American Horror Story: NYC Episodes 3-4: The Coming Darkness

Deciding that they need to take a more active role in hunting down the killer (or killers), both Gino and Patrick decide to stake out the payphone outside of the gay bar where Sam found his most recent victim. With Patrick as bait, he hangs out around the payphone for several hours, answering quickly whenever the phone might ring. After some time, Mr. Whitely (Jeff Hiller) calls, and he taunts Patrick for standing there for several hours. This means that Whitely lives in this area, or at least has an observation post close by. Whitely then tells Patrick to meet him at the Parisian basement party, but Patrick says he doesn’t know what Whitely looks like.

Arriving at the party, Patrick spots who he thinks is Whitely, and he engages in a game of cat-and-mouse that results in some rather aggressive sexual acts. Again, this proves that Patrick knows a lot about the leather subculture, which he has kept hidden even from his loved ones. It is immediately apparent that this isn’t his first time engaging in such behavior, which continues to cast even more doubt on the character.

The next scene shows off Hans Henke (Casey Thomas Brown) returning from his performance, and as he waits in the subway, the prophetic and rambling woman from the first two episodes appears, and she warns him of the growing darkness that is coming for them all. Hans then follows her, which certainly begs the question — who is this woman, and what does she know? She tends to be the herald of bad news, so she could be a victim of the government’s tests. Or perhaps, there is something more supernatural about her presence.