Sleep Hypnosis

Laszlo (Matt Berry) continues killing pedestrians to remove multiple organs for his experiments. The numerous body parts are stored haphazardly around the house, which frustrates Nadja (Natasia Demetriou). She suggests Laszlo use the room under the stairs to store the body parts, and he agrees, but Nandor (Kayvan Novak) refuses to let Laszlo use the room because he has already converted it into a personal gym.

Guillermo (Harvey Guillén) suggests holding a vote. Nandor is the only one in favor of keeping his personal gym, and he loses the vote when Nadja and Laszlo both vote in favor of Nadja's idea. Overhearing this, Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch) fears that the limited space will result in him getting kicked out of the house. He believes that with the dynamics changing with Guillermo moving out, the other three vampires will eventually either kill Colin Robinson or force him to find a new place to live. Colin Robinson tries to convince Guillermo to move back into the house, but Guillermo refuses. Colin Robinson is unable to hypnotize Nandor due to his vampiric nature, but becomes curious when Guillermo suggests hypnotizing him while sleeping. Colin Robinson tries this, telling Nandor that he must stand his ground with the space and that he can only trust on Colin Robinson as an ally.

The following day, Nandor has reverted to his Al-Quolanudar warrior persona, and is only able to speak in his native language. He starts fighting with Nadja and Laszlo over the gym space, which culminates when Nandor sets fire to the house. After consulting with Guillermo, Colin Robinson once again hypnotizes Nandor while sleeping; however, in an effort to "improve upon the original", Colin Robinson encourages Nandor to act like Richard Nixon, which renders Nandor unable to speak unless he is directly quoting Nixon. Seeing that sleep hypnosis works, Nadja hypnotizes Laszlo to start cleaning the house. Guillermo helps Colin Robinson in hypnotizing Nandor back to normal. After witnessing this, Laszlo hypnotizes Nandor, Nadja, and Colin Robinson into believing they are his servants.

Guillermo visits the Baron (Doug Jones) for help. The Baron agrees to give Guillermo a recording of his hypnosis technique but warns Guillermo not to listen to the recording, or else he will be hypnotized. However, the hypnosis causes Nandor, Nadja, Laszlo, and Colin Robinson to forget they had ever met each other, and they once again begin arguing about the room under the stairs. The Guide (Kristen Schaal) arrives, finds out about the events, and hypnotizes the four vampires into forgetting they had ever been hypnotized. However, while sleeping, Guillermo accidentally listens to the Baron's recording on loop, causing him to forget everything that happened to him in the past fifteen years. Guillermo shows up in the living room and asks about a job application he took to be the vampires' familiar. Nandor conducts a job interview and hires Guillermo back, although he tells the documentary crew that he plans to de-hypnotize Guillermo the next day.

In September 2024, FX confirmed that the third episode of the season would be titled "Sleep Hypnosis", and that it would be written by co-executive producer Marika Sawyer, and directed by executive producer Yana Gorskaya.^[2] This was Sawyer's eighth writing credit, and Gorskaya's 18th directing credit.^[3]

Upon receiving the script, Kayvan Novak expressed surprise with its content, saying "When I first read it, I was like, ‘This is mad. Am I actually gonna sound like Richard Nixon?'”" To achieve it, Novak, an expert in mimicry, watched several clips of Nixon.^[4]