Alex Romero quotes from Bates Motel

I told him.

Alex Romero

How do you feel?

It was hard. Why do you have this magical ability to make me feel calm?

Alex Romero

There's something I got to tell you. I'm, uh, I'm actually magical. [whispers] I'm a unicorn.

[laughing] You're a unicorn? - What? Is that what you said?

Alex Romero

[smiling] I don't know what you're talking about.

You did! Well, thank you. Thank you for for being whatever it is that you said. That you say that you are.

Alex Romero

Okay. Yeah, you're very welcome.

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Okay Alex, there's something that you don't seem to understand. Nothing is going to change. You can be married to her, you can be sleeping with her but you're never going to get in between us.

Alex Romero

I'm not trying to.

Norman there's room in the human heart for more than one person. It doesn't diminish the love that's already there.

Oh really? Imagine that we are on a ship at sea. The ship is going down and there is one tiny boat and room and provisions for two. Who are you gonna put in that boat with you?

Alex Romero

Well maybe you and I get in Norman and we leave her on the ship.

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Alex Romero

You need to grow up a little right now, and you need to think of your mother.

Don't patronize me. I have spent every waking moment of my life thinking of my mother.

Alex Romero

Well, then you need to think of her as a human being, Norman. She's always gonna be your mother. Nothing's ever gonna change that. But don't you think she wants to be with someone? W-w-with a partner? A friend? A lover? Someone she can share her life with? I mean, why is that such a terrible thing? Don't you think she deserves to have a man in her life?

[Norman raises the axe above his head]

Alex Romero

Put that down. Oh, back up. Back up. Back up.

[Norman furiously chops at the door with the axe]

AAAAH! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you so much! AHHH!

[Norma rushes outside]

Norman? What happened?

[Norman storms off. Romero takes Norma back into the house]

Alex Romero

I'm moving back in. I'll go home and get my stuff tomorrow. But I'm not leaving this house tonight.

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How dare you go behind my back to my own son to try and get Norman taken away from me? Who the hell do you think you are?

Alex Romero

Someone who loves you and is worried about you. And Norman.

That's nice that that's how you frame it in your head, but how it looks from here is that you are an incredibly presumptuous and arrogant man who thinks he knows what's best for me and my son.

Alex Romero

Wow. I'm sorry you see it that way.

No one who loves me could ever do this to me.

Alex Romero

No. That's where you're wrong. He's dangerous.

He's my son! You don't think I would know if he was dangerous?

Alex Romero

He had an axe in his hand, and he wanted to kill me!

Yeah, well, are you dead? The point is, he didn't! He was angry! He took it out on the shed and on my door. [sighs] You know, we were happy when we were in a bubble, but life isn't a bubble. You know, the second that a little reality crept in, that was it for you. Bam. So much for the stupid bubble.

Alex Romero

You can spin it however you want, Norma. It doesn't make it the truth. You just you can't see clearly here 'cause this is about Norman.

Yeah, because he's my son! You're gonna plant yourself on the mountain like you're God and tell me how things work with my son? Wrong. You crossed over a line, and you are never crossing back. I will never trust you again.

Alex Romero

No, you left me no choice.

And you left me none.

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Alex Romero

You think I'm putting up with any of your crap, you think again.

My mother would just be touched at how you're handling her son, who she loved more than anything on this earth.

Alex Romero

Oh, yeah? That wasn't a suicide. We both know that.

I-I-I tried to warn you. I tried to warn both of you it was never going to work. You pushed her too far, and you broke her. Now, I-i-if she has gone, it is your fault.

Alex Romero

That's not true.

No, it is true. I don't want you anywhere near me. I don't want you at the house, and I do not want you near her at that funeral home or at the funeral. I don't want to see you ever again.

[Romero slams him up against a wall]

Alex Romero

Go on go on, cut me out of everything. I don't care now. She's gone, so what does it matter?

What are you gonna do, kill me in the hallway?

Alex Romero

No, I'm gonna prove you did it, you piece of shit.

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You know something? Don't think I'm unsympathetic to your plight. I know what it's like to be locked up somewhere, being watched all the time, because you put me in such a place. Do you remember?

Alex Romero

That was your mother's decision.

Uh-uh. Don't lie. That is a lie. It was you. It was you. It was your way of trying to get rid of me. And I'm still alive.

Alex Romero

For now.

Great seeing you, sheriff.

[As Norman gets up to leave, Romero stands up and blocks his way]

Alex Romero

I'm coming for you when you least expect it, so don't get too cozy up at that house all by yourself.

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Alex Romero

What the hell are you doing here?

Well, it's kind of difficult to explain...

Alex Romero

Well, why don't you try?

Alright. Where to begin? This looks weird. Alright, starting simple: After Norma died, Norman felt lonely, and I felt lonely after my kid and my wife took off, so we became friends. You know, but when I say it like that, it's sounds, y'know, reductive. It wasn't just a, a friendship of necessity. i recognized in Norman that he had the soul of an artist. When I was in college...

Alex Romero

Chick. Chick! What are you doing here?

You want me to say that he's crazy. I wouldn't say that he's crazy.

Alex Romero

Oh, really? I would.

Okay, maybe the world tosses that word around too much.

Alex Romero

He killed his mother.