Monsters Among Us
| "Monsters Among Us" | |
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| American Horror Story episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Ryan Murphy |
| Written by | Ryan Murphy Brad Falchuk |
| Featured music | "Life on Mars?" by Jessica Lange |
| Production code | 4ATS01 |
| Original air date | October 8, 2014 |
| Running time | 64 minutes |
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"Monsters Among Us" is the premiere episode of the fourth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 8, 2014 on the cable network FX. It was co-written by creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk and directed by Murphy.
The episode introduces Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) who runs one of the last remaining freak shows in the United States in the hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, and her recruitment of conjoined twins Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson). It also introduces the rest of her traveling performers and the murderous clown known as Twisty (John Carroll Lynch). The episode is the second longest in the series' history, clocking in at just over one hour without commercials. The premiere episode is notable for the series as it is the first premiere episode of a season not to feature flashbacks to another year.
"Monsters Among Us" holds the highest ratings of any episode of the series so far. Jyoti Amge, currently the world's smallest living woman, has her American TV debut in this episode.
In Jupiter, Florida 1952, a milkman enters the house of Eudora Tattler (Ann McKenzie) to find her dead, and upstairs finds an injured pair of conjoined twins: Bette and Dot (Sarah Paulson). They are rushed to the emergency room, shocking and sickening the hospital personnel. Elsa Mars (Jessica Lange) arrives and asks candy striper, Penny (Grace Gummer) about the "discovery" and then invites Penny to her Freak Show known as "Fräulein Elsa's Cabinet of Curiosities", infiltrating the secure wing (in candy striper garb) to meet them. Elsa tells the twins that she tried to meet them at their home, but now that they are out of the house she come to see them. As the conversation progresses, it becomes apparent that the twins can communicate with each other without speaking. Bette takes an immediate shine to Elsa, but Dot despises her.
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