After Shelby slip up upon a creepy-crawly colonial confluence in the woodslast week , it seemed pretty clean-cut thatAmerican Horror Storywas focusing on the mysterious true - life tale ofthe Lost Colony of Roanoke– and the 2d sequence appeared to confirm that when it peck up right on where the unveiling left off . And hey , it’sofficiallysubtitled the seasonRoanoke .
But Ryan Murphy seldom stays in one lane , and the second sequence introduced a possible new base for time of year 6 : Charles Manson . Maybe you ’ve get a line of him .
The cultus drawing card and mass murderer did n’t really seem himself , although Twitter wouldcertainlylikeEvan Peters to make for him . or else , the show channeled Manson ’s legend into the instalment , which usher in the backstory of the Roanoke house and two homicidal sisters , Miranda and Bridget Jane , who lived in the firm in the recent eighties . You might recollect them as the two women Shelby seemingly hallucinated during her wine-colored haze in the season premiere .
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Well , they were no bibulous nightmare . They were nurse who ran an assisted - life facility in the firm decades earlier . When they were n’t interfering doling out medicinal drug , they were killing patients using mean such as rat toxicant , bullets to the headspring , and asphyxiation .
oddly , the baby assume in seniors whose first names began with the letters of their best-loved word , and they gleefully spray - paint a new letter on the wall whenever they belt down someone . But they left their ghastly art project unfinished , having gotten only as far asM - U - universal gas constant - D - E. You do n’t want to be a spelling - bee champ to guess what they were run for .
The bull discovered what they were up to before Miranda and Bridget Jane could spray the finalRand they fled the scene , leaving behind five dead bodies and some unerasable graffito .
We know this because Matt and Shelby falter upon a videotape recorded by a professor named Dr. Elias Cunningham ( play by Denis O’Hare ) , who ’d come to the property in 1997 to explore a true - crime novel " in the vein ofHelter Skelter . " He was concerned in Miranda and Bridget Jane ’s story , but became so horror-stricken by the " malefic forces " in the house that he withdraw into a cellar elsewhere on the property . The videotape document his terminal trip into the home , and ends with him ostensibly getting whacked by that bloodthirsty colonist played by Kathy Bates .
There are a couple more Manson clues here . The red spray - painted substance echo the horrific phrase the Manson Family smeared in their victim ' rip , like " Healter Skelter . " ( Their typo , not mine . ) The Manson fad also scrawled the Scripture " slob " on walls , which would explain that pig head that keeps popping up everywhere .
rooter have been anticipating aCharlie Manson Family reunionfor a while – rememberthis preview ? – but the episode made good on another hope . One of the few clew Murphy tender about Season 6 was that it would feature " elements of children . " And after Lee ’s girl , Flora , was introduced , then promptly expire missing in interest of her ghostly booster Priscilla , it ’s dependable to say those elements are in play . Also in play : moreBlair Witch Projectnods .
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Questions to ponder as we head toward Episode 3 : is Dr. Elias Cunningham alive ? Who took Flora ? When will someone with a first name starting with the letterRbe introduced ? And does this all still link up to Roanoke or is it an knowing misdirect ? As usual , AHSposed more questions than it actually answered . But hopefully , someone at FX can serve one of the installment ’s grown mystery story : what bechance tothat slayer composition song ?
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