Regardless of the shows release schedule,The Thing Under The Bedstill feels like a classicAmerican Horror Storiesouting.

The episodes heroine, Debby Ryans Jillian, then wakes up beside her husband.

As a suspicious detective pins the death on Jillian, she searches desperately for answers.

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Now in her twenties, Mary has been in a coma for ten years.

First, Jillian sleeps in Marys old home.

The Thing Under The Bed was directed by Courtney Hoffman.

Debby Ryan’s Jillian looks at a pill pack in the bathroom in American Horror Stories The Thing Under the Bed

Jillian meets Mary in her comatose dream state, an idyllic world where she controls everything.

A little girl and boy argue nearby, prompting Mary to fly into a rage.

A strange person attacks Jillian in the dream, but she wakes up before they can do any damage.

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Instantly, the nurse gets a message saying Mary is currently experiencing one of her fateful dreams.

As he walks into the bedroom, the nurse is killed by the thing under the bed.

With no other options left, Jillian decides to kill Mary.

Debby Ryan speaking to a nurse in American Horror Stories season 4

Now, Mary uses the memory of him to kill others.

Moreover, her spirit was irrevocably fused with her childhood attacker.

However, Marys dream powers seemed to come at a cost.

Debby Ryan’s Jillian and Melonie Diaz’s Mary look out on a dream world in American Horror Stories The Thing Under The Bed

Spending years in her own mind turned Mary into the imagined monster from her childhood.

However, the ending was even darker than that, as evidenced by Marys face changing.

In her reflection,Marys face changed into the grinning male face of the thing under the bed.

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This signified that, by controlling her dream world, Mary had fully become her own childhood nightmare.

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