Frank is seen drinking alcohol in his car before heading to the station to talk with Sheriff Art. He mentions that he may auction off Ed Gein’s property, because the doctor told him Ed is too crazy to go to prison, and it’s the only way to collect damages. Art is against it, and mentions his drinking, Frank continues, with or without his permission.

We then see the estate sale happening, and Art arrives at the state sale, asking Frank what his mother would think about this, basically trying to tell him this isn’t the right thing to do, talks about his drinking problem. In the next scene, The Gein home is shown to have suddenly burned down, leaving only the truck to be auctioned off. 

Ed is then seen at a mental institution making belts and teaching the patients about making homemade rugs, having a good time. Nurse Salty brings him a cut of the money from the estate sale, and he buys three ham radios, giving one to Ilsa. She and Ed begin talking to one another. This conversation also correlates with some of the questions the mental ward doctor was asks him, like “What made you want to do these things?” They both have their little commonalities, and they talk until it’s lights out. Ilsa tells Ed to never let them call him a monster.

Suddenly, Ilsa is awakened by a soldier, who tells her that she wasn’t just following orders, and that she was just a psychopath who skinned Jews, and that the Golem is going to come for her. She then writes a letter to her children saying that death is the only way out, and she hangs herself in her cell.

We then see Ed dancing to a song by the transgender woman Christine, in a brasserie and panties, before being told to go to bed. Then we see Christine going to a hotel room. She is also gifted the ham radio from Ed Gein, and the two of them start talking. Ed tells her that he’s a big fan, and the doctor said to speak to her because he might be a transsexual, and talks about how he may have wanted his dick gone as well, since his mother caught him playing with it, and chastised him for it, leading him to believe he might need to be rid of it. The same thing happens here with the questioning from the doctor, like “Why do you think you’re a transsexual? (And of course we have the Buffalo Bill reference with the lady suit and dance).

Ed is interrupted by the new head nurse Roz, and is told that he will be heavily restricted on what he does, and she calls him out, saying he’s not crazy, but clever. Given a key by nurse Salty, Ed sneaks out of his room to find a closet full of chainsaws and weapons, and he kills nurse Roz with a chainsaw, but we learn it was all just a hallucination the next morning. The doctor then talks about how the ham radios he bought were never sent, and the ham radio he has isn’t plugged in, he was talking with himself, and the doctor tells him he has schizophrenia. The doctor then tells him he will give him a medicine to stop the voices and visions, and Ed hugs Nurse Roz, thanking her for helping him.  

This episode had cool storytelling, with the parallels between the doctor and Ed hallucinating that he was talking to all his heroes. There were of course moments you could tell something was up, such as the chainsaws in the closet, which wouldn’t make sense, and kind of gave it away, but it still was something different to reveal his disorder instead of just having the doctor say “oh you have it.” Overall, this was a good episode (with a nice Buffalo Bill reference).  

Rating 8/10