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| “A Dark Angel has arrived within the walls of Briarcliff. Sister Eunice is not impressed.” |
A favourite from season one, Frances
Conroy arrives in the Asylum and her character is fascinating and
beautiful to watch, she is here to claim a key player and to tempt
some of the others ‘to the light’. Sister Eunice is intrigued
and threatened by this new dark force.
Following on from the last episode,
Grace and Kit are sentenced to a barbaric sterilisation for being
caught in a compromising tryst which simply will not do at
Briarcliff. With Thredsons taped confession and his remorse shown to
Sister Jude before she left, Kit is spared the castration and turned
over to the cops for interviewing. Grace is not so lucky. She is
put under the surgeon’s knife, but the knife this time does not
belong to Dr Arden.
Meanwhile Sister Jude goes to Mr.
Goodman the Nazi hunter with a fingerprint on a brandy glass so that
she can prove the Dr’s Auschwitz past. When she arrives she soon
finds that someone beat her to him and has stabbed him in the throat.
With his last breaths he tells her that ‘a nun, one of yours’
was responsible. No-one can blame Sister Jude for what she does
next, which is to crumple into a messy heap and swig a bottle of
whisky dry. She is in a real mess. Chatting to the angel of death
in a booth in a roadside café is probably rock bottom for anyone.
Lana is still the unluckiest woman
alive (and at times she wishes she wasn’t). A momentary chance of
escape pays off for her and a last ditch attempt at freedom is
rewarded. But is it out of the frying pan and into the fire?
Kits love for
Grace knows no bounds and once he knows she is still going under the
knife he risks his life to bust out of the police station, face the
‘creatures’ and return to the asylum to break her out and go on
the run together. In true Asylum style the last 60 seconds are full
of suspense and not the ending you expect at all.
Dark Cousin gives a brief rest from
terror, blood and gore and the slick production of this episode and
the introduction of the graceful yet macabre angel of death keep this
series fresh and just as intriguing as the first episode.
Review by JoAnn Duff
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