Maybe we should think about reaching out to your mom. I know it's complicated, but, honestly, I've been thinking about her, and she's a nut, but how amazing would she be as a grandmother?
Look, Emma, I know that you think you have this superpower where you know what people want even though that's not what they say, but it's getting really old, okay? And sometimes people actually do know what they want without you having to tell them. So if you could just drop the Norma thing, that'd be great, all right?
It's hard to be lonely. But it's also hard to love people, and I think that that's the trap.
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!?
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!
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.
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?!
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.
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?!
So you went to his house?
You were right. I'm an idiot.
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.
I can't go home. [chuckles] I did something before I left, something I can't undo now.
All my life I played by the rules. Been a good person. Where has it gotten me?
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.
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]
[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.
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.
Okay, well please just go.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Living anywhere else, any other way, is not an option.
Please stay out of this Mother. I just wanna talk to him Norman.
[Mother takes over]
Dylan. Dylan I know you mean well because you've always meant well. I love you, but unfortunately I can only be a real mother to one person. And so even though I love you so very much, and this pains me, you're getting in the way.
[hits Dylan over the head with a glass]
