American Horror Story got about the business of answering some questions this week in Halloween Part 2 but I still think this show has way too many irons in the fire. Keeping up with it all is more exhausting than deciphering Lost. It is Halloween still and according to the rules the ghosts that haunt this house can all walk free for one night only.

As last week’s episode came to a close it looked as if Violet was spirited away to an unknown fate by the Rubber Man as Larry the Burn Guy squawked and stomped around on the front porch. This week we find out that no such thing happened. Rubber Man vanished, Larry (Denis O’Hare) left after scaring some trick-or-treaters and Tate showed up to whisk Violet away for their date. Once this fact has been established by a quick cell phone call Ben (Dylan McDermott) grabs the nearest shovel and sets out to dispose of Hayden again. Instead he finds Larry and assumes that he and Hayden are plotting to extort money from him. Ben doesn’t catch on very fast does he?

Hayden (Kate Mara) is a persistent little thing and torments poor Viv about Ben’s trip to Boston. Her trick of writing ASK HIM in the steam on the bathroom mirror was especially effective considering she wasn’t in the room at the time. But making Viv (Connie Britton) think she had cooked the dog was just cruel and made me dread the inevitable reboot of Fatal Attraction. When the two finally do come face to face it isn’t pretty as each finds out the other is pregnant with Ben caught in the middle and he’s forced to come clean. I know someone who’ll be sleeping on the couch forever.

Down at the beach Violet’s date with Tate (Evan Peters) is going well and he continues to be adorably tortured until a group of high school kids show up who are either wearing the best Halloween makeup ever or are dead. I am going with dead, and they have a bone to pick with Tate who quickly gets Violet out of there and back home. It isn’t long before the kids show up again and Tate leads them on a chase around the neighborhood. When they finally corner him they want answers about why he killed them, but he has no idea who they are. This adds more fuel to my suspicion that Tate is dead and doesn’t know it, but it opens up a whole other can of worms such as how did Tate become Ben’s patient, who is paying the bill and who did Ben call to tell them he couldn’t treat him anymore? Plot holes like this are usually reserved for Glee so I hope they tie all this up pretty soon. They also confirmed another suspicion of mine; that Tate is Constance’s perfect son.

Speaking of Constance (Jessica Lange) she seems to have softened up a bit in the wake of Addie’s death. Her conversation with Violet was downright maternal and dare I say the two bonded. She did reveal to Violet the truth about who Tate is but there was no mention made of this notorious Westerfield High massacre. I suspect we’ll learn more about that in the coming weeks. I did think the obvious reference to the Columbine massacre was unnecessary though. No need to beat us over the head with it.

American Horror Story has managed to keep me on board for another week but it is teetering dangerously close to falling apart under all the weight of the plot. I did enjoy seeing Chad (Zachary Quinto) again and thought his comment about feeling forever trapped in a house he’ll never be satisfied with was very telling. Moria (Frances Conroy) confirmed his fears as the ghosts that haunt the Harmon’s house all returned at sunrise.