The couple Leo Morrison (Adam Levine) and Teresa Morrison (Jenna Dewan) are in honeymoon, visiting and having sex in the twelve most macabre locations in the United States of America. They arrive at the last one and visit the notorious Briarcliff Asylum and soon they are haunted and attacked by evil forces. In 1964, the young Caucasian Kit Walker (Evan Peters) is secretly married to the black Alma Walker (Britne Oldford) and they are in love with each other. Out of the blue, aliens abduct Kit and Alma, and the young woman disappears. At the Briarcliff Asylum, the cruel Sister Jude Martin (Jessica Lange) administrates the place supported by Monsignor Timothy Howard (Joseph Fiennes) that she secretly desires him. When the evil Dr. Arthur Arden (James Cromwell) arrives at Briarcliff with the intention of using his patients in his cruel experiments. Sister Jude unsuccessfully tries to get rid of Dr. Arden, but Monsignor Howard does not accept her request. When the notorious serial killer Bloody Face arrives at Briarcliff, the ambitious lesbian journalist Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) uses subterfuges to interview him, but things do not work as she planned.
"Welcome to Briarcliff" is the first episode of the Second Season of "American Horror Story" with a creepy and cruel beginning. Two of the lead characters, Sister Jude Martin and Dr. Arthur Arden, are evil and brilliantly performed by Jessica Lange and James Cromwell. The lead plot has intriguing storylines in the present and in the past, with great performances of the cast. The mystery of the aliens' abductions is probably the most intriguing so far. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Welcome to Briarcliff"
