Bates Motel/Visiting Hours

Visiting Hours
Season 5, Episode 9
Airdate	April 17, 2017
Written by	Scott Kosar
Directed by	Olatunde Osunsanmi
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Bates Motel — Season Five

Visiting Hours is the ninth episode of the fifth season of Bates Motel, and the forty-ninth episode overall.

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

and Nestor Carbonell (Alex Romero)

Guest Starring: Natalia Cordova-Buckley (Julia Ramos), Jillian Fargey (Maggie Summers), Ryan Hurst (Chick Hogan), Isabelle McNally (Madeleine Loomis), Chris Shields (Deputy), Brooke Smith (Sheriff Jane Greene)

Also Starring: Aliyah O'Brien (Regina), Lauren Overholt (Sabel Willcock), Jeff Evans Todd (Ben Willcock), Nicholas Carella (Deputy Miller), Noel Johansen (Dan Tapley), Karen Khunkhun (Reporter), Simon Longmore (Elderly Motorist), Chris Nowland (Desk Sergeant Davis), Simon Chin (Bailiff), Jennifer Cheon (Hair/Fiber Analyst), Panou (Jailor), Eileen Pedde (Judge Gollmar), Alec Santos (Forensic Photographer), Kailey Spear (Metal Detector Cop), Zibby Alley (Cop)

Plot Overview

Emma returns to White Pine Bay to learn about her mother. Norman is set for a preliminary trial where his lawyer prepares for a strategy and Dylan has to decide whether or not he wants to help. Romero learns about Norman's arrest and makes his move.

Notes

Music

• Bobby Darin - "Call Me Irresponsible"

• The Beach Boys - "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

• Tommy James & The Shondells - "Crimson and Clover"

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Police search the Bates property and find Chick's body in the basement.

Characters

• Emma visits Dylan in White Pine Bay where he tells her about her mother. She stays long enough to plan her cremation and spreads her ashes.

• Norman has a preliminary hearing. At Ramos's urging, Dylan attends, but leaves early.

• Maggie pleads for Romero they go to a family cabin in Montana under assumed identities, but he says goodbye and leaves to where Norman is being held.

• Before she returns to Oregon, Emma goes to visit Norman. After hearing him talk, she realises he is in Mother's persona. She simply asks Mother to tell him that she misses him.

• Romero takes Regina by gunpoint and uses her gain access to Norman. He then takes Norman with him and Regina who he has drive them to where Norman has kept Norma's body.

Referbacks

• Police unearth Audrey's suitcase Norman buried in "Forever".

• The funeral home Emma goes to is the same one where Norman arranged Norma's funeral in "Norman". Justin Willcock's hope to see his daughter Sabel join the family business seems to have come true, but it's unknown where her father is.

• Emma spreads her mother's ashes in the spot where she and Norman stood "Nice Town You Picked, Norma..." and saw the mountain depicted in the sketchbook of the Asian sex slave.

Quotes

• Julia Ramos: Look, uh, your brother says you struggle with multiple personalities.

Norman: And Dylan's a doctor now?

Julia Ramos: He didn't know the proper term, but I do. Dissociative identity disorder: DID. Do you know if you've ever been diagnosed with it?

Norman: Everyone has multiple personalities, Julia. We pull out what we need when we have to.

• Dylan: You leaving now?

Emma: Yeah. I'm going to go home where it's normal.

• Norman: I am sorry about your mother, Emma. She wasn't nice. She was using Norman and she was using you.

Emma: She didn't deserve to die.

Norma: Death isn't about deserving. It's just part of the deal. She made her own bed. You - You know that better than anyone.