American Horror Story owes us big after getting rid of arguably the best character in the series' history, Cricket Marlowe. (No, we're still not over it.) And so, Ryan Murphy delivered us Evan Peters for the first time in Roanoke. (PRAISE!)
If not as a producer on the show within a show (as some fans have thought), how then? AHS theorists had some ideas, and they tend to be a pretty spot-on group. (They correctly predicted the mysterious season six theme and pointed out a pattern in Roanoke's first episodes.) The most popular hypotheses were as a descendant of Edward Phillip Mott (the builder of the Roanoke house), as a descendant of Edward Phillip Mott and Lady Gaga's Wood Witch, or as the Piggy Man. Luckily, we didn't need to wait to find out: Peters showed up immediately as Edward Phillip Mott himself—and he brings with him the origin story of the house and its hauntings (and a George Washington-esque wig).
Mott (a relative of Dandy Mott A.K.A. Finn Wittrock from Freak Show) built the house in 1792 as a place to escape with his lover and his precious art. Bizarre incidents start occurring right away, natch, and culminate with Mott's art being destroyed in the dead of night. Who's responsible? The Butcher, of course, who then has Mott impaled and burned alive for building on her land. Peters came, he saw, and he crashed and burned—literally—within 15 minutes.
Mr. Murphy was climbing higher and higher up our shit list (first Cricket, now Evan Peters?!), until Peters-as-Mott reappears in the present day as a ghost who helps Shelby, Matt, and Flora escape the Butcher and her bloodthirsty gang. He had a series of tunnels built underneath the house to protect his art (little that did) that they're able to use to get away—right into the hands of the Polks. (Remember those guys? The ones who warned them against buying the house in the first place?)
As it turns out, the Polks are just about as friendly a gang as the Butcher and her peeps. Mama—who joins the ranks of this season's effed-up women, along with the Butcher and the Wood Witch—is pissed over the fact that Matt and Shelby turned in her feral children to the police, and conveniently has a deal to turn over Matt/Shelby/Flora to the Butcher. When they try to escape, she smashes Shelby's ankle like its a turkey day wishbone and drops them right off on the Butcher's doorstep—who's prepping to sacrifice Flora first.
Right when we were about to change the channel (we refuse to watch another little girl be sacrificed—not after Game of Thrones), Ambrose (the Butcher's son, played by Wes Bentley) decides he's had enough with the innocent carnage too, and he tosses his mom into the flames instead. Peters/Mott cuts Matt loose, Lee runs over the Piggy Man, and they all escape the house and its evil past alive.
So, with their "Living Nightmare" concluded, where does that leave us? Primed and prepped for the much-awaited, Ryan Murphy-concocted, "shocking twist" that's allegedly coming next week. We're just hoping it involves less Mama, and more Evan Peters in his colonial garb.
Source: http://www.glamour.com/story/american-horror-story-season-6-episode-5-recap-evan-peters
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