While Lana kept her promise to close down Briarcliff, becoming a renowned television journalist to do so, the fact that it took her so long, and that she only did it to further her career made this episode difficult to watch. During an interview discussing her long career Lana spouts large amounts of exposition about what has happened to her, and the rest of the characters, since she shut down the asylum, and she does her best to play the role of the martyr as she does so. We discover that Kit, unlike Lana, was still a decent human being and went and retrieved Sister Jude from the asylum and invited her into his home. While the gesture was nice and all seeing Kit and Jude play happy family was difficult to comprehend having watched what had happened between these two throughout the season. Not to mention Kit's alien spawn, who not only took Jude into the forest and inexplicably healed her crazy before her death, but who also abduct Kit right before his own death of pancreatic cancer. His children are now a neurosurgeon and a lawyer, respectively, and apparently this is all the closure audiences are going to get from that alien storyline. Lana also took time to take down Cardinal Timothy Howard by exposing his knowledge of Dr. Arden's experiments at the asylum, and while I understand the need for Lana to put a face to the crimes that went on at Briarcliff, Howard wasn't all that bad, and I don't see why his life ended in a suicide, while characters like Jude and even Lana herself got very happy endings. The final standoff between Lana and her son Bloody Face Jr. was underwhelming, Lana was able to convince Johnny that she really does love him and is sorry, but Lana has become such a different character from the one we met at the beginning of the season that when she shoots her son in the head it's not all that shocking that she has done so.
Rating: 2/5
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