- Cordelia's latest vision puts the Coven's future in question. With the end of Fiona's reign approaching, the girls manifest powerful new gifts. Queenie's search for Marie Laveau leads her to Hell and back.
- An old timey black and white movie reel of the Salem Witches plays, introducing the Seven Wonders. "Seven acts of magic so advanced, each pushes the boundaries of craft into art." Telekinesis, mind control, transmutation (like teleporting), divination (being able to see without seeing), vitalum vitalis (the balancing of scales between one life force and another), descensum (the perilous descent into the afterlife), pyrokinesis (fire starting).
Fiona explains that attempting the SevenWonders can be deadly. Queenie thinks she just wants to find out who the next Supreme is so she can kill her. Queenie wants to know where Marie Laveau is. Fiona brushes it aside, suggesting she's "cavorting with that half-baked Beetlejuice" Papa Legba.
Queenie tells her Legba is a deity and she should to show some respect. In response, Fiona chokes the air out of Queenie, agreeing there's a lack of respect in the house. She lets Queenie know her trials begin Saturday morning. "You will perform the Seven Wonders, or you will die trying," Fiona says.
Cordelia goes to Madison, looking for answers about Misty. She touched everything in her room and got nothing. She tries to touch Madison, but Madison zooms across the room, then boasts about performing transmutation.
Cordelia warns her not to read too much into it, witches' powers always spike in times of crisis.
When Cordelia tries again, Madison moves again. Cordelia wants to know what she's hiding, but Madison would rather she not know she tossed Misty in a coffin and put her in a tomb.
Madison finally walks over and lets Cordelia touch her, but Cordelia sees nothing.
Queenie goes to Cordelia's green house and hears Marie's voice swearing revenge on someone. There's blood all over the ground.
Queenie reads through a voodoo book, then lays down on her bed and recites a chant.
She sees herself floating over herself, then suddenly she's back in the fried chicken place.
The manager goes on break and tells her to watch the counter. There's a long line of customers, and Papa Legba standing at the register.
He tells her she's back in the worst time of her life, her own hell. She wants information on Marie Leveau, but he isn't forthcoming. He warns her to get back quickly unless she wants to be stuck.
As a customer starts yelling in her face, Queenie sits up on her bed with a start to see Papa Legba in her room.
Now that she's proven her powers, she wants answers. He shows her Delphine La Laurie hacking Marie into bits, Marie's own idea for Delphine.
Queenie wants to know a way to kill an immortal. She points out that since Marie is hacked up into pieces around town, she can't perform her service for Legba, so technically their deal is already off.
"You are one crafty witch," he says.
At Delphine's home she leads a tour noting what a wonderful hostess and skilled equestrian Madame Delphine La Laurie was and saying there was no torture chamber in the attic. She calls herself "a woman ahead of her time, a visionary, misunderstood and hated for it."
Queenie waits outside. When the tour is over, Queenie makes herself at home.
Delphine insists she just setting the record straight on the tour.
Cut to Delphine on the tour, hearing herself compared to Jeffrey Dahmber and Jack the Ripper.
In the attic, the tour guide says she killed as many as 150 slaves.
When that tour group leaves, she tells the guide she left her purse in the attic. When just the two of them are up there, she says it wasn't 150 slaves -- it was 62, she kept a ledger.
Delphine picks up a claw hammer and jams it into the tour guide's head, licking the blood spatter from her own face.
Up in the attic, Queenie asks her to let the woman go and says she'll give her a chance to make it right, she'll walk her into the Urban League so she can volunteer and begin to make amends.
But Delphine says she's learned all she needs to know about forgiveness today from the "magic box" and we see her watching clips of Paula Deen after using the N-word, and Anthony Weiner apologizing.
Delphine says she won't apologize because she's not sorry. "To tell a colored man that he can be equal to a white man, there's the real cruelty. I'm not going anywhere," Delphine says.
"Actually you are, straight to hell," Queenie says as she stabs Delphine in the heart.
Back at the Academy, Fiona sits for her official Supreme portrait and is horrified to get a bloody nose.
She thinks to herself that she probably only has two weeks left on earth.
Later, Cordelia goes up to her mother's room to ask about Queenie performing the Seven Wonders. Fiona can't believe Cordelia blinded herself. She tells Cordelia she can't lose her powers, they're innate.
Fiona gives Cordelia an heirloom necklace from her mother. As she lays it in Cordelia's hand, Fiona realizes her mother is saying good-bye.
Fiona puts the necklace around Cordelia's neck and Cordelia has a vision of Madison lying dead on the stairway landing, with her throat slit. Zoe is impaled on something on the wall.
Misty is dead in the kitchen, and Queenie is dead with a table leg in her mouth on the floor. Then Cordelia sees herself with a bullet wound to her head and her mother leaning over her and taking the necklace from her dead body.
She says nothing about it to her mother.
Cordelia pays a visit to the Axeman to warn him it's not safe to love her mother. She tells him what she saw and takes his hand.
She tells him Fiona isn't going to run away with him, she has a plane ticket for two days from now and a passport ready.
"You feel that empty heartbroken feeling? That's what it feels like to get close to Fiona," Cordelia says.
Cordelia feels everything she can find in Misty's room, trying to get a bead on her. She sees Misty singing (Fleetwood Mac, of course) inside a coffin. Then she sees the tomb.
Cordelia takes Queenie to the cemetery at night, telling her to use her powers to open the tomb. She busts the brick down and opens the casket. Misty isn't breathing.
Queenie breathes life back into Misty.
Back at the house, Myrtle tells Madison that Cordelia and Queenie are off to rescue Misty. Myrtle wonders who could be so horrible so as to entomb the poor girl. Madison plays coy.
Zoe and Kyle return.
They made it to Florida and were sitting under a tree when a homeless man yelled at them for being in his spot. Kyle killed him on the spot.
Madison thinks they came back because Zoe couldn't handle Kyle. Instead, we see Zoe breathing life back into the homeless man as she tells Madison they came back because Zoe believe she is clearly the next Supreme.
Misty walks in with Cordelia and Queenie and immediately attacks Madison. She doesn't want to waste her magic on her, she uses her hands. She throws Madison around and strangles her, tossing her to the floor. She punches Madison in the face, then picks her up and throws her into a column. When that's not enough she follows her into the next room, kicking her repeatedly.
Kyle finally breaks it up.
Suddenly a blood-spattered Axeman runs at them, wielding his axe.
"Boy, did you walk into the wrong house," Madison says, as all the witches turn on him at once, flinging him into the stairs.
They wonder where the blood came from. Cordelia reaches down to the ground and sees a vision of her mother's blooded face.
Flash to Fiona returning home to the Axeman. She cozies up to him but he tells her that Cordelia paid him a visit, to rile him up.
When Fiona goes into the kitchen, he goes into her purse and finds her plane ticket. She sees that he has it, then regroups. She tells him he's been a delightful distraction and admits she doesn't know anything about love, but he was the best she ever had and she'll miss that.
"Let's be realistic, when the next Supreme is dead I'll have 30 years of vitality until the next one comes along, and the doors of every palace will open for me," she says.
He glowers at her as she talks, then stalks toward her, finally grabbing her roughly by the hair and saying he loves her and knows she loves him. She denies it, saying she was sick and just needed to feel something.
He throws her to the bed but she pushes him off. He accuses her of betraying a true heart of love, but she's never been concerned about love.
She starts to tell him a story from her childhood when the Axemaan comes up behind her and drives his axe through her back. He attacks her ferociously, hacking until there's no doubt.
Back at the house, Cordelia announces that Fiona is really dead, he fed her to the alligators in the swamp.
Queenie asks who's going to kill him. Kyle volunteers, but Madison picks up the axe and nearly hacks him in half. Zoe, Queenie, and Misty use magic to grab kitchen knives and attack in a stabbing frenzy.
Meanwhile, Delphine La Laurie is hauled into her own attic torture chamber by two slaves and locked in a cage. She hears the voice of her daughter Boquita from a nearby cage and says she's consumed with regret.
Boquita asks why they're doing this and Marie Laveau walks out to answer: "Because we can."
Boquita complains she's thirsty, so Laveau slits Delphine's neck and feeds the blood to her. Delphine begs Marie to leave her children alone, but Marie takes a hot poker and lets Delphine choose how she abuses her daughter.
Suddenly, Marie snaps out of it, asking how she got there and saying she doesn't want to hurt Boquita. Papa Legba appears and tells her she'll do as she's told.
He tells Delphine she has finally gotten her wish and now will spend all of eternity in hell. He tells Marie she broke their contract.
He reignites the hot poker and hands it back to Marie. "Now get back to work," he says.
Kyle hangs the picture of Fiona on the Supreme wall. Cordelia says Fiona was a horrible Supreme and shirked all of her responsibility, including the most important task of identifying her successor.
And now it's time to learn who that will be. (Well, next week.)
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