Bates Motel SN4 EP5 – ‘ Refraction ‘

It’s that time of the week again, but I swear the weeks are getting longer waiting for “Bates Day” to roll around how about you guys? You can never have too much Bates. So let’s do a quick recap of episode 4 before we kick off “Refraction”.

‘Lights of Winter’ SN4 EP4

Norman has an adventure with his new friend Julian to a strip club. Norma get her first real taste of happiness at the White Pine Bay annual winter festival, and Romero finds himself in an awkward situation. Dylan finds himself caught between two families, when Emma asks him to move to Seattle with her and her dad.

‘Refraction’ SN4 EP5

Norma doesn’t understand why or who would break in and trash her home and her favorite stained glass window, she has kept a pretty low profile and believes she hasn’t pissed anyone off lately and thinks it could possibly be Bob Paris’s doing, Romero reassures Norma its wasn’t Paris’s doing but someone in the drug trade that has it in for him. Norma heads into town to find someone who can fix her favorite stained glass windows and is being followed by a brown car but who could it be? The beat up brown car belongs to Chick who follows Norma into the hardware store where he hears she needs a window fixed and now also has her address.
Norman realises after the adventure he and Julian had, that he indeed needs help and perhaps he is in the right place for that after all, he seems more willing in therapy now, but I can’t help thinking he is just playing the game to be released sooner or is that just me being overly suspicious? Norman tells Dr Edwards that he and his mother have close bond, he goes on to explain why their bond is so close but you can see Dr Edwards is suspicious and is starting to realize that Norman’s problem is actually his mother, with the session over Norman asks to make a call to his sick friend Emma but instead he calls mummy dearest but little does he know all calls are monitored and numbers checked. Dr Edwards receives a call back from the police regarding Norman’s accusations about Norma are unfounded and have not found any evidence supporting the accusations.

Chick who followed Norma to the hardware store pays her a visit, claiming he is from the hardware store and here look at the broken window. Norma is unsure of him but lets him in any way to look at the window, Chick has an agenda but not sure what is just yet and when he is asked what happened to him, he tells her that he swerved to miss a dog and rolled his car a few times. With Julian back at Pineview Norman rushes over to greet him only to realize that Julian has undergone a lobotomy, frightened he runs outside to compose himself while sitting on the bench he hear’s a familiar voice and sees his mother, she asks him how therapy is going and that he doesn’t have to talk about anything that upsets him. Dylan goes for his job interview but it’s not going to plan so he tells them his last job was in the drug trade and that he was very good at what he did and he thinks he would be great at the job he is applying for. Chick returns to the motel at an odd hour with plans for the new window and he mentions he knows Caleb is her brother, Norma is clearly creeped out excuses herself for the situation and head for the house.

Norman is in a good mood at therapy because Norma come to visit, Dr Edwards asks Norman if it was possible that he had imagined his mother visiting but Norman is adamant that the visit was real. Dr Edwards tells Norman he knows he spoke to his mother and not Emma and he also knows that Norman wasn’t on the visitors list, that’s when you can see Norman’s mood change, he is upset and feels he is being checked up on and he starts to flip out. The good Dr manages to calm him down but quickly realizes that Norman has slipped into his “Mothers” persona and that “She” thinks Norman “is a weak boy who is easy to take advantage of”, but I’m not sure the good Dr is ready or equipped for all the crazy thats about to follow.

Romero knows Rebecca trashed Norma’s house looking for the second safe deposit box key, so he confronts her at the dinner and tells her he doesn’t have the key and she has crossed the line. When he gets home Norma says she has found someone to fix the window then goes on to ask if he killed Bob Paris, Romero doesn’t answer but she knows and asks why, he tells her he had no choice. Chick calls in to talk to Norma and admits to her he lied about what happened to him, it was actually her brother Caleb that beat him and left him for dead then took off with his family, Norma is visibly upset and scared and asks him what he wants from her and tells her he wants justice and to know where he is.

Was yet another great episode, starting to see Romero and Norma becoming comfortable with each other, they actually make a great couple. We see Norman starting to show the “Norma” side of his personality a little more and I don’t think we have seen the last of Chick or the jealousy of Rebecca.

This weeks episode rating: 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎬