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| By Steve Belgard |
Things are moving along swiftly for the Bates family in this episode. Norman starts blacking out (and we all know what happens when that happens), Dylan begins his new “legit” job, mama starts banging the deputy, and Norman, Emma and Bradley become a triangle.
Dylan (Max Thieriot) gets ready for his new job, by doing his best Travis Bickel/Taxi Driver“you talking to me” routine - looking in the mirror pointing a gun.
The new gig looks very promising. He goes downstairs and says “Good morning, Mr. and Mrs. Bates,” while Norman and Norma (Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga) are having breakfast together.
At school, Emma (Olivia Cooke) freaks out about the manga book (see Episode 2). Although she feels guilty about using the dead girl as and her desire to hang out with Norman, when she saw the shed in the woods, the reality of the dead girl's situation overtook her causing her to get a little overwrought. Norman dismisses her and tells her the book is too pornographic to have at school and gets a little overwrought himself when he accuses Emma of being obsessed with the book.
While taking a test in class, Norman sees images of bondage and depravity from the manga book instead of seeing the test on his desk. His teacher notices this and is concerned. The drawings turn to “real” images in his mind and Norman blacks out (which will become his modus operandi when he turns into Norma down the road). If we’ve learned anything from this scene, we’ve learned that you don’t really have to have good test scores to be a great psychopath.
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