Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
Halloween episodes of American Horror Story have never failed to be - shall we say - eventful. And while a bulk of this episode, "Fearful Pranks Ensue," revolved around a flashbacks to 1971 and the days following Fiona's murder of Anna-Lee (which sort of took the steam out of Fiona's great "Who's the baddest witch in town?" line, right as she was about to head out for the night), by the end of the chapter we'd see two zombie uprisings, a face full of acid, and a man slice off his own tongue.
There was a certain perverse nobility in watching Spalding cut off his own tongue to prevent himself from being (magically) forced to testify against Fiona. A grotesque way to protect one's love, certainly, but also endearing. As was his room full of dolls and the silly little tea party he was holding at the beginning. But the "room full of dolls" should have been a clue, since that's usually an alarm (in the TV world and the real one, in my opinion) that someone's seriously off their rocker. And by the end, the odd sweetness to Spalding (which we also saw when he hugged the scarecrow he made) was replaced with morbid lunacy, as it was revealed that he never buried Madison - only added her fresh corpse to his tea party. Gah!
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