'American Horror Story: Hotel' recap: 'Room 33' 

Lady Gaga shows up to the Murder House sometime in the late ’20s. “I was given your name through my friend, Margaret Gibson,” is how she introduces herself to the abortionist. You may know Margaret Gibson from the annals of Weird Hollywood: An actress in the silent age, she left Hollywood and lived a long quiet life — and then, dying, she confessed to the long-ago murder of a famous Hollywood director. You surely recognize Murder House, and the abortionist Charles Montgomery, from 

 season 1. Montgomery was sort of the James Patrick March of season 1: A long-dead spirit made manifest as a kind of free-floating infestation, his particular fascinations infecting anyone who dared live under his roof.

Charles Montgomery conducts his operation. After three weeks, Gaga’s stomach is already swelling: Evidence that she already has the virus that will make her immortal. (Can don’t-call-them-vampires get pregnant? Has Gaga been using birth control ever since?) The nurse holds the fetus, horrified. “I think it’s still alive!” It is; she’s not, for long. Is this the birth of the Infantata?

No. Sort of. The mystery of Bartholomew played out over the course of this week’s episode of 

. I’m not sure it’s quite finished yet — and I’m not sure if we’ll learn more about Gaga’s relation to Murder House, or if we’re meant to glean that her virus left some residue of infection in that haunted mansion. There are more important things to focus on, for now….

…like love! Yes, while no one was paying attention, Tristan and Liz Taylor have fallen deeply into it. They’re pefect for each other. Tristan’s an orphan: With Liz, “It’s like Mommy and Daddy are both in the room, loving you to pieces.” Tristan and Liz aren’t just some casual fling. This is a full-fledged, once-in-an-immortal-lifetime romance. Could it possibly work out? Tristan is the concubine of Lady Gaga; she interrupts TristLiz’s quiet night, demanding Tristan play her proxy in a lovemaking session with Will Drake, who is still resolutely gay and still resolutely focused on making an honest woman out of Gaga.

Speaking of boundary-bursting family arrangements! Nearly divorced John goes on a spirit walk one night, and finds his soon-to-be-ex-wife sleeping next to his dead son in a glass coffin. He falls unconscious. When he wakes up, Alex insists he’s been seeing visions. “I think you’re having a psychotic break,” Alex insists. They go downstairs to investigate his visions. There are no coffins in the pool. 

Upstairs, Gaga visits Room 33, and says goodbye to her dear sweet Bartholomew. She’s off to Paris with Will; she’ll be back soon, with so much money that she’ll never have to leave her dear sweet child again. There’s a pattern forming here, a swoony inverted-Oedipal romance. Mothers and their eternal children: Alex and Holden, Gaga and Bartholomew, even Iris and Donovan.

Where does that leave Dads? Or jilted ex-lovers? Donovan and Ramona waltz in, plotting vengeance while Gaga’s away. But the little blondies are nowhere to be found — and Bartholomew escapes. Helplessly devoted Donovan goes up to Gaga’s penthouse, remembering better times. He runs afoul of our Danish tourists, from way back in the season finale a million years ago. They’re wandering ghosts in search of a purpose. Donovan tells them the story of Cara, the suicide teacher who started killing people. Not to free herself. Just to free the monotony.

, and the endless parade of murdering ghouls. In season 1, a family found grace in the afterlife. They didn’t break the cycle. They accepted it. They put up a Christmas tree. They made themselves a happy forever. Will that be the solution here? The Danish girls launch an attack threesome on visiting bro Mister Wu. They kill him. They cry. The hamster wheel keeps spinning.

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