Bates Motel

Romero decides to take action; Norman brings Emma to the dance; Norman gets a ride home from Miss Watson.

So, you know, I tell Romero, and you know what he says?

Like, normal life stuff.

Let me ask you this. When you were a little girl,

My dad was very kind.

Oh, I don't feel well. Oh, it's my stomach.

Okay-

Take care of yourself, Maggie.

Well, anyway, tell me if you like this dress.

I love the dress!

Your feet spread shoulder-width apart, all right?

And then once you have a good aim... Mmm-hmm.

Romero's the man in this town.

Yes?

Okay. Well, this is it. I won't bug you anymore.

like it has some purpose or meaning, but it doesn't.

My brother used to make me have sex with him,

My dad was insane. He was so violent.

NORMA: Emma, you look beautiful. Come on in.

Okay. You two have fun.

I think I better go. Yeah, I'll go with you.

Look, she just invited me over and I...

What are you doing walking in the rain? Come on, get in.

Let's just say it's handled.

for professionalism.

Abernathy increases the pressure; Bradley and Dylan connect; Miss Watson encourages Norman's active imagination; Emma takes a trip.

You, what's your name?

It can't happen soon enough.

under no circumstances are any of the guests

He's got to do something about this.

No. No, I didn't.

Then get me my money back.

and I'd like to send it to him.

(DOOR CLOSES)

I'm glad, honey. What happened?

Good night, Norman.

Did Jerry Martin have an office here?

I think you are smoking something.

So this sentence here.

burning up and nothing will put it out?

Yeah, I'll tell her. Okay.

I don't know. I don't know anything about your personal life.

It's sort of funny that you went into the service industry.

Let me know if anything else happens.

I just wanted to try to be with him again,

I'm not talking about it being safe.

Oh, my God. Are you high?

All right? Gil wouldn't let her.

They're from a woman.

What I'm saying is that, what is the likelihood that she'll ever know?

A mysterious stranger causes problems for Norma; Bradley is not happy when rumors spread at school; Dylan and Remo go on a fateful road trip; Norman takes up a grisly hobby.

Can you spell your last name for me, please?

Yeah, we just brought in the harvest from the Red Creek field.

It's an overnight trip, nimrod.

I don't want people to know.

Norman, you cannot just walk away from school and leave.

Oh, no, that's okay. I'll come back later when you're gone.

I got to go. I'm gonna come back

Sheriff Romero can see you now.

You don't know me in any social sense, other than as your sheriff.

I'm the principal of White Pine Bay High School.

Okay-

Well, I think that therapy would be very beneficial for him.

What's your problem?

Gave me a chance to step up.

I mean, if you don't like it, then why do you stay?

What can go wrong with that?

Where is it?

and we're doing our best to start over and reinvent our lives.

I found all your love

We want to stop, man! We want to stop.

maybe a need to control things.

How dare you make these stupid assumptions about me.

How you knew Keith Summers and Zack Shelby?

And it just made me so angry,

and making the best of it.

The Bates Motel welcomes its first guest; Norman learns that popular girls come with many complications.

All of that happened before I got here and killed him.

(SNIFFLES)

Yeah, the birds are great.

We have to trust Sheriff Romero.

Good morning, Dylan.

(SNIFFLES)

BRADLEY: Me, too. Thank you for everything.

We've been upgrading. The place looks so great.

I'm the new owner, Norma Bates.

I'll go take care of it. No, no, no, it's late.

That ought to be enough for the next few nights, won't it?

(LOUD BANGING)

Mom, I just don't feel like going down.

Emma, don't worry about Norman if he seems distracted lately.

Are you all right?

Mother, the dog's totally safe.

Norman, did you know that having sex with a woman

Norman.

You know, I understand this. I lost my father, too.

Maybe... Maybe you haven't broken up with Richard yet or something,

But that's what makes or breaks a business like this.

Sales.

Dylan asks Norman to move in with him; Norma warns Emma that some things are best kept to themselves.

Okay. Yeah, we will.

Uh, he's dead.

You cover the truck in gasoline, inside and out.

Yeah. Name's Remo.

I pick stuff up fast.

that there was an Asian sex slave ring, without her.

I'll make a case to her

Tomorrow, yeah? Tomorrow.

I already looked there.

Absolutely.

No.

(GROWLS)

We need to go, okay?

Two fingers on the handle.

God, you're just a lying bitch!

Somebody's trying to kill us.

I'm gonna tell them everything I know.

you spend money we don't have on shit we don't need?

I'm not taking them back! You can't just take them back!

Oh, my God. Oh, my God! (SOBBING)

(SNIFFLES)

Norma receives some much-needed help, while Norman desperately awaits his mother's return home; Emma and Norman follow more clues, leading to a big discovery.

Big news in a small town, Norman.

For... Forget it, I'll figure it out, man. It's cool.

But, Norman, we have to!

Okay, Norman. I get it.

trying to inhibit your ability to turn his failure into a successful business.

You know, it's like everybody all of a sudden has just got together

They have evidence against you.

Don't blame him, Mom. He's just worried about me!

There's something every mother dreams their children will tell them one day.

Welcome to the doghouse.

the best thing you can do for them, and for yourself, is walk away.

Yeah. Yeah, man. I... I got my shit in order.

Come on. Hang on, come on!

And I could do nothing about that. That was hell, Norma.

(BRAKES SCREECH)

No. No, no. That's not what happened.

Um, so, uh, yeah. I, um...

How could evidence just disappear? Are you sure?

So then I start wondering, if this cop had one of these girls,

(SCREAMING) EMMA: Oh, my God!

Norma deals with distractions as her suspicions grow about certain town residents.

It's just, it's that way, right down by the water. Okay, g reat.

What were you doing in that cop's house?

Well, I happen to know this little motel,

So I'm an old woman?

(CAR ALARM BEEPS)

Two times now this week I've caught you guys coming down this street.

You know, the shortcut home from the video store.

So I think that it would be

Oh, hey, Norman,

She's, like, less than 20. Drugged.

Honey.

Look. She grabbed my ankle as I was trying to get out.

So how was your relationship with your dad?

and I want to take care of you.

Yeah. Yeah. I'll be right there.

You seem to get it.

Hey, I wonder whose hand they found.

(SIGHS SLOWLY)

retaliate somehow, maybe threaten you, scare you.

Can you tell me where that trash is taken?

angry that he would come into my home,

Not once, like 30 times. She totally lost it.

and now he's got Mom doing stuff,

Text her right now and tell her you're coming over.

She says, "Cool. Everyone's asleep.

Dylan learns there is more to his new job than he originally thought; Emma and Norman make a shocking discovery.

Norman, you know this. Answer...

MRI, CT, EKG.

The kind where bad things happen to people in the middle of the woods.

Hello.

This says that you delivered carpeting for five units.

Get your stuff together. We're leaving.

You don't know where you left it?

Jerry. He was my boss.

What the hell was that? Grab that shotgun.

We need to talk.

She must have seen it somewhere.

I mean, why is this guy harassing me?

Come on. Come in. Dinner's almost ready.

is honesty. So please tell me,

What is this? Where did you get this scar, Norma?

My dad grew up in Kansas.

It's just a habit.

according to you anyway.

What do you want me to say? It is what it is.

A day at the lake, I get that.

and got it translated.

(DOG BARKING)

Dylan immediately begins causing trouble; the Bates are drawn into the secrets surrounding White Pine Bay.

Hurry UP!

Looks like somebody set a fire there. He was trapped inside of it.

to a, to start a new life and all you know? Stop calling me Norma.

Why would he leave his truck here?

Hey. Wanna do this with me?

I just moved here, but that's not right, man.

It's not. You're not gonna be coming home in the middle of the night like this.

Yeah, I guess so.

My dad has a shop in the village.

I take it everywhere. I have C.F.

"Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night,

I think you need a search warrant for something like that, right?

(RADIO PLAYING POP MUSIC)

That's just his style, you know? He's a dog with a bone, so...

when Sheriff Bulldog is standing on my porch

Woodchuck? What on earth is the Woodchuck?

I'm gonna go on a goodwill mission.

Wait, wait, wait. I'm not doing anything.

(MACHINERY WHIRRING)

You don't get it, do you, Norman? She's ruined you.

They're driving European cars.

But enough about stuffing dead animals. Sit down.

That's Ladyface.

Just having a cocktail and listening to some of the previous owner's old music.

Sam had died and what a wonderful husband and father he was.

Let's go.

And from that point, you look back

Emma, we need to run.

Widow Norma Bates and her shy teenage son, Norman, seek a fresh start in a coastal town filled with secrets; the arrival of an unexpected guest turns the Bates' lives upside down.

(LAUGHS) Yeah.

It's all gonna be good. You'll see.

(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO) Want a ride?

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

So I want you to just think about poetry tonight.

and then we move and start over.

No, I'm not gonna be

What makes you think you can run this place by yourself?

Well, maybe you better just stay there the rest of the night then!

You don't seem like a guy who would have lines.

And everything in this house is mine.

It's gonna be okay.

Put your bloody clothes in the trash bag.

Then we'll figure everything else out.

We're gonna have to pull up the whole carpet.

I had no idea it was that late.

The air here at night is nice, too.

Don't try to cut it short just because it's embarrassing.

God, I hope he fits in the trunk.

Mom, he attacked you.

And all I ever wanted was for life to be beautiful for you, and look at it.

Yeah. (CHUCKLES) Orson Welles says it to

(METAL CLINKING)