the ground floor and escape from the house, getting Constance's attention.

A ghostly Maria leads the male intruder downstairs. His wanders finding Fiona with her throat slit, beside a filled tub flanked by Maria and Gladys.

At the clinic, Hayden is called in for her procedure. She is sad that Ben can't go in with her. Ben's phone vibrates, and he sees that he has missed 14 calls.

Constance arrives in the basement to join Tate and Moira, as they stand in front of Fiona and the male intruder (both with ruptured throats). Tate does not claim responsibility when asked. Moira says that it was "them". The trio agree that they must get rid of the bodies if Constance wishes Ben to continue treating Tate.

The police question Ben and Vivien. Ben claims he was seeing a patient, and the police question if it was a "real" patient this time. Confused, Ben reads the file they present on Bianca, who was using the sessions to case the house. The police located her, "practically cut in half" six blocks away. Since the other two attackers are missing, the police assume that they pulled a "Black Dahlia" on her for her reluctance, given their propensity for copycat murders. After the police leave, Ben asks Violet about her claim that Tate helped her escape and how he got into the house. Violet, angry with Ben, is happy that Tate was there when Ben was not. She also goes on to tell Vivien that she was very brave. Ben points out to Vivien that he is home now, but she says that he is not, as she plans on selling the house.

Featured Characters Edit

Gigi Edit

Gigi
Appearances
Portrayed by	Skyler Vallo
Information
Occupation	nursing student

Gigi lived in the Murder House in 1968 with Maria, Gladys and at least two other girls. The Murder House back then was converted into a dormitory for nursing students in the 1960s. She seemed to be the ringleader and popular girl of the house, and it's implied through character dialogue that she was sexually very active. She invites Maria to come with her and two other girls to a concert featuring The Doors, which Maria politely refuses, saying she needs to study.

Guest Stars Edit

• Kate Mara as Hayden McClaine
• Frances Conroy as Moira O'Hara
• Alexandra Breckenridge as Young Moira O'Hara
• Jamie Brewer as Adelaide
• Jamie Harris as R. Franklin
• Mageina Tovah as Bianca
• Azura Skye as Fiona
• Kyle Davis as Dallas
• Michael Graziadei as Travis
• Rosa Salazar as Maria
• Shelby Young as Leah
• Scott Lawrence as Detective Webb
• Drew Powell as Detective Collier
• Jacqueline Buda as Patient
• Julia Farsadi as Nurse
• Skyler Vallo as Gigi

Quotes Edit

Moira (to Tate): "I get the shovel, you get the bleach."

Notes Edit

• The 1968 scenes were not filmed on a set, but in the Rosenheim Mansion. ^[1]

Raised Questions Edit

• If the students living here presumably cleaned up the basement, why are the specimen jars and bloody surgical tools there in 1978?
• Who is Mrs Langdon really, and is Ben actually talking to her?
• Why is Constance trying to poison Violet?
• Who is Constance's "gentleman caller"?

Videos Edit

References Edit

1. ↑ interview with Rosa Salazar