Before he can do so, Gunner quits to head off to Cali, and Chick (Ryan Hurst) shows up at the door, badly hurt and gaunt. Norma better hope that she’s in the pit and not the pile of dirt next to it, especially after one of the construction workers finds a suspicious earring.ĭylan finally makes it back from Portland, ready to fire Gunner (Keenan Tracey) and give up his life in the drug trade. While Norman stares out the window like he’s practicing for a life of monitoring the motel from the Bates house on the hill, they’re finally filling the pit that likely holds the body of Emma’s mother, Audrey. She’s too drunk or too fragile, or maybe it’s just all a bit too weird. Will his growing resentment be the reason why he kills her? Alex puts a tipsy Norma to bed without consummating their marriage. Norma is out drinking and laughing while Norman is struggling. He’s interrupted by another patient named Julian, and the actor who plays him, Marshall Allman, has a distinct enough résumé ( Prison Break, True Blood) that I have to believe we’ll see him again. Alex takes her out for dinner while Norman is eating at Pineview. Norma, who recently discovered that she can’t even call Norman for 72 hours, is cutting something in the kitchen, which gives me a flash of her killing Alex to get enough money to afford Norman’s expensive health care. Edwards and Alex are in positions to really discover the depth of the Bates dynamic this year. It’s a very clear acting decision, especially as the show develops the teen Norman into the adult we know from Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless thriller. Highmore’s performance is more aggressive this season, more like Anthony Perkins. Will he discover the depths of Norman’s psychosis? Norman talks around the specifics, but clearly blames his mother. Their marriage needs to look real people need to trust the sheriff. After the brief legal ceremony, they kiss, and Norma looks a little happier than I expected, although she’s still surprised when Alex mentions he has to move in. She rests her head on his shoulder, and Carbonell has a great moment in which his eyes express Alex’s fascinated need to save her. Clearly distracted by Norman’s situation, she takes their wedding about as seriously as picking up a gallon of milk. Meanwhile, Norma and Alex are going through the nuptial routine. He can’t even see “mother” for the first 72 hours, although given what he now thinks of her - that Norma committed the murders being pinned on him - that may actually be for the best. The door is locked with a keypad code, he isn’t allowed to have a belt, and his calls are monitored. The man who will someday murder Marion Crane is sitting in a vacant room at Pineview Institute looking lost and sad. While Dylan and Norma inch toward happiness, Norman finds himself alone. In another, Dylan (Max Thieriot) sees a future with Emma (Olivia Cooke) now that she has successfully received a lung transplant, but he’ll have to go straight first. In one case, Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell) has decided to marry Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga), just so her son Norman (Freddie Highmore) can get the medical help he so clearly needs. “’Til Death Do You Part” is about two men who go to extreme measures to play savior to the women in their lives. Nestor Carbonell as Alex, Vera Farmiga as Norma.
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