<P> In the pilot episode, Norma buys a motel in the coastal town of White Pine Bay, Oregon, and moves there with Norman (Freddie Highmore) following the death of her husband Sam Bates (David Cubitt) in Arizona . The motel's former owner, Keith Summers (W. Earl Brown) breaks into the Bates' house and rapes Norma . Norman intervenes and subdues Summers, but Norma kills him in a fit of rage . She and Norman then dispose of the body . She later reveals that Sam was an abusive alcoholic and that Norman had killed him while in a dissociative state; she bought the motel and moved them away to protect him . A later episode reveals that Sam had raped Norma in front of Norman while in a drunken rage; it is implied that this trauma fractured Norman's psyche . </P> <P> In this continuity, Norma has another son, Dylan Massett (Max Thieriot), who was conceived when she was raped as a teenager by her older brother, Caleb Calhoun (Kenny Johnson). Norma used Dylan's conception to escape from her troubled home life; she married her then - boyfriend, John Massett, and passed off her unborn child as his own . She would later divorce John to marry Sam, becoming estranged from Dylan and favoring Norman, her son with Sam, instead . </P> <P> When Norman's sanity begins to deteriorate, Norma marries the town sheriff, Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell), so she can use his insurance coverage to pay for Norman to be treated in a mental institution . While the marriage is at first merely a financial arrangement, they eventually fall in love . After Norman is released from the institution and finds out that Norma is married, he grows insanely jealous and tries to kill himself and Norma by flooding the house with carbon monoxide while his mother sleeps . Romero arrives at the house in time to revive Norman, but finds that Norma is already dead . Romero finds out what happened and swears revenge, but is arrested for perjury before he can do anything . Meanwhile, Norman cannot bear losing his mother, so he digs up her corpse and assumes her personality to preserve the illusion of her being alive . </P> <P> Two years later, Norman is running the motel and living alone in the house with Norma's corpse, which he keeps frozen and preserved in the cellar . Romero, who is in prison for perjury, sends a hitman to kill Norman, but "Norma" takes control and kills the assassin . Caleb learns of Norma's death and comes after Norman, so "Norma" helps Norman take him hostage, but cannot bring herself to kill him . The Bates' neighbor Chick Hogan (Ryan Hurst) accidentally runs Caleb over, and "Norma" helps him and Norman dispose of the body . When Norman falls for Madeline Loomis (Isabelle McNally), a lonely housewife whose husband Sam (Austin Nichols) is cheating on her, "Norma" becomes jealous and acts out by taking over Norman's mind and making him have sex with a man at a gay bar while dressed in Norma's clothes . Norman finally begins to suspect that "Norma" is not real, and she confirms that he created her in his mind to deal with things that he could not, such as his abusive father . </P>

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