Spoilers

“The Deal”

Vera Farmiga is a fantastic actor and she endues Norma Bates with the ferocity of a force of nature. That was on display in a scene with Romero as she confessed to him about the flash drive she had been given by Annika. She was also stone cold with her bargaining with the criminal Bob Paris.

And to say that she did not react well to the news from Dylan that Caleb had been staying up at his farm would be a drastic understatement.

As Dylan and Norman were telling Norma about Caleb’s presence, I was really hoping that Norma would take the news well.

Of course, I knew that was not going to happen.

Norma Bates is anything but rational when she is upset. The ending of the episode, with Norma packing her bags, grabbing the gun and leaving in her car was powerful and scary.

At lest she did not seem to strike out to Dylan, whose whole thing has been trying to find the family that he had been desperate to have, and who had been making so much progress with Norma. Her anger seemed directed more at Caleb and the memory than at Dylan.

I do not remember what happened as the result of this, but things certainly do not look to be going well.