Bates Motel/Crazy

Crazy
Season 3, Episode 9
Airdate	May 4, 2015
Written by	Steve Kornacki & Alyson Evans & Torrey Speer
Directed by	Tucker Gates
← 3x08 The Pit	3x10 → Unconscious
Bates Motel — Season Three

Crazy is the ninth episode of the third season of Bates Motel, and the twenty-ninth episode overall.

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

with Kenny Johnson (Caleb Calhoun)

and Nestor Carbonell (Sheriff Alex Romero)

Guest Starring: Andrew Howard (Will Decody), Ryan Hurst (Chick Hogan), Nicola Peltz (Bradley Martin), Kevin Rahm (Bob Paris)

Also Starring: Lini Evans (Amelia Martin), Steve Makaj (Man (Amelia's Boyfriend)), Anika Noni Rose (Special Agent Liz Babbitt)

Plot Overview

Bradley has returned to town, only to find there's no longer anything there for her except Norman. Norma is desperate to keep Bob Paris from exposing her son, but can't return the flash drive as Romero has already turned it over to the DEA. Dylan and Caleb deal with the good and bad of the aftermath of their sour gun run.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• Caleb confronts Chick. When he pulls a gun, Caleb beats Chick into a bloody mess and leaves with $50,000.

• Romero has turned the flash drive over to the DEA.

• Special Agent Liz Babbitt is suspicious of how Romero became sheriff given his father's history with White Pine Bay.

Characters

• Bradley's life has been hell since leaving town. She's returned to be not "dead" anymore. Unfortunately, she sees that her mother has effectively moved on, nearly erasing her existence and sees there's nothing for her to return to.

• Knowing Chick will come looking for him, Caleb leaves the farm and tells Dylan where he'd be staying in the meantime.

• Norman begins to suspect that Norma may have killed his father.

• Dylan gives the $50,000 to Emma's father, but doesn't want him to tell her he's responsible.

• Emma reveals that she knows Caleb is his father.

• After Norma violently lashing out at Romero, the two nearly kiss.

• Caleb tells Norma that he's leaving town and leaves behind his guitar for Dylan.

• Bradley wants to leave town again and for Norman to leave with her.

• Bradley gets intimate with Norman and almost have sex, but he stops when he keeps seeing his mother. He later sees this same version of Mother outside.

Referbacks

• Caleb warns Norma about the events of "Check-Out" where Norman caught up with him and attacked him as Norma.

• Bradley recounts how Norman showed up at her house in "The Man in Number 9" but now admits she was an idiot for not reciprocating his feelings toward her.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The license plate on Bradley's car is NFB418. This is the same license plate seen on Marion Crane's trade-in car in Psycho.