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Bates Motel (season 5)
Starring
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	A&E
Original release	February 20 – April 24, 2017
Season chronology
List of Bates Motel episodes

The fifth and final season^[1] of Bates Motel premiered on February 20, 2017, and concluded on April 24, 2017. The season consisted of 10 episodes and aired on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on A&E.^[2] The series itself is described as a 'contemporary prequel' to the 1960 film Psycho, following the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in the Hitchcock film. However, the final season of the series loosely adapts the plot of Psycho. The series takes place in the fictional town of White Pine Bay, Oregon.

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The season was released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 19, 2017.^[3]

1Cast and characters
2Production
4Reception

Cast and characters[edit]

Main[edit]

Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, and Max Thieriot (left to right) portray Norma Louise Bates, Norman Bates, and Dylan Massett, respectively.

Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell, and Rihanna (left to right) portray Emma Decody, Sheriff Alex Romero, and Marion Crane, respectively.

Vera Farmiga as Mother
Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates
Max Thieriot as Dylan Massett
Olivia Cooke as Emma Decody
Nestor Carbonell as Alex Romero

Special guest[edit]

Rihanna as Marion Crane

Recurring[edit]

Kenny Johnson as Caleb Calhoun
Ryan Hurst as Chick Hogan
Brooke Smith as Sheriff Jane Greene
Isabelle McNally as Madeleine Loomis
Austin Nichols as Sam Loomis
Jillian Fargey as Maggie Summers
Damon Gupton as Dr. Gregg Edwards
Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Julia Ramos

Guest[edit]

Carlton Cuse as Highway Patrol Officer
John Hainsworth as Jim Blackwell
Antonio Cayonne as Bruce Herman

Production[edit]

Casting[edit]

In June 2016, showrunner Kerry Ehrin confirmed the return of Kenny Johnson as Caleb Calhoun for the final season, in an interview with Deadline Hollywood.^[4] The following month, it was announced that Rihanna had been cast in the iconic role of Marion Crane.^[5]^[6] In September 2016, Isabelle McNally joined the cast of the series, portraying the role of Madeleine Loomis, a young woman who resembles Norma.^[7] That same month, Brooke Smith joined the cast as Sheriff Jane Greene.^[8] In January 2017, Austin Nichols was cast in the role of Sam Loomis, a prominent role in both the source material and the film adaptation.^[9] That same month, Ryan Hurst's return as Chick Hogan was reported.^[10] In March 2017, it was revealed that series executive producer Carlton Cuse would appear as a police officer trailing Marion Crane.^[11] That same month, Natalia Cordova-Buckley joined the cast as Julia Ramos, an attorney.^[12]

Filming[edit]

The series was filmed on location in Aldergrove, British Columbia. At the beginning of the first season, a replica of the original Bates Motel set from the film Psycho was built on 272nd Street.^[13]^[14]Freddie Highmore was tapped to write an episode for the season, as well as direct an episode, marking his directorial debut.^[15]Max Thieriot and Nestor Carbonell were also tapped to direct an episode each for season 5.^[16]

Production on the season began on September 16, 2016.^[17] The series filmed its final scenes at the specially-built Bates Motel set in Aldergrove on January 25, 2017, and production began tearing the house down the following day.^[18]^[19] Carbonell filmed his final scenes as Sheriff Alex Romero on January 27, 2017.^[20]^[21] Filming officially wrapped for the series on January 31, 2017.^[22] In February 2017, the Bates Motel exterior set in Aldergrove was subsequently demolished.^[23]

Episodes[edit]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	US viewers (millions)
41	1	'Dark Paradise'	Tucker Gates	Kerry Ehrin	February 20, 2017	1.34^[24]
It has been two years since the death of Norma. Norman is now living alone and running the Bates Motel. He stays with his hallucination, 'Mother', whom he believes faked her death to the rest of the world, while he is secretly keeping Norma's preserved corpse in the basement. Meanwhile, Dylan and Emma are living in Seattle now married with an infant daughter, and are unaware of Norma's death. Caleb shows up, much to the stress of Dylan, so Emma asks Caleb to leave for Dylan's sake. Back in Pine Bay, Romero is in prison serving a five-year sentence and is denied parole. Romero sends a hitman to kill Norman, but Norman murders him instead. He meets Madeleine Loomis, a young hardware store-owner who resembles Norma. While 'Mother' and Norman dispose of the hitman's body in a lake, the man's phone rings. Norman answers it to hear Romero's voice.
42	2	'The Convergence of the Twain'	Sarah Boyd	Alyson Evans & Steve Kornacki	February 27, 2017	1.28^[25]
Norman visits Romero in prison to taunt him and Romero warns that he will come for Norman. Later, Romero gets into a fight with another prisoner and is sent to the infirmary. Norman goes on a dinner date set up by Madeleine and her husband Sam, who is cheating on her. 'Mother' follows Norman and asks why he is having dinner with a girl who looks like her. Meanwhile, Caleb returns to White Pine Bay, looking for Norma, but instead learns that Norma committed suicide over a year earlier. He breaks down with grief at her grave. Later, he and Chick have an altercation in a bar. Caleb says he knows Norman killed Norma, because she would never commit suicide, and vows to get revenge. He goes back to the Bates house and discovers Norma's frozen corpse in the basement. Norman, dressed as 'Mother', attacks Caleb. Chick witnesses this, shocked.
43	3	'Bad Blood'	Sarah Boyd	Tom Szentgyorgyi	March 6, 2017	1.28^[26]
Caleb wakes to find himself chained in the basement of the Bates house. Norman, as 'Mother', visits him to recount their history. This causes Caleb to slowly lose his mind. Chick, now aware of Norman's mental condition, remains at the house to research his true-crime novel based on Norman. Madeleine admits her troubled marriage to Norman, and they become friends. Meanwhile, Romero is granted a transfer, following his prison fight. He escapes custody, only to be shot while trying to steal a car from a farm. 'Mother' insists that Norman should kill Caleb, as she cannot do it. Norman sets Caleb free, but 'Mother' chases him into the road, where a distracted Chick accidentally hits him with his car.
44	4	'Hidden'	Max Thieriot	Torrey Speer	March 13, 2017	1.25^[27]
Caleb dies from the accident and Chick cremates the body. The new sheriff is informed about Jim Blackwell skipping parole and questions Norman, as Blackwell had the house's address. Meanwhile, the fugitive Romero tends to his gunshot wounds before showing up at Maggie Summers' house. Chick tries to move into the Bates house, only to be turned away by Norman, who does not think Chick being there is a good idea. Norman and 'Mother' continue to get into arguments, as Norman wants to have control over his own life. Madeleine invites Norman over to her house for dinner since Sam is out of town, and they start kissing. 'Mother' appears and Norman visualizes Madeleine with her throat slit. He runs back home, calling for 'Mother,' who is not there.
45	5	'Dreams Die First'	Nestor Carbonell	Erica Lipez & Kerry Ehrin	March 20, 2017	1.36^[28]
Norman awakens the next morning to find no sign of his mother. Sheriff Greene pays Norman a visit informs him that Romero may come after him. In Seattle, Dylan explains to Emma why he cut off contact with Norma, revealing that Norman is sick and Emma's mother went missing after checking into the motel. Emma later discovers that Norma is dead. Back in Pine Bay, Sam's mistress, Marion Crane, goes on the run after stealing $400,000 from her boss; Madeleine confronts Sam about the affair. Elsewhere, Norman encounters his old therapist, Dr. Edwards, and is faced again with the reality that Norma is dead and he assumes her persona. He visits the White Horse Bar, and is confused when the patrons recognize him from the night before. A man attempts to seduce him and Norman has a flashback of 'Mother' and the man having sex. Panicking, he flees home just as Marion arrives at the Bates Motel.
46	6	'Marion'	Phil Abraham	Carlton Cuse & Kerry Ehrin	March 27, 2017	1.30^[29]
Norman greets Marion at the motel. At the same time in Seattle, Emma informs a shocked Dylan of his mother's death. After Norman and Marion eat dinner together, Norman spies on her as she undresses for her shower. He later reveals to her that Sam is married. When Marion sees Sam and Madeleine arguing at his house, she smashes his car windows in anger and returns to the motel. Sam eventually shows up at the motel to confront Marion, but is attacked and overpowered by 'Mother.' Then Mother tries to goad Norman into killing Marion, but Norman, unwilling to do this, fights back and asks Marion to leave the motel. Marion is shown leaving the motel and as she is leaving, Sam is revealed to have been kidnapped by Mother, and is shown tightly bound and gagged in one of the rooms as he watches Marion leave through the window trying to scream at her for help. But she doesn't see him and she leaves town and drives off. After this, 'Mother' compares Sam to Norman's father, and Norman enters the room and stabs Sam to death.
47	7	'Inseparable'	Steph Green	Story by : Freddie Highmore & Erica Lipez Teleplay by : Freddie Highmore	April 3, 2017	1.26^[30]
'Mother' and Norman dispose of Sam's body, though Norman does not want to hallucinate 'Mother' anymore. Sheriff Greene reveals that Jim Blackwell's body was recovered. Norman buries Norma's frozen corpse in the woods in case police investigate his house. Dylan arrives at the Bates' house and says that Norman should have told him about Norma's death, and to let him help Norman, as he sees that Norman is sick. Dylan learns that Dr. Edwards is missing and presumed dead, even though Norman said he'd met with him. Dylan then meets Madeleine, who is worried about a missing Sam. Dylan asks Norman about Sam and encourages him to take his medication, but 'Mother' takes over and tries to kill Dylan. Norman intervenes, yelling that Dylan is his brother, and Dylan, in shock, watches him struggle with himself. Norman comes to, dials 911, and confesses to Sam's murder.
48	8	'The Body'	Freddie Highmore	Erica Lipez	April 10, 2017	1.23^[31]
Norman is anxious to be arrested, fearing that he will see 'Mother' and she will intervene. He is interrogated, and given his medication, but 'Mother' forces him to vomit it out and takes full control of him. 'Mother' blames Madeleine for Sam's murder and says Norman confessed to take the fall for her. Dylan gets a lawyer and explains that Norman is not a criminal nor a bad person - he is mentally ill and needs a mental institution. Emma's mother's body is also found and identified from the lake, confirming Dylan's suspicion about Norman killing her. Romero returns to the Bates' property and finds Chick, who has set up his writing desk in the house. Chick is killed by Romero after mocking him and the entire situation. Sam's body is found next, and Norman, with 'Mother' still in control, is charged with three murders.
49	9	'Visiting Hours'	Olatunde Osunsanmi	Scott Kosar	April 17, 2017	1.22^[32]
Norman's attorney suggests entering an insanity plea, as he could be put to death if convicted. Emma arrives to see Dylan but is unsure whether the two of them will make it when Dylan takes his brother's side. After seeing the evidence presented at Norman's hearing, Madeleine asks Dylan how he can live with himself after knowing Norman was sick and still leaving him to do what he did. Emma decides to go back home, but not before going to see Norman. She instantly realizes he is in 'Mother's' persona, and so asks him to tell the real Norman that she misses him. Romero discovers where Norman is and forces the officers to release him. He forces Norman into Norman's car and orders him to take them to Norma's body.
50	10	'The Cord'	Tucker Gates	Kerry Ehrin & Carlton Cuse	April 24, 2017	1.41^[33]
'Mother' leads Romero to Norma's body and as Romero mourns over it, Norman subdues him and shoots him with his own gun. Before Romero dies, he tells Norman that Norman will never be able to escape from the fact that he killed his own mother. 'Mother' tells Norman that with Romero dead and now that he really knows the truth - that he killed her - there is nothing left to protect him from, and she leaves him for good. Unable to handle this, Norman's mind regresses to when they first moved to the motel. Under that delusion, he takes Norma's body back to the house and invites Dylan for dinner. Dylan does not inform the police. Instead, armed with a gun, he goes. After seeing Norma's corpse at the dinner table, Dylan begs Norman to face reality but Norman is unwilling to live without his mother. Dylan is forced to fatally shoot him when Norman charges at him with a knife. Norman dies in Dylan's arms and thanks Dylan for letting him reunite with Norma in death. The motel and house are sold, and Dylan and Emma make a happy life together with their daughter in Seattle. And nothing's written in Norman's tombstone.

Reception[edit]

Critical response[edit]

The season has received positive reviews from television critics. It received 81 out of 100 from Metacritic, based on 8 reviews, indicating 'universal acclaim'.^[34] Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 8 out of 8 critical responses were positive, averaging a 100% rating.^[35]

Ratings[edit]

Overall, the fifth season of Bates Motel averaged 1.29 million viewers, with a 0.5 rating in the 18–49 demographic.^[36]

No.	Title	Air date	Rating/share (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	'Dark Paradise'	February 20, 2017	0.5	1.34^[24]	0.5	1.19	1.0	2.53^[37]
2	'The Convergence of the Twain'	February 27, 2017	0.4	1.28^[25]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
3	'Bad Blood'	March 6, 2017	0.5	1.28^[26]	0.5	1.31	1.0	2.60^[38]
4	'Hidden'	March 13, 2017	0.4	1.25^[27]	0.6	1.38	1.0	2.63^[39]
5	'Dreams Die First'	March 20, 2017	0.5	1.36^[28]	0.5	1.35	1.0	2.71^[40]
6	'Marion'	March 27, 2017	0.5	1.30^[29]	0.6	1.38	1.1	2.68^[41]
7	'Inseparable'	April 3, 2017	0.4	1.26^[30]	0.6	1.40	1.0	2.65^[42]
8	'The Body'	April 10, 2017	0.4	1.23^[31]	0.6	1.34	1.0	2.57^[43]
9	'Visiting Hours'	April 17, 2017	0.4	1.23^[32]	0.5	1.33	0.9	2.56^[44]
10	'The Cord'	April 24, 2017	0.5	1.41^[33]	0.4	N/A	0.9^[A]^[45]	N/A

A^ Cable Live +3 data is used here as Live +7 was not made available.

Awards and nominations[edit]

In its fifth and final season, Bates Motel was nominated for one award.

Year	Awards	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2017	8th Critics' Choice Television Awards	Best Actor in a Drama Series	Freddie Highmore	Nominated	^[46]
The listed years are of television release, annual ceremonies are usually held the following year

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

Bates Motel on IMDb
Bates Motel at TV.com

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Spoiler alert: Do not read until you’ve watched the series finale of “Bates Motel,” titled “The Cord.”

After five seasons of love, loss, and a few too many bodies, “Bates Motel” wrapped up its run with a heartbreaking finale. Mother and son were finally reunited — albeit tragically in death, when Dylan (Max Theriot) was forced to shoot Norman (Freddie Highmore) when he charged at him with a knife. At least Dylan got a happy ending, as we got a glimpse into a future where he, Emma (Olivia Cooke) and their daughter seemed to have put their painful past behind them.

Here, executive producers Carlton Cuse and Kerry Ehrin break down the road to the epic series-ender.

This finale was five years in its planning, given that you were able to set your own end date for the series. How are you feeling about it now?

Cuse: It’s always bittersweet. I think we got the chance to do what we set out to do. From very early on, we had this plan that the show should be five seasons, and we should bring it to its close, and we got to do that, which was really lucky. On the other hand, to not be working with everybody each day, it was an incredibly loving, well-connected group of people. Everybody was really so wonderful on the show. We had our on-screen tragic ending, and we had the off-screen tragic ending of not working with each other every day, and that’s hard.

Is this finale you always had in mind?

Ehrin: It’s the emotional destination we always had in mind from the beginning. How we got there and the structure of the last episode was very much found. But knowing where we wanted to land, that we wanted Norman to be returned to Norma, whether that means in his mind or in the earth, that seemed like the only ending.

Was it always going to be Dylan who would deliver him there?

Cuse: No, that idea came about later. We did know from the very beginning that the only ending that worked for us was that Norman would die and that Norman and Norma was this great romance and these were characters who were not fated to be able to live together in this world. They only could be reunited really in death. But the fact that Dylan ended up being a critical participant in that evolved later.

You always intended, too, to deviate from the movie “Psycho.”

Ehrin: We drove past “Psycho”.. once Romero gets Norman out of jail, because “Psycho” ends with him in jail basically, having completely lost his mind. So once Romero breaks him out of jail, we’ve gone past that off-ramp. Then it felt like we were back in pure “Bates Motel” territory. And we were back to the love story between Norman and Norma.

Cuse: We felt like it would be deeply disappointing to have the show end in the same way that “Psycho” did. We borrowed these elements from the “Psycho” mythology, these two characters, and some of the iconographic imagery, but we were always telling our own story. And our own story had to have its own conclusion. We thought it was fun to weave in and out of the mythology, particularly the Marion Crane mythology but we were doing our own thing.

Norman invites Dylan over for the worst dinner party ever…

Cuse: … or the best, depending on your point of view. I think it’s the best. I think it’s the creepiest dinner party ever in the history of television, and that’s why I love it. (Laughs.)

Fair enough. But it leads to a heartbreaking conversation between the two brothers about wanting things that can’t happen. Norman has lost touch with any sense of reality.

Cuse: Very much so.

Ehrin: It’s Dylan’s own frustration that all those things have been taken away from him. It’s this craziness that he’s lived with his whole life. It’s as much a wake-up call for Dylan in that moment as it is for Norman. He’s definitely not trying to protect Norman in that moment because he’s dealing with his own s–t.

Norman essentially forces him to kill him.

Cuse: We wanted the ending to be messy. We wanted it to be spontaneous. There’s this real poignancy that Dylan helps Norman have this moment of clarity, that he recognizes that what’s going on. In that moment he makes this spontaneous decision and it’s not premeditated. It’s not necessarily the most rational thing. But in that moment of clarity, Norman saw that he only had one path, which was to die. And how that came about, in self-defense at Dylan’s hand, or suicide by cop, was a spontaneous decision that Norman made.

Ehrin: I also think that if they’d had two hours to talk about it, I think Dylan would have come to the conclusion… I think he would have done it for Norman. I think he would have realized this was the best way out. And honestly if I was so f–ked up that I thought the only way out was for me to die, and I was right, I would much rather have Carlton shoot me and die in Carlton’s arms than do it by myself. I think there’s a certain romance to having a family member or friend do that deed for you so that you’re not doing it alone.

Cuse: I’m going to have to give that some thought before I commit.

Was Dylan going there on a suicide mission?

Cuse: No.

Ehrin: No, I think he was trying to figure out what the f–k was going on.

But he had the gun.

Cuse: Because he didn’t know what condition he was going to find Norman in. He’s protecting himself.

Ehrin: And he didn’t know if Romero was going to be there. Who he knew wanted to kill his brother.

Cuse: Romero’s on the loose. His brother is a confirmed serial killer at this point. He didn’t know what to expect.

Ehrin: I would take a gun.

Cuse: You’d want a gun. That’s why he went and got the gun from Remo. It wasn’t premeditated that he was going to kill Norman. It was getting the gun because he made a decision that he was going to put the pieces together for himself and he needed to protect himself and take care of himself in the process.

He had that conversation with Emma where she essentially said, I’m not giving you license to kill yourself.

Ehrin: Yeah, she was like, Let’s not make this into a capital R romantic situation. I love you so much, I’m not going to let you get killed. It made me laugh.

The two of you are twisted.

Ehrin: You think?

Madeleine Loomis had that devastating line to Dylan when she said, I only knew him for a few days; you’ve known him your whole life, what’s your excuse. That had to send him spinning.

Ehrin: For sure. The pain of his decision of leaving at the end of last season was because he knew if he pushed, he would be able to prove that Norman needed to be locked up. and because he could not do that to his mother without destroying her, he didn’t want to deal with it. He could not deal with it so he left. That hit home hard, I’m sure. Because there’s truth in it.

Talk about Freddie’s performance this season, especially as you needed him to play Norman as Norma as Norman.

Cuse: I really defy anyone to say that there’s any actor whose work on television this season was better than Freddie’s. I think it’s tragic that he has not been recognized by the Emmys, by the Academy for his work on the show. The depth, the resonance, the layers, the levels, the authenticity of his performance is as good as it gets.

Ehrin: It’s also the amazing ability he has to make Norman Bates a fun character. Which is really remarkable. That’s something that Freddie infused in the character. There was a joy in Norman a lot of the time when he wasn’t being tormented. Freddie always went for humor. Honestly nothing delighted him more than when Norman had to be pissy. There’s so many different layers and colors in what Freddie is doing. It’s so incredibly impressive.

Romero (Nestor Carbonell) ended up insane, too. Is there something in the water in Bates Motel?

Cuse: (Laughs.)

Ehrin: Kind of. That’s what the show is about. How love and the pain of tragedy pushes you over the edge. And everything else in between is bulls–t. Do you still think we’re twisted?

Cuse: I don’t think you’re doing anything but cementing that notion right now.

Carlton, you’ve got some experience with series finales. Did you feel any pressure going into this one?

Cuse: No. The goal has to be that you make the ending that you yourself want to see. I think Kerry and I, we worked on the finale until it was something we both absolutely loved from beginning to end, listening to a kajillion songs to get the tone right. To me, as long as we were both happy, I would feel it was right.

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And Emma and Dylan got a happy ending, as you’ve been promising.

Ehrin: Thank God they made it. You get into the details of the story, and you’re like, can we actually pull them out of this? Will they get through this? Her brother-in-law killed her mother? He really lived through all this stuff. We’re really happy they made it, too.

Cuse: We definitely wanted someone to have a happy ending. It felt like the rest of the show was going to be… there was so much tragedy. It was inevitable at the end. We wanted Dylan and Emma to be able to rise above it.

Nice touch, by the way, ending with Norman’s blank tombstone, while Norma got a novel.

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Ehrin: If you think about it, Norman didn’t really didn’t exist even in his own head outside of his mother, so it’s fitting she should have a novel and he should have a line.

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Cuse: Dylan was trying to sell the space to the Draft Kings, but they couldn’t work out a deal.