<Li> Lance Reddick as Papa Legba </Li> <Li> Jamie Brewer as Nan </Li> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> US viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 85 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The End" </Td> <Td> Bradley Buecker </Td> <Td> Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk </Td> <Td> September 12, 2018 (2018 - 09 - 12) </Td> <Td> 8ATS01 </Td> <Td> 3.08 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> In the near future, nuclear missiles destroy the world and start a nuclear winter . Thanks to her family's private plane, Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt manages to escape the destruction of Los Angeles with her assistant Mallory, her hairdresser Mr. Gallant, and his grandmother, Evie . Meanwhile, an organization known as "The Cooperative", selects young adults to save from the apocalypse, based on their genetic makeup . Two of the selected, Timothy and Emily, are sent to Outpost 3, an underground base led by Ms. Venable . There, they are reunited with other survivors, including Coco, Mallory, Mr. Gallant, and Evie . Life at the Outpost includes strict rules and severe punishments . Eighteen months pass and the situation and food supplies are at critical condition at the Outpost . A man from the Cooperative, Michael Langdon, arrives and announces that he will judge who deserves to be truly saved . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 86 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Morning After" </Td> <Td> Jennifer Lynch </Td> <Td> James Wong </Td> <Td> September 19, 2018 (2018 - 09 - 19) </Td> <Td> 8ATS02 </Td> <Td> 2.21 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Langdon introduces himself to the guests of Outpost 3 and explains his duty . He inquires Mr. Gallant about his sexual orientation and his hatred towards his grandmother . Later, the Rubber Man approaches Gallant in his bedroom and Evie catches the two having sex . She reports their insubordination to Ms. Mead . Timothy and Emily discover recent Cooperative e-mails detailing Venable's transgressions against proper Outpost protocol . Gallant refuses to reveal the identity of the Rubber Man to Venable . Gallant assures Langdon that he did not reveal his identity and Langdon asserts that he is not the Rubber Man and that he would never have sex with him . Timothy and Emily cast aspersions on the rules of Outpost 3 and they have sex for the first time . The Rubber Man attempts to seduce Gallant once again and Gallant stabs him with scissors . Langdon appears and Gallant finds himself looking upon his grandmother's bloody corpse . Timothy and Emily are caught in bed and are sentenced to death . Timothy shoots Mead in the stomach and her wound reveals internal wiring and white liquid . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 87 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Forbidden Fruit" </Td> <Td> Loni Peristere </Td> <Td> Manny Coto </Td> <Td> September 26, 2018 (2018 - 09 - 26) </Td> <Td> 8ATS03 </Td> <Td> 1.95 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Langdon unveils his true demonic form to Mallory and she makes flames shoot from a fireplace . Venable confides to Mead that she has not been selected to move on to the Sanctuary and Mead suggests they kill everyone . Brock navigates a nuclear wasteland and guns down a cannibalistic tribe . He then beholds a horse - drawn carriage pass by . The carriage delivers apples to Outpost 3 and Venable resolves to inject them with venom . Brock infiltrates Outpost 3 and attends Venable's Halloween masquerade ball . Coco, presuming Brock to be Langdon in costume, seduces him back to her bedroom . Brock then reveals himself to Coco and stabs her in the forehead . The Outpost 3 guests bob for poisonous apples . Venable instructs everyone to wait to eat simultaneously . The guests comply and concurrently succumb to the poison . Venable and Mead confront Langdon and Venable proclaims that they will be making the selections . Mead shoots Venable under order from Langdon . Langdon tells Mead she was modeled after a caregiver from his childhood, which consoles her . Later, Cordelia Goode, Madison Montgomery, and Myrtle Snow descend upon Outpost 3 and Cordelia resurrects Mallory, Dinah, and Coco . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 88 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Could It Be...Satan?" </Td> <Td> Sheree Folkson </Td> <Td> Tim Minear </Td> <Td> October 3, 2018 (2018 - 10 - 03) </Td> <Td> 8ATS04 </Td> <Td> 2.02 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Three years before the nuclear bomb, the Hawthorne School for Exceptional Young Men seeks out Michael Langdon, who has been arrested for killing a man who insulted the woman Mead is modeled after . He is put to the test and displays tremendous abilities . Miss Robichaux's Academy is summoned for a meeting and Cordelia scoffs at the Grand Chancellor's suspicion that Michael may be the first male Supreme, known as the Alpha . To prove his power, Michael saves Queenie from eternal damnation at the Hotel Cortez and fetches Madison from her personal hell . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 89 </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> "Boy Wonder" </Td> <Td> Gwyneth Horder - Payton </Td> <Td> John J. Gray </Td> <Td> October 10, 2018 (2018 - 10 - 10) </Td> <Td> 8ATS05 </Td> <Td> 2.12 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Cordelia has a frightening vision of a destroyed Miss Robichaux's Academy and being attacked by disease - ridden people . Later, she announces that Langdon will take the Seven Wonders, something that she is berated for by Myrtle . Mallory's abilities soon intensify and Cordelia reveals that she is dying and slowly starting to lose her Supremacy . John Henry Moore discovers Langdon's true self but Mead interferes before he can warn anyone and kills him . During the test, Cordelia asks Langdon to bring Misty Day back to life, so he breaks her out of her personal hell . It is revealed that Cordelia has been planning an army against Langdon and used him to resurrect her students . Later, Cordelia asks Madison and a suspicious Behold to investigate Langdon's origins at the Murder House . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 90 </Th> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> "Return to Murder House" </Td> <Td> Sarah Paulson </Td> <Td> Crystal Liu </Td> <Td> October 17, 2018 (2018 - 10 - 17) </Td> <Td> 8ATS06 </Td> <Td> 2.01 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Madison and Behold buy the Murder House on behalf of the Coven, under the pretense that they are a married couple . They cast a spell to force the spirits of the house to appear to them . They encounter the ghost of Constance Langdon, who agrees to provide information on her grandson Michael if they banish her old nemesis, Moira O'Hara, from the house . Madison and Behold exhume Moira's bones, and bury them with her mother's; Moira is then set free from the house . Constance tells them that she sensed an evil in Michael from very early on . In his youth, he began killing animals, and then his babysitter . After Michael ages ten years overnight, Constance enlists the help of a Catholic priest, whom Michael kills . Constance, out of hopelessness, commits suicide in the Murder House, where she is reunited with Tate, Beauregard, and her fourth child, a little girl with no eyes . Madison and Behold then interview Ben and Vivien Harmon, who further reveal the evil in Michael's soul . Vivien tells them that Michael's father is neither Ben nor Tate, but the evil of the Murder House . Before leaving with Behold, Madison reunites Tate and Violet . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 91 </Th> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> "Traitor" </Td> <Td> Jennifer Lynch </Td> <Td> Adam Penn </Td> <Td> October 24, 2018 (2018 - 10 - 24) </Td> <Td> 8ATS07 </Td> <Td> 1.85 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> With the help of voodoo queen Dinah Stevens, Cordelia arranges a meeting with Papa Legba in an attempt to prevent Langdon's plans . Legba reveals that he owns Nan's soul, and agrees to help entrap Langdon under the condition that Cordelia give him the souls of the remaining girls . Cordelia refuses, and Legba disappears . In order to learn more about the warlocks and their plans, Madison enlists the help of Myrtle's long time friend, witch - actress Bubbles McGee, who specialises in reading the thoughts and souls of others . At a dinner party held by Myrtle, Bubbles discovers that Ariel and Baldwin know about the death of John Henry, and that they are planning to kill the women of the coven . Zoe suspects Mallory to be the true next Supreme after she saves Coco from choking and confides in Cordelia . Later, Mallory passes the Seven Wonders after successfully resurrecting John Henry . The coven then capture Ariel, Baldwin, and Mead, and burn them at the stake for treason . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 92 </Th> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> "Sojourn" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> October 31, 2018 (2018 - 10 - 31) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 93 </Th> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> "Fire and Reign" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> November 7, 2018 (2018 - 11 - 07) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 94 </Th> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> "Apocalypse Then" </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> November 14, 2018 (2018 - 11 - 14) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBD </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> US viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr>

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