American Horror Story: Freak Show Recap “Tupperware Party Massacre”: I Am the Law

In the latest American Horror Story: Freak Show recap, Dandy satiates his hunger a few more times before finding a new friend while Jimmy’s downward spiral continues all the way until he lands in jail….

By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer

It’s safe to say by this point in the season that ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’ is a bit of a cluttered mess.

The stories have bounced around during almost every episode going from one theme to another with the central characters staying the same, but overall just a confusing jaunt through a carnival side show and one very rich and privileged family who birthed a sociopath. We were sold on another lie that the big bad this season would be revealed early on and then Twisty the Clown, for all the hype that he got before the show started, was gone inside of four episodes.

In terms of interest, the only character that really seems to drive the narrative in one way or another is Dandy Mott — the aforementioned top one-percent, spoon fed psychopath who is about the only thing worth watching on the show at this point and thankfully he occupies a huge chunk of the latest episode titled ‘Tupperware Party Massacre’.

So without further ado let’s recap the latest episode of ‘American Horror Story: Freak Show’.

Misadventures with the Fairer Sex

The episode opens with Dandy Mott receiving a reading from our local ‘mystic’, Maggie Esmeralda. He says he’s had some misgivings with women lately and wants to know if this will continue or if the sins of his past will somehow come back to haunt him. Maggie — like most professed psychics — can’t see squat but she can whip up a happy lie to make Dandy pay up for more. She says that he’s clearly a heartbreaker, but he has nothing to worry about from the past, present or future.

He’s so pleased with himself that he tips her an extra $100 for the good information. Somewhere during the conversation, Maggie thinks she recognizes his voice as familiar but ultimately he saunters out of her tent and back onto the fairway again.

Meanwhile back in the food tent, Jimmy is sauced while feeding his new much larger lady love. Watching him feed her spoonfuls of pudding is cringe inducing, but once he spots Dandy nearby Jimmy loses his shit. He goes running and stops Dandy before accusing him of murder once again as well as being the man behind the second mask when they were dealing with Homeless the Clown a few weeks back. Dandy can only laugh as Jimmy can barely stand much less construct a sentence together. In the end, Dandy warns his foe that since the lobster boy wouldn’t accept him as one of his own and took away the twins, who were his only shot at true happiness, he was going to dedicate his life to ruining Jimmy’s. Given his current state, that’s not going to take much time.

Speaking of the twins — where the hell are they?

Well it seems Ethel stashed them a couple of weeks back when she planned on killing Elsa but since she ended up losing her head instead, it’s the ringmaster and Stanley the freak collector who find them instead. They find the twins and tell them there’s a mob hunting down freaks so they have to stay out of sight to keep safe, especially with Ethel being their first victim and all. Even better news is Dr. Sugar, the Chicago surgeon who cut apart two other conjoined twins, has agreed to see Bette and Dot and help them get separated as well. It sounds great and all except the ‘examination’ is taking place at a skeevy barn in the middle of nowhere. Not exactly the most antiseptic place to hang out.

Elsa’s even having second thoughts. She loves and cares for her monsters, even if they are threatening to take away her spotlight. Stanley calms her down and promises no real harm will come to them, he’s just going to make sure they aren’t a problem anymore. His solution involves cutting their conjoined heads off and selling it to a museum, but Elsa doesn’t need to know that.

Stanley’s plan to get the twins to go along with him involves one of his male prostitutes, who will be playing the part of Dr. Sugar (although the poor lad can’t remember six consecutive words together so he can fool them). Stanley eventually gets fed up and decides to feed the guy something of his own. Stanley’s power tool comes up again in the episode when he tracks down strongman Dell Toledo, who is drinking his life away as well after murdering poor little Ma Petit. Stanley tries to convince him that there’s no way out before telling him his precious Andy (Matt Bomer) has gone missing. Dell is concerned, but it all melts away when Stanley whips out his pants toy and taunts him with it. Dell says that Stanley is a freak too. No, Dell, he’s just what the future will call ‘porn star material’.

I Am the Law

Back in Dandy-Land, his day starts off with a visit to the freak show and soon he has a guest at home as well when an Avon lady comes calling offering her skin care products to the woman of the house. She doesn’t find any women, but does get bludgeoned over the head with a candlestick in the parlor by Dandy, who then cuts her head off and sews it on the body of his mother so they can be his own Tattler twins since his original version left already. Ahhh yes nothing says love like replacing objects of affection with the slaughtered body of your mother and some random Avon lady. Seems totally normal.

Moments later Dandy is preparing himself a blood bath because that’s what Dandy does when his old pal Regina shows up. She’s looking for her mother and she’s even involved the police. Dandy admits to killing her mother and burying her in the backyard before killing his own mother just a few days ago. He locks the door and it seems he’s about to add another body to the pile when he informs his childhood friend that she’s not in any danger at all. He wants her to help understand what he’s become and because she had to see this coming as far back as when they were kids, Regina might be the only person he can talk to about his transformation.

Regina wants no part of naked assed Dandy explaining all this madness so he freaks out and tells her to leave but not before warning her that bringing the authorities into this matter won’t do any good. Why? Because Dandy is Judge Dredd!

“I am the law!!!”

Over at the freak show, Desiree and Maggie are looking for the twins by looking around the freak show because that’s totally where they’re hiding. Out of nowhere Malcolm Jamal-Warner shows up and tells Desiree she’s the most beautiful woman in the world but she shuns his affection. Because we need another character to show up out of nowhere at this point. He’s only around for about 15 seconds because soon enough Maggie and Desiree encounter another sticky situation when walking into a tent just down the way while looking for the twins.

It’s sloppy Jimmy getting him some sloppy Ima. Maggie can’t believe what she’s seeing. Neither can the rest of the television viewing audience. Jimmy says that Ima is soft and tastes like lemon pies. When Maggie gets jealous for a moment, Ima threatens to sit on her and flatten her like a cracker. Maggie tears out of there because she’s done with Jimmy for good. Or at least until the next episode.

Jimmy’s day only gets worse when he visits his favorite housewives for a little afternoon delight, but he’s so trashed he can’t even find the right spot. On his way out, he’s haunted by visions of his mother and little does he know things are about to get far worse.

When Jimmy leaves, the doorbell rings again and it’s Dandy. His car is broken down and he needs to use the phone. He even offers to pay for the call. In the 1950’s it probably wasn’t out of place at all to allow someone inside to use your phone, but in modern day storytelling fashion Dandy makes them pay for their kindness.

Hours later when one of the wives husbands returns home, he walks through the house and finds his wife and all her friends butchered and floating in the pool. Dandy’s been a busy bee today!

Back at Castle Mott, Regina shows back up with the cops this time while hurling a mountain of allegations for his part in her mother’s death. Dandy admits to everything. He killed her, buried her in the backyard and there will be more bodies to add to the pile. Just as the detective is about to whip out his gun, Dandy continues with a little bit more of his story.

It seems the Mott family are responsible for the largest frozen foods company in the Untied States and all those packages of frozen spinach pay off in the long run. He has enough money to run a small country. So instead of trying to hide, Dandy would rather just stay hidden in plain site. He offers the cop a million dollars cash to work for him, but only if he kills Regina and buries her out back along with her mother. The cop doesn’t hesitate for a second. He pops Regina and then asks the most obvious question of all. Where’s the shovel?

Dandy wins at life.

Separation Anxiety

While the twins will never actually meet the doctor who can separate them, they are both convinced he’s on his way and that’s when Bette and Dot have a real heart to heart. Dot knows she could never survive without her sister, but for the sake of giving Bette the life she’s always wanted she’ll give up her life in exchange. Her selfless act leads Dot to realizing that they shouldn’t be cut apart and they can find a way to co-exist with each other.

The way they express this is to go to Jimmy’s trailer and wait for him to arrive home. When he gets there, Bette tells Jimmy that she’s loved him ever since she first met him. Dot has agreed to allow them to pursue a relationship so they disrobe and offer themselves to Jimmy. He’s obviously taken back by everything that’s happening, but Bette lays a kiss on him while expressing just how deep this love goes.

Jimmy stops before it can go any further and tells the twins that he cares for them very much, but he loves somebody else. Bette is clearly saddened by what she’s just learned, but in the end she tells Jimmy that whoever it is must be one lucky girl. I’m assuming it’s Maggie, but who knows maybe he’s just like Kramer’s friend Spector on ‘Seinfeld’?

Over in the strongman’s trailer, he’s writing a suicide note to say goodbye to his son. He can’t live with it anymore. The shame of what he’s hiding far outweighs what it’s worth to live. Ethel’s ghost shows up to taunt him and basically talk him into it. He wraps a noose around his neck and kicks out the chair and it looks like Dell will be the next casualty when out of nowhere Desiree shows up and cuts him down. She can’t believe what her strongman has done to himself.

Outside after Jimmy has left the twins, the cops come roaring into the freak show. The detective now working for Dandy has an arrest warrant for Jimmy — because he left one of his gloves behind at the Tupperware party where five women were just found slaughtered. Maggie shows up and tries to tell them that Jimmy was there all day long and there was no way he could have done it. Of course even though he didn’t do it, she was lying because he did go over there to give those ladies who got that feeling some sexual healing.

Jimmy is headed to jail for a crime he didn’t commit while Dandy is killing every motherfucker up in here and he’s as safe and snug as a bug in a rug right now. Well maybe it’s a warm bath of blood, but you get the point.

Tune into next week’s episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show when Stanley goes to see Jimmy in jail and Desiree lays down a very loud threat at Maggie’s doorstep.