American Horror Story: Hotel Recap 1/6/16: Season 5 Episode 11 Winter Premiere “Battle Royale”

American Horror Story: Hotel Recap 1/6/16: Season 5 Episode 11 Winter Premiere "Battle Royale"

Tonight on FX our favorite creepy drama American Horror Story: Hotel airs tonight with an all new Wednesday January 6, season 5 winter premiere called “Battle Royale,” and we have your weekly recap below. On tonight’s episode Ramona (Angela Bassett) gets vitality from an unlikely source.

American Horror Story: Hotel is the fifth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story. The plot centers around the enigmatic Hotel Cortez in Los Angeles, California, that catches the eye of an intrepid homicide detective (Bentley).

On the last episode Alex enlists John’s help edto contain an outbreak; Donovan learned The Countess’ true intentions; and Liz and Iris planned to leave the hotel for good. Did you watch the episode? If you missed it we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.

On tonight’s episode as per the FX synopsis, “Ramona (Angela Bassett) draws vitality from an unlikely source. Meanwhile, Sally (Sarah Paulson) uses her past to negotiate her future. while Scarlett (Shree Crooks) will finally learn the truth about her family’s affliction.”

Tonight’s episode is going to be another spooky one and you won’t want to miss it. So be sure to tune in for our live coverage of FX’s American Horror Story: Hotel – tonight at 10PM EST! While you wait for our recap, hit the comments and let us know if you are excited about season 5 of American Horror Story: Hotel and enjoy a sneak peek of tonight’s episode below.

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Tonight’s episode of American Horror Story Hotel kicks off with Iris and Liz preparing for their big crime spree – they load their guns an begin marching to the Countess’s room. Liz tells Iris that they have to go in “guns blazing” and once the Countess is down, they have to make sure that she “stays down.”

They burst through the door and begin shooting their guns – but Iris screams at Liz to stop when they realize that they shot Donovan. Iris and Liz rush Donovan down through the lobby – he doesn’t want to ie in Hotel Cortez, because he will be trapped there for eternity. Iris and Liz get Donovan outside in time, and he dies on the ground in front of the hotel. Before he breaths his last breath he thanks Iris for finally putting him out of his misery.

Meanwhile, the Countess may have been full of bullets, but she managed to crawl off and get help. Sandy took her to a hidden room and pulled out all the bullets and sewed her up. The Countess drifts in and out of consciousness while Sandy works on her. Sandy cries that the Countess can’t leave her – everybody always leaves her. She makes the Countess promise that she won’t leave her.

Sally reminisces out loud about the first time she came to the Cortez – to get high with a rockstar and his girlfriend. Sally used to write music. They head upstairs and had a threesome and shot needles full of heroin in to each other. Once they were high, Sally came up with a genius idea to sew their bodies to each other with needles. Sally woke up sewed to her friends, while they were overdosing and foaming at the mouth. She couldn’t call for help because she was literally sewed to them. Sally was sewed to their bodies for 5 days – Mr. March kept coming in and torturing her, until she finally was able to pull the stitches out and get free.

Sally admits to the Countess that she has abandonment issues. That’s why she wants John back. She tells the Countess that since she saved her, she wants her to do her a favor and kill John in the hotel so that he can be with her forever. The Countess says she needs blood first to get better – and asks Sally to bring her Donovan, Sally informs her that Donovan is dead.

At John’s house – he and his wife have brought Scarlett home. She isn’t thrilled – she thinks it’s creepy that her big brother is still a baby. Scarlett knows that Alex and Holden need blood to survive, John tells her not to worry about it, he is going to take care of everything.

Sally brings two of the Countess’s creepy blond kids in to the secret room. She is going to use their blood to save the Countess. The Countess sobs that it will kill the kids – but Sally doesn’t want to hear it, she needs the Countess healed so that she can get John back.

Meanwhile, Liz and Iris are on a mission – they are trying to find the Countess so they can finish her off before she heals and comes to kill them. They find the secret room in the basement, they don’t find the Countess – but they do find Ramona half-starved. They promise Ramona that they will find someone for her to feed on. A guest names Queenie arrives and says that she is a witch, they put her in a room, even though she complains that it has “bad juju.”

Once Liz an Iris leave – Ramona comes out of the bathroom and begins attacking her. Queenie really is a witch – and Ramona can’t kill her. But, James March comes to the rescue. He is able to kill Queenie because he is a ghost, not a vampire. After Queenie is dead and Ramona has fed off her, James March introduces himself. Now, he wants Ramona to return the favor and kill The Countess for him.

John returns home from the store, and with a guy in the trunk for his wife and son to eat – but his family is missing. He finds a keychain for a hotel room at the Cortez. He rushes to the Cortez and finds Sally waiting for him. She says that March has his family – and he wants him to commit one more murder, the final commandment, and then he can have Alex and the kids back.

Ramona is feelings refreshed – she announce to Iris and Liz that it is her time to rise, and the Countess’s “time to fall.” The Countess is up and at em, she heads to her room for a drink and lights a cigarette. Ramona arrives at the Countess’s room and informs her that she just had a witch, and she is strong enough to take her out. The two women banter back and forth – and then The Countess plants a kiss on Ramona. She tells Ramona that she wants to die ad she wants Ramona to be the one that kills her – but she wats Ramona to “screw her first.”A few hours later the Countess emerges from her room, still very much alive, and with no Ramona in sight. The elevator door opens and John is waiting for her, he shoots and kills the Countess and then chops of her head and puts her in the trophy case for March. The Countess was officially his last commandment killing – ‘thou shalt not murder.’

Since the Countess was killed in the hotel – her ghost will be haunting the Cortez forever. And, she is trapped with March forever. It’s time for their dinner together, Mrs. Evers serves them chipped beef. Mrs. Evers goes in to a jealous rage, she is furious that the Countess is there with them for eternity. She confesses that she turned him in to the police years ago because she knew that he would kill himself rather than be captured – and they would be able to die together. He sobs that she loves March more than the Countess ever id or ever will.

March is not moved by Mrs. Evers’ confession – he tells her to get out, and says that she is “banished from his presence.” Mrs. Evers leaves willingly, but informs March that she will not “wait on him and his whore any more.”

THE END!