We open with Norman clicking a torch on and off on as he pitch through the small black book he found last hebdomad . He ’s torn off from his makeshift movie when the doorbell rings . Surprise ! It ’s Black Sheep Bates , AKA older brother Dylan , and he ’s bet for a place to call home . Neither Norman nor Norma are thrilled about this growth , which Norman expresses by experience overprotective about baked commodity . “ The bread ’s gon na get cold , ” he glare when Dylan leaves the dish open at breakfast . Dylan is unmoved .
“ Why are you here ? ” Norma postulate her firstborn Logos , and he replies that when people are down and out , as he is , they incline to go home . “ Although most normal mothers do n’t move their dwelling house out of state and hear and shroud it from their own son . ” Burn .
Speaking of suntan , down at the bus stay , a car comes tear wildly down the road , crashing just yard from where Bradley , Norman , and the common gaggle of girls are standing . It ’s Bradley ’s father ’s cable car , and when Norman yanks the doorway open , we happen upon a charred mess of in the altogether meat that is , in fact , Mr. Martin .
When Sheriff Romero ( homage to George , perhaps ? ) and Deputy Shelby arrive on the scene , we get word that Martin owns a warehouse nearby . “ Looks like somebody set a fire there . He was trap at bottom of it , ” Romero excuse . He does n’t get the probability to spill more confidential data because another officer has inconveniently see Keith Summers ’ forsake hand truck in the forest . Romero questions Norma , but she pronounce she has n’t see the motel ’s former owner . After a lingering look at the truck , she wishes Romero good luck with everything .
“In a town like this, where the hell do you get that kind of money?”
The sweet sounds of Genuwine ’s “ Pony ” comes claxon out of a seedy blank space called “ The Candy Stick . ” ( If Channing Tatum is watching , he plausibly just raid a move or two . ) Inside , the bleach - light-haired half - heartedly caressing a stripper pole seems to be right where she belong ; the guy weeping at the close of the catwalk does not . After he catches Dylan stare at him , weepy guy explicate that his boss had been badly burned , probably fatally . He then buys Dylan a drinking , wink a big wad of hundys . “ Dude , in a townspeople like this , where the hell do you get that variety of money ? ” Dylan asks . afterward , weepy guy wire introduce him to a man named Gil , who desire to fuck if Dylan knows how to use a shooter . ( He does . ) I have a feeling Norman ’s brother is about to attain where the cash course from .
“How’d you get all this money, Norma?”
Dylan returns home in the middle of the night , and Norma is ready for him . “ Listen , loggerhead , this is not go to stand , ” she embark on . Dylan retaliates by saying she drove his dad out by “ skanking around with Norman ’s father . ” Norma defends herself , saying she was only 17 when she met Dylan ’s dad , so it was n’t surprising that she later fall down in sexual love with Sam .
“ Oh yeah ? ” Dylan asks , “ How ’d that forge out for you ? ”
“ I detest you , ” she responds , and her son shrugs . He changes the subject , abruptly enquire how Norma afford a motel and a new car . She arrogate it was the colony from Sam ’s dying . “ He sold policy and he was well - covered , ” she says , lamely . Dylan clearly does n’t buy it .
“How could a God who made all of this beautiful stuff also make things that are evil?”
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The next morning time , the mother and Logos couple of Norma(n ) cleans the kitchen trading floor compulsively , worried about the discovery of Summers ’ truck . The doorbell rings , and with it comes a number of amusing relief : “ I perplex it , crew , it ’s coolheaded . Do n’t stop your Swiffering , ” Dylan says , then launch the threshold to ascertain that Norman ’s Quaker Emma has arrived for the study escort she finagled in English class the other Clarence Day .
Norma , of path , yield Emma the third degree , though not unkindly . Emma explains that she has cystic fibrosis , then give all of us a small lesson on what it is : “ It ’s when your lungs create a lot of fatheaded mucus , and it makes it really hard to respire . Some would say insufferable . I ’m on a listing for a lung transplant . God live if I ’ll ever get one in time , ” she says .
“ Well , I hope you do , ” Norma says , unnecessarily . “ What is your lifetime expectancy , Emma ? ”
“ Maybe … 27 ? ” Emma shrugs . Norma looks heedful . A companion for Norman who wo n’t be a recollective - term competitor ? Could anything be more double-dyed ?
Upstairs , Emma and Norman get to piece of work analyzing William Blake ’s “ The Tyger . ”
“ It ’s about , how could a God who made all of this beautiful stuff and nonsense in the macrocosm , also make matter that are scary and evil ? It could work — we could talk about it in full term of far-famed contemporary murders , like OJ , or Charles Manson , ” Emma says . Before we have prison term to excogitate the fact that she ’s sit in the chamber of a far-famed present-day manslayer , she spots the black playscript poking out from under Norman ’s mattress and flips through it . “ These pictures are awe-inspiring , ” she say . “ Did you draw these ? ”
horror-struck , Norman sputters that he found it and did n’t know get laid what to do with it when Emma break up . “ Oh , please . I ’ve read alotof manga , a lot sticky than this , ” she read , and inquire to borrow it .
“I never said I hadn’t ever seen him.”
Norma rubs app on her skin or else she gets the hose again — I mean , she rubs lotion on her stage and we get a glimpse of a monolithic scar on the interior of her second joint . Doorbell ! Bates Motel is like Grand Central Station . Does n’t anybody text ? Sheriff Romero does n’t , I guess , and he ’s there to discuss Summers . A viewer says he see Norma(n ) have a “ heated ” discussion with the miss man , even though Norma allege she had n’t figure him . Then they do a little dancing that goes something like this :
Norma : “ I did n’t know that you had meant had Ieverseen him ; I thought you have in mind recently . ”Romero : “ Well , some multitude might cogitate in the last week as being lately . ”Norma : “ Yeah , some people might . ”Romero : “ So you ’re intromit you did see him . ”Norma : “ No , I never said I had n’t ever ascertain him , so I ’m not admitting anything . ”
She also mentions that Summers has disappeared , which the sheriff has n’t cite yet . “ You ’re implying it , ” she says . “ No , I think you ’re generalise it , ” he respond . Now suspicious , Romero asks to look inside . Norma tells him to come back with a warrant .
“I’m just doing what I need to do.”
Norma ’s alone in her elevator car , flipping radio post as she drives . At first her choice of Everclear ’s “ Santa Monica ” seems like a rather un - Norma option , but the lyric poem are on the nose with the human beings she ’s trying to make for herself and Norman : “ We can live beside the ocean / leave the fire behind / swim out past the breakers / check the world go . ”
In guild to make that world go on , she has to make this current trouble disappear . So she pulls up near Deputy Shelby and calls him over , in full flirtation mode . “ Go in advance , slap the handcuffs on , ” she says , sticking her arms out the window with a smiling . The deputy bites — he apologizes for Romero ’s behaviour and offers to buy her a cup of burnt umber . They hit the local cafe where she tells him the sob story of her widowhood and complains some more about the sheriff . “ To be fair , I do remember that you were inferring that , ” Shelby says , smiling .
“ Oh no , ” Norma say playfully , “ We ’re back to that again ? ” and they ’re all soft eyes and giggle . Either Shelby has a crush or he ’s taking the Good Cop role really in earnest . He tells Norma that the sheriff and Summers were boyhood friends , Summers ’ fade is quite personal . Then he ask her on a escort , sort of . A “ sorcerous ” local festival is take up place that night , and although he ca n’t officially ask her out on account of her being a suspect in a pretermit persons case and all , he suggest that they get together there .
subsequently , Norma hunt into Norman ’s elbow room wearing her date outfit and wants to know if it looks like she ’s test too hard . “ That depends on what you ’re trying , ” he says .
She admit that the law love they had talked to Summers and that she ’s going on a “ Goodwill commission ” with Deputy Shelby , then strips her top off mighty in front of him to change to a different shirt , tossing the other shirt on his bed . Norman look uncomfortable ; she wheel her eyes . “ Lord , Norman , I ’m your mother . It ’s not like it ’s eldritch or anything . ”
Upset that Norma is going on a date , Norman declare that he ’ll go too . She pose down on his bed and threads her arm through his . “ It ’s not like I ’m really interested in him , ” she explain . “ I do n’t require you to worry about anything . That ’s why I ’m doing this . ” Then she licks her quarter round and performs the very mom - like gesture of rubbing a smudge off of his brass from where she snog him . Watch out , Norma — this is at last how you meet your death . In the Bloch novel ( and the movies ) a jealous Norman cease up poisoning his female parent and her lover .
“She’s not a whore.”
Now we ’re back at the Bates abode , where Dylan ’s electric cell earphone is ringing . The display say that “ The Whore ” is calling , which Norman disdainfully announces . Dylan grab it and response : “ Hi Norma . ” After a few seconds of firm fad , Norman rushes across the kitchen at his brother ; fighting ensues . After smashing Norman ’s face up against the retro fridge , Dylan jeopardize Norman : “ Do n’t you come at me again or I will hurt you high-risk , do you understand ? ” Then he turns his back .
Norman spot a meat tenderizer in the dish drainer , sedately pick it up , then examine to drive it into the back of his brother ’s skull . Dylan dodges at the last second , so Normie shatters a glass - fronted cabinet alternatively of cranium , then start his face tenderized by Dylan ’s clenched fist . “ She ’s not a whore , ” Norman says softly , even though Dylan ’s no longer in the elbow room .
“An eye for an eye.”
The whore in question is enjoying the Woodchuck Festival with Deputy Shelby , sipping a raging drink and discussing the recent strange events . Shelby acknowledges that White Pine Bay is not what it seems , take note that townspeople who arrogate to make a living with organic copper farms and artisanal cheese are living in million - dollar sign household . “ There ’s different shipway to produce an economy , and it ’s not always what it seems , ” he explains .
“ But sure enough you ca n’t leave illegal thing , bad things to chance here . ” Norma say . The surrogate makes a wispy reference about how people in townsfolk handle thing their own agency . “ An oculus for an middle , ” he says , referencing the deep - electrocute Mr. Martin . “ It ’ll get cover . ” Norma looks a bit unsettled .
”Someone did this to these girls, Norman, and we can prove it.”
Emma texts Norman to meet her at her pop ’s workshop , ASAP . He does . It ’s full of taxidermy , which we ’ll unquestionably be revisiting in next episodes . Turns out Emma ’s dad is one of the expert “ taxidermy artists ” on the West Coast . “ But enough about stuffing dead animals . I ’m gon na separate you a little story about substantial , living things , ” she says . She ’s translated the text in the black Koran , and it tells a tale of Chinese farm girls deal into the American sexual activity slave industry . When one of them dies of a drug overdose , the other daughter are ram to bury her by a shed in a wood . “ bet at this , ” she aver , flipping to a sketch in the book . “ That ’s Ladyface . It ’s a plenty just out of doors of White Pine Bay . ”
“ This is all a little queer , ” Norman says .
“ No . You know what ’s peculiar ? A 17 - year - old boy using the world peculiar , ” she says , which is what we were all call back . Then she plants a buss on him .
“ So you in ? ” she postulate . Norman run out at subdue the whacky grinning on his face , and it ’s adorable .
“Just keep the music down.”
At home , Norma is trying to secernate Dylan that he involve to leave . “ You ’re toxic . You ’re leave in the break of the day , ” she says , but Black Sheep has other plans . He says he utter to the insurance hoi polloi when he was trying to notice where Norma had moved , and the agent mentioned what a grand husband and father her late husband had been .
“ Would n’t it be interesting if I tell them what sprightliness with Sam wasreallylike ? ” Dylan says . “ You have a go at it , how you guys got along and all . ” Norma smiles , and it ’s the contrite grinning of a woman who has been outfoxed . “ Just keep the music down , ” she say .
“We’re connected to something so much larger than ourselves.”
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Norman and Emma are out hike up near Ladyface , try out to find the shed in the sketch . It seems ill - advised , give the fashion Emma is snort and coughing . She insists that she ’s fine , and the dyad speculation further into the trees . finally , they hit onto a clearing that ’s pack with pot . “ Holy crap , ” Emma says , as guys with large gun spot them and start to give chase . They track down through the forest , eventually find a hiding space where they can crouch down to let the defective guys pass them . “ Do n’t even breathe , ” Norman tell her as the villain pass by . Then he make he ’s talking to a girl with cystic fibrosis . “ Sorry . ” They take off again and manage to determine the shed from the sketch , but there ’s no time to investigate — they’ve been spotted again . A few moment later , they go far back at Emma ’s orange VW Beetle . So that pot field was n’t very far in the forest , was it ? you’re able to bet we ’ll be see more of all of that — the shed , the tummy subject , the bad hombre — in the penny-pinching future .
presumptively around the same meter , Norma drive through town and sees people pass . She follows their flight of stairs and notices Deputy Shelby on the scene . He waves her on through , right past the black remains of a human , still flame , hang upside down from a decorative mast . This is what “ an eye for an eye ” means , and Norma knows it . She starts hyperventilating .
Thoughts : So , Bates Motel is turn very Twin Peaks , is n’t it?The room the girls are restrict in the “ manga ” Norman and Emma are investigating seems reminiscent of the way Keith Summers handcuffed and duct - tap Norma in the first sequence — and since his family have the hotel for decades , Summers would have had access to the motel elbow room where Norman discovered the book . But something tells me Summers was n’t precisely a skilled artist subject of such impressive drawings . So who is ?
White Pine Bay : An court to Bodega Bay fromThe Birds , perhaps ?
Norman ’s dad ’s name , Sam , also happens to be the name of Marion Crane ’s boyfriend in Hitchcock’sPsycho . Similarly , Emma is the name of Norman ’s aunt in one of the subsequence .
Psst , if you need to hitch up , here ’s the recap fromlast calendar week .
