Smoldering Children

"Smoldering Children"

American Horror Story episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 10

Directed by

Michael Lehmann

Written by

James Wong

Featured music

"Hate My Way" by Throwing Muses
"Hazard" by Gossling
"MIA2 Battalion of Hate" by Wehrwolfe

Production code

1ATS09

Original air date

December 7, 2011

Running time

42 minutes

Guest appearance(s)

Charles S. Dutton as Detective Granger
Michael Graziadei as Travis Wanderley
Jamie Brewer as Adelaide Langdon
Rebecca Wisocky as Lorraine Harvey
W. Earl Brown as Phil Critter
Malaya Rivera Drew as Detective Barrios
Derek Richardson as Harry Goodman
Gregory Sporleder as Peter McCormick

Episode chronology

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"Birth"

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"Smoldering Children" is the tenth episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story, which premiered on the network FX on December 7, 2011. The episode was written by James Wong and directed by Michael Lehmann. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).

In this episode, the reason for Larry's (Denis O'Hare) burns are revealed, while Violet (Taissa Farmiga) learns something that she didn't know about herself. Charles S. Dutton guest stars as Detective Granger.

After Larry Harvey's wife, Lorraine (Rebecca Wisocky), kills herself and their daughters, Constance (Jessica Lange), Tate (Evan Peters), and Addie (Jamie Brewer) move into the house to live with Larry (Denis O'Hare). On Thanksgiving, the atmosphere is tense, with Tate expressing his disgust with Larry for killing Beau (Sam Kinsey) and his naïveté with Constance, who strings him along to live in the house. Tate also resents Constance for her part in this as well. An undetermined time later, Tate, high on cocaine and crystal meth, goes to Larry's office, douses him in gasoline and immolates him, before going to his school to commit the shooting massacre seen in the episode "Piggy Piggy".

Ben (Dylan McDermott) visits Vivien (Connie Britton) in the ward, and apologizes. He tells her he believes her claims that she was raped, and she will be discharged soon. He also tells her that the rapist fathered one of the twins.

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