Plot

Sister Mary Eunice is terrified to discover a dark angel has descended on Briarcliff. Kit makes a bold move to be reunited with Grace.

The angel of death descends upon Briarcliff Manor. Grace is found bleeding to death after her operation but is brought back from the abyss just as she was to receive the kiss of death. When Sister Mary Eunice accuses Dr. Arden of butchering the operation, he doesn't know what she talking about. Lana manages to escape from Bloody Face but gets a ride from someone who definitely has a thing about women. She soon finds herself back in the asylum. Sister Jude visits Mr. Goodman with Arden's fingerprints and finds him on the bathroom floor bleeding to death. He has barely enough life left in him to identify his attacker. Sister Jude learns something about the incident that shaped her life. Kit escapes and returns to the asylum to rescue Grace who is finally set free.—garykmcd

In Briarcliff, Grace is bleeding to death after the surgery of sterilization and Shachath, the Angel of Death, appears to give the kiss of death. Meanwhile, Dr. Arden is accused by Sister Mary Eunice of destroying Grace with his sick surgery. Dr. Arden denies and decides to save the life of Grace to not be blamed of butcher. Lana succeeds to escape from Bloody Face and forces a stranger to stop his car on the road to get a ride from him. However, the man is a cuckold that has found his wife betraying him and now hates women. He commits suicide while driving at high speed and Lana is found unconscious in the crashed car and is brought back to Briarcliff. Sister Jude finds Sam Goodman dying and he mumbles to her that one of her sisters killed him. Soon she receives a phone call from Sister Mary Eunice and learns what she did. Sister Jude decides to visit Missy's parents and discovers the girl with blue coat has not died. Kit Walker attacks his defense lawyer and flees. He arrives at Briarcliff to rescue Grace, but a tragedy happens.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Nuns checks on Grace in the infirmary, she's hemorrhaging badly from her sterilization. She imagines seeing the Angel of death (Francis Conroy), but the nuns thump her back to life. "You should have let me go," she tells them.

Sister Mary Eunice visits Dr. Arden, telling him he botched Grace's sterilization. She's debating sending her to a real hospital or letting her bleed out. Arden is indignant, saying he didn't perform any such procedure, but Mary Eunice says all of Grace's "girl parts have been scooped out." He barks at her to speak to him with respect, and slaps her. "You touch me again and you die," she says, then flings him across the room with power from an unseen force.

Down in the bakery, Miles tries to quiet the voices in his head by yelling at them. When that doesn't work, he asks to make sure the slicer is working. He walks over to it, rolls up his sleeves and puts his wrists to it.

Sister Mary Eunice comes down to check out the carnage. Miles will live. She recognizes a name written on the wall in ancient Aramaic. Miles can't even read it and doesn't know why he wrote it. "Did you summon her?" Mary Eunice asks. She orders him stitched up and put in isolation.

Strapped to a bed later, Frank checks on him. Miles tells him he doesn't want to be alive any longer.

After lights out, Miles tries to reach his stitches to undo them. He sees the Angel of Death at the end of his bed. She says he summoned her. "I'm here to help you, if that's what you want," she says. He undoes his stitches and starts bleeding. The Angel offers to kiss him and make it all go away. He says yes, and she kisses him, her black wings spread open behind her. Sister Mary Eunice comes in. "You did what you had to do, now leave," she says. The Angel recognizes her as one like her, but fallen, a cousin. She can hear the human girl she's taken hostage screaming to get out.

In the infirmary, Arden looks over Grace's chart and checks on her. She has an infection from her botched hysterectomy. He doesn't want to be blamed, so he plans to give her medicine and round the clock care. "You will live, if only to set the record straight," he says.

Down in the dungeon of horrors, Thredson rapes Lana as she lies motionless, her will too broken to resist. She sees the Angel looking over her.

In prison, Kit tries to explain his non-confession as a "head shrinker trick." He wants Grace to testify that she saw Alma. His lawyer explains that maybe his only way out is to act crazy. Kit picks up a hole puncher, whacks him over the head and goes for the window.

Down in the dungeon, Lana welcomes a visit from the Angel. "I don't think I can do this anymore, death might be better," she says. The Angel softly tells her to let go and leans in to kiss her. But Lana stops her. "Not yet," she says.

Thredson comes down, he thinks they've reached an impasse. "I can either cut your throat or I can strangle you. I don't believe in guns," he says. She starts to cry, so he takes a syringe and tells her to stop fighting it. He tells her she'll be reunited with Wendy.

She looks at the framed picture of Wendy on the bedside table as he comes at her. She picks it up and cracks him over the head with it. They roll off the bed as they struggle and she gets the upper hand and plunges the syringe into his leg. She wraps her chains around his neck and chokes him, then paws through his pockets for the keys. She frees herself, but he's not dead yet.

He makes a grab for her at the stairs, but she kicks him off and runs up. She makes it outside to the woods at night. She runs down the road until a car comes. She stands in front of it and the driver stops. She jumps in the car and tells the driver to go. She thanks him for saving her life and he asks if she had a fight with her boyfriend. He assumes it was her fault and speeds up, refusing her request to get out of the car. He found his wife in bed with another man. He has a gun. Lana sees the Angel in the back seat, but she's still not ready. "No, not you, not after everything," she says. The man says he can't take it anymore and he puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. The car crashes.

Lana wakes up in a bed in a neck brace. Sister Mary Eunice welcomes her back to Briarcliff, "where you belong."

Back in Saul Goodwin's hotel room, Sister Jude leans in to him as he tells her one of her nuns did it. (Through flashback, we see Sister Mary Eunice attacking him.) Sister Jude goes to the phone and calls for the police as the Angel of Death takes Saul.

Then she notices the bottle of booze on the nightstand and a news story about the girl she killed taped to the TV.

1949 Judy is woken up by a man knocking on her door. He's upset she missed their gig last night. He's come to tell her she's out of the band. She tries coming on to him to change his mind, but he turns her down. He leaves her a detective's card, he's looking into a hit and run of a little girl.

She tears up the card, packs in a rush and hops in her car, remembering the accident and lusting after booze. She crashes again, this time into a tree outside a convent. The nuns come to check on her.

Back in the Nazi hunter's hotel room, she's deep into her bottle of booze when the phone rings. It's Mary Eunice, calling as her conscience. She says the evidence will show Saul was looking into her 15 year old hit and run. She left Jude a bottle of booze and a straight razor.

Jude goes to a diner and tries to clean the blood off her hands. She takes out the straight razor and slices her wrist open along the vein, letting the blood pour into the sink. She collapses on the floor in a puddle of blood. But then she dismisses the vision and puts the razor away. When she comes out of the bathroom, she sees the angel waiting for her. "You jumped the gun again, it was nothing but a passing thought," she says. "I come when I'm called, Jude. I don't judge, I never judge," the Angel says. She remembers the first time she called the Angel, before her wedding, when she told Casey he'd given her syphilis and she'd never be able to have children. He called her a whore and left. The Angel tells her she deserves peace. "I'm ready, but I need to do one last thing," Jude says. The waitresses she her talking to herself and wonder if they should call Briarcliff, at least they could give her a bed for the night.

Sister Jude pays a visit to the parents of the girl she hit, who have a new baby. When they hear she's a nun, they think she was Missy's teacher. Jude says she came to tell them a story about Missy. Just then a young woman in a nurse's outfit comes in and takes the baby, her baby. She's Missy. She didn't die. Sister Jude tries to regroup and explains Missy's accident is one of the reasons she took the vows and she's been struggling with her faith lately. Missy's mom explains that Missy just came home with a few broken bones.

Lana begs to speak to Sister Jude, but Mary Eunice comes in instead. Lana tells her Thredson is a murderer; Kit is innocent, Thredson is Bloody Face. Sister Mary Eunice tells Lana she believes her and that no one knows she's there. Lana begs her to go to Thredson's basement, but Sister Mary Eunice gives her pills to take.

Sister Mary Eunice tells Frank what Lana said. He tells her Kit escaped custody and there's a "shoot on sight" order out against him. Kit walker runs through the tunnels of Briarcliff, breaking in.

Grace, doing much better, seeks refuge in the bakery. When a nun leaves her alone, Kit comes for her. They head for the door when the nun returns. She screams, but before Kit and Grace can do anything one of Arden's man monsters comes up behind the nun and chomps into her. The monster chases Grace so Kit tries to get its attention and manages to slice it open with the bread slicer.

Frank shows up in time to see Kit standing over something dead with blood and a weapon in his hands. Frank's about to shoot when Grace steps in front of Kit. Frank's bullet hits Grace. The Angel returns and asks Grace if she's ready. When Grace says yes, she kisses her. "I'm free," Grace says.