RYAN MURPHY: I cannot say because we reveal that in the third episode. We reveal who’s alive and who’s dead — you find out the fate of both. Well, Wendy takes a little bit longer but you find out.
So much of the show is about the battle between faith and science, and this episode really tackled that head on.
I think it was a really cool interesting episode to write about the power of goodness and faith over the power of evil. And that exorcism took forever to shoot. It was very complicated [and] draining. It was very physical on the actors, particularly Jessica [Lange]. I loved writing about it. We have a line coming up in an episode where the devil says, “I know everything.” I think that’s a very interesting way to look at that scene. And I like the device of the devil himself telling the audience about Sister Jude. That was the first thing we came up with: how do we tell the audience?
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