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En 2012, Johnny marche sur les traces de ses parents en se rendant à Briarcliff où il est dérangé dans ses pensées par le couple de Léo et Teresa. Quelques mois plus tard, Lana donne une interview dans laquelle elle passe en revue sa vie et ses oeuvres concernant Briarcliff et fait des confessions à propos de l'enfant qu'elle avait déclaré mort, sans oublier de revenir sur le sort qu'ont connu ses anciens compagnons d'infortune, Kit et Jude. Mais alors que l'interview se termine, Lana retrouve son fils, désormais un homme. La mère et le fils font alors face à leur vision de l'amour familial.

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Titre VO
Madness Ends

Titre VF
L'Orage qui menace

Première diffusion
23.01.2013

Première diffusion en France
11.05.2013

Vidéos

AHSA - Inside The Asylum "Madness Ends" #Making Of

AHSA - Inside The Asylum "Madness Ends" #Making Of

  

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Kit et Lana discutent

Kit et Lana discutent

Kit et Lana parlent de leurs expériences

Kit et Lana parlent de leurs expériences

Kit Walker (Evan Peters)

Kit Walker (Evan Peters)

Lana Winters et Kit Walker

Lana Winters et Kit Walker

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Etats-Unis (inédit)
Mercredi 23.01.2013 à 22:00
2.29m / 1.3% (18-49)

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Résumé long de l'épisode 213 "Madness Ends"

 

Quatre mois plus tôt

Johnny entre dans l’asile de Briarcliff abandonné et délabré. Il met ses écouteurs pour entendre Lana Winters, sa mère, lire son livre sur l’asile.

 

 

Il marche dans les couloirs et imagine Lana dans la salle de bains lui disant qu'il a été conçu dans la haine et qu’il est une abomination.

 

Johnny écoute le chapitre dans lequel Lana décrit la tempête de 1964 et, pire encore, Oliver Thredson. Johnny imagine voir Lana et le docteur Thredson dans les salles défraichies de Briarcliff. Thredson lui dit qu’il aurait voulu être un bon père pour lui, mais que Lana l’en a empêché.

 

 

Johnny se cache lorsque nos jeunes mariés, Léo et Theresa, entrent dans l’asile désaffecté (épisode 1). Johnny fait du bruit et Theresa arrête les « élans amoureux » de Leo pour aller voir d’où provient le bruit. Elle essaye d’ouvrir la cellule où se cache Johnny mais n’y parvient pas. Ils essayent de voir à l’intérieur de la pièce par le guichet de la porte. Johnny enfile le masque de Bloody Face et sort sa machette. Leo passe son bras à travers le guichet pour filmer l’intérieur avec son téléphone. Johnny coupe le bras de Léo.

 

 

Aujourd’hui

La maison de Lana

Lana Winters a maintenant six best-sellers à son actif et a rencontré de nombreuses personnalités. April, une journaliste, discute avec Lana pendant qu’une équipe de techniciens installe le matériel pour filmer l’interview de Lana. Elle est interviewée dans le cadre de l’hommage qui lui sera rendu au Kennedy Center. La compagne de Lana, une actrice célèbre, lui apporte un verre de vin avant de partir travailler.

 

Lana fait quelques remarques sur la mise en place des lumières pour être à son avantage lors de l’interview. La jeune journaliste souhaite l'interroger sur Bloody Face, mais Lana refuse de lui consacrer encore du temps d’antenne. En revanche, elle accepte de revenir sur l'histoire de Briarcliff, et sur la façon dont elle a révélé la vérité.

 

Dans un flashback, on voit Lana mener une équipe de tournage par le tunnel secret de Briarcliff, déterminée à exposer les conditions de vie des malades.

Retour à April, qui dit à Lana que les gens ont admiré son sens de la justice et le courage qu’elle a montré en retournant à Briarcliff. Lana lui confie qu’elle a surtout été motivée par l’ambition, et qu’elle est allée faire un reportage sur Briarcliff dans le cadre de son émission America Unmasked après avoir compris que la télévision représentait l'avenir.

On voit des images du reportage intitulé "Briarcliff Exposed". Les patients de Briarcliff sont laissés seuls, crasseux et hagards.

 

L’équipe de Lana filme les patients pendant plusieurs minutes avant qu’enfin un employé les découvre. Elle demande si c'est leur politique de laisser les patients sans surveillance et sales. Elle exige de voir Judy Martin. Lana entre, suivie par la caméra, dans une petite cellule dans laquelle se trouve Jude dans un état déplorable. Jude essaie de se cacher de la caméra et ne semble pas comprendre ce que Lana lui dit. Lana conduit doucement Jude hors de la cellule.

 

Présent

April admet qu'elle ne se souvient pas de cette scène. C'est parce qu’elle ne s’est jamais produite. Au moment où Lana s’est rendue à Briarcliff, Jude avait disparu. Lana a effectivement fait tomber Briarcliff, mais elle aurait voulu que les choses se passent autrement. Elle est revenue trop tard.

Lana demande à faire une pause, et c'est Johnny qui lui apporte une bouteille d'eau.

 

 

Début des années 70

Lana frappe à la porte de Kit après son reportage à Briarcliff. Kit est content de la voir jusqu’à ce qu'il aperçoive son équipe de tournage. Lana veut savoir qui est Betty Drake et si elle est chez lui.

 

Kit accepte de lui parler, mais pas devant la caméra. Lana a découvert dans les archives de Briarcliff un dossier indiquant qu’une certaine Betty Drake avait été confiée aux soins de Kit en 1970, quelques mois après qu'il soit venu voir Lana à la signature de son livre. Elle veut savoir s’il s’agit de Jude. Kit interroge Lana sur ses motivations. Puis il lui confie qu’il a commencé à rendre visite à Jude après la mort d’Alma parce que c’est tout ce que lui pouvait faire.

 

 

Petit à petit il a retrouvé un peu de l’ancienne Jude et il a demandé à la faire sortir. Briarcliff était heureux d'avoir un patient de moins à entretenir. Il explique avoir fait ça pour ses enfants. Pour laisser Briarcliff derrière lui, et être entièrement là pour eux, il avait besoin de trouver un moyen de pardonner. Quelqu'un à pardonner. Après une désintoxication difficile, Jude a repris le dessus.

 

 

Un jour Jude a fait une crise, elle s’est mise à crier sur les enfants. Elle pensait qu'elle était à Briarcliff et que Kit était Bloody Face. De rage elle a renversé des objets avec un balai.

 

 

 

Kit a demandé aux enfants de s’éloigner, mais ils ont pris calmement Jude par la main et l’ont entrainée à l' extérieur. Kit explique à Lana qu’il ne sait toujours pas ce qu'il s'est passé dans ces bois, mais quand ils sont revenus, quelque chose était différent. Il pense que Grace avait raison, ces enfants sont spéciaux.

 

 

On voit Jude enseigner des pas de danse à Kit et aux enfants quand soudain, son nez commence à saigner. Kit explique que pendant six mois, elle leur a appris à danser le swing et jurer comme un charretier. Elle a appris à coudre à Thomas et elle a remplacé les poupées de Julia par des camions. Puis l’on voit Jude alitée, les enfants auprès d’elle. Elle leur donne à chacun un dernier conseil et les envoie jouer dehors.

 

Kit dit à Jude qu’il ne va pas la laisser seule. Elle lui répond qu’elle n’est pas seule. Qu’"elle" est là pour elle. Kit ne sait pas de qui elle parle, mais on voit l'Ange de la Mort. Cette fois Jude est prête à recevoir son baiser.

 

Présent

Maison de Lana

April aborde maintenant un passage controversé de la vie de Lana : sa confrontation avec le Cardinal Howard et ses révélations sur le Docteur Arden.

 

Dans les années 70

Dans un parking souterrain

Lana et son équipe de tournage surprennent le Cardinal Howard qui a refusé toutes ses demandes d’interview. Lana lui pose des questions sur les disparus de Briarcliff et les expérimentations du Docteur Arden pendant qu’il supervisait l’asile. Le Cardinal refuse de répondre, monte dans sa voiture et démarre.

 

Présent

Maison de Lana

April dit que certaines personnes reprochent encore à Lana ce qui lui est arrivé ensuite. Lana explique qu’elle n’est pas responsable de ce que le sentiment de culpabilité du Cardinal l’a poussé à faire. On voit le Cardinal Howard mort. Il s’est suicidé en s'ouvrant les veines dans sa baignoire. 

 

Lana explique qu’elle aussi a un secret qu’elle a tu pendant plus de 40 ans. Elle annonce à April que le bébé qu’elle a eu du docteur Thredson a vécu, il n’est pas mort à la naissance comme elle l’a écrit dans son livre.

Dans l'autre pièce, Johnny peut entendre Lana décrire les remords qu'elle a eus dans les années 70.

Dans un flashback on voit Lana s’approcher d’enfants. Elle intervient pour protéger un jeune garçon racketté par un plus grand et lui caresse la joue. C’est la dernière fois qu’elle a vu son fils.

 

 

Lana n’a pas eu d’autre enfant mais elle a été la marraine des enfants de Kit.

Kit s’est remarié dans les années 70 avec Allison. Thomas est maintenant professeur de droit à Harvard et Julia est neurochirurgienne à John Hopkins.

Kit a eu un cancer du pancréas vers l’âge de 40 ans.

 

Et puis une chose des plus étranges s'est passée, il a disparu. On voit Kit traverser son salon sur son fauteuil roulant, puis une intense lumière et enfin le fauteuil vide. Les enfants de Kit ont insisté en disant qu'il n'y avait aucune raison de pleurer.

 

Après l'interview, April remercie Lana. Lana voit tout le monde sortir et s’approche du bar. Elle attrape deux verres ; s'adressant à Johnny elle dit qu'il n'a plus besoin de se cacher. Elle prétend l’avoir reconnu parce qu’il est son fils, mais en réalité des policiers sont venus la voir et lui ont dit que Johnny était leur principal suspect dans plusieurs affaires de meurtres.

 

Lana s'allume une cigarette tranquillement et lui demande comment il a découvert qui il était. Il dit que ce jour-là sur le terrain de jeu, il a senti quelque chose et a compris qu’elle était sa mère. Il a trouvé l’enregistrement de la confession de Thredson sur eBay et il pense que son père l'aimait, mais pas Lana. Johnny sort une arme à feu et menace Lana. Lana reste calme, elle lui dit que ni lui ni son père ne l’aimait mais qu’il n’est pas comme son père, qu’il n’est pas un monstre. Lana prend doucement l’arme des mains de Johnny qui se décompose, en disant qu'il a fait du mal à des gens.

 

 

Lana dit à Johnny que ce n’est pas de sa faute, mais de la sienne. Puis elle lève le pistolet et le pointe sur le front de son fils. Elle appuie sur la gâchette et tue le fils comme elle avait tué le père.

 

1964

A l’asile

Lana se souvient de sa première rencontre avec Sœur Jude. Lana demande à la religieuse de pouvoir rencontrer Bloody Face. Sœur Jude met en garde Lana contre ses ambitions en tant que journaliste, mais Lana lui fait remarquer qu’elle a des ambitions similaires pour Briarcliff. Elles se disent chacune prêtes à faire de grands sacrifices. Sœur Jude déconseille à Lana d’essayer de regarder le mal en face. Troublée, Lana se retourne et sort de l’asile. On voit brièvement les patients de Briarcliff. Jude, satisfaite, regarde un instant la statue de la Vierge Marie tandis que l’on entend "Dominique".

 

[Fin de l'épisode]

Four Months Ago

(Johnny busts into empty, dilapidated Briarcliff listening to his mother Lana Winter's book on tape.)

Man: (over headphones) Best Sellers on Audio presents Tales from Briarcliff by Lana Winters, read by the author.

Lana: (over headphones) Chapter six, "The Gathering Storm." Behind the stone walls of Briarcliff, time had no meaning. The days themselves seemed to exist (birds cooing) in a kind of perpetual twilight. Life there was just a series of numbing cruelties and humiliations, all masquerading as something else.

(He walks through the halls and imagines seeing her in the bath room.)

Lana: You weren't conceived in love, but in hate. I couldn't wait to give you up. You're an abomination. You should never have been born.

Lana: (over headphones) I was in the third week of my confinement, and a storm was coming. The nor'easter of '64 that brought so much devastation with it, and for me, something else, something far more savage even than nature.

(distant screaming) (Johnny imagines seeing Lana and Thredson in the old Briarcliff halls.)

Lana: (over headphones) Oliver Thredson was, to all appearances, a kindly figure, fatherly in his manner. This face he showed the world, this face of sanity and benevolence, that was his real mask. Underneath lurked the real Oliver Thredson, an unspeakable monster.

Thredson: (to Johnny) I loved you even when you were still in your mother's womb. I would have given anything to be a real father to you, but she kept us apart. I had so much love to give you, son. She stole it from you. From both of us.

 

Leo: ♪ Here comes the bride ♪

Theresa: Oh, my God. The Catholic Church bought this place in '62, and turned it into a sanitarium for the criminally insane. Legend has it that once you were committed at Briarcliff, you never got out. The most famous resident was a serial killer named

Leo: Bloody Face.

(Johnny hides as our doomed newlyweds Leo and Theresa come in on their honeymoon.)

Leo: Say Bloody Face.

Theresa: Bloody Face.

(They start having sex on the table.)

(They hear a noise.)

Theresa: Maybe it's Bloody Face.

Leo: Maybe it's just old pipes.

(She wants to see through an access panel on a locked door.)

Theresa: Let me see. What? You scared, pussy? (Leo chuckles.)

(Leo sticks his hand in the room where Johnny is getting high and listening to the book on tape.)

Leo: Oh, my God!

Theresa: What? What's wrong? You're such a prick.

Theresa: What? What? What?Oh, you are such a prick. You are such a prick.

Leo: Speaking of which...

Theresa: No, I want to know what's in there. Do it again and I'll blow you.

Leo: Give me your phone.

(Johnny takes the Bloody Face mask out of his bag and puts it on, taking out his machete as Leo sticks his phone in the room through the slot to take a picture.)

(Johnny hacks off Leo's arm.)

 

-[OPENING CREDITS]-

 

 

Present day

Lana’s home

(Lana is about to be interviewed.)

April (the interviewer): And who did this drawing of you?

Lana: Bono. He was a bit tipsy on the airplane coming back from Somalia and drew it on the cocktail napkin. He's quite good, isn't he?

April: Be sure and get an insert of that, Pete. So with six bestsellers, a reputation as the only one the men will open up to, world leaders, stars, disgraced politicians, who's the one that got away? Is there anyone you lusted after that you missed?

Lana's girlfriend:That's easy: Mao and Rielle Hunter. And she's still lusting after Julian Assange.

(Lana's girlfriend brings her a glass of wine)

April: Uh, look, I know I said no on-camera appearances for you, but I love this whole bringing the chardonnay thing, super casual, loving. What about just that? I'm April, by the way.

Lana's girlfriend:Marian.

April: What a pleasure. I saw your Norma at the Met. Transcendent.

Lana: She's doing it in Bologna this summer.

Marian: (to April) Thank you. (to Lana) I've got rehearsal; I've got to take off. I'll be back by 5:00. (They kiss.) We have that Sondheim dinner birthday thing tonight.

Lana: Mmm. (to April) Am I not the luckiest woman alive? (to lighting technician) A little higher, babe. Attaboy. Mm-mm, higher still. Oh, what are they teaching these kids in film school? God knows it's not how to make us old gals look more gorgeous.

April: Nothing old about you, Lana.

Lana: Well, thanks to a very talented surgeon in Paris and a great dermatologist. So, what are we covering today?

April: Well, since it's a Kennedy Center honor, I'd say it's a pretty big canvas.

Lana: Jesus, darling, I hope this isn't going to feel like a eulogy.

April: I will certainly ask you about your notorious nail-to-the-cross prison interview with Madoff. But before all that, I'd like to go back and start with the early years. The awful Bloody Face saga.

Lana: I said I wouldn't talk about that.

April: People want to hear about it. It's what made you famous.

Lana: My point exactly. He's become a goddamn household name. Like some kind of Heath Ledger, Hollywood movie star villain. He was an evil monster who used murder and torture to keep himself from feeling like a eunuch. End of story. I refuse to give him one more second of air time.

April: So then let's start with the event that made your reputation as a crusader for change, the Briarcliff exposé.

Lana: We good to go, everyone? Honey, hand me that mirror, will you? I like to do my own eyebrows.

 

[Flashback: Lana is in a car.

Lana: How do I look?

Man: Like a million bucks. But they're still not gonna let us in that front door with a camera.

Lana: Oh, I know how to get in.

(Later)

Man: Jesus, how did you find this place?

(Lana leads a camera crew in through the secret tunnel entrance.)

Lana: Listen, when we get inside, no matter what happens, or what anybody says, you keep shooting. We need to document the conditions, the filth, these people are forced to live in. I want the footage to shock the public out of their complacency, you understand? I want moral outrage. I want to put America in the asylum.]

 

Present

Lana’s home

April: The fact that you would voluntarily go back into the place where you almost died, that's why you were held in such high esteem by all of America and your peers. Did you always have this need for justice?

Lana: That's the myth. Lana Winters, crusader. It was a story that I helped to perpetuate, but, uh, it's time I come clean. It wasn't justice that got me back to Briarcliff. It was ambition. I knew my future wasn't in print.

April: You had an abrupt career change.

Lana: I knew television was the future. So I got started in local news, then an NBC affiliate before I landed my own series of investigative reports.

April: America Unmasked.

Lana: With TV, words, they're less important. You need something people can see, visual stimulation, and believe me, there is nothing more stimulating than crazy people. But you need more than that. You need an angle, a hook. And boy, did I have a doozy.

 

["Briarcliff Exposed" runs with footage of patients in their filth:

Lana: (TV report) I heard from very reliable sources that Sister Jude, the nun that imprisoned me at Briarcliff, was still alive. In fact, she had become a patient there herself. I was going to go into that snake pit and rescue her from the very place she had me committed.

Lana: (off camera) Milo, I told you to keep rolling. Get the camera up and pointed at me.

Lana: (TV report) At Briarcliff Manor, it's not uncommon to see patients left on their own without supervision, without stimulation, for hours on end. The squalor, the filth, the decay of this institution is a shocking indictment of the abandonment of her most needy by the state of Massachusetts. The Church sold Briarcliff Manor to the state of Massachusetts in the fall of 1965. Since then, conditions have deteriorated. The images and sounds are far more…

Lana: (off camera) Ready? You need a slate? (indistinct talking) Are… Yeah, are you sleeping? Come on. Three, two, one.

Lana: (TV report) The church sold Briarcliff Manor to the state of Massachusetts in the fall of 1965. Since then, conditions have deteriorated. These images and sounds are far more powerful than any words that can be spoken. But how can I describe to you the way it smells? It reeks of filth, of disease. It smells of death.

Orderly: (TV report)Who are you? Do you have permission to do this?

Lana: (TV report)You are the first attendant we've seen the entire time we've been here. Is it the policy to leave patients unclothed and unclean, some of them smeared in their own feces?

Orderly: (TV report) Uh… I'm sorry, there's… just too many for us to take care of. Right now I'm interested in one.

Lana: (TV report) I demand to see Judy Martin.

(man screaming)

Lana: (to a technician) Give me some light.

(Lana shines her camera's light into a small cell.)

Lana: Judy Martin? (Jude's filthy, her hair a rat's nest. She tries to hide from the camera and doesn't seem to understand.) Do you remember me? You were committed to Briarcliff to cover up the abuses the church and science had perpetrated against patients here. You were left to die. Alone. Abandoned. I've come back to help you. I'm going to get you out of here, Sister Jude. It's okay.

(Lana gently leads Jude out of there.)

Jude: Lana… Banana.

 

Present

Lana’s house

April: Such a powerful scene you describe. I'm embarrassed to say I don't remember it.

Lana: That's because it never happened. By the time I got to Briarcliff, Jude was gone. I should've gone back sooner.

April: But you did shut down Briarcliff.

Lana: Yes, but it's not the ending I wanted. It was one hell of an ending, just not the one I wanted. And there's your promo. (laughs) Let's take a break. I need to freshen up.

April: Ms. Winters needs a break. Five and we're back. Would you like something to drink? Lana: I'd love a sparkling water.

April: Would you get Ms. Winters a sparkling water, please?

(A crew member brings her one.)

Lana: Thanks. You're a doll.

Johnny: My pleasure, Ms. Winters.

 

70’s

Kit’s house

(Lana knocks on Kit's door after Briarcliff is shut down.)

 

(♪ I feel the earth move ♪

♪ Under my feet ♪

♪ I feel the sky tumbling down… ♪)

 

Lana: Kit.

Kit: Holy shit. (laughs) Lana! I was just watching the news. You did it. You really did it. You shut down Briarcliff.What the hell's this? (Kit sees her camera crew nearby.)

Lana: I wanted them to capture our reunion. And I have a few questions I'd like to ask you.

Kit: Questions?

Lana: Yes. Like who's Betty Drake? And is she here?

Kit: I'll talk to you, Lana, but but I'm not gonna talk to your camera.

 

(♪ Tumbling down, a-tumbling down ♪

♪ A-tumbling down ♪

♪ Tumbling down ♪)

 

(Lana agrees. He sits down with her.)

 

Kit: Where'd you find this? (a file)

Lana: I was still trying to find Jude. But of course Jude hadn't existed for years The Monsignor saw to that.

(Back to Briarcliff. Lana searches through large numbers of files.)

Lana: (VO) I had no idea who I was even looking for anymore. And then I found this.

(flashback ends)

Lana: Betty Drake, released to the care of Kit Walker, March 27, 1970. That was just a few months after you came to see me at the book signing. It's Jude, isn't it?

Kit: Why do you care now, Lana? Hmm? We all just part of your story?

Lana: It's not just my story, Kit. It's yours, too. And hers. You went back for her. Why?

Kit: (sighs) 'Cause it was something I could do. I mean, I couldn't shut the place down, I couldn't lead them all out of there like Moses. But, Jude, whatever she was, she didn't belong there any more than we did. I couldn't just leave her there. (We see Kit and Jude in Briarcliff.) After Alma died, I started visiting her there. At least once a week. Sometimes twice. There was still life there. There was still someone buried deep inside. But I knew that life wouldn't last long if nobody got her out of there. (She started to recover.) They didn't ask a lot of questions. Think they were just happy to have one less patient to care for.

Lana: (VO) You brought her into your home. Why'd you do that? After all the indignities she made you suffer?

(Flashback ends.)

Kit: I didn't do it for her. I didn't even really do it for me. I did it for the kids.

(back to 70’s. Kit’s home)

Kit: (VO) I needed to be there for them. And the only way I could leave Briarcliff behind once and for all was to find some way to forgive. Someone to forgive.

(Jude sleeps.)

Julia: Is she dead?

Kit: Go on.

Kit: (VO) The first thing we had to do was see her through detox.

Thomas: Carrot juice.From our garden.

Kit: (VO) For a while, things seemed to be going along pretty well, considering.

(Flashback ends.)

 

Kit: I made a decision to just stay the course. They loved her. No matter how much she barked at them, they always understood something about her.

Lana: So she eventually came around.

Kit: Well, it got worse before it got better.

 

(Back to 70’s. Kit’s home)

Jude: Told you to start in the corner! Did you think I wouldn't notice? Come back here, you little shit!

Kit: Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!

Jude: I'll cane you!

Kit: Hey! This is not Briarcliff, and you will not hit my kids!

Jude: Wait a minute. What's going on here? No, we do not have a children's ward! I told your mother that. I was very clear. I was very clear!

Kit: Jude!

Jude: You will address me as Sister Jude. You don't fool me, Kit Walker. I know who you are. I know what you did. Killer of women.

Kit: Jude, please

Jude: No, you get away! Get away from me! I won't go back in that hole! (She raged with a broom, knocking things over.)I will not! You can't make me!

Kit: Thomas! Get your sister and go outside.

Jude: I will not! No, you can't make me!

Thomas: It's okay, Dad.

(Jude screams.)

Jude: Oh, no

(Thomas and Julia calmly took Jude by the hand and walked her outside.)

(Flashback ends)

 

Kit: I still don't know what happened in those woods. When they came back something was different. Grace was right. Those children are special.

 

(“Jump, Jive an’Wail” begins

Cut to Jude teaching Kit dance steps, seeming like her old self.)

Jude: Okay, I'm gonna teach you a new step.

Kit: Okay.

Jude: Ready? Toe, heel, step back. (laughing) Toe, heel, step back. Okay, now, start again, watch me. You're left, and I'm right. Because women are always right. All right? Five, six, seven, eight.

 

(♪ You gotta jump, jive and then you wail ♪

♪ You gotta jump, jive and then you wail ♪

♪ You gotta jump, jive and then you wail ♪)

 

Jude: All right. Now spin me.

 

(♪ And then you wail ♪

♪You wail ♪

♪Wail ♪)

 

Jude: Whoo! Ooh! Don't say I never taught you nothing.

Julia: Daddy, dance with me.

Kit: Come over here!

Jude: Thomas! Come here.

 

(♪ Papa's in the icebox.. ♪ )

 

Jude: Let me show this to you. Left foot (Suddenly, her nose started to bleed.)

 

(♪ Papa's in the icebox looking for a can of milk ♪

♪ Mama's in the backyard ♪ )

 

(Flashback ends)

 

Kit: For six months, she taught them how to swing dance and swear like a sailor. Made Thomas learn to sew and took away Julia's dolls and gave her trucks so she'd grow up tough. (chuckles) I don't know if those last six months made up for a lifetime of horrors… but she sure seemed happy.

 

(Back to Jude’s bedroom.

Jude lies in bed as Thomas and Julie lie on the bed with her.)

Jude: Hey. Come here. Come here, you two. Come here. I got a few more things to tell you, okay? Julia don't you ever ever let a man tell you who you are or make you feel like you are less than he is. It's 1971. And you can do anything you want. Okay? You understand? And, Thomas don't pick your nose and never take a job just for the money. Find something… that you love. Do something you want. Okay, boy? (to Kit) Oh, I don't need that.

Kit: It's mushroom barley. You got to eat something.

Jude: No, I don't. Kids, why don't you go pile up the leaves in the yard?

Julia: I'm staying with Nana.

Jude: No, you guys, you should go outside and play. Go on. (They leave) Kit Walker you're a lucky man. You better not screw them up. (both chuckle)

Kit: I'm here. I'm not going to leave you alone.

Jude: I'm not I'm not alone. She's here for me. (chuckles)

(Flashback ends)

 

 

Kit: I don't know who she was talking about.

(We see the Angel of Death.)

Lana: I do.

 

(Back to Jude’s bedroom.)

Angel of Death: Jude we've been doing this dance for so many years. Are you sure you're ready this time?

Jude: I'm sure. I'm ready now. Kiss me.

 

 

Present Day

Lana’s home

(Camera whirs)

Lana: I have a feeling we're about to enter the hard-hitting part of the interview.

April: It was the pen, wasn't it?

Lana: No need to take notes on powder-puff questions.

April: You got me, but I'm gonna ask anyway. If shutting down Briarcliff was such an undeniable success, your next exposé was, to put it mildly, controversial.

Lana: I think half of New York wanted to lynch me, and the other half would have had me banned from the state.

April: Can we talk about what happened with Cardinal Howard? At the time, he was a powerhouse, a rising star in the church.

Lana: The man had avoided me for weeks. I went through all the official channels, but he ignored every request I made for an interview. So, finally, I cornered him on his way to Easter Mass.

 

70’s

An indoor parking

Lana: Cardinal Howard.

Cardinal Howard: I have nothing to say to you, Miss Winters.

Lana: With or without your comments, I'm airing a report tomorrow night on Dr. Arthur Arden, a man you hired to run the medical unit at Briarcliff. (Flashback: we see Shelley) We finally gained access to his files. Did you know he was conducting human experiments? We found some very disturbing evidence. Cardinal

Cardinal Howard: Would you mind switching that off, please?

Lana: A number of patients disappeared under his care. Do you have any idea what happened to them?

Cardinal Howard: It was over seven years ago. You can't expect me to remember anything about patients I wasn't responsible for.

Lana: I'm afraid you are responsible. Everything that happened at Briarcliff happened under your authority. And there is no statute of limitations on murder, Cardinal Howard. The police have found remains, human bones in the woods outside Briarcliff. (flashback: we see Dr. Arden kill his creatures.) They're going to start asking hard questions. And since the notorious Dr. Arden has disappeared, they're going to be looking to you for answers.

(Howard gets in his car and drives off.)

Cardinal Howard: Get out of my way.

Lana: What are you running from, Cardinal Howard?

Cardinal Howard: Out of the way, Miss Winters!

Lana: What are you running from?

Cardinal Howard: Happy Easter.

Lana: Answer the question.

 

Present Day

Lana’s home

April: To this day, people still blame you for what happened to him.

Lana: I've got broad shoulders, but I can't take credit for what his guilty conscience made him do.

(We see him dead, with his wrists slit in a bathtub.)

Lana: That man was a particular kind of liar, the kind who lies to himself about being a liar. He was so corrupt and deluded, he believed his own lies. Lies are like scars on your soul. They destroy you.

April: I have a feeling we're not just talking about Cardinal Howard anymore. Is there something you'd like to share with us?

Lana: I'm going to come clean about a lie I've told for over 40 years. In my book Maniac, I write about the abuse, the rape, the pregnancy. I say that the baby died in childbirth. I even wrote about a kind of poetic justice that the child hadn't lived. That child is alive. I didn't raise him, but someone did.

 

[Flashback

Hospital

Lana: (to the nurse) Don't ask me to do that again. He'll need to learn how to live without me.]

 

Lana: I just prayed really hard that somebody else could give him the kind of mothering he'd need. I couldn't muster it. I tried, but I couldn't.

(In the other room, Johnny can hear her.)

April: That's quite a secret, Lana.

Lana: The only person I've told is Marian.

April: Do you mind if I ask, has there been any contact since?

Lana: There was a period in the mid-'70s where I suffered a terrible remorse about giving him up. I used all my skills as a sleuth, which are myriad as we know, to track him down. I just needed to see him. I didn't have a plan.

 

(Flashback

Lana goes to a playground and sees a kid picking on a smaller kid.)

Boy 1: What you got in here? You like dinosaurs? You want to suck a brontosaurus dick?

Boy 2: Shut up, asshole!

Boy 1: Who are you calling asshole, faggot?

Lana: (to boy 1) Hey, you, you little shit. You back off before I hurt you in ways you haven't even dreamt of. (to boy 2)  Are you all right?

Boy 2: Yeah, I'm fine.

Lana: You know he's the asshole, right?

Boy 2: Yeah, I know.

Lana: You should report him.)

 

Lana: That was the last time I saw him. I wasn't his mother. Not in any meaningful way. I would only confuse him. But I thought about him so often. Wondering where he was. How he turned out.

April: Did you ever think about having children after that?

Lana: It was a different time for gay women. Most of us were resigned to not having children. But I was close to my friends' children. In fact, Kit. Kit Walker he asked me to be godmother to his kids. Kit got married again. (We see the wedding.) He met a great girl named Allison down at the co-op. I don't know who loved her more Kit or those kids. Kit always believed the kids were destined for great things. They grew up with that message, and they lived up to it. Thomas is a law professor at Harvard. Julie is a leading neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. Kit would be so proud of them.

April: Is he no longer with us?

Lana: When he was around 40, he developed pancreatic cancer. (We see Lana visit him.) By the time they found it, the tumor had metastasized to the liver. They gave him chemo, but it was just a waiting game. The kids both offered to look after him, but he wouldn't hear of it. In those last months, he seemed more peaceful than I'd ever seen him. And then the strangest thing happened. He disappeared.

April : I don't understand.

Lana: No one did. And no one could explain exactly what happened.

(We see Kit wheels through his living room and sees the old familiar bright lights.)

Lana: No note, no tracks, no clues. And no funeral. Kit's children insisted there was no reason to mourn.

April: Ms.Winters, I can't tell you what an honor this has been for me.

Lana: Oh, try not to, darling. I just hope you got what you need.

April: Are you kidding? I thought we'd just be doing your greatest hits, but all the personal stuff fantastic, unexpected and very moving. See you at the Kennedy Center.

Lana: Mm-hmm.

(Lana sees everyone out and goes for a drink. She grabs two glasses.)

Lana: Can I pour you a drink? Why don't you come out now? You don't need to hide. Not anymore. Let's get this over with, shall we?

Johnny: So I guess you've had a pretty great life, huh?

Lana: It's been eventful.

Johnny: It's about to end. You get that, right?

Lana: I knew it the moment I saw you. Mind if I ask you something?

Johnny: No. I don't mind.

Lana: How did you manage to get yourself on the crew?

Johnny: That shit was easy. I've been waiting outside the building, got friendly with the doorman, he told me about the interview. When the first guy showed up at dawn the guy with the doughnuts I cut his throat. He's in the trash bin. This isn't how I pictured it.

Lana: Really? Because this is exactly how I pictured it. I always knew this day would come.

Johnny: I didn't think you'd recognize me. How did you?

Lana: Oh, Johnny. How could I not recognize my own baby boy?

(Cut to her meeting with two law enforcement officers.)

Lana: I've never seen him before in my life.

Policeman 1: His name's Johnny Morgan. In and out of jail since his teens. Nothing major till now.

Policeman 2: We think he's responsible for the deaths of at least five people. Including the elderly couple who lived in the house formerly owned by Oliver Thredson.

Policeman 1: The place you were held at and tortured in '64, Ms. Winters.

Policeman 2: Are you sure you don't recognize him?

Lana: No.)

 

Lana: You look like him, you know? Your father. It's easy for me to forget just how handsome he was.

Johnny: Until you shot him in the head.

Lana: Yes, I shot him in the head. How did you find out?

Johnny: That you murdered my father?

Lana: About who you were. Who told you?

Johnny: You did. That day on the playground. I felt something. And I saw you on the TV. "That's my mother," I'd tell people. And they'd just laugh at me, but I knew. And I dreamed one day that you'd come back. Then I heard the tape, and, uh I knew you never would.

Lana: What tape?

Johnny: I found it on eBay.

Lana: (record) This monster you planted inside me, I'm getting rid of it, and since I'm stuck here, I'm gonna have to get creative with this coat hanger.

Therdson: (record) Lana, no. Lana, no, please!

Lana: (record) No baby should have to grow up knowing Daddy is Bloody Face.

Johnny: My father loved me. I could hear it in his voice. That's when I started loving him. And hating you.

Lana: He never loved you, Johnny.

Johnny: And you did?

Lana: No, I didn't love you. I couldn't. That's why I gave you up so you'd have some shot at a life.

(Johnny stands up and yells at her.)

Johnny: You'd have a chance at a life, you mean! Right? This fancy life! Without me!

Lana: So what's it going to be, Johnny? I don't imagine, at my age, you'd be much interested in the skin.

Johnny: I've thought about this. I've thought about this a lot.

Lana: My own gun I wasn't expecting that. Your father once told me he didn't believe in guns. Of course, he was lying about that, too.

Johnny: You don't get to talk about him.

Lana: What are you so afraid of, Johnny? The truth about him or the truth about you?

Johnny: I just want him to be proud of me. I I can't measure up.

Lana: No Johnny. He was a monster.

Johnny: No.

Lana: Yes, he was.

Johnny: No, he wasn't.

Lana: Yes he was, baby. But that's not you. You could never be like him. Not that sweet little boy I met on the playground. (Lana calmly take his gun in her hands.) Even then, I knew you were a better man than he was. Don't. It's not just him that's in you. I'm a part of you, too.

Johnny: I've hurt people. It's not your fault, baby.

Lana: It's mine.

(She pulls the trigger, shooting her son Johnny.)

 

Flash back to 1964

Sister Jude’s office

Lana: She's talking about the maniac, Bloody Face. That he's going to be admitted here today. Is there any way I could meet him?

Sister Jude: You're out of your depth, Miss Lana Banana. You want a story? Write this down. A girl like you, you like to dream large. I'd venture you already have Briarcliff in your rearview mirror.

Lana: You make ambition sound like a sin.

Sister Jude: No, I'm saying it's dangerous.

Lana: What about you? Saving the souls of madmen and killers is a pretty lofty ambition, wouldn't you say?

Sister Jude: And you cannot imagine what it took to get here.

Lana: I'd love to hear your story someday.

Sister Jude: No. I don't think you and I are destined to meet again. But I do hope you know what you're in for. The loneliness, the heartbreak, the sacrifice you'll face as a woman with a dream on her own.

Lana: You don't have any idea what I'm capable of.

Sister Jude: Well, then. Look at you, Miss Lana Banana. Just remember if you look in the face of evil. Evil's going to look right back at you. Please, after you.

 

(Lana walks out the front door and life at Briarcliff goes on, to the tune of "Dominique."

Jude, satisfied, looked momentarily at the statue of the Virgin Mary.)

 

(Dominique, nique, nique

S'en allait tout simplement,

Routier, pauvre et chantant

En tous chemins, en tous lieux,

Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu,

Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu

Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu,

Il ne parle que du Bon Dieu ♪)

  

–[End]– 

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