<Tr> <Th> 46 </Th> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> "Blood Bath" </Td> <Td> Bradley Buecker </Td> <Td> Ryan Murphy </Td> <Td> December 3, 2014 (2014 - 12 - 03) </Td> <Td> 4ATS08 </Td> <Td> 3.30 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Ma Petite's bloody dress is found in the woods, along with some bones of unknown origin, and the troupe assumes that she has been mauled and eaten by a wild animal . However, Ethel has other suspicions and accuses Elsa of killing Ma Petite for stealing her thunder . As the relationship between the two comes to a crashing halt, Ethel shoots Elsa in one of her legs, only for Ethel to be taken aback by the revelation that Elsa has fake legs . A flashback reveals that Elsa was carried from the aftermath of the snuff movie to a doctor (Danny Huston) who crafted the legs for her . While Ethel prepares to shoot Elsa in the head for lying to her and betraying her, Elsa throws a knife into Ethel's head, killing her . With the help of Stanley, Elsa constructs a suicide for Ethel in which Ethel crashes her car into a tree with a chain around her neck, decapitating her . The troupe believes this story and they mourn Ethel while Jimmy falls into a pit of despair and casts Maggie away . In response, he falls into the arms of a new recruit of the troupe, a morbidly obese woman with the stage name Ima Wiggles . After Ethel's burial, and sick of being treated badly, Amazon Eve, Desiree, Penny, and Legless Suzi plan revenge on Penny's father by sneaking into his house, knocking him unconscious and bringing him to Dell's caravan . They tar and feather Penny's father and prepare to mutilate and kill him . Maggie hears his screams and begs them not go through with it . Penny lets her father go and banishes him from her life . Meanwhile, Dora's daughter Regina pays the Mott household a visit to investigate her mother's disappearance and refuses to leave without seeing her . Gloria, under, lies to Regina . Dandy is tricked by Gloria into visiting the therapist and becomes enraged when he realizes what is going on and that his mother thinks he should be institutionalized . Upon returning to the house, Dandy shoots Gloria in the head and bathes in her blood . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 47 </Th> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> "Tupperware Party Massacre" </Td> <Td> Loni Peristere </Td> <Td> Brad Falchuk </Td> <Td> December 10, 2014 (2014 - 12 - 10) </Td> <Td> 4ATS09 </Td> <Td> 3.07 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> After killing his mother, a deranged Dandy visits Maggie at the freak show to receive a reading . Maggie assures Dandy that there may be some trouble in his future but he will prevail . More confident than ever, Dandy leaves to continue his grisly work of being a serial killer, but is stopped by an extremely drunk Jimmy . Jimmy accuses Dandy of having something to do with the twins' disappearance and threatens Dandy, knowing he had a part in the clown murders . Dandy calls Jimmy pathetic as he falls to the ground, promising vengeance on Jimmy for taking Bette and Dot away from him . Elsa and Stanley track down the twins and bring them to the farmhouse . Stanley declares that the townspeople have gone on a rampage and that they will be safe there until the doctor comes to perform their surgery . The twins realize that having separate lives is not worth losing one of their own and vow to not get the surgery . With the truth of his sexuality and guilt over Ma Petite's murder becoming too much for Dell, he attempts to hang himself, but is later saved by Desiree . After Jimmy is too drunk to perform at a Tupperware party for the housewives, he sees hallucinations of Ethel, who tells him to get over her death and move on . Once Jimmy leaves, Dandy shows up at the door claiming that his car broke down . He murders the whole group of women, gouging out their eyes and leaving them to float in the pool . Regina confronts Dandy and tells him she has contacted the police about her mother, but is shocked when Dandy openly admits his murderous streak . He lets Regina escape, but she soon returns with Detective Colquitt . Dandy promises the detective one million dollars if he kills Regina; which Colquitt does without a blink, shooting Regina in the head . A drunken Jimmy goes back to his caravan, only to find Dot and Bette waiting for him . Dot declares her love for Jimmy and says they can live happily together, with Bette agreeing, but Jimmy declines their advances, claiming he is in love with someone else . As he exits the caravan, police cars show up to the freak show . The corrupt Detective Colquitt arrests Jimmy for the murders of the Tupperware party women, and drags him away in a police car . </Td> </Tr>

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