Lee and Audrey convince Dylan that the macabre series of hauntings in the set are real and that they must retrieve the video and rescue Monet.
The actresses return to the house, and they're finally shocked when they watch the video of Lee confessing to Mason's murder out of resentment at his primary custody of her daughter, Flora.
Multiple police officers shoot her dead before she can complete the act, thus making Lee Harris the sole survivor of the blood moon.
The critical consensus reads, ""Chapter 9" gruesomely dismisses more characters while presenting the welcome return of another American Horror Story veteran and preparing viewers for a twisty finale.
Club wrote, ""Chapter 9" is a solid episode of American Horror Story's most meaningful and consistent season – and by 'solid,' I mean strongly told, startling, and filled with slithering entrails and smoking corpses.
"[3] In contrast, IGN's Matt Fowler stated, "The penultimate episode of American Horror Story: Roanoke was a bumpy, blurry mess of found footage and flat fiendishness.