In AHS Hotel 1×08, “The Ten Commandments Killer,” we find out who the infamous criminal is. Raise your hand if you had already guessed who the killer was.
Read on for our recap.
Wren is dead, and John realizes that she was one of The Countess’ children. He runs back to the Cortez, where he asks Liz Taylor (who is still mourning Tristan’s death) to tell him where is Ten Commandments Killer they are all helping to hide. At that point, Sally comes out and tells him that she will show him where the killer is hiding. She brings him to the room 64, the former office of James March, the hotel’s owner.
Behind a wardrobe, he finds a door. Inside, he finds the evidence of the murders. The hand of a thief (Thou Shall Not Steal), the first murder dating back in 1926, and so on with the other commandments. Sally guides him through the various killings, also the ones that happened recently. Finally, John starts to remember. He is the Ten Commandments Killer. All this time, he had erased the memories of the murders he committed, but the memories come back in AHS Hotel 1×08.
John talks to his former partner. He wants to confess. He tells him that everything started five years ago, when he first stepped into the Hotel Cortez. After a difficult and painful case, he needed a few drinks and found himself at the bar of the hotel.
Donovan appears, and he brings John to the Countess and March, who are having dinner together. The Countess leaves John alone with March, and the two start discussing John’s job. He says most of the times he would just like to kill all the bad people he is forced to arrest, that he knows who is guilty and who is innocent. His desire for revenge comes out in his conversation with March, who wants to “mentor” him so he can finish his work. What March needs to do is make John go crazy, make his life a misery so he will be more easily manipulated. And that’s where The Countess enters. March makes her kidnap John’s son Holden, and this is how John became the Ten Commandments Killer.
His former partner finds it hard to believe John’s story, especially since he found out that Sally was dead for many, many years. But John has his way of showing him that he’s telling the truth: He kills him.
John, finally fully aware of who he really is, comes back to the Hotel Cortez to tell March that he will finish his job as the Ten Commandments Killer – by the end of AHS Hotel 1×08, there are still two sinners to punish.
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