Did Lizzie Borden inspire Aileen Wuornos? Netflixs Monster series says she did.

CW: Sexual assault.

In a true Ryan Murphy curveball, Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story not only features Borden but one of history's most infamous female serial killers, Aileen Wuornos.

In the fourth episode of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan's Netflix series, we take time away from the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1892 to meet Wuornos (played by Murphy regular Sarah Paulson).

Hitchhiking in Florida in 1988, she's picked up by a man, introducing herself as Lizzie Borden.

"Like the axe murderer?" he asks.

SEE ALSO: 'Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story' has scenes involving a 19th-century vibrator In the scene, Paulson's Wuornos gleefully sings Suzi Quatro out loud then negotiates sex work with the driver.

However, the encounter ends in bloodshed.

Taken to an empty lot, Wuornos is sexually assaulted by the man, after which she shoots him dead with a pistol.

In real life, Wuornos testified that she was raped by one of her victims. (A warning, this is not the only rape scene in Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story .) But Monster doesn't stop with the man's shooting, Paulson's Wuornos suddenly hacks at his penis with an axe in a blatant Borden association.

It's gratuitous as hell.

Aileen Wuornos stays at the Borden house? Credit: Netflix During the series, Wuornos is also shown as finding comfort and conviction in Borden's story, reading her biography aloud in a hotel room with her girlfriend, Shelby (Jessie Lee) — not Tyria Moore, Wuornos' real girlfriend.

In a furious monologue in episode 4, Wuornos not only celebrates Borden as a feminist icon but as her direct inspiration for the seven killings she would go on to be arrested, jailed, and executed for.

"She gave the world a warning that women shouldn't stand for this shit anymore," Monster 's Wuornos declares.

"The way women are treated, still, to this day, that's why I'm gonna do something about it." Monster goes even further into Wuornos' Borden obsession, with episode 5 seeing her staying in the Borden house, a 134-year-old crime scene which is now a macabre bed and breakfast .