Red Dawn (American Horror Story)
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| "Red Dawn" | |
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| American Horror Story episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Gwyneth Horder-Payton |
| Written by | Dan Dworkin |
| Featured music | |
| Production code | 9ATS05 |
| Original air date | October 16, 2019 |
| Running time | 39 minutes |
| Guest appearances | |
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"Red Dawn" is the fifth episode of the ninth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 16, 2019, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Dan Dworkin, and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton.[1]
1980
Donna, staking out his apartment complex, sees her father and a woman enter the building. Donna breaks inside and is shocked to find the woman tied up and disembowelled. Donna tries to help the woman but her father enters the bedroom, carrying a knife. He claims that he's always had darkness inside him. Donna promises that she can help him, but he commits suicide by stabbing himself in the neck.
1984
Richard Ramirez explains to a bewildered Donna that Satan resurrected him. Her father's ghost appears and encourages Donna to embrace the darkness inside her.
Xavier lights a stick on fire and threatens to burn the camp to the ground. Margaret knocks him out and the group retreats to a cabin. Margaret suggests that they take a boat to reach campers at the other side of the lake and Montana proposes that Chet accompany her. Alone with Brooke, Montana prepares to kill her, but Brooke leaves when she sees Ray through a window. In the middle of the lake, Margaret strikes Chet with an oar, ties an anchor to his ankle, slices his ear off, and pushes him into the water.
Brooke and Ray run to the mess hall. Brooke tells Ray about her past and the two end up having sex. Donna admits to Montana and Xavier that she released Mr. Jingles. Xavier attacks Donna and chases her out of the cabin. Brooke confides to Ray that he took her virginity. She then finds Ray's head in the refrigerator and runs back to Montana. Montana strikes her in the head and explains that she is avenging her brother's death.
Richter finds Margaret in the archery arena and grabs her by the throat. Xavier appears and shoots several arrows into Richter's chest. Xavier tends to Margaret and she suddenly attacks and kills him. Ramirez appears to a dying Richter and asks if he accepts Satan as his master. Richter accepts.
Brooke and Montana brawl until dawn when the campers pull up in a school bus and witness Brooke stabbing Montana to death. The police are called and Brooke is wrongfully arrested for the murders of the past night. Ramirez and Richter steal a cop car and the two speed away to Los Angeles. After Montana kills a policeman, she, Ray, and the hitchhiker reminisce about their ghosts being trapped on the camp property.
