Time Description

8:00 Kit Walker (main protagonist) arrives home where his wife Alma waits for him as she is about to prepare dinner for him. Kit then puts on his wedding ring that he intentionally left at home and then he tells his wife “Let’s tell everyone” where he is referring to his marriage that they have kept a secret due to the fact that his wife is African American. He wants to let all his family and friends know of their marriage but his wife disapproves of his idea.

10:10 While Alma goes to the kitchen, he remains smoking in his bed while the radio is playing music. Radio static begins abruptly and he sees bright white lights shine through his doors. He then retrieves a rifle and proceeds with caution ordering Alma to stay in the kitchen. As he walks outside the door with his rifle in hand, a bright white light flashes over him as he hears Alma screaming for help. He then goes inside the house searching for her as all the furniture has been scattered all around the house while the series of bright lights continues until an unbearable noise has him on the ground covering his ears. As the noise and lights come to a sudden stop, Kit notices that the objects surrounding him are rising to the ceiling as he follows behind and drops back to the ground and flips

over on his back. The scene then changes and he is seen without clothes in an empty room filled with bright white lights that illuminate throughout the setting where he is struggling to move and ends with a bizarre hand appearing before him.

11:30 The scene begins with Lana Winters arriving at the mental institution called Briar Cliff who claims she’s writing a story on the bakery there. As she is walking up towards the entrance, a patient by the name of Pepper gives her a rose asking Lana to “play with me”. Then a nun who works at the ward proceeds to guide Lana to Sister Jude’s office who is the head of the institution. Both ladies walk in to find Sister Jude attempting to shave off the hair of a patient named Shelly, who Sister Jude claims is a “victim of her own lust” or rather a “nymphomaniac”. As Sister Jude is explaining the story behind the bakery which was an idea that she purposed based off of the “philosophies” of the visionary of the institution, the Monsignor Timothy Howard. The bakery was basically a place for productivity and the purifications of the patients at the ward. Her assistant interrupts the interview and informs her that the killer nicknamed “Bloody Face” will arrive at the institution any minute. Lana then begs permission from Sister Jude to meet Bloody Face.

15:57 Outside the entrance of Briarcliff, staff members including Sister Jude and journalist Lana are outside waiting for the arrival of Bloody Face where Sister Jude explains that he is to be put under the institution’s care until it is determined whether he is “fit to stand trial”. Upon entering the institution and being brought out of the car, the man behind the infamous name is no other than Kit Walker who is cuffed at his feet and arms while being escorted inside by police authorities. Following his entrance, he has been strapped to his bed as he continues to struggle for release where he has been injected with a syringe by a staff member and blacks out. Sister Jude’s speaks as she then appears sitting beside Kit’s bed while he remains strapped down. Their confrontation was very brief as Kit said it wasn’t him that committed any crime and expressed his belief there was no God, simply because of what he experienced as what we assume to be what occurred earlier in the episode. Sister Jude refutes such a claim saying “All monsters are human”. As she is about to leave the room, she then asks a question to which Kit takes offense and spits in her face. Sister Jude then opens a cabinet where she stashes multiple crops and whips Kit as punishment.

18:10 Kit enters what seems to be the common room of the institution where he witnesses the various odd behaviors of the patient at the ward. All while a record player that repeats the same French song throughout the room which Kit could not tolerate any longer and attempts to turn it off. But to his surprise, a seemingly sane patient immediately stops him from turning off the record player warning him that he will be subjected to punishment and that it is a rule that as long as the common room remains open, the music is to be playing at all times. A male patient intervenes on their conversation and bullies Kit about skinning a colored woman because he didn’t like it. A fight then starts between the two

and then Sister Jude enters and blows her whistle interrupting the brawl. Two staff members proceed to get Kit and the scene ends with him getting hit.

20:50 The same patient who has warned Kit to not turn off the record player snuck in food to a cell he has been locked in with a straight jacket on. While her visit remained short, she explained that she volunteered at the kitchen and the reason she was convicted to the ward was because they thought she killed all of her family. When they hear someone enter the hall, she leaves Kit telling him her name is Grace.

22:00 Sister Jude confronts Dr. Arden at his wing of the institution because of a patient that has recently died and who’s body that has been taken under his care. She also mentioned that three other patients have disappeared under Dr. Arden’s watch to which he simply explains they died and their bodies have been cremated. All this while a graphic image of red flesh in a bowl is dropped into someone’s cell and someone’s hand is digging into it. Sister Jude also continued to say how that each patient that disappeared coincidently had no family or friends that would grieve over them. She expressed her suspicion that he was indeed hiding something then leaves his office.

32:00 Sister Mary Eunice who is followed by Lana who has encountered her outside in the woods, is leading her down toward an eerie dark hallway which is her shortcut down woods. As they enter upon a room, the Sister blocks off the door behind them as Lana asks why she was out in the woods by herself, especially what exactly she was feeding. Lana then threatens the sister that she will tell Sister Jude about her nightly ordeals and her secret shortcut if she didn’t let her “look around” the institution to look for Kit Walker. The scene then switches back to Dr. Arden and Kit who he has taken under Dr. Arden’s watch. Kit is wheeled in a room where Dr. Arden is about to perform a medical procedure on him. Meanwhile both Sister Jude and Lana are trying to see where Kit’s cell is located. Lana then confronts Shelley in a hallway and asks her where Kit Walker is being placed at, then Sister Jude enters the hallway as Lana immediately hides inside Shelley’s cell.

36:20 While Kit is strapped down to a bed, Dr. Arden is preparing to perform a procedure on him. Images then flash back to Kit, when he was abducted as the strange alien like creature appears before him. Then Alma face appears right before him as she disappears screaming for help. Dr. Arden continues to debrief on what happened to the victim (Alma’s) body. While Lana is still searching for Kit, she comes upon an enclosed cell where she hears someone muffling, and as she peaks through an opening something grabs her by the neck and the scene ends.

39:30 Lana wakes up with Sister Jude before her. She is strapped to the bed with head gear on her. Sister Jude hints that she won’t be getting out anytime soon as the scene switches to a flashback where she has met with Lana’s partner who is a

female and a teacher to 3rd grade students. Sister Jude threatens Lana’s girlfriend that if she does not sign a legal document giving the court permission to remand Lana to the institution, then she will expose their relationship ultimately causing her girlfriend to lose her job as a teacher. Lana’s girlfriend falls under the threat and signs the document. Sister Jude shows Lana the signed document telling her that she will be cured of her homosexuality in time.