I hope next season is a prison
I wrote on for a class and it's perfect tbh. Imagine if Coven and Asylum had a baby.
AHS: ContainmentA young boy is left at the door of an orphanage by unknown parents. There, he is raised in filth. The nuns are corrupt, the kids are malnourished, and born into the world as slaves. The child lays on the metal sheets they pass of as beds, malnourished and overworked. He can barely form coherent sentences with the lack of education at the orphanage, but on he bed he becomes at peace with death. He is then confronted by a tall, dark figure across the room. "I'm going to get you out of here," the figure says.
The narrator spends the rest of his childhood in a small town in Texas, where he finds out just how different he really is. He has dreams, like anyone else. What sets him apart is that he remembers all of his dreams and they all come true. He seeks help when a recurring dream depicts him killing his own (adopted) mother.
The next day, he and his father come home to find his mother brutally stabbed to death. The police are immediately called and his father is taken in as the prime suspect as they had been having issues for awhile. A strange looking man comes up to him at the crime scene and asks him if he has time for a couple of questions down at the station. The narrator complies, but when the cop car is beyond city limits, starts to panic. "Where are we going?" He asks. The cop smile and stares forward like mannequin.
The car stops in front of the county prison. The narrator gets out and the car drives away, the cop saying nothing. He walks inside.
He is met by a strange orange haired woman who forces him into a false confession, which is all they need to lock him up.
He realizes the inevitable - he is back in the orphanage. Back to being a slave. Back to the bottom of the totem pole. He remembers all the children in the orphanage who looked out for each other simply because they were all they had. But the narrator realizes he hadn't been looking out for them. He had ran at his first possible opportunity and never looked back. He knows any child he was with at the orphanage is either dead or had been adopted, but he swears to shut the down the orphanage if he gets out.
Though the next few weeks, he makes a few allies, who tell him where he really is. "It's not a prison," one of them
says. "More like a zoo. Containment." He learns that this is a place for people like him - people who have God given abilities to see the future, in differing ways. It is set up by a company called Divinity who's goal it is to track people like this down and contain them. They commit a crime, frame you for it, and you walk right into the trap.
Later, they tell him about a famous couple who escaped from the prison 20 years ago. They are believed to be dead, but were never found. Still, they are a martyr to the people inside. They are a symbol of hope for the inmates.
Eventually, with the help of his allies and a few corrupt Divinity workers, he escapes. He rides home undetected on a passing cargo ship. He is the first person to successfully escape.
When he gets home, he learns the biggest secret of all - his dad is the head of Divinity, out to kill the narrator all along, he only adopted him because he knew that was the only way he could earn the trust of someone who could see the future. After a long fight, the father is shot by unknown assailants.
We learn in the next episode that it was his real parents who shot his adopted father. They too had powers of divination and knew their son would be the one to take down Divinity. They left him at the orphanage, knowing everything that would happen there, because it made him strong enough to take Divinity down alone.
Nn looking back it's pretty cliche but it's much better w/ all the details
