 Episode 4 came in hot with even more twists, deaths, and reveals, so we'll start with a recap of the major events in this episode, then my review, and then some fan theories regarding the next six episodes of the season. Timestamps are in the pinned comment below, so let's begin with the recap. Episode 4 kicks off with a flashback to Montana leading a midnight aerobics class. Richard Ramirez stops by and kills an aerobic student who was rude to Montana. Montana is into this and asks if he is willing to kill for her again. She then reveals that the groomsman who was killed at Brooke's wedding that Brooke was accused of sleeping with is actually Montana's brother, and Montana believes Brooke is responsible for his death. While tending to Chet's wounds, Trevor and Xavier realize that Blake's car is a way out of the camp, so they split up to find Margaret and Birdie. Margaret finds the two dead Mr. Jingles impersonators, and Trevor tells Margaret that the real Mr. Jingles killed them. Margaret refuses to go to the car with Trevor because she has a gun and believes that she can protect herself. Xavier finds Birdie who doesn't believe Xavier about Mr. Jingles being back until Jingle steps foot into the mess hall himself. Xavier hides under the table, and Birdie bonds with Jingles until Xavier makes his presence known, which causes Jingles to stab Birdie repeatedly and lock Xavier in an oven set to broil. Brooke awakens in a shed after being sedated by Donna. She breaks out, but then activates a booby trap causing her to be stuck in a net. Montana finds Brooke and reveals that she set the traps, and she reveals to Brooke that she is behind Mr. Jingles' escape and his return to Camp Redwood. Donna then leaves Brooke to be killed by Mr. Jingles, then, clinging to life, Birdie frees a severely burned Xavier from the oven. Birdie asks Xavier to finish her off and put her out of her misery, which Xavier reluctantly and painfully does. Montana finds Brooke and tells her that she'll go get help, and meanwhile Margaret has a flashback to the summer of 1970 where Benjamin carves her a wooden bear, revealing a romantic past between the two characters. Benjamin promises that he'd do anything to protect Margaret. Back in 1984, Montana tells Richard where Brooke is, so he goes there, but he is then confronted by Mr. Jingles. So the night stalker in Mr. Jingles' duel, which ends in Richard Ramirez's head being impaled on a tree. At the same time, Richard Ramirez stands Montana, confronts Mr. Jingles' stand Donna, which ends with Montana slashing Donna with a branch and getting away. Mr. Jingles then heads to Margaret's cabin, and he tells her that he's there to finish what he started, to which Margaret responds with revealing that she committed the Camp Redwood murders in 1970 and let Benjamin take the fall. Flashback to 1970, and Benjamin is beaten, electrocuted, and made to believe that he is guilty and detached from reality. Another flashback to just before the murders reveals that Margaret's fellow campers made fun of her, which sparked her to kill them all and cut off all of their ears, including her own. Back in 1984, an angry and confused Mr. Jingles tries to kill Margaret for what she did to him, but Margaret shoots him three times in the chest. Chet, Montana, and Trevor hear the gunshots, and Trevor goes to check on Margaret. Trevor sees that Margaret has seemingly killed Jingles, and Margaret then stabs Trevor and removes his ear. Xavier stumbles upon a living Mr. Jingles, who tells Xavier that it was never him who killed the campers. But suddenly, Brooke finds Xavier and Mr. Jingles vanishes, and they then hear an explosion and find Margaret, Chet, and Montana by Blake's burning car, leaving them with no escape once again. Margaret tells the survivors, Chet, Brooke, Montana, and Xavier that Jingles attacked her and killed Trevor. Meanwhile, Donna awakens on the ground of the forest and sees Richard Ramirez levitating and his wounds healing while his eyes turn black, and he seemingly regains life and credits. Alright, that was the recap, now let's proceed with my review. American Horror Story 1984 has easily had some of the most consistent first four episodes of any American Horror Story season. I'm still on board, I'm still fulfilled, and I'm still intrigued. The thing with this season is that it moves so quickly, especially in terms of reveals and deaths. Very rarely this season have I felt like anything was quite like it seems, and even as we are getting loads of confirmation that this is just the case, there's still just enough left unclear to keep me on my feet. So now we know that Nurse Rita is actually Donna, Montana is the reason Richard Ramirez is trying to kill Brooke, Montana is the sister of the group's men that Brooke's husband murdered at their wedding, Margaret did kill the nine victims of the 1970 murders and framed Mr. Jingles, who was then brainwashed into thinking he was guilty. So if you had told me we would know this much by episode four after seeing episode one, I'd be shocked. We still have six episodes left to go, and the possibilities are wide open and I can't wait to see how it turns out as a whole. We also got some major deaths this episode, most notably Trevor, Birdie, and presumably Mr. Jingles himself. Although I doubt we've seen the last of any of our dead friends, but more on that in the theory section. A highlight of this episode for me was Cody Fern as Xavier. They really put that poor character through hell and back this episode. And I think Cody's portrayal of the torture, desperation, and pain that Xavier was subjected to in this episode was very effective. The scene between Birdie and Xavier is one of the highlights of the season for me and I'm glad we haven't killed Xavier off quite yet. They saved this Margaret reveal for a while and the fact that most fan theories after episode one were spot on makes me wonder if it would have been more effective if the reveal occurred earlier in the season and the more shocking Donna and Montana reveals coming afterwards. Although the reveal didn't really vary from the general fan theory consensus, I still think it was very well done and Leslie Grossman kills it in this role and I'm glad we got a Pamela for his killer monologue in this episode and I hope we get to see some more evil Margaret scenes in the future. Trevor's death was surprisingly sad to me because I wasn't quite sold on his character this whole time, but I'm definitely sad he potentially will be gone now. I think the battle between the Night Stalker and Mr. Jingles was very fun and I definitely wasn't expecting Richard Ramirez to get a branch through his face, even though it was reversed by the end of the episode. The ending scene with Richard Ramirez's resurrection I think is a sign of the new direction that the season will be going in, at least for the next couple episodes. The episode confirmed some of our suspicions, explained some motives, killed some heavy hitters while still allowing some new mysterious plot points to develop. So I give episode four titled True Killers eight and a half Montana Dukes out of ten. Be sure to let me know how you'd rate it in the comments below. Now let's get into the theories. Theory number one, everyone who died will return as a ghost. OK, this one might seem obvious based on what we've seen so far, but I want to possibly put it into the context of the season. I think after this episode, there are very few questions we need answered about what's happening at Camp Redwood in 1984. So as evidenced by the episode synopsis for episode five, the next episode will be the final one depicting the first night at Camp Redwood in 1984. I think the remaining survivors will try to escape while the ghosts of those who have died will start returning. They may or may not be in the time warp state like Jonah. But I think Ramirez's resurrection at the end of this episode may have been his transformation from mortal to ghost. And similarly, Mr. Jingles will come back as a ghost after being shot by Margaret, maybe even Birdie, Trevor, Real Rita and Ray may become ghosts. This could lead to the next episode dealing with immortal killers like Jason and Freddy Krueger, as well as dealing with the survivors having to leave their innocent ghost friends to be tortured by the two ghost serial killers for eternity, since their souls are likely bound to Camp Redwood now. This is possibly one of the conclusions to the storyline with the latter half of the season potentially dealing with trying to save the innocent souls trapped at Camp Redwood while also dealing with Brooke's true involvement with Montana's brother and maybe convicting Margaret for her crimes. But more likely episodes six through 10 are going to be something that no one saw coming. But this is surely something to keep in mind. Theory number two, Brooks Killer Past. This one comes from u slash d e r underscore egg boy on Reddit, who says, part of me wants to believe that there has to be more to Brooke than the classic trope of being the final girl. In the last episode, we hear Brooke tell Montana how her jealous and possessive fiance killed himself, his best man and others at the altar because he suspected that she had cheated. A part of me thinks that's all a little too clean and convenient of a backstory, a little too straightforward. I wouldn't at all be surprised that while they seem to be setting her up to be the pure, completely innocent victim of circumstance, that they will turn things on its head a bit later and reveal that she was possibly jealous and possessive the killer at her wedding. This person made some good points, although it's all one big run on sentence, but this is something definitely to keep in mind. And I do think there is more to Brooks' wedding. And I do think that Brooke is not as innocent as she seems. I'm not sure if I would go as far as to say that she killed those people at her wedding because that would be a little bit too similar of a reveal as Margaret's reveal in this episode, but anything is possible. So this very well could be the case. Theory number three, Brooke will become the new Mr. Jingles. This one comes from you slash retro collection 83 on Reddit, who says, so the way things are going, I can see something possibly happening with everyone having a reason to kill someone else. It's going to be a bloodbath. So far, the season has taken place during one night and it's possible it will continue that way based on previews. A lot of people say they think Brooke will be the final girl and that's still possible, but with a twist. So a bus full of kids are still coming in the morning in a few hours and everyone is either trying to kill someone or not die. I can see Brooke fighting off attacks and surviving while everyone kills each other. This comes to an end when the morning comes and the bus full of kids rolls up and they see Brooke standing there covered in blood, possibly with a weapon freaking out. The cops come and everyone thinks she killed everyone. Based on her story so far, she has no friends or family close, so she will have no support when she is blamed for the night's events. It is the anniversary of the original massacre, so it will look even worse. She becomes the new Jingles in a way. So I wanted to talk about this theory because it's been a common theme that they've made sure that we understand the season that no one ever believes Brooke. No one believes her wedding story. No one believes her when she tells them about the phone call. No one believes her when she sees Mr. Jingles and so on and so forth. So it would be really interesting to see that it turns out that she gets blamed for all the events that are happening at Camp Redwood in 1984. This could be very interesting. It could be almost like the reverse Lee Harris where everyone thinks she's guilty but she's really innocent. I think that would be a really ironic way to end Brooke's character arc and it could be a really cool thing for this season to deliver and like I said, anything is possible so these theories are not too outlandish to me. So yeah, those are all my theories for this episode. Be sure to let me know all yours in the comments below. Let me know what you thought of this episode. Make sure you subscribe to give this video a like and I'll see you next week with episode five.