As Flora explores the house, she begins talking to an unseen girl named Priscilla, whom Lee believes is an imaginary friend.
After discovering a burning totem in the woods near the house, Matt and Shelby finally secured the help of the local police to take little interest.
Dr. Cunningham describes the same malevolent forces pursuing him that the couple has been experiencing and that he was studying the story of the nurses, Miranda and Bridget Jane.
A sudden noise causes Matt and Shelby to flee the room, where they find a bloody cleaver freshly embedded in the swinging front door.
The critical consensus reads, "The tried and true premise that emerges in "Chapter 2" is undermined by superficial exposition that damages its credibility – even in the context of American Horror Story.