Only on a show as bonkers as Bates Motel would the idea of someone in full drag not realizing that he is having gay sex be considered tame, almost rational. It isn't until an attractive man (Michael Doonan), with whom 'Norma' had sex with the night before, tries it again with Norman (who is aware that he is Norman, not Norma) that Norman realizes just how far he's separated the two identities. Norman, in his total disassociate state, has been going to the White Horse Bar in full drag, calling himself 'Norma', and having sex with other men, not realizing that while everyone sees 'Norma' as at most a transvestite if not full-on transgender, Norman truly believes he is 'Norma'. Second, he finds that the bar 'Norma' has been going to, picking up guys from, and getting drunk at.is really a gay bar. First, he realizes that he sometimes sees Mother when she isn't there, which helps him realize that Norma really is dead. Edwards (Damion Gupta) finally puts everything together, and both conclusions fill him with horror. Poor timing, as Norman, with some unwitting help from his former psychiatrist, Dr. Marion, for her part, with the rain coming down, stops at the Bates Motel. Sam cannot take her phone call, but no matter: Madeleine confronts him about whoever was calling. As it so happens, some money does fall into her lap, and in a spur of the moment decision, she takes it instead of depositing it and rushes to her love. Marion wants to help Sam, but it isn't as if she has thousands of dollars just lying around. Madeleine is facing her own problems: not just the potential that Sam is having an affair, but that Norman kept this from her.įor his part, Sam is having financial trouble, and the only person he confides this to is his mistress, Marion Crane (special guest star Rihanna). While going to get the car, he finally reveals to Madeleine Loomis (Isabelle McNally) what he knows about Sam (Austin Nichols) and his mistress. To his surprise (and that of the viewer), he's told that Norma was there, and that she left her car there, having been too drunk last night to drive it. He does find a matchbook for the White Horse Bar and calls asking if Norma was there. Norman, for his part, is concerned when 'Mother' is nowhere to be found. Emma is upset by all this, but while doing some bored online checking she finds that Norma is dead, something neither she or Dylan were aware of. It's that of Emma's mother, and that he is highly concerned about her fate. However, after internal struggle, he reveals that it isn't Norma's earring. Emma thinks Dylan has kept it as a way to keep his mother Norma close to him. In the subplot, Dylan Massett (Max Thieriot), half-brother/uncle to Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), finally tells his wife Emma (Olivia Cooke) the truth about 'Norma's' earring. Dreams Die First gives us a great debut and more wild turns. As we come to the end of the sad, strange journey of Norman Bates, a man destroyed by love of Mother, we get another deranged Bates Motel episode involving sexual decadence, realization of insanity, and another person about to be destroyed by love.