Bates Motel Season 5 Best Quotes

Season 5 of Bates Motel was announced on June 15, 2015. In a change to previous seasons, which all aired from March to May, this season premiered on February 20, 2017 and consisted of 10 episodes. It is the final season On April 26, 2016, Carlton Cuse Tweeted a photo of the writers on their first day back in the writers' room for Season 5 and Freddie Highmore was seated among them. In June 2016, it was reported that Freddie will also be writing more episodes for the final season. At the 2016 San Diego Comic Con it was announced that Nestor Carbonell, Freddie and Max Thieriot will all direct an episode; this will be Nestor's third time directing. Freddie confirmed that he would be writing the seventh episode and directing the eighth episode. Production began on September 16, 2016 with filming commencing a few days later. On November 12, Rihanna announced that she had begun filming her scenes. On December 12, Kerry Ehrin Tweeted that filming had begun on the episode Freddie Highmore was directing. 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. Carbonell filmed his final scenes on January 27, 2017. Filming officially wrapped on January 31, 2017.

1

Yeah. I'm going to go home where it's normal.

Dylan: You leaving now? Emma: Yeah. I'm going to go home where it's normal.

2

Because of the girl who checked in. Because she's attractive. You see? Now I'm starting to...

Norman: The only secret between us is that you don't exist. I made you up. My mother is not here. Now get out of my way. Mother: If I'm not here, then why am I here? Norman: Because of the girl who checked in. Because she's attractive. You see? Now I'm starting to understand it all now.

3

Yes. The little private trap that everyone lives in. You need people, but that need can...

Norman: It's hard to be lonely. But it's also hard to love people. I think that that's the trap. Marion: Trap? Norman: Yes. The little private trap that everyone lives in. You need people, but that need can destroy us. Once you care about someone it rules you. And who even knows at the end of the day if that person is who you really think they are? Or if they're even real at all?

4

Nothing like a crazy person announcing their own clarity.

Norman: I'm not confused. I think for the first time in a long while I'm actually starting to have some clarity. Mother: Nothing like a crazy person announcing their own clarity.

5

We are on equal footing.

Norman: You've always been there with me. To keep me safe. Mother: Yes. We are two parts of the same person. Both are very real. But there's one thing you don't know. The pain that I would keep you from feeling? You need to feel it. Like Adam wanting all the knowledge and eating the apple in the Garden of Eden? You get the truth, but you also see the pain. We are partners now, Norman. You have no choice. We are on equal footing.

6

Let's just dump the body in the woods, okay? We still have to get rid of the car, we have to...

Let's just dump the body in the woods, okay? We still have to get rid of the car, we have to clean the crime scene. We don't have time for this emotional bullshit.

7

I love you, but unfortunately I can only be a real mother to one person and so even though I...

I love you, but unfortunately I can only be a real mother to one person and so even though I love you so very much and this pains me, you're getting in the way.

8

From where I'm sitting you're a child and children sometimes act out. Almost always because...

From where I'm sitting you're a child and children sometimes act out. Almost always because they feel ignored. So I'm starting to think calling in all my cops, searching your motel, your house, questioning you now is just giving you exactly what you want. Attention.

9

Good night, Sheriff.

Sheriff Greene: Consider cooperating with us. I can't guarantee it'll feel good, but it's the right thing to do. Dylan: Good night, Sheriff.

10

I'm not mad. Except in a British sense of the word like the Mad Hatter. In that way I am mad....

Mother: What kind of game are we playing tonight, Norman? Norman: It's not a game. I'm insane. Can't keep things straight. I forgot that I cleaned up. Mother: You're mad because I left. Norman: I'm not mad. Except in a British sense of the word like the Mad Hatter. In that way I am mad. But the world is full of mad people that function, many of whom are heads of state so I think I can manage running a motel.