Bates Motel, simply put, is the story of a relationship that ended horribly. One day on this show, Norman Bates will kill his mother and occasionally take on her identity to murder others. Relationships don’t end much worse than that. But of course there are more terribly relationships that lead to this inevitable conclusion as we see in “The Escape Artist,” an episode that sets up all sorts of relationships that have no way of ending good for anyone.
Norman has been spending far too much time with Cody for Norma’s liking, even calling her a weed that grows in such an awful environment, she’s destined to go nowhere. Yet it seems like maybe Cody’s present is too similar to Norma’s past, as we see that Cody’s home life is filled with what looks like an abusive father. Cody takes Norman to her own secret treehouse, where the two of them make out, and possibly more. Now Norman has told Norma that once the play they’re both working on is over, that he’ll stop seeing Cody, but this now is easier said than done. Norman has confided in Cody that he sometimes blacks out and doesn’t remember what happened, so this surely will come back to bite him when he eventually claims he can’t see her anymore.
Young love is also brewing with Emma, who is now pretty much seeing the young pot dealer that is staying at the hotel. She asks Norma about losing her virginity, to which Norma is all optimistic, even though she lost her virginity by getting raped by her brother. Emma meeting this boy and losing her virginity is a sweet story in a show often lacking those moments, but poor innocent Emma is bound to be hurt by this situation. I mean, right after Norma lectures Norman about how seeing certain types of girls could get a girl pregnant, trapping him forever, we cut to Emma losing her virginity. Doubtful this is a coincidence.
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