American Horror Story: Coven opened its penultimate episode, “Go to Hell,” with a presentation of the Seven Wonders that a witch must command in order to be named Supreme.

'American Horror Story: Coven' Recap

Presented through the lens of a silent film are: Telekinesis, Concilum (ability to control minds), Transmutation (teleportation), Divination (prophecy), Vitalum Vitalis (reviving the dead), Decension (traveling and returning from the afterlife), and Pyrokinesis. As it turns out, Fiona (Jessica Lange) is outlining the requirements for Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe), who’s returned from under the thumb of Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett). She’s not ready to fall under the “guidance” of Fiona yet either. When she refuses to go along with Fiona’s plot, Fiona accesess her telekinetic powers to strangle her, but not to death.

Afterwards, Queenie descends into the afterlife to she if she can figure out what happened to her former mentor and finds herself at her old stomping grounds – fast food joint Chicken Shack. There, she’s able to get information from Papa Legba, who offers her a vision of Marie and Delphine LaLaurie (Kathy Bates) squaring off. The Delphine is trying to get her revenge for being cursed with immortality, chopping up the voodoo priestess. Queenie wants to kill the Delphine before she can kill Laveau, but Papa Legba informs her that in order to kill Delphine, Laveau has to be dead.

Queenie Kills LaLaurie, Delia Learns Fiona's Plans

Delphine LaLaurie, meanwhile, has acclimated to modern times and is serving as a tour guide at her former mansion. She’s practicing a bit of revisionist history on the tour participants, eliminating the nastier acts she’s known to have committed and taking the torture chamber out of the guide altogether. Walking in on LaLaurie’s omission of the facts, prompts Queenie to confront her. She wants to know if all of the civil rights learning she had was thrown out the window. What about when the Delphine cried watching Roots? According to her, she was crying at the state of the world now – not the slavery. She would not apologize and she would not change her views. She also pointed to modern public apologies – Paula Deen and Anthony Weiner – as an act. Queenie then stabbed her.

Back at Miss Robichaux’s, Fiona is sitting for the portrait that will hang upon the walls for all eternity, disgusted by the reality of her aging. Seemingly softened by her inevitable end, she attempts to make amends with her daughter Delia (Sarah Paulson) and even offers her an heirloom that once belonged to her own mother. When Fiona moves to place the necklace on Delia, she grazes her second-sighted daughter’s neck. Images of destruction and death flash through Delia’s mind’s eye – Madison (Emma Roberts), Zoe (Taissa Farmiga), Queenie, Misty (Lily Rabe) and herself are all dead and Fiona bends down to remove the necklace from her dead daughter.

The Axeman Kills Fiona

Hoping to stave off the attack, Delia enlists the help of the Axeman (Danny Huston) by informing him that Fiona had no plans of taking him wherever she’s fleeing to. She then gets Queenie to help her locate Misty where Madison had buried her alive and to revive her. Then, Zoe and Kyle (Evan Peters) show up back at Robichaux’s, surprising both Madison and Myrtle (Frances Conroy). Zoe now puts her hat in the ring to be the next Supreme. Misty, who would have been the Supreme had Madison not killed her, walks through the door and knocks the movie star on the floor. The Axeman interrupts their brawl covered in blood – Fiona’s.

In a flashback, everything that went down between them is revealed. He learned that she’d had a boarding pass for him and that she thought she might love him. Fiona also told the Axeman that she estimated she’d have 30 years of good life ahead of her once she had them all killed. When it seems that Fiona is getting at that maybe she wants to go off alone, the Axeman tries to reconnect, but Fiona has more to say. She starts to explain to him about how she has to keep ahead of those she has to take down and begins an anecdote about a cat. Then, the Axeman murders her and starts an alligator feeding frenzy with her remains.

Zoe then indicates they must kill the Axeman for murdering a member of the coven.

The Witches' Hell

Perhaps Fiona will soon reunite with LaLaurie and Marie Laveau, who have both found themselves in their own versions of hell. According to Papa Legba, "No one gets away with sin. Eventually, everybody pays, everybody suffers.”

Next week, with Fiona gone, the coven will likely have to pick their next Supreme.

American Horror Story: Coven airs Wednesdays on FX at 10/9c.

– Chelsea Regan

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