This military post turn back spoilers through the 8th sequence ofAmerican Horror Story : Roanoke .

Lee , the " non - actor " character and originalMy Roanoke Nightmaresurvivor toy by Adina Porter onAmerican Horror Story , was the gum that hold last night ’s bloody"Chapter 8"together . She was present for every revelation , and had a hand in two of the biggest kills . If it were n’t for her , not much would have hap in this non - upshot of an episode that largely made it seem like the serial was just biding fourth dimension and knock off character to get to " Chapter 9 . "

She was last dark ’s torpedo , in a twisted sort of mode , one you should pay redundant special attention to moving ahead . Here ’s why :

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She made a questionable confession…

At the top of " Chapter 8 , " watcher find Lee in the same compromise situation she was in last week : link up to a chair in the Polk raise house , down a few bed of leg peel . Things were n’t looking good , as the youngest and most impressionable Polk , Jether ( Finn Wittrock ) , stepped up to stand guard . Lee took the opportunity to send one last message to her daughter , Flora , via phone television :

" You ’ve hear many thing about me this past year , so I desire to distinguish you the truth , " she told the camera . " I kill Daddy . That ’s on me . And me alone . No one else facilitate me – it ’s nobody ’s geological fault , except mine . He was gon na take you away from me , and I could n’t see my life going forwards that way . I do n’t know if one Clarence Shepard Day Jr. you ’ll forgive me , I just require you to go on without the weight of lies and doubt . "

…before killing a Polk

Not long after dropping the Mason bombshell , Lee tap Jether ’s naïveté through conquest . " I like you , " she said , as he tease apart her restraints . The former cop apace capitalise on Jether ’s impuissance by set up him in a throttlehold , jab him , and escaping to line up Audrey ( Sarah Paulson ) . It was a ruthless move that showed adept use of psychological use – one that has to make you marvel : was her confession in the premature scene existent ? Or was it just a genius part of her program to hoodwink Jether ?

She helped us get lots of delicious Polk info

She effectively killed Dominic

When Audrey and Lee returned to the main star sign , the latter was shocked to find her brother ( André Holland)Negan - male erecticle dysfunction to dying . She tell apart Dominic ( Cuba Gooding Jr. ) the equivalent of " pics or lyin ' " as he tried to explain that the real Shelby ( Lily Rabe ) was the culprit . Despite Dominic ’s endeavour to stay united as a team , Lee kicked him outside of the master bedroom ( which funnily seems to be some sort of safe space ? ) and into the ghoul - overrun hall . " You have to unfold the threshold , " Audrey tell Lee , after she slam and locked the door . " There was something out there – I saw it ! " " It ’s his fracture they ’re all dead , " Lee replied , consume by her choler and grief . By hanging Dominic out to dry , she effectively ended his hazard of get that spinoff and showed us precisely how she finger about the wholeteamthing .

What will happen if she lives or dies?

Lee , down an auricle and nursing a mangled leg , record " Chapter 9 " as one of the few remaining survivors . The chyron from Episode 6 made it exonerated that there can only be one by the ending –ifall of this is n’t an elaborate hoax staged by a not - really - dead Sidney , that is . Lee seems likeone of the better betsto make it to the end : she has a spate to live for ( principally her girl ) , and she also probably wants to clear her name to overcome the shame devotee ofMy Roanoke Nightmareinflicted upon her because of her dependency and because of the dubious Flora drama .

If Lee does make it out alive , we could be in shop for an acute " Chapter 10 . "   " We are figuring out , Okay , who ’s the one person who ’s pass to make it out alive?And , What are they going to do to do payback against a connection that put them all in a situation where they all are going to be kill ? " series skipper Ryan MurphytoldE ! Online a distich hebdomad ago .   " you could not trust [ Matt , Shelby , and Lee ] . What they say and what they explicate in their version of [ My Roanoke Nightmare ]   is not in reality the truth . " What are Lee ’s real motive for amount back to the house , and what is she strain to carry through ? Her terminal destination could involve exact revenge on the crummy EXEC who approvedRoanokein the first place – after all , the docu - series sully her image , and chair to the death of her brother and sister - in - natural law .

Lee ’s manoeuvre to ensure her own survival , as outlined above , have been ruthless . She ’s the form of character who , if you ’re Audrey , you want on your side . But she ’s the form of character who , if you give her understanding to doubt you , like Dominic , you desire to fear . She ’s a combat - trained former police officer . She knows how to break people down with mind games . She has the undependable but likable tone of a complex antihero .

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Even if Lee exit in the next couple weeks , that might typeset up a tragical reason for the real Flora to rise up . Right now , one affair ’s clear : Porter ’s character is the genuine drive force and mystery of the show , moderate it together and keeping it exciting until Ryan Murphy ’s final twist in " Chapter 10 . " As the time of year winds down , she , bushed or alive , might reveal herself not only to be the MVP of Episode 8 , but the MVP of the intact time of year .

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