I'm gonna hang out here, keep an eye on you. Just a little while, 'kay?
Norman BatesUm... I'm sorry, but I don't think you can stay here, Chick. It just might not be a good idea.
Norman, it's okay. I know about her.
Norman Bates
You know about who?
About your mother. I spoke to her. It's fine.
Norman Bates
[alarmed] This is all my fault. I should never have let you in the house.
Norman, it's okay. I'm not here to judge you, not for any of it. Okay?
Norman Bates
Thank you, Chick.
No thanks necessary. We're all in this sideshow together, and then we die.
Norman Bates
Was Jim Blackwell driving a car?
Norman Bates
A '90s silver and black Lincoln?
Norman Bates
Okay, well, where is the car, Mother? The sheriff was just here. They're searching for the car. So what did you do with it?
Don't worry. I hid it in the woods.
Norman Bates
[panicked] The woods?! Is it near us?
Norman Bates
Okay, Mother, get up. We are going to that car.
Why? So you can be seen in the vicinity of it and get caught?
Norman Bates
No, because we need to get rid of it in a better way than just leaving it in the woods like the remains of a pie we didn't eat at a picnic!
Norman Bates
This was delicious.
Thank you. It's nice to cook. I feel like I don't do it very often 'cause Sam's always gone so much. It seems silly to go through all the trouble just for one person.
Norman Bates
How is Sam?
He's fine. He's almost done with the deal he's got going on in Seattle. Hopefully things will settle down after that.
Norman Bates
And did you ever get to talk to him about how you were feeling?
No. I think I was just having a bad day that day.
Norman Bates
We all have bad days where we wonder what's real and not real.
Do you have days like that?
Norman Bates
Yes. I think it's the nature of relationships. They shift constantly. They change shape, sometimes even minute to minute. It's hard to know in any minute what's real unless it's right in front of you and you're experiencing it. [pause] I just think you should have that little talk with Sam.
[blurting out] Wanna make a cake? And then we could watch a movie and... eat cake?
Norman Bates
[smiles] I'd love to.
I feel terrible about last night. What you must think of me...
Norman Bates
I don't think anything bad. I just think you're lonely, Madeline. But I don't blame you.
I just don't want to think that I was setting you up, like I was inviting you over at night, and...
Norman Bates
And what? Do I think you wanted to be with me, to have some human companionship and attention? Of course. Yeah, I do think that, but I don't judge you for it. I understand. I sure understand what it is to be lonely, although I don't have a choice.
Norman Bates
I don't need you to understand my life, Madeline. I barely understand it myself.
Norman Bates
It's hard to be lonely. But it's also hard to love people, and I think that that's the trap.
Norman Bates
Yes, the little private trap that everyone lives in. We need people, but that need can destroy us. Once you care about someone, it rules you. And who knows at the end of the day if that person is really who you think they are, or if they're even real at all?
Why would you keep this from me!?
Norman Bates
Because it was too painful. I was shut down. I couldn't deal with anything. I couldn't bring myself to tell you the horrible truth, which is that she committed suicide.
Bullshit!! Alright, she would- she wouldn't do that!
Norman Bates
Well I'm sorry you feel that way Dylan, but that is what happened.
No-no-no-no, no, it that is not what happened. I know her, and she wouldn't do that.
Norman Bates
Oh, come on, Dylan. You never knew her that well. So take it from me. All right? She had a darkness in her, and she killed herself. And died from carbon monoxide asphyxiation. In fact, she tried to kill both of us. It was even confirmed by the authorities.
No, I-I-I-I don't understand. What-what why would she do that, Norman?!
Norman Bates
I don't know why! But I don't want to discuss it anymore, okay!?
Okay, well-well-well, I do want to discuss it, okay!? Because she was my mother too! None of this makes any sense.
Norman Bates
It was a horrible tragedy, Dylan. Tragedies don't make sense. That is why they are so horrible! It never should have happened, but it did and now she's gone! What what else is there to say?!
Norman Bates
So you went to his house?
You were right. I'm an idiot.
Norman Bates
Is there any way I could help you with anything?
Don't be nice to me right now. It's just gonna make me cry all over again, and I'll never stop. [exhales] I was gonna bring you the key 'cause I'm checking out.
Norman Bates
You're going home?
I can't go home. [chuckles] I did something before I left, something I can't undo now.
Norman Bates
I see.
All my life I played by the rules. Been a good person. Where has it gotten me?
Norman Bates
I know how you feel.
At least you told me the truth. It's just such a shock. It's like the beautiful, kind man I thought he was just died tonight. I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Norman Bates
I'm so sorry.
Makes me hate myself, but part of me doesn't even want to leave. 'Cause I think he'll come looking for me. Explain it all, tell me he left her.
[Marion starts to cry and puts her head on Norman's shoulder]
Norman Bates
[getting nervous] You don't want to be that person. I-I think you should go. Okay? Y-y-you need to go right now. I-I-I saw the money. Okay, what whatever you did to get it, you just you just take it and you and you get away. Okay, you just forget this place. Forget Sam. And just start over. All right? Start over and and start a new life for yourself. [hands her the money] Here.
That's exactly what I was going to do, but it's just so scary.
Norman Bates
Well, you know what's scarier? Being trapped inside yourself, a private trap, never getting what you want. [starts frantically packing up her clothes] Get rid of your car and phone, things they can use to follow you. Get a new car in Otter Creek, all right? Uh, just pay for everything in cash. Here here are your clothes.
I don't want them. Just throw them out.
Norman Bates
Okay, well please just go.
Norman Bates
Just-just get out of here while you can okay?
Do you remember when you were little, and your dad would get so scary and you and I would hide?
Norman Bates
Stop talking like you're her. We both know you're not.
Okay. You are a big boy now. Let's talk on an even level, one adult to another. Your mother suffered.
Norman Bates
You kept me from feeling things, didn't you? Feeling bad things.
Yes. That's why you created me. When you were little and you were so scared. And your dad got violent, and your mom was so scared, over and over. And you were so afraid that you sent me out to handle things for you. Things that you couldn't stand to feel because they were so painful and so scary, and you were so little.
Norman Bates
So you've always been here with me to keep me safe.
Yes. We are two parts of the same person. Both are very real. But there's one thing you don't know. The pain that I keep you from feeling, you need to feel. Like Adam wanting all the knowledge and eating the apple in the Garden of Eden. You get the truth, but you also see the pain. We are partners now, Norman. You have no choice. We are on even footing.
Norman Bates
I'm so sorry that I didn't call you. That I haven't seen you in so long. It's just...You have no idea Dylan. Every day is a small century.
I don't think you're well, Norman. Look I'm gonna stay here with you for a few days. Okay and we're gonna get this all figured out. I don't think you should be living here alone.
Norman Bates
Living anywhere else, any other way, is not an option.
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