‘American Horror Story: Asylum’ episode 6 review: Bloody Face’s motivations are revealed

On the last episode of “American Horror Story: Asylum” viewers finally learned the true identity of Bloody face and were shocked to see that Dr Thredson was the person who had been hacking and slashing the beautiful young women in town.

In this week’s episode, we finally made our way back to the present where Leo and Teresa were attacked in the asylum by the three bloody face imposters. As police officers searched the facilities, they find the three boys hanging as well as Leo’s dead body, but after a phone call from Leo’s cell phone comes through from the real bloody face they realize that he has Adam’s wife and that she may still be alive.

When we last left Dr. Thredson, he had helped Lana break out of Briar Cliff, only to lure her back to his home where she found herself in some serious trouble. Lana was left chained in the good doctor’s basement of horrors with her dead girlfriend sprawled out on the floor. When we catch up with Lana now, she is still in the basement with the crazy doctor, but he has set up the room with a bed and has told her that he has disposed of her girlfriend’s body. He reveals to Lana that his mother abandoned him as a child and that he was a product of the system where he never learned to love.  He goes on to tell her that ever since his time in med school when he saw his first cadaver that he knew that the one thing he was missing was his mother’s touch, but he quickly realized that taking the cold skin from the cadaver didn’t help give him what he needed and that he wanted a living person.  Lana tries to show him kindness and Dr Thredson tells her that she is the one to take the place of his mother.

Kit Walker uses his one call from prison to contact Dr. Thredson and calls him out on how he set him up, saying he’s a liar. He hangs up and goes to Lana only to discover that she was trying to “abandon him” by breaking her chains and trying escape. Dr. Thredson decides that Lana has to die and reveals to her that he has been watching her long before Briar Cliff. She works her magic on him by pretending to care and being the mother figure he never had.

Sam Goodman calls Sister Jude about his findings concerning Dr. Arden and his time with the SS, and as it turns out ‘Anne Frank’s’ information about him was correct and he was a Nazi.  Goodman asks Sister Jude to acquire a fingerprint for him as the last piece of evidence he needs, but when Sam Goodman later calls back, Sister Mary Eunice picks up the phone pretending to be Sister Jude.

Monsignor Timothy Howard is sent to read the last rights to a dying woman of TB at a hospital and the person turns out to be Shelly, who he recognizes her immediately regardless of her deformity. He is reminded of his very first meeting with  Dr. Arden while he was treating patients with TB at Briar Cliff and how Dr. Arden spoke to him of “work” he wanted to do for the “greater good” and Timothy gave his blessing for Dr. Arden to move forward with his experiments without knowing what they would be. Timothy comes back to Briar Cliff and confronts him about about what he did to Shelly and Dr. Arden explains that his experiments with TB and Syphilis have helped progress.  The Monsignor threatens to expose him, but Dr. Arden tells him that he will expose his involvement in the process too, and that Sister Jude has been snooping around the lab, likely to figure out what is going on sooner or later.

The Monsignor tells Sister Jude that he’s transferring her to another facility and she tries to blame Dr. Arden, not realizing that the reason for the transfer has to do with Dr. Arden – not for his past with the SS, but to protect Timothy’s involvement with his atrocious experiments. Before leaving the Asylum, Sister Jude decides to get Dr. Arden’s fingerprints for Goodman and she successfully grabs them off a  glass. Unfortunately Sister Mary Eunice ends up at Sam Goodman’s place before Sister Jude can get there. When Sister Jude gets to his hotel she discovers that he’s been stabbed, as he lays dying he tells her that one of her nuns was the person who did this to him.

Sister Mary Eunice comes to Dr. Arden and tells him that Sister Jude was going to expose his SS past, but that she is going to protect him and asks him to trust him with his “entire soul” promising him that everything will work out.

What did you think of this week’s episode of “American Horror Story: Asylum”? Were you happy with the reveal of Bloody Face’s motivations behind his killings?