gentlewoman and gentlemen , it ’s official : The Norman Bates we all know and love ( ? ) has arrived . But we ’ll get to that in a minute .
First , we have Dylan mugging with a gun in a Bates manor mirror . He ’s head it . adhere it in his gasp . Trying out a menacing stare . He may be more Quick Draw McGraw than Clint Eastwood , but I call up Dylan just became my favorite grapheme . Also , how many layers does he have on ? I matter a liothyronine - shirt , a flannel , a hoodie , and a leather jacket . After he ’s done posing , Dylan walks into the kitchen , where Norma asks for his help with motel stuff .
“ I ’d love to , but I have a line of work , ” he announce , and Norma(n ) front at him with such amusing shock that I ’m waiting for the spit take . Norma ask what he ’ll be doing . “ Nothing , ” is Dylan ’s reply , and then he ’s out the door , presumptively to go do “ nothing . ”
“Norman? You OK?”
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Meanwhile , Norman heads to school , where a weepy Emma ( weary a plethora of confutative print which are either awful or adorably offbeat ) finds him at his storage locker .
Long taradiddle inadequate : She ’s freaking out that the little smutty Holy Scripture was fact , not fiction , and she ’s give a strong time treat . “ That dead girl is call us from the grave , ” she says , flap the journal around . Norman call for that Emma return the diary to him , which is not the reply she was expect .
“ Why are you so obsessed with it ? ” he asks her , harried .
“ Hey , I found it in your room , ” she shoot back .
“ What ’s that supposed to have in mind ? I ’m obsessed with it ? I ’m not obsessed with it , ” the lady doth protest too much .
Proving that he ’s not at all preoccupy with the record book ’s contentedness , Norman fit to class and promptly has a vision of his instructor tied up like the sketched girls . He ’s supposed to be take a test , but has n’t written a single letter . “ Norman ? You OK ? ” Mrs. Watson ask , and , looking kind of sweaty and lecherous , Norman give-up the ghost out .
“Does Your Son Have a History of Blackouts?”
At St. Sebastian Hospital , a doctor asks Norma if Norman has had episode like this in the yesteryear . Her centre have been on her son , but Norma ’s header whips around at the question . “ Why would you ask me that ? ” she says , alarmed , and it seems like she ’s a smidge defensive . “ No , never . Not at all . ”
“ This where they shotDeliverance ? ” Dylan ask . “ Boy , you got a pretty mouth . ” Yep , favorite part position cement .
The novel BFFs are enjoying nature ’s lulu — which just happens to include $ 5 million Charles Frederick Worth of mint works — when they ’re short looking down the barrel of a brace of gun . Dylan fumbles for his own gun when the hombre start laugh . “ We ’re just messing with you , noob , ” they grin , and then bemock the artillery placement that he worked so severely on make right . “ You ’ll plausibly need to keep that up front , though . Quick draw play . ” They split , leaving Dylan and Ethan alone with a tent , a whole lot of ammo , and some snacks .
“ What do we do now ? ” Dylan enquire .
“ We cool , ” Ethan says , and it look like Dylan ’s “ nothing ” job description was closer than he thought .
“You’re Brave, Norman Bates.”
Norman asks how her father is ( the right answer : well done ) , and Bradley reports that he ’s in all likelihood not go to make it . There ’s an uncomfortable silence , which she breach by enjoin , “ I know . Death is clumsy . So what about your dad ? He does n’t live with you , right ? ” Norman tell apart her that his dad go past away after hold an accident in their service department . She realizes that this make them kindred flavor , and tells him to scootch over so she can keep an eye on an former pic with him .
“ You care quondam picture show ? ” she asks .
“ Everyone seems better in sure-enough movies . Even bad ones . Happier , maybe . ” Norman
After a few beat , Bradley agrees . “ You just want to be happy , ” she says .
“What’s Wrong With Me?”
As Norma ’s sign language for the carpet — by the means , they ’ve accidentally delivered carpeting for five units instead of four — when Sheriff Romero comes busting in .
“ You ca n’t just walk into my house , ” Norma sputters .
“ Actually , we can , ” he reply . Guess who get that search warrant !
Leaving the cops alone at her house , Norma goes to retrieve Norman from the hospital . Even though they ca n’t regain anything wrong with him , they want to keep him overnight for observance . “ Ai n’t nobody got clock time for that , ” Norma basically says , and starts yanking electric cord and tubes out . As she wheels him away , she evidence Norman that police ransacked the household . “ I have no idea if they found anything . It was one of the most horrible experiences of my life . ”
“ Did they discover anything ? ” Norman asks , totally go to pull off the nonchalant look he was going for .
The 2nd he gets home , Norman drops to his abdomen and looks under his layer . The space is entirely empty , save for a dust bunny rabbit or two ( where are those Swiffers when you need them ? ) . His brass descend . “ What ’s ill-timed with me ? What ’s wrong with me ? What ’s wrong with me ? ” he half sobs .
”Why Would You Want to Keep That Thing?”
After changing back into his octogenarian - chic clothes , Norman walks into the kitchen where his mom is waxing poetical about her homemade bomb peck pie .
“ Mother . I kept Keith ’s knock , ” he interrupts .
“ Why ? ” Norma seems in truth flummox .
Norman ignores the doubtfulness , but haltingly explains that the whang is n’t where he exit it .
“ I mean , why ? Why would you do that ? ” she reprize . Norman is at a loss for parole .
“ All flop , well , if the police had found it , they would have said something , correct ? They would have tell us . Okay . I will be right back , ” she say , trounce her apron off .
Then they freak out out when they hear a racket , but it ’s just a snort . Dylan is pretty stoked . Pheasant search ! !
“It Will Be Like She Never Existed.”
Ding - dong , Emma calling . “ We need to talk , ” she insists . Norman tries to slam the room access in her typeface , basically , but she keeps going . “ She was real . If we forget about her , then the world will bury about her . It will be like she never existed . Like her aliveness did n’t matter , ” she says , and there ’s so much despair , so much insistence in her phonation , you know she ’s mostly talking about her own 27 year ledge life .
They head down to room # 4 , where Norman base the daybook , and Emma deduct that man come to the motel to screen drive the sex slaves .
“ Who do you call up brought them ? ” Norman wonders .
“ Have you met Keith ? The guy who own the motel before you ? ” Norman averts his oculus . “ He ’s disturbing , to say the least . Not someone you need to get stay in an elevator with . ”
Emma walks over to inspect the lavatory and finds a Chinese character excise beneath the cesspit . She snaps a word-painting of it .
“Everything’s Gonna Be OK.”
A woman on a delegation , Norma has been driving around White Pine Bay looking for the deputy sheriff . She discover Shelby sitting in his truck just off a main road ( speed ambuscade ? He is a jerk ) and hops into his truck to repeat her “ widow woman with a seedy son ” sob write up . Then she tantalize ( Bates ? ) her lure and run fishing : “ I ca n’t have bull coming in and out of my house over nothing . I mean , it ’s not like they found anything . ”
“ I ’m on duty , Norma , ” Shelby say telegraphically , but adds that they should talk afterwards , over dinner party at his place that night . Say 8:00 ? She reluctantly agrees .
“ Do n’t worry , ” he tells her . “ Everything ’s gon na be OK . ”
At nursing home , Norma secern Norman she ’s get dinner with Deputy Shelby—“Because Norman , he knows”—then scram dolled up in her best asset - enhancing dress and straits over to Shelby ’s hole . House . It does n’t take long for them to get down to line .
“ How about we set out with you assure me about the belt ? ” he says , then gets miffed when she endeavor to run coy . “ Do n’t do that . If we ’re gon na help each other , we ’ve catch ta be honest with each other . That is the only affair that matters to me , Norma , is honesty . ” Shelby insists , interpreter dripping with simulated sincerity . She starts to go into her “ poor widowed business possessor being harassed by Sheriff Romero ” schtick again when Shelby stops her .
“ Romero never saw the belted ammunition . I rule it . I accept it . So no one else knows , ” he says . “ Where did you get this mark , Norma ? ” he asks , touching the scarred smudge on her thigh that we saw last hebdomad .
“ I was a minor . It was an accident . ”
“ Is that what happened to Keith ? Was it an accident ? Norma , did your Logos kill Keith ? ”
She denies it , of class , and Shelby settle to try another tactics . He appeals to her by saying that he recognize that she has call for care of everyone and everything her whole spirit , and now he ’s here to take care of her . “ You are so beautiful it just makes my inwardness hurt , ” he says , and it sounds exactly like a rehearsed stemma . Making out commences .
“Our Family is So Screwed Up.”
“ You do n’t know where your own mom ’s from ? ” Ethan says , unbelievingly , and a face cross over Dylan ’s face like he just realize that yeah , thatisweird .
“ You got a brother , right ? You cat close or what ? ” Ethan presses .
“ Not really , ” Dylan answers , probably visualizing a meat tenderizer .
At home , Norman is waiting up on the sofa , watch an sometime movie ( of course ) in his sure-enough fashioned PJs . When he try Dylan launch the door , he immediately call for his female parent . Dylan advises him — not entirely unkindly — to stop doing things like that . “ It ’s just weird , ” he says .
“ And calling your mamma a whore is utterly normal , ” Norman counters . Then he confesses that Norma should have been home hour ago , and he ’s kind of freaking out .
“ You want to get out more , Norman . What she ’s doing to you — it ’s not goodly . She ’s smothering you . There ’s a whole world out there . You need some perspective . ” Dylan nods at his brother , obviously feel that he ’s given some comme il faut sibling advice . “ Sorry you render to kill me the other night , ” he add .
“ I hardly think I tried to pop you , ” Norman reply .
“ You come at me with a centre tenderiser . ”
“ Oh I did ? ” Norman kind of chuckles . “ You ’re name this up , ripe ? ”
“ You were somewhat badass , ” Dylan admits .
“ Yeah , I ’m sure I struck reverence in your kernel . ”
They both laugh . Hahaha , set about friendly fire is screaming .
“I Just Like to Keep Mementos.”
Norma arrives home from her close meeting with Shelby and run up the stairs to see Norman , log Z’s in her seam . She assures him that everything is go to be fine , and he sees what ’s conk out on . It ’s probably not the first clock time it ’s hap .
“ This is a regretful idea . permit him utilise you . What if he want more ? What if he make you do things , things you do n’t need to do ? ” Norman ask .
Exasperated , Norma asks again why he felt the pauperization to keep the rap .
“ I just wish to keep mementos , you know , all that stuff I have in my room . ”
“ Those were good experiences , ” she explains , unnecessarily add that intimate assault and slaying are typically not . “ Why would you want to keep a memento of that ? ”
“ I ’m so sorry , female parent , ” he say , avoid the question .
“This Is All Your Fault.”
Emma pulls Norman away at school . She got the reference from under the cesspool read — thanks , Yahoo Answers!—and found out that it entail “ beautiful . ”
“ That ’s really sad , ” Norman sort of shrug . Emma tells him that she has decided to go to the police and he explode at her . “ Finding out what happened to this female child is n’t going to make a dispute to anyone , ” he yells . “ She ’s still gon na be dead , you ’re still gon na be mad , and I ’m still gon na be who I am . ” He like a shot apologizes , then turns and leaf .
Norman lies on his bottom , motionless , as the sun leave out from afternoon to evening to Nox . Norma enters his room .
“ You were right , ” she say . “ As long as Shelby has that belt , he can control us . He can make us do things . Things we do n’t want to do . Just like your father did . ”
“ We ca n’t let that happen . Not again , ” Norman agrees , and now we ’re marvel about that “ accident ” in the garage again .
“ This is all your faulting , ” Norma glower .
“ I have it off , Mother . There ’s something incorrect with me . ”
“ You cognise what you have to do , do n’t you ? ”
“ I have to get that whang , ” Norman nods , and that ’s when we recognise there ’s only been one somebody in the room for the whole conversation .
He ’s off , walking down the heart of the road in the midsection of the nighttime , front every inch as half-baked as Anthony Perkins . Classic Norman Bates has definitely arrived .
“Help Me.”
Norman come at Shelby ’s house and breaks in way too easy . Should n’t an police officer of the police have a better consternation organisation ? Or at least some Micro Machines and some heated doorknob ? Shelby ’s either not home or he ’s the worst cop ever , because Norman is making enough noise to wake the dead . He find a locked doorway to the cellar , then go on a higher floor to Shelby ’s bedchamber and discovers a keyring in his nightstand . Bingo . After struggle off a dog with a baseball squash racquet ( do n’t worry , he does n’t hurt it , just push it away ) Norman go back downstairs and uses the keys on the locked door and I am dead remind of Maniac Mansion .
Norman find your standard - issue bed and disco musket ball setup in the cellar - you be intimate , like you do - and then regain a grueling steel door in good order next to it . Behind the door is another bottom , a bean bag , and an Asiatic girl with needle mark up and down her arms .
“ serve me , ” she say , clutching Norman ’s arm . Outside , Deputy Shelby come home from piece of work .
Thoughts : If Norman can imagine that his momma is standing talking to him , what else is he hallucinating ? Bradley ? Emma ? Dylan ? cleaning woman tied up in basements ?
What else has he done during the brownout that he ’s obviously had before ?
theory ? idea ? I ’m onTwitter .
