I feel the heavy weight of your judgment, Alex.
Nah, Bob, I'm not here to pass judgment on your sex parties.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[to Norma] So, I, I, I've got this theory called "The Secret Club of the Damaged". It's, um, people who have had crappy upbringings who can sense it in other people. It's like an aura around them that we can sense immediately. I, I, I don't know you from Adam, but I see a kindness and a sensitivity in your face, and also hurt. I don't know if you've never tried therapy before, or if you've had a ton of it, but if it's the former, and if you've ever thought about just sitting down and talking to somebody about all the stuff you've been carrying around with you your whole life, maybe you'd want to give me a call.
If someone's always looking at you like you've done something wrong, talking to you like you've done something wrong, treating you like you've done something wrong, I mean, you start to believe that you've done something wrong!
Is there something else that you're looking for?
Chaos seems to swirl around you, and I'm not sure why.
Why are you lying to me?
I'm not. Why are you lying to me?
About what?
About what you're doing here.
I'm not lying. I'm not revealing the whole truth. That's my job, to decide what and when to tell whom.
Well, you're very good at it. Gold star, Sheriff.
[to Norman] Are you joking? That is totally insulting. I have lived with this illness every day of my life, 24-7. I think I know my own limitations. I think I've earned the right to make my own decisions, not take direction from two people who wouldn't know their ass from a handbag if they had a head cold. I didn't think your mother was coming on this date with us.
What if Norma had seen you?
Look, what if she had, okay? I'm a human being. Is that a crime? She's the one who won't talk to me. She's the one being irrational.
I don't think it's irrational to not want to talk to the guy who raped her!
Look, you don't understand, Dylan. You never will!
Was it really like she said it was?
Yeah, it was. Maybe not exactly. I mean, we're so close, her and me. We were all we had. We were like two kids raising ourselves. So we spent all of our time together. It just happened. You know, she was more than a sister to me. I mean, she was my whole world, my whole life. I mean, I loved her. You can't help who you love. But your mom she was smarter than me, you know. She, she figured shit out. One day she came home and said it was bad, you know, that we couldn't anymore. And the way she looked at me, I couldn't breathe. You know, I loved her more than anything, and I just... [stifled cry] I just couldn't let her go. I hate myself for it. I know I don't deserve it, but I wish I could say I'm sorry. That's all I want. She doesn't have to forgive me. I just want to tell her I'm sorry before I never have another chance.
I found out that Norma's brother has been staying up at Dylan's farm. I had to tell mother.
Did you have to?
He raped her. He's dangerous! I don't understand how Dylan could have anything to do with him.
Because it's his father. And we all whitewash our parents' sins, because on some, some level... Because we need to.
I'm going to talk to you like a person now, Alex. Like somebody I grew up with, played ball with, I felt sorry for because their home life was so crappy, okay? You are in a hole here. A deep hole. You want to do what's in the best interest of the town, find the damn flash drive and quit making this about everything else. I didn't particularly want to bring Marcus Young out here to take your job, you left me with no choice. You left none of us with any choice.
You know what, Bob? I feel exactly the same way. And you're forcing me into a corner, and there's not gonna be room in that corner for both of us.
Life is shit. It's that way for everyone. There's only one thing that makes it better. [holding up meat] Boar. Jerky.
[laughing] What the hell is wrong with you, man?
Everything.
When the DEA burned this town down, took my transpo guy with it. I need a driver. The guy fled to Puerto Rico. Who flees to Puerto Rico? I could think of a million other places to flee to.
This is the first time since I've moved to this crummy town that I have anyone by the short hairs. I'm getting something out of it.
Have you lost your mind?
Maybe. It's irrelevant. Listen to me, I want you to take me to see Bob Paris. I'm gonna tell him I have it, and I'm gonna ask for some favors in return. Why you looking at me like that? I've had a good education in this crappy town. And I'm ready to play ball with the big boys.
Play ball? But they'll kill you.
They can't. I have the flash drive. I'm the only one who knows where it is.
And the two dead girls, they get no justice?
The dead girl gave it to me. She wanted me to do this. She gave it to me before she died. This is gonna bring those poor girls back to life -
Norma, think of what people in this town have done to you -
- you don't think I know what they've done to me? No one knows better than me!
- you're not gonna extort them -
They raped me! They put a dead man's body in my bed. They kidnapped my child and they put him in a box in the ground. What else are they gonna do to me, kill me? I'm not going down without a fight, and no one's gonna stop me. Not you, not Bob Paris, not all of the scumbag criminals in White Pine Bay. You know what? If I was a man, one of these douche bags who lives here, you would say that it's totally doable. You're just saying it's a bad idea because you think I can't handle it because I'm a woman. Because I'm a mother. I can. I have seen how it's done. And I will handle it without you if I have to.
So I'm here because I think I may have something I think you want back.
...
...Umm a flash drive?
...
...Umm so here's what I was thinking and you tell me what you think about it. This bypass that's being built. It's gonna destroy my business. I've tried so hard to fight it. There's just nothing I could do. You know I have no power here. I tried. I really did but I don't.
Norma maybe just cut to the point.
Well it's kind of all the point! ...Anyway umm this business of mine is very important to me. It is all that I have to support me and my son who has some...medical issues. And you know I'm kind of in a desperate position here you see. So I was thinking since you have this thing you want back that maybe I could ask you for something in return?
...
So, I want you to create an exit off the bypass. One that would lead to Two Lane highway that would then easily connect to Main Street near my motel. And umm I would like a large billboard just before that exit on both the north and south side of the bypass. And umm I would like approval on any design...And I want a pool. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, say 20 by 40 feet with a Jacuzzi and of course a fence so that it's safe.
...So how do I know that you actually have the flash drive, that you've...opened it?
There are a lot of important people in this town who have invested in the drug trade. I have seen the names.
I see. And when do I get it back?
Well maybe never actually. And it won't do you any good to threaten me or hurt me. Not that I'm saying that you would do something like that. But let's just say I suddenly go missing or my brakes suddenly go out, I will make sure there is one person, someone you do not know, who knows where that flash drive is and I will make sure that as soon as anything happens to me, it gets turned over to the FBI.
...Hmm. So I give you all of these things and you give me...nothing? And then because you still have the flash drive you could come back later and ask for more stuff.
No, I'm telling you I won't. I'm making a deal with you. Okay and I'll honor it if you do.
So no more asks?
No. None. Ever.
...I have to hand it to you Norma Bates. You got me. Well done Norma. We have a deal.
What are you here for?
MYMarcus Young
They were talking about you at the club. Bob's done with you, says you're no good to him anymore. They're gonna kill you. Should've gotten the flash drive back from that woman.
Thanks for the tip.
MYMarcus Young
For my money, though, it's a waste them killing you. I am gonna be the sheriff here. That's a done deal. But you know this place. The ins and outs. I could use a guy like you. I could keep you alive. I can handle Bob. He just needs to know you're working for me.
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