So, aside from the new season now becoming known as Roanoke, we last saw Shelby (Lily Rabe/Sarah Paulson) run out on Matt and Lee and flee into the forest, bumping into a man who was scalped. With creepy happenings occurring and suspicion on high alert as to the cause, Chapter Two delves right in where One left off.
Shelby, after witnessing her first group of the mob,is quickly calmed as the scene dissipates and she walks deeper into the forest. Soon, she stumbles upon a scene of an older woman in period costume (Kathy Bates) leading her group in torturing a man, placing him into some weird pig-head costume, and trussing him up to roast him to a crisp. Shelby, thinking that she is hidden from the masses, is quickly found by the woman and called out. Frightened, she aimlessly flees the scene and manages to get out of the forest, only to be hit by Lee’s (Adina Porter/Angela Bassett) car. Shelby is taken to the hospital.
In the hospital, Matt (Andre Holland/Cuba Gooding, Jr.) comes to visit and assures Shelby that they will do whatever it takes to move out of the house. Yet Shelby is now determined to stand and fight against those trying to oust them, despite her apprehension about remaining in the house. She believes that it is the men who initially tried to buy the home from them, working diligently on scaring them off the property.
Meanwhile, Lee is paid a visit by her daughter, Flora (Sinyya Sidney), as part of the agreement between her and her estranged husband Mason (Charles Malik Whitfield). In the re-enactment, Lee is excited about having her daughter there with her, but the documentary foreshadows something far worse coming during the visit. Lee goes to grab Flora a snack and finds her in another room, speaking to an invisible entity named Priscilla in the basement.
When Mason comes to collect Flora the next day, her penchant for hide and seek results in a terrifying result: Priscilla offers Flora the chance to allow everyone in the house to live in exchange for Flora's doll, or Flora will get to watch everyone in the house die first. Mason, believing that Lee had something to do with this, collects Flora and threatens Lee that he will be going to the Judge to keep Flora from her mother. Lee falls off the wagon and proceeds to get drunk to drown out her sorrows. Matt and Shelby help her to bed.
During this time, as the couple is subjected to strange sounds in the middle of the night and increased police protection, Matt also starts to experience his own visions. And they come in the form of being woken up in the middle of the night by a scene of two nurses shooting a patient in his home. Still a little rattled the next day, him and Shelby are lured outside by the sight of a young woman in 16th Century costume on their property.
When they manage to pinpoint the actual spot where the woman stood, there's a door in the ground, leading to a cellar. In the cellar, they uncover a bunker where Elias Cunningham (Denis O'Hare), one of the previous owners, shares the story of two sadistic sister nurses, Miranda (Maya Berko) & Bridget Jane (Kristin Rakes), who collected elders with inattentive families to help complete a terrifying masterpiece: killing patients with the first letter in their name to spell out MURDER.
Unfortunately, before they could complete their task (missing the final R), they disappeared, but Cunningham is not so sure that if they left or if the house took them; sadly, Cunningham is also taken by the house as witnessed on his final video log. Earlier in the video, Cunningham mentions how MURDE was left on the walls of the home only to be covered by wallpaper because it would reappear over fresh paint. This revelation prompts Matt to head back into the house, unearthing the unfinished "masterpiece" to his and Shelby's horror.
With new information, the couple double down on trying to get their money back from the bank for the house, with little success. They are now stuck here until they can sell, or lose everything that they worked so hard to save. But this is the least of their worries as Lee drives up to the house, with Flora in tow. Matt & Shelby explain to Lee that this will hurt her chances of seeing Flora, but luckily Shelby calms down an angry Mason over the phone, assuring him that Flora is fine and will be returned.
Lee goes to collect Flora to take her back, but in the time she was left to do her homework and the adults were talking, she wandered out into the forest. Now near full panic, Lee, Matt, and Shelby head into the forest to find Flora, only to find towards the top of a tree... Flora's yellow hoodie.
With Flora missing and the strange occurrences becoming more frequent, what could possibly happen to Matt, Shelby, and Lee to make the situation worse? Stay tuned for next week!
