Spoilers

“There’s No Place Like Home”

Norman discovers the truth about Norma and Alex’s wedding and that inspires the jealous little jerk to insist on checking himself out of the mental hospital.

I call him a little jerk because I so love Norma and Alex together and I know that this is the beginning of the end for them.

Norman finds the picture of Alex and Norma together while he was doing his paper mache dog and it started him into his manipulative state.

Dr. Edwards was not a fan of the idea, but Norman is able to convince him. I think it was as much Norma’s fault because she has done so much to enable Norman for so long that she just does not know what she needs to do.

Actually, Norma knows exactly what she should do, but she is too afraid of what might happen that she doesn’t have the strength to do what she has to when it comes to Norman. Just telling him that her marriage to Alex was only for the insurance money (even though that is how it started) says that she still allows Norman’s insanity to rule her life.

It only makes it more tragic with every scene of bliss that is between Alex and Norma. Alex told her about the money he took from Bob. Norma immediately told him about the Norman situation. The relationship is easily the only healthy one Norma has ever had.

All the more tragic.