"Tricks and Treats" is the second episode of the second season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 24, 2012, on the cable network FX.
The episode mainly focuses on an exorcism performed on a teenaged boy (Devon Graye) and three patients' escape attempt.
Flashing forward to 2012, Leo and Teresa attempt to escape Bloody Face while in the Briarcliff mental institution.
Leo is stabbed multiple times while Teresa hides in a room, where Bloody Face pounds on the door.
As the exorcism begins, the possessed boy reveals details about each of the participants' lives and flings objects around the room.
The critical consensus reads, "AHS: Asylum's characters become more fully formed in an episode that refuses to contain its gleeful insanity and wandering plot.
[2][3] ScreenRant commented that the story line for season two was more cohesive, but that "it simply cannot decide what it wants to be" and it's aware that "it wants to be everything at once".