
Norma meets up with Dylan in a surprisingly sweet moment, where she states that she also bought Dylan a ticket, to which he hugs his mother for the first time. With the polygraph test looming in the near future, Norma buys three tickets to Montreal to protect her youngest from mental institutions or possibly jail. He puts a record on and dances with his mother like they used to when he was younger.


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After a season of Norman and Norma’s relationship breaking down, Norman starts to patch things up, having a nice dinner with his mother with an apple pie for dessert (another item on the list and an example of how Norman is still a nice, innocent boy longing for the simple things). With his upcoming suicide, Norman wants to know that there will be someone there for Norma to fill the void he’ll be leaving in her life. He first talks to Emma, explaining why the family has kept her at a distance, and asks her to reconsider quitting the hotel. But instead, it’s a bucket list of things we wants to do before he kills himself. Here, once he understands what he can do, he creates a list, which one could assume is things he would like to accomplish before he takes the polygraph test that Sheriff Romero wants him to take, possibly incriminating himself. Bates Motel is smart not to just turn him into one of the most infamous monsters of all time, but to make us sympathize with him. He realizes that he most likely did kill Blair Watson, and that his blackouts cause him to do terrible things. After being trapped in a box, Norman has been secluded from his mother. “The Immutable Truth” that the title refers to is that all of these characters are doomed. Last season, Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore were doing a good job, but this year, the scenes they’ve shared have been particularly impressive. This show should be about them and their relationship and how it effects this entire town, either directly or indirectly. Bates Motel’s strength this year comes from focusing on the incredible dynamic between Norman and Norma Bates. Much like Norman Bates, Bates Motel has done a lot of growing this season, finally nailing the tone of what this show should be: not overly ridiculous with just enough winks at the film that fail to be distracting. What’s even worse is that he lacks the guilt that these actions should bring. As the second season ends, with a perfect homage to the final shot of Psycho, Norman is aware of the evil he is capable of. He left Blair Watson’s house covered in blood feeling guilty, yet not knowing where this guilt was coming from. When Bates Motel’s second season started, Norman Bates was unaware of the darkness that lies within him.
