And back in the present day, Ally is allowed only supervised visits with Oz, which come off strained and awkward as she tries to maintain her relationship with her son. Ally gives Ivy a lovely gift, but Ivy rebuffs her, insisting that they can’t afford such luxuries. Rudy asks if there were any signs of their relationship crumbling, Ally thinks back to September 2016 (worth noting, a significant time of the election ramping up) at a moment where she was trying to seduce Ivy, but Ivy was stressing over work and money. Rudy to help her, which, as we learn later, is probably a mistake. She notes that Ivy seemed to be “prepared” for all this, and though it’s probably her paranoia talking, she’s also probably right.
Ally’s still freaked out over being “marked” by the local serial killer, and she’s strapped for cash too. She tells him that she has a “biological need” to see Oz every day, so it’s been rough after Ivy took their son and bolted. Rudy Vincent (Cheyenne Jackson), she woke up to find she’s scratched off some of her skin. She has a dream where bugs are crawling through holes on her skin, and, as she describes to Dr. Meanwhile, unsurprisingly, Ally is not doing well (and I’m starting to think I write this sentence in every “Cult” recap). The argument gets so heated that he fires Beverly, despite her threats of holding a press conference about him “sexually harassing” Serina. Not only is the footage gruesome, but they’re being sued by Serina’s family, so Bob’s refusing. She’s angry at Bob for not showing the tape of Serina (Emma Roberts) getting murdered by the clowns. Her facts aren’t straight, there’s holes in her story, and he even brings up the dreaded f-words - “fake news” - in reprimanding her. As her boss Bob (Dermot Mulroney) correctly points out, she’s blatantly fear-mongering. The episode opens with Beverly Hope reporting on a “crime wave” taking over the community… with clips of crimes mostly provoked by Kai (Evan Peters). We know who’s in the cult, how they function, and what can get them cut off. But after this week’s episode, the aura of mystery is pretty much gone. Bit by bit, puzzle pieces fell into place: Harrison (Billy Eichner) and Meadow (Leslie Grossman) are in the cult, Detective Samuels (Colton Haynes) is even in on it too, etc. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read on unless you’ve seen Season 7, episode 5 of “ American Horror Story,” titled “Holes.”įor the first four episodes of this season of “ American Horror Story,” the titular cult was somewhat mysterious.