Lana Winters is one of the most powerful and iconic characters in the history of American Horror Story, largely because she was arguably the character who suffered the most trauma and yet emerged as a survivor at the end of her season, enduring more than any one person - fictional or not - should ever have to go through. One of the crowning horrors in Lana's life has to be her brief escape from Briarcliff... and into the arms of Dr Thredson, otherwise known as the serial killer Bloody Face, in a role made for Heroes and Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto. When Lana deduces his true identity (thanks to some skin appropriated as furniture, and his creepy basement chamber), he shoves her down a trapdoor, abuses her, shows the corpse of her lover Wendy (Clea Duvall) and then makes her kiss Wendy's corpse while he dresses in Bloody Face's attire, all despite Lana's heartrending sobs of anguish and despair. A truly horrific, bleak moment only redeemed by Lana's escape shortly after.
