Chapter 8

"Chapter 8" is the eighth episode of the sixth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on November 2, 2016, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Todd Kubrak and directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton. Plot Thomasin and the colonists' ghosts begin to surround the house and start their attack. As Shelby and Dominic attempt to escape, Shelby can no longer handle her guilt after murdering Matt and commits suicide. At their family compound, the Polks continue torturing Lee, Audrey, and Monet as retribution for kidnapping their grandchildren. As Mama and her reluctant son Jether begin to butcher flesh from Lee's leg, the matriarch explains how and why the Polks first resorted to cannibalism. Meanwhile, Lee records herself to confessing that she murdered her ex-husband, Mason, out of resentment at his primary custody of her daughter, Flora. The three women fight back, killing Mama and Jether, and escape back to the farmhouse. Back at the house, the two women come across Matt's body, much to Lee's grief. In the upstairs bedroom, Audrey tries to comfort Lee while nursing her back to health. Audrey finds Shelby's dead body, and a fierce argument erupts among the three of them. Lee blames Dominic for being responsible for the deaths of her brother and sister-in-law and locks himself out of the bedroom in the hallway, where he is murdered by the Piggy Man.