It's not uncommon for young men to fantasise over erotica material or their female teachers so when Norman faints after remembering images of bound Chinese women from the diary he found, and then imagines Miss Watson in a similar position, I found it a exaggerated. To be fair though he's got a lot on his mind, he did, after all, recently help his mother cover up the murder of Keith Summer's and was almost killed himself when investigating the diary with Emma.
While in hospital after his spell, Norma is called away to sign for the new motel carpet, which Dylan couldn't sign for because of his new job. When she returns home an unnecessarily aggressive Sheriff Romero bursts into her house with a search warrant.
Back at the hospital Bradley gives Norman some flowers, partially in thanks for him giving some to her after her father's accident. She joins him on his bed and they watch a movie, and maybe it's because I'm not used to popular girls liking weird guys, or maybe it's because both actors are a little wooden, but I feel no chemistry here, no warmth in the relationship the characters are meant to share. Later a spooked
Norma returns to the hospital and takes Norman back home despite the doctors wanting to keep him for observation. When Norman realises it's missing he tells Norma that the police have taken Keith Summer's belt as evidence, which he had, of course, kept as a memento.
Elsewhere, Dylan's new job is watching over the field of marijuana Norman and Emma stumbled upon last week. His co-worker, Ethan tells his the field's owned by several families in town, and that Bradley's father's accident way repaid with the life of the man hanging upside down on fire in the middle of town. The White Pine Bay folk certainly seem to have a different way of doing things and obviously a lot of time on their hands.
At Bates Motel, Emma deducts from pictures in the diary the room where one of the girls was kept at the hotel, and finds a Chinese symbol written under the sink. I understand this girl doesn't have much going on in her life, but Norman wasn't wring in saying she's obsessed.
Norma approaches Deputy Shelby about Romero's harassment if her and, as always, is painfully flirty, and, being the worst deputy ever, invites her to dinner. Continuing on in that fashion he reveals to Norma at dinner that he hid the belt from Romero to protect her, and they have sex.
Dylan arrives home and finds Norman waiting for Norma, he tells Norman that he should get out more and stop letting their mother smother him. Dylan forgives him for almost killing him, but Norman has no idea what he is talking about and thinks it is a joke.
Later Norma returns home and tells Norman what has happened, they have a special relationship these two, and Norman tells her he doesn't like it.
At school Emma tells Norman she's depicted the Chinese symbol and wants to go o the police, and understandably, Norman tells her to mind her own business.
That night a vision on Norma appears to Norman and tells him to retrieve the belt from Shelby's house. I don't enjoy characters experiencing visions, and I'm also afraid that Bates Motel might try to assign their occurrences has a symptom of whatever mental illness Norman is likely to be diagnosed with. I was hoping for a more psychological story of how and why Norman starts to do the things he does, not psychiatric. Regardless Norman goes to Shelby's house and under covers a secret basement (can't any if these people be normal?), as well as a Chinese women tied up in it, just as Shelby returns home.
Rating: 2.5/5
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