Madness Ends
| "Madness Ends" | |
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| American Horror Story episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 13 |
| Directed by | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon |
| Written by | Tim Minear |
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| Production code | 2ATS13 |
| Original air date | January 23, 2013 |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
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"Madness Ends" is the thirteenth episode and season finale of the second season of the FX anthology television series American Horror Story. The episode, written by executive producer Tim Minear and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, originally aired on January 23, 2013. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).
In the episode, Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) is interviewed about her career, including shutting down Briarcliff, exposing now-Cardinal Howard (Joseph Fiennes), and what happened to patients Jude (Jessica Lange) and Kit (Evan Peters). After the interview, she is confronted by Johnny (Dylan McDermott), who intends to kill her.
Johnny (Dylan McDermott) breaks into the boarded-up asylum, listening to an audiobook called Tales from Briarcliff, written and read by Lana. He imagines her telling him she could not wait to give him up and that he should never have been born. As she relates via audio that Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) was an "unspeakable monster", Johnny imagines Thredson telling him that he loved him and that Lana kept them apart.
Then, Leo (Adam Levine) and Teresa (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) enter the asylum as seen in "Welcome to Briarcliff". They end up at the cell where Johnny waits inside. He puts on the Bloody Face mask, pulls out a machete, and chops off Leo's arm holding the camera-phone.
Lana (Sarah Paulson) has become a television investigative reporter. She and her camera crew sneak into the asylum via the tunnel to film Briarcliff Exposed. She plans on rescuing Sister Jude after learning she was still alive. They film in the former kitchen, where an attendant catches them. Lana asks about Jude and imagines rescuing her, when, in reality, Jude had already been released. Lana goes to the office, searching through files scattered on the floor, to find Jude's file. She then goes to Kit Walker's (Evan Peters) residence after learning he was the one who got Jude out of Briarcliff. He relates to her what happened to Jude after he brought her home.
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