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"There are things you don't know about me, Norman," she says, kneeling beside Keith’s unconscious body. "Things about your father. About the fire. About the life we're running from."

Norman listened and stored her syllables in the ledger of his mind. He tried to obey. He rehearsed the phrases she taught him—how to be reasonable, how to refuse temptation. And yet, between the bones of that obedience, something else grew: an appetite for the truth of other people’s faces when they thought no one was looking. He watched their hands, the way they laced their fingers through a story, the tremor that betrayed fear. He loved the edges of them that gave way to tenderness when they spoke of their grief. He loved, in a way that made him small and large at once, the vulnerability of being needed. bates motel s01e01 hdtv x2642hd eztv exclusive

The success of the pilot rests entirely on the shoulders of Farmiga and Highmore. Their "Oedipal" tension is palpable from the first scene, creating an atmosphere that is simultaneously heart-wrenching and deeply uncomfortable. "There are things you don't know about me,