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The law in White Pine Bay really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
During Monday’s Bates Motel, Deputy Shelby (Mike Vogel) goes out on a limb to help Norma (Vera Farmiga) after Sheriff Romero (Nestor Carbonell) searches the motel in his quest to find out what happened to Keith Summers.
Worried that Romero found Keith’s belt — which Norman (Freddie Highmore) has no excuse for keeping and hiding — Norma takes one for the team to protect her family. Haunted by the violent image of killing his teacher and a conversation that never happened with his mother, Norman decides to recover the missing belt, which Shelby discovered and is keeping from Romero. However, just as he stumbles onto what appears to be the mysterious tortured girl in the books he and his classmate Emma are somewhat investigating, Shelby arrives home — leaving Norman trapped inside with someone Shelby clearly doesn’t want to be found.
The Hollywood Reporter caught up with executive producer Kerry Ehrin to break down the episode in our weekly Deconstructing Bates Motel postmortem.
The Hollywood Reporter: Shelby returns home just as Norman finds the girl from the journal inside his basement. How soon will the next episode pick up?
Kerry Ehrin: The next episode actually picks up in a flashback! So we will retrace the last event of Norman breaking into Shelby’s house but from another character’s perspective — someone we did not know was present.
THR: Might Shelby and Keith be connected in the ring of women and the pot field? That’s an awful nice house for a small-town sheriff.
Ehrin: (Laughs.) That’s funny because, in our minds, Shelby had inherited that house from his mom, that’s why it feels like a middle-aged woman’s house that a guy came in and tried to “guy it up” minimally. But aside from that, there are other reasons to think Shelby might be involved in criminal activity!
THR: Emma sees Norman’s dark side when she suggests going to the police with the journals. How might she respond now that she’s seen this?
Ehrin: Great question. Emma is thrown warning signs several times. Most people would step back from the “friendship,” but Emma is so deep and so kind and so compassionate that she keeps staying with Norman. She feels there’s something in him that is struggling. That is suffering, perhaps. She knows what suffering feels like. She knows what it means to be scared. And the heart in her keeps reaching out to him — past all the stuff he throws in their path. It’s as if she is saying, “I understand there is shit going on inside of you. I care about you anyway.” And that bond will ultimately grow because no one has ever truly cared much about Norman, or fully accepted him, except his mom.
THR: Norman has a blackout in class after having visions of killing his teacher immediately after talking with Emma about the girls in the journal. Is he admiring the journals or longing to have done what’s depicted?
Ehrin: I think the “visions” are more sexual and ambiguous. I wouldn’t say he is specifically having a vision of killing her. And as for his emotional or cerebral reaction to the notebook — I think it’s amorphous. The images stir something in him. He can’t explain it or understand it. On one hand, of course, it’s sexual, which would be normal for any teenage boy. But on another level, it’s like an emotional tidal wave — because he is who he is, or who he is going to be. But it’s not something he can understand or even process on any level. He is probably fascinated, horrified, saddened, titillated, thrilled, awakened, guilty and mostly unable to put it out of his head. And that would be terrifying and difficult because he does not know himself as a violent person and it would be hard for him to understand — and terrifying.
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