Checking In (American Horror Story)
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| American Horror Story episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Ryan Murphy |
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| Production code | 5ATS01 |
| Original air date | October 7, 2015 |
| Running time | 64 minutes |
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"Checking In" is the premiere episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story. It aired on October 7, 2015, on the cable network FX. The episode was co-written by creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and directed by Murphy.
Two Swedish girls, Vendela (Kamilla Alnes) and Agnetha (Helena Mattsson), are dropped off at the Hotel Cortez. They are approached at reception by Iris (Kathy Bates), who leads them to their room. While there, one of the girls asks for ice and while walking to the machine, she notices a maid (Mare Winningham) cleaning a sheet covered with blood and two children standing in the hallways. Back at the room, they both complain about a foul stench and quickly realize that it is coming from the mattress. After they cut it open, a bloody humanoid appears and attacks them. While waiting for the police to arrive, Iris assigns them Room 64 where one falls asleep. After hearing strange noises coming from the bathroom, she enters only to find ghostly children drinking her friend's blood.
Homicide detective John Lowe (Wes Bentley) is grieving over the disappearance of his son Holden (Lennon Henry), who was abducted on the carousel at an amusement park five years prior, and since then, his relationship with his wife Alex (Chloë Sevigny) is failing. At a crime scene he receives an anonymous phone call pointing him to Room 64 at the Hotel Cortez. Meanwhile, at the hotel, heroin addict Gabriel (Max Greenfield) is put into Room 64 and is grabbed by The Addiction Demon who violently rapes him with a conical drill-bit dildo. When he is on the verge of passing out, Sally (Sarah Paulson) appears and asks him to tell her that he loves her. At the front desk, John is approached by Liz Taylor (Denis O'Hare), a cross dressing bartender who leads him to Room 64, where John falls asleep. Under his bed, a conscious Gabriel wakes up with a gasp. At exactly 2:25 he has a strange vision of a child, who he believes is his long lost son, Holden, who he wakes up and searches for.
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