1. Plot
    1833  2013 

2. Reception

3. References

4. External links

• Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau
• Gabourey Sidibe as Queenie
• Josh Hamilton as Hank Foxx
• Jamie Brewer as Nan
• Alexander Dreymon as Luke Ramsey
• Leslie Jordan as Quentin Fleming
• Robin Bartlett as Cecily Pembroke
• Meg Steedle as Hospital Patient

"Burn, Witch. Burn!" is the fifth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on November 6, 2013, on the cable network FX.

This episode focuses on Fiona (Jessica Lange) exacting revenge on Myrtle Snow (Frances Conroy) after Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) is blinded. Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe guest star as Marie Laveau and Queenie, respectively.

Plot

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Madame LaLaurie welcomes Governor Roman and his wife to an All Hallow's Eve ball. She introduces her daughter Borquita to their son, Jacques and asks him to visit her "chamber of horrors". She has him stick his hand in covered bowls. The first he guesses is peeled grapes, but it's actually eyeballs, plucked from her slaves. Likewise for the bowl of what Jacques guesses are sausages, which is a bowl of intestines.

Borquita watches, crestfallen, as her potential suitor runs away from her mother in horror. LaLaurie tells her husband Louis to send Bastien and two strong slaves after LaLaurie's daughter's plot to kill her. The daughters are dragged out of their beds at night and taken to her torture chamber. She tells them if they're good, she might let them out in a year. And tells Borquita, the ring leader of the group, that on Christmas morning, she will "stuff her conniving mouth full of shit".

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LaLaurie opens the door to the Academy and sees her zombified daughters. From inside they watch the zombies approach, Nan is sure they're dead since she isn't able to read their minds. Zoe tells everyone to shut off the lights and close the drapes. Luke thinks they're overreacting. He goes outside to tell them off, to no avail. In her trance, Marie Laveau orders the zombies to start attacking. Luke is struck in the back with an axe, while Zoe gathers everyone and tells them to head for the attic, though Spalding doesn't want them in his room since it has Madison's body in it. Nan goes outside to get Luke and drags him into a car. The zombies break into the car where Nan and Luke have taken refuge, Zoe gets their attention by banging pots and pans. LaLaurie gets Queenie settled back in bed, then goes downstairs for ice. She grabs a knife when she hears a noise in the kitchen but then she sees her daughter Borquita. LaLaurie opens the door to talk to her, telling her she wants to make amends. Borquita grabs her by the neck and lifts her off the ground.

The zombies pound on the crypt door where Zoe is hiding, as she runs deeper inside until she finds something. Queenie sends Spalding to find LaLaurie, but he meets a zombie with a candlestick in the hallway. Queenie tries using her powers on the zombie, but nothing works. LaLaurie finally kills her with a fire poker through the heart. In the car, Luke worries he's bleeding out. Nan tries to drag him to the house, but the zombies gain ground. Zoe appears wielding a chainsaw and mows her way through them until it runs out of gas. One advances on her as she falls, but as she raises her hand and casts a spell, the zombie drops to the ground. Back at the salon, Marie comes crashing to the ground, saying they've got serious power at the witch house.

At the bar, Fiona hears Cordelia scream from the attack, and calls for an ambulance. In the hospital waiting room, Dr. Wilson tells Fiona that it was sulfuric acid and they couldn't save Cordelia's eyesight, her face, as a result, is badly scarred. Fiona raids the pharmacy for pills, and she thinks she sees the hooded figure who scarred Cordelia. Fiona stumbles into a room where a woman has just given birth to a stillborn baby. Fiona brings the dead infant to the woman, telling her to hold her and talk to her. She tells the woman what to say to her; as Fiona brushes her hand over the baby, it starts to breathe.

Hank makes it to Cordelia's bedside. He and Fiona fight with each other until a nurse enters and threatens to call security. Fiona leaves to give him 15 minutes with Cordelia before she throws him out. Hank kneels by Cordelia's bedside and promises her he'll never leave. He takes her hand, and she suddenly wakes to a vision of him having sex with Kaylee.

At the Academy, the undead bodies are being burned. Fiona thanks Zoe for protecting the Coven and assures her it won't be forgotten. LaLaurie comes out to watch her dead daughters burn. The Council returns and reviews Fiona's transgressions. They order that Fiona abdicate her Supremacy, and the Council will rule until the new Supreme reveals herself. Fiona refuses and accuses Myrtle of the acid attack on Cordelia. Fiona saw Myrtle under the black hood in the hospital under a woozy flashback. She also accuses Myrtle of killing Madison, saying she was in town when it happened, surprising the Council. Fiona reveals she and Spalding had tracked down Myrtle under an alias to a hotel, finding pictures of her taped all over the walls with pentagrams drawn on them. Myrtle objects that Fiona has to be stopped and they think that sounds like a confession. Fiona pulls off Myrtle's gloves to reveal her acid-burned hands. Cecily and Quentin vote to "burn the witch". The Coven and the Council dressed all in black, walk out to a quarry where Myrtle, dressed all in white, is roped to a stake and doused in gasoline. Myrtle's last words are "your all a bunch of little toads in a pot that Fiona is slowly bringing to a boil, you won't even feel it until it's to late, I'd rather burn than boil." Fiona flicks her lit cigarette at Myrtle, and her body goes up in flames, killing her.

Back at the house, Queenie asks Fiona if she framed an innocent or guilty woman. A flashback reveals Queenie standing around the corner as Fiona presents the case against Myrtle: at a key moment, Queenie dips her hand in a glass of acid. Queenie thought they were going to oust Myrtle, not burn her. Queenie isn't sure she can live with it. Fiona tells Queenie that nobody is innocent. Fiona flatters Queenie, telling her she can teach her and help build her powers, maybe even to become the next Supreme.

Up in his room, Spalding prances around in his nightgown and douses the room with air freshener to mask the smell of the rotting Madison in his trunk. He tries to pull her out, but her arm comes off. At the quarry, Misty Day finds Myrtle's charred corpse and uses her powers of resurgence. Myrtle's eyes open.

Reception

"Burn, Witch. Burn!" received a 2.2 18–49 ratings share and was watched by 3.80 million viewers, winning the night for cable.^[1]

The episode was chosen as one of The Atlantic{{'s}} Best TV Episodes of 2013.^[5]

References

External links

• {{IMDb episode|3213082|Burn, Witch. Burn!}}

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