American Horror Story (2011–…): Season 6, Episode 1 - Chapter 1 - full transcript

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WOMAN:
From the very first moment,

I felt danger there.

Who's out there?

(distorted howl, shriek)

Oh!

My family was in danger
and all I could do was watch.

When you see something
like this,

a lot of crazy thoughts
go through your head.

WOMAN: Humans respond to fear
in two simple ways:

fight or flight.

(inhuman howling)



Our friends used to tease us

that they didn't like
socializing with Matt and I

because we were too perfect.

They'd get in fights in the car

on the way home from dinner
with us because...

we made them feel like

they weren't as in love
as Matt and I were.

I won a free yoga class
at a work raffle.

I'm a pharmaceutical salesman.

Shelby was the teacher. I...

pulled a hamstring and never
took a yoga class again,

but it was the best thing
that ever happened to me.

Things were going really well.

We settled in Los Angeles--



the yoga capital of the world--

and...

decided to start a family.

Yeah, we found out that,
uh, Shelby was pregnant

on the same day
that I got promoted

to West Coast sales manager,
so we decided

to go out and celebrate both.

(grunts)
(screams)

That was the worst night
of our lives.

No, no!
MATT: It was a gang initiation.

Game of knockout.
They had to

pick a random person
on the street,

sneak up on 'em and...

knock 'em out.

Help!

Yeah!
Help!

Somebody, help us!

SHELBY:
I was in a trance

in the waiting room.

If I lost Matt...

Mrs. Miller?

Is he okay?

His orbital socket is broken.

He will need surgery
once the swelling goes down.

Our bigger concern is he hasn't
regained consciousness.

Well, I need to see him.

If I'm with him, he'll wake up.

I know it.

(heart monitor beeping steadily)

I was right.

As soon as we touched,

he started waking up.

That's just...

that's just the kind of
connection that we have.

He was gonna be okay.

But she wasn't.

She lost the baby.

They don't know
if it was the stress

or-or, um, being pushed, but...

(clears throat)

...but she...

she lost the baby.

The city just didn't
feel safe anymore.

We needed to get out.

I wanted to go east,
to where I grew up.

My sister lived there.

My mom.

It was home.

It's in North Carolina.

Right near the ocean, but...

but also full of the most
gorgeous native forests.

It was so quiet and wonderful

and calm. I think we just both

just realized
that at the end of the day,

we weren't city folks.

SHELBY:
We were in the woods,

having fun.

(laughs)

It was a perfect day,

and we found ourselves

in front of
the most beautiful

old farm house.

It was three bedrooms.

And two stories
and a basement.

They told us that it had been
built in 1792.

It was in great shape.

MATT: It felt like
it was meant to be.

Like the universe
just wanted us

to be there at that moment.

I also thought "there's no way
we can afford that house."

AUCTIONEER:
Opening bid is $21,000.

What is your bid?

Well, now, that includes
the ten acres

of forest around the house.

But you can't build on it.

It's protected.

That seems
inexpensive.
(laughs)

What's wrong
with the property?

Hurricanes.

You don't want this house.

We bid $25,000.

$26,000.

Do I hear 27?

We bid $40,000.

It was

almost all of our savings.

It totally turned me on
when he did that.

Going once.

Going twice.

Sold, $40,000.

(laughs)

(truck door opens, closes)

(engine struggling to start)

Oh, my...

What did we just do?

Baby, we just started over.

SHELBY:
I loved it. And I loved him,

but from the very first
moment I felt

danger there.

(engine starts)

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MATT: From the moment
I walked into the house,

I... I was home.

I mean, I love
the country life--

the fresh air,

waking up to the sound
of the birds singing.

If Shelby felt any different,

she didn't say anything
out loud,

but I sensed a-a reluctance.

Maybe she missed the city.
Maybe my wounds

healed quicker.
They were nothing

compared to what she lost:

a life inside of her.

(moaning)

I love you.

(inhuman howl in distance)

(moaning)

(howling continues)

What the hell was that?

(loud pounding)
Shit!

No, no, no... no, no, no, no.

Matt, please don't go.

Matt, please
don't go down there.

Just stay here, stay here.

(howling continues)

MATT: At first I thought
it was a... a raccoon

or-or a bear.

But a bear didn't do this.

(thump)

Who's there?

Who's out there?

(howls)

Hey!
When you see
something like that,

a lot of crazy thoughts
go through your head.

You think, today,

prejudice is not

going to rear its ugly head.

But... this is the South.

They just got rid
of the Confederate flag.

And with Shelby and I being
an interracial couple...

(whispering): Matt!

MATT:
This kind of hate is something

that's always
in the back of my mind.

And then I thought
of those hillbillies

who lost the auction. Wouldn't
surprise me a bit if they were

trying to scare us away
with this kind of vandalism.

We ran away once, and...

we weren't gonna
be victims again.

I had just finished
90 minutes of my practice,

and I had fallen asleep
during my Shavasana, so...

I wasn't quite right
with the world.

(hail rattling)

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Ow!

(clinking)

Hey.

Oh, hey.

MATT:
Shelby was literally shaking...

Hey. You okay?

...when I got back
from running errands

in the little town
a few miles away.

Honey, it-it's just
a hailstorm.

I drove through it
on the way home.

I know what I saw.

It wasn't ice.

There were human teeth
falling everywhere.

Weather 'round here does
take some getting used to.

That's it.

SHELBY:
I felt pretty foolish.

I mean, teeth don't

fall from the sky.

Raleigh is only two hours away.

WakeMed is one
of the busiest hospitals

in the state.

If I land these accounts,
I won't have

to be gone so much.

Babe, I know
what I signed up for.

Traveling salesmen travel.

It's how

we pay the bills.

All these renovations.

Even that ugly

tie that you're wearing.

(laughs)

It's my lucky tie.

Hey, are you sure

you're gonna be okay?

I can always
cancel my trip.

I'm a big girl.

I'm gonna be fine.

I'm gonna be fine!

Okay.

Okay.
(laughs)

Okay. Well...
It's good.

Go.
Fine.

SHELBY
To tell you the truth,

I was looking forward
to some alone time.

He was being

so sweet and so patient, but...

he was... hovering,

extra protective,
and I felt like

I was suffocating a little.

So I wanted him to go.

I felt like I needed

the alone time.

In a way, it felt normal.

That's how things
had always been for us.

He'd go away on business,

and I'd miss him like crazy.

And then, we'd have the best sex
when he came back.

I'd feel like...

like nothing
could tear us apart.

And I knew that I was
probably being silly.

I just...

It takes time
to settle into a new home,

and I just needed
to relax, and...

(laughs)

Luckily, that's-that's
what I do for a living.

(inhales deeply)

(exhales deeply)

(wind whistling, creaking)

(sizzling)

(shutter bangs loudly)
Oh!

(loud, rhythmic clattering)

(sighs)

(wind whistling)

(laughs)

(wood creaking)

(echoing):
Is anyone there?

Hello?

Hello?

(sighs)

(insects trilling and chirring)

(trilling, chirring continuing)

(water gently splashing)

(muffled scream)

MATT: Well, Shelby called me,
panicked, crying,

saying she had been attacked.

I was in Raleigh,
two hours away,

but I made it home
in half the time.

Where's Shelby?
Is she all right?

She's inside.

You her husband?

Your wife reported
that she was assaulted

and held underwater
in the hot tub.

She claimed to have

struggled against
her attackers.

What do you mean, "claimed?"

I found no evidence of
footprints or marks on the deck

or in the grounds
around the hot tub.

She also said her attackers
were dressed in old costumes

holding pitchforks and torches.

Does she imbibe?

I know exactly
who did this.

It's those ZZ Top wannabes.

They've been trying
to scare us off

since we bought
this place.

I'll bet it's the Polks.

Let me, uh, go have
a talk with them.

Those guys keep to themselves,

and they're, uh,
not so easy to find.

We need protection!
Get a gun.

What?!
That cop--

he wasn't gonna do
a damn thing for us.

I could tell by his manner,

and his-his...
his condescending attitude.

He said he'd file a report,
but I knew

it would just end up in the
bottom of a drawer somewhere.

Was it those guys
from the auction?

(quietly):
No.

I don't... I don't know.

It's just,

what you told the cops

didn't make a whole lot
of sense there, Shelby.

I saw what I saw.

They held you down...
until they let you up?

SHELBY:
I was really scared.

I was choking on water.

When I could finally
see clearly,

they were gone.
I ran inside

to call the police,
then I called you.

(sighs)

What?

The cops said

that they didn't find
anything by the hot tub.

No fingerprints, no torches.

They must have
come back for them.

I wasn't imagining things, Matt.

I wasn't.

Mm.

Do you think I'm lying to you?

Shelby, absolutely not.

No. I believe you 100%.

Shelby, no.

I'm sorry. I believe you.

I believe you. I'm sorry.

I believe you.

(sighs)

SHELBY:
I felt so guilty,

because I couldn't
tell Matt the truth.

I didn't want to live there.

(wind chimes tinkling)

(insects trilling)

(inhuman howling)

(howling continues)

(wind chimes tinkle)

(gasps)

MATT:
I decided not to tell Shelby
about what happened,

but it was proof to me
that that white trash gang

was trying to scare us away.

(grunts softly)

I had to be back
in Raleigh the next day, so,

I set up security cameras
all around the perimeter

that were synced to my cell
phone so I could keep an eye

on the place
from wherever I was.

(crowd cawing)

Not bad for an amateur.

But I was not going
to leave Shelby there alone.

So I called my sister.

Shelby never liked me.

Which is fine, because
I was never a huge fan of hers.

Yoga is not a job.

I used to play volleyball
in high school.

Back then,
yoga was called "stretching,"

and it was something you did
before, not as exercise.

(chuckles)
Lee judged my yoga

and my gluten allergy

and my two years of college.

She thought I was too much
of a phony for her brother

to marry.

I got my degree
in criminal psychology from UNC.

I was on track
to make detective.

Didn't work out though.

I didn't start taking pills

because of some fault
in my character.

I got hurt. On the job.

(indistinct shouting)

(baby crying)

(crying)

(gunshot)
(screams)

Do you know
prescription painkillers can be

more addictive than heroin?

I went from two pills a day
to two an hour.

I don't remember
how many I took that day.

I don't remember
very much of anything at all

that day, really.
(tires screeching)

(siren wailing)
(starts engine)

(tires screeching)

He was a serial rapist.

A real asshole.

I hate assholes.

(tires screeching)
(sirens wailing)

Put down the gun!

Put it down!

You heard me.
Put down the...

It would have been
his third strike.

You ask me, it's the one time
the law worked exactly

the way it should.

(indistinct police transmission)

Hey!

What you nee...

They fired her.

Come on, Mason.

Divorce? Now?

When I'm at rock bottom?
How many times

have you forgotten to pick up

your daughter
at school this month?

Three times.

Which is three more
the amount of times

than you've touched me
in the past month.

I'm done with this.

LEE: The judge awarded him
full custody of Flora.

(door shuts)

I got her three days every 14.

21% of her life.

That's all they gave me.

Can we stop
for a moment, please?

(sizzling)

Hmm.

(creaking)

(wind blowing in distance)

(sizzling continuing)

LEE:
Smelling g...

Oh, Jesus!

Oh, Jesus, Lee!

Don't sneak up on me
like that! You scared

the shit out of me!

My brother married
one jumpy bitch.

She knew
why we called her there.

And she knew that someone
was messing with us.

Why would she move the knife
like that?

So when did you
become a cook?

What is that supposed to mean?

Recently.

It relaxes me.
Mmm.

Cookin'?
Yes.

Cooking.

(sighs)
Look, can I be real

with you?

While I'm here,
could you please not drink

inside the house?
I know it's your home,

but I'm hanging on
to my sobriety by my teeth here.

But don't worry,
I'll stay sober.

Somebody's got to protect you
from the wild men in the woods.

And I appreciate that.
Although...

I wish you still had
your badge and your gun.

Well, I may not
have my badge,

but Mama's still packin'.

I'll be honest with you,

I never put much stock
in the stories

my sister-in-law
was telling my brother.

She never wanted to move
to the country.

I figured she was just trying
to scare him

so they'd pack up
and move back to L.A.

(inhuman howling)

(chimes tinkling)

(creaking)

Shelby, um...

I was pissed off.

I thought
Shelby was messing with me.

Why, Shelby?

Why would you do
something like that, huh?
Do something like what?

This. Why would you do this?

I didn't do anything.

And I certainly didn't finish
off that wine, so maybe

you're the one seeing things.
Wait a minute. Hold up.
I'm seeing things?

The reason
I'm out here

is because
of what you been seeing.

(phone buzzing)
MATT: My phone buzzed
around 11:30.

I thought it was Shelby texting
to say good night,

but it wasn't her.

It was an automated alert
from the security system

I'd installed.

The sensors
had been triggered by...

something.

(phone buzzing)
Well, bottles just don't roll
across the floor by themselves.

Why you messin' with me?
For the last time,
I didn't do it!

God, everything is a five-alarm
emergency with you.

MATT:
I was in a complete panic.

My family was in danger,
and all I could do was watch.

When a mob

shows up at your house
in the middle of the night

with torches, they are not there

to welcome you
to the neighborhood.

(phone buzzing)
Do you know how many hours
Matt spends worrying about you?

MATT: And no one would pick up
the damn phone.

Every time you have
a problem, you call Matt.

Your husband's mean to you,
you call Matt. You fall
Uh-huh.

off the wagon,
you call Matt.
Well, that's what families do!

We look out for each other!
Yeah, except
for you take.

You take and you take.
Where were you

when Matt was lying in
that hospital room, unconscious,

fighting for his life?
Where were you...
(door opens)

(shushing)

(creaking)

(whispering):
Someone's in the house.

(soft creaking)

(hinges creaking)
(man shouting, panting)

(chuckling)

(man shouting)

Hey, Lee, I'm not staying
up here by myself.

Where's your gun?

Where it should be,
locked,

in a drawer upstairs.

Do we need to go
back up and get it?
Shh.

(man panting)

(man whimpering)

(man shouting)

(man whimpering on TV)

MAN:
I knew it... it came back.

I knew it was real.

SHELBY:
Why would someone
break into my house

just to play a home movie?

(inhuman howling on TV)

Oh, God.

I've heard those noises.

(panting, mutters)

It's close.

(panting):
I can smell it.

(inhuman howling, man yells)

(man screaming,
howling continues)

I finally got you,

you son of a bitch.

What the hell was that?

I have no idea.

We have to get
out of here. Come on.
Yeah.

(door slams shut,
gasping, whimpering)

(power whooshes off,
phone buzzes)

MATT:
I was freaking out.

I called the cops-- they said
they would look into it.

Frigging useless!

(yells)

Shit! Shit!

I knew,
even 100 miles away,

I'd get there
before they would.

I just kept saying, "Please,
God, just-just get me home.

Please just don't
let me be too late."

(floorboards rattling)

Someone's up there.
Shh.

(floorboards rattling)

(panting, gasping)

A lot of someones.

SHELBY:
We were down there

20, maybe... 30 minutes,

but it felt like forever.

Come on.

Come on! Come on!
Come on!
Shh. Keep it down.

(squeaking, banging,
rattling)

What are you doing?

Shh.

(sighs)
Come on.

No, no, no,
no, no, no.

Come on!
(panting)

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Oh, my God.

MATT:
I finally arrived.

The cops had come and gone
by the time I got there.

Lee said they took a report
and chalked it up to vandalism.

This was not vandalism.

This was terrorism.

How'd they do this so quickly?

SHELBY:
That's not the point, Matt.

They broke into our home.

They locked your sister

and me in the basement.
They were here.

They lured us down there,
made us watch

this creepy video.

What video?

SHELBY:
I didn't want to see it again,

but I went down with him anyway

because I wasn't going
to be alone in that house.

Matt hadn't been there
when it happened, so,

of course
he didn't take it seriously.

MATT:
I took it seriously.

I mean, I thought
the video was fake.

(man yelling)

Had to be those rednecks
going all out,

trying to get us to leave.

(video rewinding)

(inhuman howling, man yells)

(man panting)

I finally got you,
you son of a bitch.

MATT:
Pissed me off even more.

People do this
all the time.

Neighbors or locals
do crazy things

to try to drive out
the new homeowners,

so they can come in and
buy the property cheap.

They're just trying to freak
us out so that we'll leave.

Well, it's working.

I want to leave, Matt.

Now.

If they want the house that
badly, let them have it.

Did the cops see these tapes?

Yeah.
SHELBY:
They don't care.

They just think it's some good
ol' boys being good ol' boys.

You know they're not gonna lift
a goddamn finger to help us.

LEE: Come on, Shelby,
Shelby, come on.

You got to let the
cops do their job.

Oh, don't take this personally.

Matt.

We have to leave.

It's our home, Shel.

Our life savings.

Where are we gonna go?

And with what?

You cannot let these people

run you out of your home.

You're not even
listening to me.

Wow.

You know what?

Just...
just do what you want.

Shelby?
LEE:
Oh, let her go.

Give her a little time
to calm down.

(door slams)

Who is this guy?

LEE: Another member
of that redneck family?

(car engine revving)

Shelby!

Shelby!

I couldn't believe it.

Shelby just... left.

SHELBY: At the time, it made
all the sense in the world.

Humans respond to fear
in two simple ways--

fight or flight.

There's no shame in getting
the hell out of the way.

(phone buzzing)

Hello?

MATT:
Shelby, come home.

(Shelby screams,
tires screeching)

Shelby?

Can you hear me?

Are you there?

Shelby!

Shelby!
Oh, my God.

Are you all right?

Can you hear me? Shelby!

(panting)

Oh, come on.

Come on, come on.

(panting)

Hello?!

Hello!

Hello?

Hello?!

Hello?

Hello?

Ma'am?

Are you all right?!

Are you hurt?

No, no, no!

Please, stop! Stop!

I have to get you
to a hospital!

I didn't understand
what happened.

I still don't.

Ma'am!

Hello?!

I followed
this woman straight

into the forest,
maybe 50 feet.

Hello?!

And the road was
directly behind me, I swear.

There's no way that she
could've gotten very far,

but I couldn't find
any sign of her.

Hello?!

And I couldn't find
my way out.

Hello?

Come on, Shelby.
Come on,

come on, come on,
come on, come on, oh...

Okay.

I was lost.

(heavy breathing)

(rustling nearby)

Hello?

(rustling)

(gasping)

(grunts)

(rhythmic rumbling)

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(inhuman scream)

No! No!