"The Lady in White" is the seventh episode of the ninth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story.
Brooke sees a newspaper showing Camp Redwood's concert event, and states that she wants to go back and kill Margaret.
Richter realizes that the woman is his mother and explains that after Bobby's death, Lavinia went insane and slaughtered the staff.
During the night, bandleader Limahl is killed by Ramirez, who claims to be collecting their souls due to a deal they made with Satan to become successful.
Margaret's assistant, Courtney, walks into the tour bus with a gift basket and finds all the other members of Kajagoogoo dead.
"The Lady in White" was watched by 1.05 million people during its original broadcast, and gained a 0.5 ratings share among adults aged 18–49.
Rabe in particular leans into her material hard, and as an AHS veteran, she knows how to play up the campier aspects of her wailing widow character by chewing every bit of scenery she can find and spitting it back aggressively into the face of Lynch, who uses his considerable size to good effect by visibly shrinking in the face of his mother's wrath."
He also praised McDermott's character and performance, commenting that he is "great at going from aggressive and confident to a scared, sobbing wreck, and this role plays perfectly into his strengths as an actor."
She praised the return of series veterans Rabe and McDermott, as she started her review by "Familiar faces from AHS seasons past make this episode extra-haunted."
Rosenfield also noted how this episode used the same narrative since the beginning of the season, as "everyone converges on the camp, again, and people start dying, again."
[5] Variety's Andrea Reiher gave a positive review, and said "Last week’s episode of American Horror Story took all the 1984 characters and jumped them forward in time by five years.
But when the seventh episode, entitled "The Lady in White", began, it did so catapulting viewers back in time even further.