"Murder House" is the third episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story, which premiered on the network FX on October 19, 2011.
In the episode, Ben (Dylan McDermott) is paid a visit by an upset Hayden (Kate Mara), who demands he tell his wife the truth.
Vivien (Connie Britton) learns about the house's former residents: a crazed surgeon, Charles Montgomery (Matt Ross), and wife, Nora (Lily Rabe), who provided illegal abortions in their basement, until their bitter marriage mysteriously ended.
Flashing back to 1983, Hugo Langdon, the husband of Constance, begins making unwanted sexual remarks/advances to a young Moira who's fixing up a bed in the room.
Charles Montgomery, the original owner of the house and a doctor, had developed an addiction to anesthesia and began to conduct Frankenstein-like experiments.
Ben builds a gazebo over the spot, and Constance taunts Moira, telling her that now she is stuck in the house forever.
Club gave the episode a D+ grade, and said that American Horror Story is "a terrible, messed-up television show.