'American Horror Story' Recap, Season 1, Episode 4: Halloween Is For Fluffers

Halloween (Part 1) with the Harmons! Blood, ghosts, vampires, and black latex fetish suits -- and that's all before the 31st -- when "the dead walk freely."

The parade of former guests at the Hotel Crazytown continues, this time with Patrick and Chad (a delightful Zachary Quinto), the gay murder-suicide couple who inhabited the house just before the Harmons. Chad, approached by latex-suit silent man, goes bobbing for apples, and has his neck broken.

Back in present day, Marcy tells the Harmons they have an image problem. She suggests they hire a fluffer, and suggests a "young gay fella" she knows. Guess who? Looks like Marcy might be in on the ghost train.

Over at Constance and Addie's, Constance's bit of man candy is reading about Halloween to Addie. Turns out lots of Constance's former boytoys think it's fun to stick their hands down Addie's pants. For Halloween, Addie wants to be a pretty girl.

"You'll go as Snoopy again," Constance tells her.

Viv's put in a new security system, but it doesn't stop Chad and Patrick from turning up on the porch, where they criticize the roses. As they carve up some charming pumpkins, Chad insinuates that Ben is unfaithful -- just like Patrick.

"Bars are just awash with twinks in revealing outfit," he says of Halloween, as he slings out catty insults ("I love your hair color, I can barely see any roots," he tells Viv).

Upstairs, Patrick grabs Ben's crotch. But he's not gay! "Neither was I, until I got head from a guy," Patrick says, telling him that it'll only take four minutes. Addie pops out from under Violet's bed and forces her to make her up. Constance makes her wash "the smut" off, but later, gifts her a full-head rubber mask with the hair and face of a pretty girl.

Violet and Tate are getting sexy in the basement, which is apparently the only place they can hang out. Tate's in the latex suit, and relates the rest of the sordid tale of the house's original owners. An abortion-girl's boyfriend steals and kills their baby. Doctor goes madder, stitches baby up into monster -- and leaves it in the basement, where it lives still -- is this the screechy granny-faced beast we've seen before? Violet wants to go on a "real date" with Tate -- he sets it for Halloween.

Violet's always been into the goth stuff, we hear from Ben in a session with Tate. But instead of offering our favorite teen psychopath some help, Ben breaks down in tears and tells Tate he used to be a "troubled young boy," just like Violet. It's finally Halloween, and Chad's putting the final touches on his "meticulously appointed candy scare station." Unfortunately, Viv's sexy scare lady and Ben's "Count Jockula" costumes do not meet with approval. Chad throws a fit, then Viv throws a fit, then Viv tells Ben she's read his phone records, knows he's talking to Hayden, and says he should leave. Then the baby kicks. Hospital time.

They leave behind Violet, who doesn't hear when Addie rings the bell before some skanky Halloween teens. She follows them, gets hit by a car and lies in the street till Constance drags her away from the paramedics to let her lie on the lawn with her (dead) friends.

Meanwhile, Moira visits her dying mother in a nursing home, the kind of cheery place where old geezers wander around with the pee tube dribbling yellow out of their pants leg. Mother dies, and exhorts Moira to come with her -- she wants to, she cries, but she can't.

At the hospital, the nurse tells Viv that she probably has some gas. Then she looks at what is their far-too-big for eight weeks old baby and passes out in shock.

Violet has another visitor -- burned face man who is screaming out for his $1,000 dollars while toting a plastic pumpkin. Behind her, the latex fetish man gets closer. When Viv and Ben get home, Violet's gone. But then the doorbell rings -- it's Hayden.