Bates Motel/Midnight

Midnight
Season 1, Episode 10
Airdate	May 20, 2013
Written by	Carlton Cuse & Kerry Ehrin
Directed by	Tucker Gates
← 1x09 Underwater	2x01 → Gone But Not Forgotten
Bates Motel — Season One

Midnight is the tenth episode of the first season of Bates Motel.

Starring: Vera Farmiga (Norma Bates), Freddie Highmore (Norman Bates), Max Thieriot (Dylan Massett), Olivia Cooke (Emma Decody), Nicola Peltz (Bradley Martin)

Guest Starring: Jere Burns (Jake Abernathy), Nestor Carbonell (Sheriff Alex Romero), Hiro Kanagawa (Dr. Kurata), Keegan Connor Tracy (Miss Watson)

Also Starring: Richard Harmon (Richard Sylmore), Emmalyn Estrada (Hayden), Jenna Romanin (Jenna), Brittney Wilson (Lissa), Jillian Fargey (Maggie Summers), D. Harlan Cutshall (Pedestrian), Farrah Aviva (Receptionist)

Plot Overview

As Norma grows more terrified and distrusting of Romero as the deadline to deliver Abernathy's money looms, Norman invites Emma to the Winter Formal.

Notes

Music

• Chromatics - "Kill For Love"

• Chris De Burgh - "The Lady in Red"

• Bangups - "Sunburnt Love"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Norman overhears Miss Watson having a heated phone call from a man named Eric.

• Romero kills Abernathy and chucks the money he apparently took from Shelby into the water.

• Visible on Miss Watson's dead body is a necklace with the letter "B" on the pendant.

Characters

• Norma tells Dr Kurata about an idyllic home life when she was growing up as a single child. She later confesses to Norman that her mother had already "checked out" and her father was violent; her brother made her have sex with him and that she got the scar when she heard their father come home and burned her leg on an iron.

• Dylan teaches Norma to shoot a gun. He calls her mom for the first time in a long time.

• Norman grows angry with jealousy when he thinks Dylan is interested in Bradley. He later asserts he's over her, but while at the Winter Formal, he continues to cast his eyes at her. This upsets Emma who leaves the dance without him.

• Norman has another episode when he see Miss Watson changing and it's implied he kills her.

Trivia

Memorable Moments

• After appearing to broker a deal with Abernathy, Romero kills Abernathy, his body falling into the harbour, and tosses the money in with him, proclaiming, "Not in my town, you piece of shit."

Goofs

• When sitting on the couch with Norman, Norma's phone is on the table to her left. Without any sign that she ever touched it, she later hears the phone buzzing and pulls it out of her pocket.

Quotes

• Emma: You still like her, don't you?

Norman: I don't know what you're talking about.

Emma: Bradley. It's pretty obvious.

Norman: Oh, that's ridiculous.

Emma: No. You know what's ridiculous? Me, thinking you'd take me to the dance and see me all dressed up and realise you actually have feelings for me, Norman Bates, because you do, but you're too stupid to know it!