I know you think I'm a monster, and I do believe there are people in this world who are fighting for good. But honey, there is no good. There's just life, which is hard and cruel and undeserving of your kind soul. I know you tried, I know you did. You tried so hard for such a long time. Honey, you are in a big pickle, Norman, you are. I'm not mad at you, but I can't let you do any more damage. It's time for me to fix this.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
JGJane Greene
Put Norman back in the interrogation room.
OOfficer
His lawyer says he's not talking anymore.
JGJane Greene
Doesn't mean he should be comfortable. I want him to feel like he's being watched.
Just be patient, Norman. If this goes well, in the morning you can come back and keep me company. I don't mind admitting that I miss you.
What the hell are you doing here?
Well, it's kind of difficult to explain...
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...
Chick. Chick! What are you doing here?
You want me to say that he's crazy. I wouldn't say that he's crazy.
Oh, really? I would.
Okay, maybe the world tosses that word around too much.
He killed his mother.
And he loved her.
Emma, this is Julia. She's Norman's lawyer.
[cold] I see.
Is it okay if she and I step outside for five minutes and talk?
About what? Norman's defense? [to Julia] He's guilty, in case you were under any illusions.
JRJulia Ramos
I'm very sorry for the loss of your mother, Emma.
And I'm sorry your job's now a lot harder.
JRJulia Ramos
I know this is a difficult time...
Oh, has your brother-in-law ever killed your mother?
FAFuneral attendant
Did your mother have any religious affiliation?
She belonged to the church of herself.
I'm so sorry.
Are you?
Yes.
I let Norman into our lives. That was me. Sam is a piece of evidence in there because of me. But Norman only tricked me for a couple weeks. How did he trick you for your whole life? [pause; Dylan says nothing] You knew. You're his brother - you knew! How can you live with yourself?
Hello Emma. I guess I know why you're here.
You do? Because I'm not sure I do.
Well it's about your mother, I imagine. They think I killed her.
I think you did too, Norman.
I wouldn't kill anybody, Emma. You know that. It's me. Norman. Your Norman, your friend.
[Emma looks into his eyes and realizes it's absolutely not Norman]
...Where's Norman?
...I am sorry about your mother, Emma. She wasn't nice. She was using Norman, and she was using you.
She didn't deserve to die.
Death isn't about deserving. It's just part of the deal. She made her own bed. You know that better than anyone.
Can I talk to Norman?
Well, Norman's sleeping. In his room. There's an apple pie in the oven, and when he wakes up he'll smell it baking and know that everything's okay.
[tearing up] Can you tell him something for me? Can you tell him that I miss him?
[Norman has mortally wounded Romero]
You killed her. You killed your own mother. You can't hide from it.
[he dies]
Don't listen to him, Norman. He's just trying to hurt you.
I think I did kill her. If I did, I didn't want to. She was everything I had. It was supposed to be the both of us.
I have to leave now.
No! I'll have no one. You can't leave me now!
You know everything now, and there's nothing for me to protect you from. Goodbye, Norman.
[Norman is on the phone with Dylan, delusional]
I know that she can be so stubborn sometimes. I- it's just because she gets hurt so easily, and I-I know that the two of you had that terrible fight before we moved from Scottsdale, but I just I think this could be a new beginning, Dylan, for all of us. And we're not a family without you, Dylan, and so I just really think we should start over and, uh, and be together and and that I guess the real reason that I'm calling is, I would love it if you could come over for dinner.
Norman called me. He's at the house. He wants me to come over.
Does the sheriff know?
No.
Dylan, you have to tell her!
She doesn't give a shit abut Norman. If I tell her, they're gonna rush in and he's gonna end up dead.
I don't care. I don't care about Norman, I care about you. Dylan, you have a child!
I know I have a child. Do I have a wife?
[long pause] Please don't do this! Call the sheriff, Norman's dangerous!
He's not dangerous to me.
[angry] You sound like Norma!
Tell me you love me, Emma.
[in tears] No, I won't. I'm not going to arm you up so you can go do something stupid.
[pause] I'm never gonna love anyone else but you. You screwed me there, Emma Decody.
Sit down. Sit down with Mother.
Norman-
Dylan.
Norman, stop.
Just sit down-
Stop what you're doing.
[getting annoyed] What am I doing Dylan?
Norman-
Dylan please don't ruin it!!!
I have to, Norman!! You're not living in the real world! You need to live in the real world! You you have to stop this!!
...Stop what, Dylan?
Norma is dead. Okay? This is her body. You brought her body here!
Well, I disagree.
This isn't something that you agree or disagree with! She's dead, Norman!
Stop it! Stop it, Dylan! Stop saying that!
You have to deal with it! You need to come and you need to turn yourself in, and we need to get you help!
That's what you want for me? To be shut up in some prison for the criminally insane and be drugged out of my mind!?
I don't know what I want for you! What I really want is something that can never happen! I want you to be happy, I want you to be well. I want mom to be alive again. I want both of you- I want you guys to meet my daughter, I want to have Christmases together, okay? I want all of these things to have never happened.
...Well if you believe hard enough then you can make it that way!
No you can't!! ...You can't.
[Norman picks up carving knife]
What are you doing?
I can't let you take me away from her.
Put down the knife... [tearing up] Norman put down the knife.
This is how it ends, isn't it?
Doesn't have to end this way. Put the knife down.
I just wanna be with her Dylan.
Don't ask me to do this.
[Norman lunges with the knife and Dylan is forced to shoot him. Norman collapses in Dylan's arms]
[sobbing] I'm so sorry Norman!!
[Norman has a vision of himself running through the forest where he is reunited with Norma]
[dying] Thank you.
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