Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 1]
First You Dream, Then You Die
Shown 18 Mar 13
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) and her son Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) arrive at White Pine Bay,
to live in an old motel she bought with her dead husband's life insurance money.
Norman makes some new friends at school - pretty girls like Emma Decody (
Olivia Cooke
) and Bradley Kenner (
Nicola Peltz
). Yes, he has two potential love interests.
What is heartbreaking is the fact that we know how badly any relationship will end.
This episode is a packed with introductions of characters,
but the creators still take the time to squeeze in a killing.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 2]
Nice Town You Picked, Norma...
Shown 25 Mar 13
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) and Deputy Zach Shelby (Mike Vogel -
Under The Dome
) drop by the motel at the most inopportune moment.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
), Norma's eldest son, arrives in town.
He soon befriends Ethan Chang (Terry Chen -
Continuum
), a fellow patron of the local strip club.
This enables Dylan to get an entry-level job
in the town's major industry.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 3]
What's Wrong with Norman
Shown 01 Apr 13
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 4]
Trust Me
Shown 08 Apr 13
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 5]
Ocean View
Shown 15 Apr 13
Ethan Chang (Terry Chen -
Continuum
) runs into trouble.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 6]
The Truth
Shown 22 Apr 13
With Ethan Chang (Terry Chen -
Continuum
) gone, Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) gets a promotion.
He also gets his very first minion, Remo (Ian Tracey -
The 100
), who is less than happy at having a twenty-year-old for a boss.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 7]
The Man in Number 9
Shown 29 Apr 13
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 8]
A Boy and His Dog
Shown 06 May 13
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 9]
Underwater
Shown 13 May 13
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 1, Episode 10]
Midnight
Shown 20 May 13
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) sees one of the crop-harvesters (Alexander Calvert -
Supernatural (2005)
) smoking a joint on the veranda.
Predictably she uses this as an excuse to start a confrontation.
Norman overhears his teacher, Miss Blair Watson (
Keegan Connor Tracy
), make an emotional phone call.
She says she trusts him,
which makes their association deepen.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 1]
Gone But Not Forgotten
Shown 03 Mar 14
The previous Season ended with the shocking death of Miss Blair Watson (
Keegan Connor Tracy
). This episode starts with her funeral,
but after a jump forward of several months Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) has still not gotten over the shock of losing his favourite teacher.
Bradley Kenner (
Nicola Peltz
) thinks she knows who killed her father,
so she takes violent revenge.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 2]
Shadow of a Doubt
Shown 10 Mar 14
Bradley Kenner (
Nicola Peltz
) gets written out of the show.
In real life, the actress left to play Marky Mark's daughter in
Transformers 4
. However, this storyline may seem contrived
but it is better than just removing the character
during the mid-Season break.
That said, Bradley's boyfriend Richard Sylmore (Richard Harmon -
The 100
) is never seen again after Season One.
Gil's replacement is Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
), a notorious scumbag. Remo (Ian Tracey -
The 100
) fills in the backstory.
Norma makes Norman (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) audition with her
for the local theatre society's annual musical.
Once again, he has to put his mother above all other commitments.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 3]
Caleb
Shown 17 Mar 14
We learned in the previous episode that Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) had a brother, Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
). Now he conveniently turns up
and fills in a lot of her backstory.
Apparently they have a family history of bipolar disorder.
Emma (
Olivia Cooke
) organises a beachfront vigil for Bradley Kenner (
Nicola Peltz
). This is basically a beach party as a wake.
She makes a new friend, the local drug dealer.
Well, the town's major industry is farming cannabis
so someone was bound to be retailing the stuff.
Norma's new friends are looking forward to the new bypass.
It will open the town up to big-box stores like CostCo.
Of course, none of them is smart enough to realise
the potentially devastating effect this will have on the local economy.
While the town's High Street relies on locally-owned boutique stores,
these will be out-competed by the big-dollar store.
Naturally this means the local job market will be switched
to minimum-wage employment in the warehouses.
Only Norma Bates and Nick Frost are smart enough to oppose this.
Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
) plans to escalate the gang-war even more.
With Bradley gone, Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) needs a new love interest.
He hooks up with Cody Brennan, a girl from the theatre crew.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 4]
Check-Out
Shown 24 Mar 14
Norma did not get the lead role in the musical play.
She befriends the Director,
who quit in protest at the casting decision.
Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
) is up to no good.
Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) goes after Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
). While his normal personality cannot cope with confrontation,
his tendency the blackout reappears.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 5]
The Escape Artist
Shown 31 Mar 14
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) gets back in touch with Nick Ford,
the mysterious businessman who shares her opposition to the bypass.
He gets her a scientific report that will delay construction.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) checks up on Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
). In Season Three we discover
that they are both members of the town's founding families,
However, this scene indicates they have never met each other
and only know of each other by reputation.
Nick Frost can make a political assassination look like a car crash.
He also knows how to send a more blunt message,
as a car full of his goons try a drive-by shooting.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) gets on the wrong end of it.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 6]
Plunge
Shown 07 Apr 14
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) is take to recuperate at the home of his Boss, Jodi Morgan (
Kathleen Robertson
).
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) has moved into the Bates Motel.
Norma gets word that her arch-enemy,
the Councilman who supports the Bypass,
has been written out of the story.
George (Michael Vartan -
Alias
) helps her prep for a bid to take the vacant
Unfortunately she begins to suspect that her ally,
Nick Frost, is up to no good.
Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) still hangs around with his girlfriend Cody.
They go to the local swimming hole,
where they meet up with Emma (
Olivia Cooke
) and her drug-dealer boyfriend.
The two girls are like opposite versions -
even their names are opposable, Emma DeCody and Cody Brennan.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 7]
Presumed Innocent
Shown 14 Apr 14
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
), now a town Councilman, moves into her new office.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) drops by to tell her the bad news.
Deputy Lynn (
Agam Darshi
) processes Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
). Well, his DNA will soon be in the system.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) is healed up after Jodi's nursing.
He and Remo (Ian Tracey -
The 100
) are roped into a revenge attack.
Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
) has recruited a bunch of new guys,
and plans a raid on Nick Ford's warehouse.
This episode was directed by
Roxann Dawson
.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 8]
Meltdown
Shown 21 Apr 14
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) has the DNA results that put Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) at the crime scene in the Blair Watson (
Keegan Connor Tracy
) case.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) invites Norman on a mother-son date
to see their favourite movie ... Double Identity.
He turns her down, which leaves her free to date George (Michael Vartan -
Alias
).
Formerly, Nick Ford had a cordial relationship with Norma.
However, he knows that Dylan is her son
so he decides to put pressure on her.
This puts Dylan in an even worse situation.
Everyone wants Zane out of the way,
and instead of doing the work themselves
they decide to make it Dylan's problem.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 9]
The Box
Shown 28 Apr 14
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) meets with his father's ex-partner,
an expert lie-detector specialist.
It seems that Romero's father was a cop,
and that he may have passed away.
Now the Sheriff wants an off-the-record lie-detector test
performed on Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
).
Norman is unavailable for questioning
because he has been kidnapped by Nick Ford,
and is a hostage so Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) kills Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
). Ironic that a show that should be about a serial killer
now relegates him to the level of damsel-in-distress
while his brother's drug-war plot takes over the show.
Norman gets his memory back
about what happened the night Blair Watson (
Keegan Connor Tracy
) was murdered.
His captor, Nick Ford, is also the dead woman's father.
Will there be a climactic confrontation between the two?
Emma (
Olivia Cooke
) wants to quit her job at the motel
because she feels left out of all the drama.
In truth, she is better off not knowing
about all the serious crimes being committed.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 2, Episode 10]
The Immutable Truth
Shown 05 May 14
With Nick Ford out of the way,
the organised crime storyline has to be tied up.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) uses Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) and Jodi Morgan (
Kathleen Robertson
) to lure out Zane (Michael Eklund -
Wynonna Earp
). Of course, Zane is a violent and unpredictable asshole
even at the best of times.
The Sheriff should have planned this out better.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) gets a scene that ties up her own storyline.
Not only has she ditched her boyfriend George (Michael Vartan -
Alias
), but she has lost her only friend ...
and that friend's influence will cost her the seat on the council.
Yes, she is effectively back where she started
at the beginning of the Season.
This is basically the reset button for her storyline,
but expertly delivered in a single scene.
The climax of the episode, and of the Season itself,
is Norman facing the lie detector test.
Yes, the murder of Blair Watson (
Keegan Connor Tracy
) - which has been very far in the background during the drug war
- has now been pushed to the forefront again.
However, the result is all very anticlimactic.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 1]
A Death in the Family
Shown 09 Mar 15
After the events of the previous Season,
the DEA came in and burned all the marijuana fields.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) gets the town's blame for loss of their local industry,
and the arrest of dozens of hard-working local taxpayers.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) has decided to drop out of the illegal drug business.
Yes, at the end of the previous Season
he passed up on the chance to run the town ...
and he has not changed his mind.
His new plan is to set up a farm with ninety-nine marijuana plants,
growing medicinal weed with a legal permit.
A couple of familiar faces help Dylan out.
Remo (Ian Tracey -
The 100
) left town when the DEA turned up,
but Gunnar has stayed around to help with the farm.
Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
), AKA Uncle Dad, also needs a place to stay.
There is a creepy neighbour named Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
), who snoops around looking for trouble.
The Motel has a new customer - Anika Johnson (
Tracy Spiridakos
). Norman takes a liking to her,
and even sorta-accidentally peeps in her bathroom window.
Then he does her a favour by giving her a lift to meet someone,
and brings her car back ... alone.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 2]
The Arcanum Club
Shown 16 Mar 15
Anika Johnson (
Tracy Spiridakos
) has not returned to the motel.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) decides to investigate,
using the missing girl's invitation
to a secret party at The Arcanum Club.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) is there, hob-nobbing with the town's big names like Bob Harris.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 3]
Persuasion
Shown 23 Mar 15
Now that Emma (
Olivia Cooke
) has agreed to date Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
), she decides to try a glamourous new look.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) is looking for the missing girl, Anika Johnson (
Tracy Spiridakos
). Eventually a woman's body turns up.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 4]
Unbreak-Able
Shown 30 Mar 15
Anika Johnson (
Tracy Spiridakos
) has reappeared, but this raises more questions than it answers.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) conceals the girl's secret flash-drive,
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 5]
The Deal
Shown 06 Apr 15
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) is pressurised by the thugs who were after the missing flash drive.
She has no option but to go to Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) for help. After all, they are in the same boat.
Will Bob Harris accept her perfectly reasonable offer?
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 6]
Norma Louise
Shown 13 Apr 15
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) gets hospitalised.
However, he is not the type to take this lying down.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) decides to do what comes naturally, and run from her problems.
She ditches her phone and her car,
then buys some new clothes and hangs around in a bar.
Since she is not into one-night-stands,
she goes back to her boyfriend the Psychology teacher.
Of course, despite her moves she is still tailed by Bob Harris's hitmen.
Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
) totally flips out when his mother abandons him.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) has to cope with Norman's split personality,
the first time he has seen alt-Norma appear.
He also sees first-hand the struggle Emma (
Olivia Cooke
) has when she has one of her attacks.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 7]
The Last Supper
Shown 20 Apr 15
Norma is back, as if she had never been away.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) doubles down on his retaliation against Bob Harris.
Norma invites her psychologist boyfriend, James,
around to speak with her son Norman (Freddie Highmore -
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
). It does not end well.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) is informed that Emma (
Olivia Cooke
) is suffering from her medical condition.
Luckily Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) is still looking for a gun-runner to deliver some weapons.
Twenty-five grand for a one-off job
will be enough to buy Emma a lung transplant.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 8]
The Pit
Shown 27 Apr 15
Bob Harris goes through the motions of upholding his end of the deal.
He has a public works crew dig a pit outside the motel,
purportedly for a swimming pool like Norma requested.
Meanwhile, Bob's goons abduct James the Psychologist
in the hope of getting the flash drive's location ...
or at least something they can use to extort it from Norma.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) is covering for Norma, as per usual.
He gets her car back from the dealer she traded it to,
then goes to Bob Harris and enquires about the pit.
Now Bob gets a chance to share what he learned about Norman.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) and Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) take Chick's truck to Canada for him.
The flat-bed is loaded with secret compartments
filled with automatic weapons,
probably costing a thousand dollars each.
For fifty weapons, they could easily split the takings.
Their cover story is that they are delivering Chick's sculpture,
which has been sold to a museum in Canada.
This episode was directed by
Roxann Dawson
. She does a good job, especially in the scenes
that bring out Norman's halucinatory state.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 9]
Crazy
Shown 04 May 15
Bradley Kenner (
Nicola Peltz
) is back in town.
Well, Norman chased an imaginary dog in order to find her,
and nobody else is around to see her,
so there is always a chance that she is just another halucination.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) and Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) get home after the ambush.
They left the sculpture at the scene of the crime,
so how they will explain this if questioned by Law Enforcement
is not obvious.
Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) visits Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) to collect the money for Emma's surgery.
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) has the flash drive, and a plan to take care of Bob.
This involves Special Agent Liz Babbitt (
Anika Noni Rose
) of the DEA.
However, this just adds to Norma's frustration.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 3, Episode 10]
Unconscious
Shown 11 May 15
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) gets hospitalised.
However, he is not the type to take this lying down.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) plans to have Norman institutionalised.
Unfortunately the State facility is severely underfunded
and overcrowded as a result.
There is a private alternative, but it is incredibly expensive.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) gives Emma's dad the money for the operation.
But now he has to talk her into accepting the transplant.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 1]
A Danger to Himself and Others
Shown 07 Mar 16
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) plans to have Norman institutionalised.
Since she has no money to speak of,
all she can do is flirt with men.
Unfortunately, the psychiatrist turns out to be gay.
Her second choice is Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) - she asks him to marry her,
so she can use his Health Insurance to pay for Norman's healthcare.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) joins Emma in the Big City, where she is about to have her transplant.
Yes, a major underlying theme of this show is the lengths people will go to
so they can afford private healthcare in the USA.
Emma's estranged mother Audrey tries to visit her.
When Emma's dad chases Audrey out of the hospital,
she goes to stay at the Bates motel instead.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 2]
Goodnight, Mother
Shown 14 Mar 16
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) agrees to marry Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
). She now has the chance to get Norman sectioned.
But he thinks that she is the serial killer,
so they start to play cat-and-mouse with each other.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 3]
'Til Death Do You Part
Shown 21 Mar 16
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) formally marries Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
). Later he bumps into an old flame, Rebecca Hamilton (
Jamie Ray Newman
). With Bob Parris gone,
she is obsessed with covering her tracks and getting Bob's money.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 4]
Lights of Winter
Shown 28 Mar 16
Rebecca Hamilton (
Jamie Ray Newman
), the local bank manager, is after the Bob's hidden stash.
Three and a half million dollars is sitting in a safety deposit box,
but the key was on Bob's person when he mysteriously disppeared.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) is thinking of firing Gunnar,
quitting the farmer's life and moving to Seattle to be with Emma.
Norman wants to be released from the Pineview clinic.
Unfortunately the official channels will take a long time.
The good news is that Norman's new friend,
a fellow inmate named Julian,
is an escape artist with a plan to get out.
The bad news is that their first stop on the outside
is a club called The Landing Strip.
It is filled with temptation,
and this usually bring's out the worst in Momma.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 5]
Refraction
Shown 11 Apr 16
Norman is back in Pineview.
He decides to cooperate with the psychiatrist.
Norma Louise Bates (
Vera Farmiga
) needs a professional to repair her stained glass window.
Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) offers to do the work for her.
Rebecca Hamilton (
Jamie Ray Newman
) is still after the money.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) goes for a job interview with Felix Gaeta (Alessandro Juliani -
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
).
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 6]
The Vault
Shown 18 Apr 16
Norman is making progress in his therapy sessions.
Well, the psychiatrist is making progress.
This digs up some uncomfortable memories of Norman's father (David Cubbit -
Medium
).
Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) gives Rebecca Hamilton (
Jamie Ray Newman
) what she wants. The key, that is.
Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) is blackmailing Norma into helping him get revenge on Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
). Yes, this family always has ever more drama.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 7]
There's No Place Like Home
Shown 25 Apr 16
Norman finds a recent newspaper,
and discovers the article which mentions his mother married the sheriff.
This makes him resolve to get released from the asylum.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 8]
Unfaithful
Shown 02 May 16
Norman begs his mother and his shrink to release him.
He is very convincing,
and despite everything they know about his murderous past
they decide to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Rebecca Hamilton (
Jamie Ray Newman
) has the money, but the DEA is onto her.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 9]
Forever
Shown 09 May 16
Norman is out, and obsessed with being the only man in his mother's life.
Although Norman started out as a good boy,
and only his alternate personality had a bad streak,
it seems that his regular self is quite twisted.
Norma spent several episodes desperate to send her son to the asylum.
Now she has done a complete about-face,
and will do anything to bring him back.
Dylan Bates (Max Thieriot -
House at the End of the Street
) has worked out what happened to Emma's mother,
and is willing to work with Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) to get Norman committed again.
But will they do it in time?
Rebecca Hamilton (
Jamie Ray Newman
) offers to turn Romero in to the DEA.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 4, Episode 10]
Norman
Shown 16 May 16
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) tries to deal with the aftermath of what happened in the previous episode.
A State Police detective investigates the incident.
Worse, the DEA is still out to entrap him
despite him cooperating fully with them.
Norman has a few melt-downs, which go un-noted
because he is a teenager coping with overwhelming grief.
He does not even invite his own brother to the funeral.
Yes, there are plenty of red flags that nobody seems to pick up on.
That is, until Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) visits to console Norman in his time of grief.
Yes, it takes a psycho to know a psycho.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 1]
Dark Paradise (63 min)
Shown 20 Feb 17
This takes up a year and a half after the end of the previous Session.
Norman is a successful small businessman,
thanks to the fact that his overbearing mother is no longer around.
Of course, since this is shot from his perspective
we see that he thinks she has faked her death
and is hiding out in her own bedroom.
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) is no longer Sheriff.
He is over a year into a five-year prison sentence
on a beefed-up purjory charge.
His parole has been denied,
so he will be in a medium security prison for the next two years.
However, he has other plans.
Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) visits Dylan, who has married Emma and just had a kid with her.
Of course, this is never going to work out as a family arrangement.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 2]
The Convergence of the Twain
Shown 27 Feb 17
Norman discovers that his gal-pal Madeline Loomis,
who looks like a younger version of his mother,
has a rich and successful husband.
Worse, the husband is cheating on the wife.
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) learns that his plan for revenge on Norman has failed.
He ends up blundering into a different idea.
Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) is still hanging around,
and offers to help Norman start a taxidermy business.
Finally, Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) gets to town so he can catch up with his sister.
What could possibly go wrong?
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 3]
Bad Blood
Shown 06 Mar 17
Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) wakes up chained in the basement.
Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) is still hanging around,
helping out but not taking sides in the Bates family dispute.
His real agenda is to get enough data for a book.
Well, you cannot blame him for trying.
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) gets transferred to a new prison, six hours drive away.
He takes the next step in his revenge plan.
Luckily for the Season's story pacing, he has a lot of bad luck
that will allow the other characters time for their own storylines.
Norman cannot really keep up on what is going on.
But then, he never could.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 4]
Hidden
Shown 13 Mar 17
Caleb (Kenny Johnson -
) is still a problem, but of a different kind.
Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) clears up the mess.
Despite all the help, Norman is still ungrateful.
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) has a new priority before he can carry out his revenge mission.
A close-range blast of birdshot to the abdomen
means he must self-medicate before he bleeds to death.
Sheriff Greene (
Brooke Smith
) drops by to speak with Norman.
She mischaracterises Romero's sentence,
claiming he only got two years easy time on a work farm
while in reality he was doing five years hard time in a medium security lockup.
Norman donates some of his mother's old dresses to the goodwill,
and gives the best one to Madeline Loomis.
She is grateful, and lonely since her cheating husband is out of town.
The good news is that Norman might get some sex.
The bad news is that Norma will object.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 5]
Dreams Die First
Shown 20 Mar 17
Norman is all alone in the house, with Chick and Caleb gone.
His mother went off for a night out,
and left her car outside a bar.
Luckily she seems to have chosen the redneck town's only gay bar,
because the staff and clientele are very tolerant.
Sheriff Greene (
Brooke Smith
) calls Norman in to remind him that Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) is still on the loose.
Finally, we get to meet Marion Crane (
Rihanna
). Her boss is an asshole who denies her a promotion or a raise ...
and then gives her a briefcase of cash for her to deposit in the bank for him.
In the original 1960 film,
Marion Crane embezzled $40,000 from her employer.
The 1998 remake upgraded this to $400,000.
In this version, despite twenty years of inflation,
the amount is still four hundred thousand dollars.
Yes, this is the episode that the whole show has been building up to.
With the exception of the cash amount, everything seems to have been changed.
Since the 1998 remake was panned by critics and audiences alike,
one can hardly blame the TV show's producers.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 6]
Marion
Shown 27 Mar 17
Marion Crane (
Rihanna
), no longer a blonde bombshell, books into the Bates Motel for the night.
Despite Norman's usual preference for women who look like his mother,
he is willing to make an exception in her case.
After all, she is wearing her Fenty-brand lingerie which emphasises her cleavage
while concealing her tattoos.
The show has spent almost five years building to the shower scene.
This time we get a completely different spin on it -
a different killer, and a different victim.
Unfortunately the episode somewhat derails a few characters.
Mama Bates usually acts as a cock-blocker,
murdering any woman who Norman is attracted to.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 7]
Inseparable
Shown 03 Apr 17
Norman has to dispose of the body.
However, when he and Norma take it to their new favourite dumping spot ...
Sheriff Greene (
Brooke Smith
) is pulling a body out of the lake.
The real question is, how many bodies ... and who are they?
Dylan arrives in town, and tries to help Norman.
But when he visits the pharmacist to get the prescription renewed,
he is told that Norman's shrink went missing a couple of years ago.
Is he one of the bodies in the lake?
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 8]
The Body
Shown 10 Apr 17
Sheriff Greene (
Brooke Smith
) interrogates Norman.
All she has is his confessional statement on the phone.
Even though Norman asks for his medication,
and seems erratic in his behaviour,
she pushes for more information.
Dylan follows Remo's advice and gets Norman a lawyer, Julia Ramos (
Natalia Cordova-Buckley
).
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) has been out of the story for a few episodes.
Now he pops up and breaks into the Bates House.
Norman is not around, for obvious reasons,
but Chick (Ryan Hurst -
The Walking Dead
) is in the basement typing up a true-crime novel based on Norman's crimes.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 9]
Visiting Hours
Shown 17 Apr 17
Emma arrives in town to support Dylan,
and he has to break the news to her.
The revelation places an incredible strain on their marriage.
Emma wants to have her mother cremated.
Because it is the cheap option, of course,
not because she wants to deprive the defence of an independent autopsy.
Dylan reluctantly attends Norman's preliminary hearing.
The Loomis widow blames him for not stopping Norman.
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) is out for blood.
He hatches a new plan to take his vengeance on Norman.
Bates Motel (2013) [Season 5, Episode 10]
The Cord (70 min)
Shown 24 Apr 17
Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell -
Lost
) has abducted Norman, and takes him into the woods to find Norma's body.
Emma has gone back to her family, but Dylan stayed in town for the trial.
Now he is the only one who can finish this.
He meets with Remo (Ian Tracey -
The 100
), who has gone straight and gives him a spare pistol for old-times sake.
Hopefully he included some ammunition with it.
The conclusion is all about family,
rather than relying on spectacle and action.
