‘AHS’: What if Dandy Mott and Bloody Face were brothers?

Two episodes into “American Horror Story: Roanoke” and we’ve seen some glaring shout outs to Season 1, “Murder House.” If anything, there’s been sort of a full-circle feel going on with the new season but it looks like we’re just getting started with the gruesome, bonkers, ghostly craziness that Ryan Murphy has concocted this go-round. He may have given us some “Murder House” goodies, but it’s looking like we’re going to take a trip back to “Freak Show,” and possibly “Asylum,” too.

In Wednesday’s (Sept. 21) episode, which we’ll refer to as “Chapter 2” from here on out, we not only got another look at the Piggy Man from Season 1, we also received a backstory on those psycho nurses Bridget (Kristen Rakes) and Miranda (Maya Berko). These killers felt like an aesthetic callback to “Murder House” as there were two nurses featured in the show’s first season, but they ended up becoming victims of one R. Franklin (Jamie Harris).

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What’s intriguing here is, R. Franklin was based on a real serial killer by the name Richard Speck and these killer nurses in Season 6 also have some real-life counterparts. The Lethal Lovers, as they were referred to in a 1989 New York Times article, were arrested for murdering five elderly patients at the nursing home they worked at. Gwendolyn Graham and Catherine Wood are just the latest in a string of real — and quite horrible — people who Ryan Murphy has drawn inspiration from.

This brings us back to the original idea we proposed at the top of this article. Murphy has previously gone on record that each season of “American Horror Story” is connected. We’ve already seen some of that with “Coven’s” Queenie (Gabourey Sidibe) checking into “Hotel” and “Asylum’s” Pepper (Naomi Grossman) coming from “Freak Show,” but according to the show creator, they are just getting started.

Not too much has been divulged regarding his big picture plans for “Roanoke,” but Murphy did tease that audiences will be getting a peek into Dandy Mott’s (Finn Wittrock) family life prior to the events that transpired in “Freak Show.” That would be an easy way to connect “Roanoke” to “Freak Show” but, what about “Asylum?” Let’s get theory crazy, shall we?

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In “Freak Show,” before Dandy reached his full Patrick Bateman-like potential, his mother admitted that their family had a history of mental perversions. With that statement in our minds, we have a question to pose: What if Dandy Mott and Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto) were brothers? Bustle posed this question two years ago. It may sound far fetched, but Ryan Murphy’s “AHS” world is the place where far fetched ideas thrive.

“Freak Show” took place in Jupiter, Florida in 1952. “Asylum” took place in an undisclosed Massachusetts city in 1962. Many believe Briarcliff was based on the abandoned Danvers State Hospital. The reason we’re so focused on locations here, is that each season of “American Horror Story” draws not only from the real life horrific events that have happened throughout our history, and the people who committed them, but also the spooky places they transpired in.

“Freak Show,” “Asylum” and “Roanoke” all follow characters and events that happen on the east coast. The time line between “Freak Show” and “Asylum” is a mere decade, and can easily — if they chose to do so — connect the mask-wearing, egocentric, psychopath Dandy Mott with the mask-wearing, mommy-issues having, psychopath Oliver Thredson (aka Bloody Face).

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Since Ryan Murphy has always played with different timelines throughout the seasons — flashbacks are totally his thing — it’d be pretty easy to see Dandy and Oliver’s upbringing in the same house before the two went to cuckoo town. And what better way to tie it all together than to find them living under the same roof that Shelby (Sarah Paulson) and Matt (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) are living under now?

Jupiter, Florida and Roanoke, NC aren’t that far from one another. It’s a conceivable trip if they decide to take it. And considering that Thredson was loosely inspired by Ed Gein and Dandy was based on Norman Bates — who was based on Ed Gein — it seems like an obvious connection that needs to be made. But will they do it? We’ll find out soon enough.

“American Horror Story: Roanoke” airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on FX.

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