That is possibly more tragic than the world ending because Frances Conroy is the best part of this entire season. Because there was never a threat of the Apocalypse, Myrtle was never resurrected. The timeline returns to 2015 where Mallory enters the Coven where Zoe and Cordelia are still alive. “Go to Hell,” she tells him, leaving him to die in the street. Constance rushes to his side as he dies, begging her to take him into Murder House so he can be with her forever. Just in time for Mallory to hit him repeatedly with a car. He attempts to strangle her but cannot finish the job when she calls him a coward and storms out of the house. She kicks him out, exhausted by his killing. He prepares to kill the Supreme, but Cordelia summons his knife and sacrifices herself, flooding Mallory with power as she rises as the new Supreme.īack in Murder House’s past, Constance lashes out at teenage-bodied Michael who has just killed a priest. Cordelia warns him that he doesn’t fully understand what has happened and points out what became clear during his rise with the church of Satan–Michael is kind of whiny and not super smart about being the Anti-Christ. Michael and Cordelia face off, the anti-Christ believing he has triumphed. All appears lost, or “f****d” as Myrtle warns Cordelia. Marie attempts to keep him at bay, but he rips out her heart, eating it even after Coco stabs him. Michael revives, exploding Madison’s head. Before she can, Brock, Coco’s mutant boyfriend, stabs Mallory for taking his spot on the plane. The hope is to allow Mallory to jump back in time and stop him completely at some point in the past. She’s none too impressed with Dinah’s ways and makes short work of her in a quick slash to the throat.Ī moment later, Madison opens fire on Michael’s beloved Miriam-bot, destroying it and temporarily subduing Michael. She traded Dinah’s soul for Coven’s original Voodoo Queen, Marie LaVeau. But Cordelia pulled a fast one after she met with Papa Legba a few episodes back. Dinah, however, is more than willing to take a knee for Satan, keeping her voodoo support from the witches. He attempts to bargain with them to “bend the knee.” Cordelia isn’t having it.
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Turns out that Michael’s plan has one tiny problem–he didn’t manage to kill all the witches.
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And return to the present where they revive their recently poisoned sister-witches. Madison, Myrtle, and Cordelia burst from the ground where they buried themselves to survive, having felt Mallory’s power surge. We revisit Mallory’s power revelation against Michael from early in the season.
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While Madison’s ready to strike a match on the voodoo queen, Cordelia plans to keep Dinah safe until they can exact true punishment. In the course of serving as new-Coco’s Uber driver, Madison discovers Dinah’s deal with Michael from a few episodes ago–breaking the Coven spell in exchange for her own talk show.
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Some blown dust through her tears and Cordelia alters Coco and Mallory, turning Coco into a Madison-knockoff who actively oppresses Mallory, the idea being that this will keep Mallory’s powers under wraps. The purpose is to keep Coco, and more crucially Mallory, safe through the Apocalypse under the protection of an identity spell which will not just make them forget who they are it will alter their personalities. A little Myrtle manipulation and Coco’s family has landed slots in Outpost 3, where we see Coco, Mallory, and Mr. Myrtle arrives at Geek-boy central where Mutt and Jeff are plotting the Outpost occupancy.