That night, as she’s about to buzz off her hair, a sax note stops her in her tracks, and before you can say Kenny G, the clipper’s turned off, and she’s turned on.
However, in the rest of her, it clearly isn’t. “What was this,” then, she hisses before storming out, “a mercy lay?” In her mind, their fling is clearly over. She’s too focused on the fact that he saw her grow old to care about the fact that he saw her grow up. Curiously, Fiona doesn’t hear how skeevy this all sounds, either. (And, given that his ghost had been trapped at Miss Robichaux’s for decades, he certainly had a bird’s-eye view.) Over time, he says - clearly not hearing how skeevy this all sounds - his interest in her went from fatherly to lustful. The morning after, when Fiona again pulls away, the Axeman reveals that he’s been watching over her since she was 8. Pshaw - “love transforms,” he argues, finally sealing the deal with an elaborate sax/sex analogy. To save face and beat a hasty retreat, she disses him and then herself, saying she’s a wretched creature that he’s better off not knowing. (The corpse of the previous tenant is lying in a pool of his own blood in the tub.) But it isn’t the smooth operator’s homicidal tendencies that prompt her to call off their one-night stand, it’s the discovery that her hair is falling out. SAX SELLS | Picking up more or less where their “chance” meeting last week left off, Fiona has accompanied the Axeman back to his place. RELATED | American Horror Story Scoop: Stevie Nicks Joining the Coven
Read on if you dare as I eulogize “The Dead”…
In this week’s American Horror Story: Coven, five (not two, four or six but five) characters get lucky, two characters’ luck runs out, and we get what could well go down in television history as the creepiest seduction ever.