American Horror Story: Teen Angst Ain't Got Nothing on Death

We are in 1994 and there's a holiday dinner. Constance, Tate, Addie and Larry sit around the table, ready to break bread and carve a bird.

Tate says ... a lot of words that are definitely not Grace, but Larry tries to smooth it all over with tickets to "Brigadoon." Didn't happen. Tate unleashes some angry words, does a few lines of coke and then loads up the shotguns. Some nonsense about never going to be Constance's perfect son.

Mommy issues, indeed. Geez.

Oh, snap! Tate is the reason Larry is Larry Half-face! He went to the dude's office and set him on fire after dousing him with gasoline.

Back in 2011, Viv is still in the hospital, doing a crossword puzzle. Ben arrives to apologize, but Viv says she doesn't need his sorry, she needs him to leave and that he's the one who is crazy.

Ben tells Viv that he knows she was raped because one of the twins is not his and he thinks she is strong enough to hear the truth. After resolving some "legal hiccups" because of her shooting him, Ben says Viv can come home. No dice, Viv says. She will not go back to "that house."

Uh-oh. Cops are at Constance's house to show her photos of Travis' body and to ask her questions. After the visit, she goes to see Larry Half-face. She is in "distress" over Travis, puts a knife to Larry's neck and tells him what's what by threatening to cut off Larry's most valuable body part.

Larry admits that he just moved the body, but that Travis must have pissed off someone in the house.

"He's in the house? Why didn't you tell me?" she asks.

She leaves to go home with some parting shots at Larry, something about Travis being twice the man Larry is.

"Well, he is now," Larry shoots back. Nice one!

The cops are waiting for Constance at her house with some follow-up questions. They insist on her going to the station after the knife she threatened Larry with falls out of her purse.

There is also a cop at the Harmon's about Violet not being at school for 16 consecutive days. Any more, and the family will be in juvenile court. Ben tries to have a heart-to-heart with Violet and they come to the understanding that Violet doesn't have to go back to her school, but she does have to start going to a school they'll find together. She agrees, but then Tate convinces her to wait just one more day so they can play "Scrabble."

Is that what they call it now?

The cop who questioned Ben about Violet notice flies on a bowl of fruit. Turns out, they're blow flies so Ben calls an exterminator, who says the cause is in the crawl space. Ben is not happy about shelling out more money, but ... we know it's only going to get worse. And of course it does. The exterminator goes down in the crawl space, sees something that makes him emit a manly-type scream. Unfortunately, he also encounters Tate and quickly becomes another ghostly inhabitant of the house.

Meanwhile, back at the station, Constance is trying to dress down the cops, but they have evidence of a lot of death in her life, but her "nature" will not permit her to wallow in sadness. With the voiceover of the cops recitation of past supposed deeds, including the "disappearance" of her husband and Moira, we get a flashback of Constance feeding Hugo as raw, ground beef to a handful of dogs.

A defense attorney shows up and stops the interview. He lets Crazy Connie know that the "Boy Dahlia" (remember the actress from 1947?) is big news and the police need to pin it on someone, and that someone is Constance.

After Tate offs the bug-guy, he goes back to the attic where he and Violet are playing for-real chess and tells her that he overheard Ben on the phone trying to send Violet away to boarding school. I think Ben might have been talking about Violet going to college, but it doesn't matter. Tate says he won't let Ben take Violet away. Uh-oh.

Back in the basement, Larry is hiding Travis' clothes because you "can't leave evidence behind," as he tells Travis. But Boy Toy only wants to know if he made the news and if Constance was sad to learn about his death. Larry says Travis is all over the news and Constance is taking Travis' death hard. Still, Larry agrees to bring Travis the news clippings for Travis' scrap book.

Two burned and bloody little girls are having a tea party. Turns out Travis has been hanging out with them, Travis says, and Larry's wife confirms. She tells Larry they are visible to him after all these years because he is near the edge. He says he's going to make Constance pay for what she did to their family, but Larry's wife reminds him that it was his infidelity that tore their family apart, that Crazy Connie didn't break any vows.

Okay. Wait a second. I thought Violet knew Tate was a ghost? But when he offers pills so they can be together forever like "Romeo and Juliet," she says, "What, kill ourselves?"

Now, maybe she's just freaked out that he went to that extreme to not say, oh, um, I thought you were already dead? But she gathers her wits enough to go screaming downstairs yelling that Tate is trying to kill her. Oh, yeah. Did I mention that Tate beat the hell out of Ben and drugged him to knock him out? Yep, he did, but he knows the drug won't hold so he urges Violet to just take the pills.

Violet is a smart girl and goes running and screaming from the house, but Tate pulls some spirit mumbo jumbo and Violet just keeps running out the front door and in through the back door. Only ... it isn't spirit mumbo jumbo. Violet thinks she's going crazy and Tate asks her to trust him, to go with him into the basement and into the crawl space.

Violet is dead. Tate shows her her body and we flashback to her suicide "attempt" that apparently was a success. She died crying, he tells her, that she died loved and safe with him. Offering her the pills upstairs was his twisted, Tate-way of easing Violet into the knowledge of her death.

That just creeps me all the way out. And neither Ben nor Viv know anything, but it certainly does explain why Violet hasn't been to school in 16 days. Oh, poor Viv.

Larry confessed?! He did, and said he knew Constance so the cops ask her to come to the station to find out if she can give them any information. She is just as surprised and says no, she can't help them. Oh, Connie. This could come back to bite you in the ass. Hard.

The episode ends first with a scene between Tate and Violet where she asks questions about being dead, but not about her parents and then with a scene between Larry and Constance at the jail. Larry tells her he confessed because he has to pay for his crimes.

"You'll die in here, you know," she says.

"I know. I can take it," he responds. "If you'll just say those words ..."

But of course she doesn't. Crazy Connie's expression hardens, she hangs up the receive on her side of the prison glass and she leaves.