Editing Norman Bates (section)

==Television==
===''Bates Motel'' (film)===
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In the 1987 television spin-off movie and series pilot ''[[Bates Motel (film)|Bates Motel]]'', Norman is never released from the institution after his first incarceration. He befriends Alex West ([[Bud Cort]]), a fellow inmate who had murdered his stepfather, and [[will (law)|wills]] ownership of the titular motel to him before dying of old age.<ref>{{cite AV media|people=Richard Rothstein (Director)|date=July 5, 1987|title=[[Bates Motel (film)|Bates Motel]]|medium=DVD|publisher=[[Universal Television]]|location=United States}}</ref>

===''Bates Motel'' (TV series)===
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The television series ''[[Bates Motel (TV series)|Bates Motel]]'', a reboot to the 1960 film ''Psycho'', set in the present day, depicts the young Norman Bates' life with his mother, Norma ([[Vera Farmiga]]). In this continuity, Norman suffers from hallucinations and blackouts, and begins manifesting his "Mother" personality while Norma is alive. He kills his abusive father, Sam ([[David Cubitt]]), while in a [[Dissociation (psychology)|dissociative state]], and Norma moves them from Arizona, where he was born and raised, to White Pine Bay, Oregon, to protect him.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The Truth|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 1)#ep6|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=April 22, 2013|season=1|number=6}}</ref> The series also introduces his maternal half-brother, Dylan Massett ([[Max Thieriot]]) and gives him a love interest in Emma Decody ([[Olivia Cooke]]), a classmate with [[cystic fibrosis]].

As "Mother", Norman murders Blaire Watson ([[Keegan Connor Tracy]]), one of his teachers who seduces him;<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Midnight|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 1)#ep10|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=May 13, 2013|season=1|number=10}}</ref> Bradley Martin ([[Nicola Peltz]]), a girl he has feelings for;<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Unconscious|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 3)#ep10|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=May 13, 2015|season=3|number=10}}</ref> and Audrey Ellis Decody (Karina Logue), Emma's estranged mother.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=A Danger to Himself and Others|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 4)#ep1|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=March 7, 2016|season=4|number=1}}</ref> Fearing for his sanity, Norma briefly has him committed to a mental institution.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Goodnight, Mother|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 4)#ep2|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=March 14, 2016|season=4|number=2}}</ref> While there, Norman [[recovered memory therapy|recovers]] a memory of witnessing his father [[spousal rape|rape]] Norma in a drunken rage after she tried to leave him; it is implied that this trauma fractured his psyche.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The Vault|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 4)#ep6|series=Bates Motel |series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=April 18, 2016|season=4|number=6}}</ref>

When Norman's sanity begins to deteriorate, Norma marries the town sheriff, Alex Romero ([[Nestor Carbonell]]), so she can use his insurance coverage to pay for Norman's treatment. While the marriage is at first merely a financial arrangement, they eventually fall in love. After Norman is released from the institution and finds out that Norma is married, he grows insanely jealous and tries to kill both Norma and himself by flooding the house with [[carbon monoxide]] while his mother sleeps. Romero arrives at the house in time to revive Norman, but finds that Norma is already dead.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Forever|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 4)#ep9|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=May 9, 2016|season=4|number=9}}</ref> Romero figures out what happened and swears revenge, but is arrested for [[perjury]] before he can do anything. Meanwhile, Norman cannot bear losing his mother, so he digs up her corpse and assumes her personality to preserve the illusion of her being alive.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Norman|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 4)#ep10|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=May 16, 2016|season=4|number=10}}</ref>

Two years later, Norman is running the motel and living alone in the house with Norma's corpse, which he keeps frozen and preserved in the cellar. He and his "Mother" personality live together as if there is no one else in the world, and she takes care of his problems - such as killing and disposing of a hitman sent by Romero<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Dark Paradise|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep1|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=February 20, 2017|season=5|number=1}}</ref> and helping him get rid of his uncle, Norma's brother Caleb ([[Kenny Johnson]]), after he discovers the truth.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Bad Blood|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep3|series=Bates Motel (TV series)|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=March 6, 2017|season=5|number=3}}</ref> Norman falls for Madeline Loomis (Isabelle McNally), a lonely woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to Norma, and whose husband Sam ([[Austin Nichols]]) is cheating on her. "Mother" becomes jealous and starts behaving erratically, at one point taking possession of Norman's mind and making him have sex with a man at a [[gay bar]] while dressed in Norma's clothes.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Dreams Die First|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep5|series=Bates Motel (TV series)|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=March 20, 2017|season=5|number=5}}</ref> Norman finally begins to suspect that "Mother" is not real, and she confirms that he created her in his mind to deal with things that he could not, such as his abusive father.<ref name="Marion">{{Cite episode|title=Marion|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep6|series=Bates Motel (TV series)|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=March 27, 2017|season=5|number=6}}</ref>

When Sam's mistress [[Marion Crane]] ([[Rihanna]]) checks into the motel, Norman has dinner with her and tells her that Sam is married. Marion comes back to the motel after confirming Sam's infidelity, and seeks comfort from Norman. He fears that "Mother" will kill her, however, and tells her to leave and never come back. When Sam comes to the motel to look for Marion, Norman stabs him to death in the shower.<ref name="Marion"/>

Dylan comes to see Norman after learning of Norma's death, and they get into a fight that ends with Norman assaulting his half-brother at "Mother"'s instigation. Terrified of what he might do, Norman calls 911 and confesses to murdering Sam.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Inseparable|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep7|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=April 3, 2017|season=5|number=7}}</ref> While he is in jail, Sheriff Jane Greene ([[Brooke Smith (actress)|Brooke Smith]]) finds the bodies of Norman's other victims, and charges him with their murders, as well.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=The Body|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep7|series=Bates Motel (TV series)|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=A&E|airdate=April 3, 2017|season=5|number=8}}</ref> While Norman is awaiting trial, Romero—who had earlier escaped from prison—breaks into his cell and takes him hostage.<ref>{{Cite episode|title=Visiting Hours|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep9|series=Bates Motel (TV series)|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=April 17, 2017|season=5|number=9}}</ref> They drive to the woods where Norman hid Norma's corpse after the police began searching his house. There, Norman gets the better of Romero and shoots him dead, but not before his former stepfather tells him he will never escape from murdering his own mother. When Norman finally admits to himself that he killed Norma, "Mother" appears to him and tells him she is leaving, as there is no longer anything she can protect him from.<ref name="The Cord">{{Cite episode|title=The Cord|episode-link=Bates Motel (season 5)#ep10|series=Bates Motel|series-link=Bates Motel (TV series)|network=[[A&E Network|A&E]]|airdate=April 24, 2017|season=5|number=10}}</ref>

Now completely alone, Norman loses all contact with reality. He calls Dylan and invites him over for a "family dinner", complete with Norma's corpse seated at the head of the table. When Dylan tells him that Norma is dead, Norman flies into a rage and attacks him with a knife, forcing Dylan to shoot him in self-defense. As he dies, Norman sees a vision of his mother embracing him.<ref name="The Cord"/>