BWW Recap: An Old Friend Returns on BATES MOTEL

She's baaacckkkk! Bradley has made her inevitable return to White Pine Bay, and she's already causing trouble for the Bates family. After living on her own for a while, the former popularity queen realized she no longer wanted to be "dead". Norman offers her a room in the motel granted that she stay out of sight.

Meanwhile, Caleb gets into a fight with his boss over the money he and Dylan are owed for delivering guns. Dylan needs to money to help pay for Emma's treatment, but is keeping it a secret from her. But Caleb's fight only makes the situation worse, and he plans to leave town before the boss comes after him.

Norma confronts Bob Paris about his knowledge of Norman's mental state. Norma offers to bring him the infamous flash drive if he keeps Norman's secrets safe. However, when Norma tries to get the drive back from Romero's hands, he refuses to give it up. Not taking no for an answer, Norma breaks into Romero's house to search for the flash drive herself, but Romero catches her. He reveals that he has turned the flash drive over to the DEA. The conversation than turns to Norman; Romero knows about his father's death was not an accident, and he demands that Norma tell him the truth. Norma becomes violent, screaming and pushing Romero around the room. She leaves before anything else (violent or sexual) can escalate.

Romero wasn't the only man in Norma's life causing her trouble. When she tries to clean out the Norman's taxidermy man-cave, Norman completely blows up on her, even spiraling to accuse Norma of killing his father. He says that he has trusted Norma's word about his blackouts in the past, but now says she might be lying to protect herself. It looks like Norman is beginning to (finally) turn away from her.

Soon after, Bradley and Norman decide to break into Bradley's old house to check up on her mother. Bradley is upset to find the entire house changed; her mother has even turned her old bedroom into an exercise room. She realizes it will be much harder to formally return home than she had anticipated.

Dylan finally receives the money from delivering the guns. He gives the money to Emma's dad, he welcomes his offer with open arms. Dylan visits Emma as well, and they end up talking about Dylan's dad. Emma is very accepting of Dylan's parental situation, and that clearly means a lot to him. These two have been gravitating towards each other all season, and I'm pretty sure they are going to get together soon- but how will Norman react? There's no way he's going to take his brother being with his ex-girlfriend lightly. Dylan must have a death wish!

Meanwhile, Caleb prepares to leave town. He stops by the Bates house to say goodbye to Norma. He ends up telling her about the night Norman broke into his hotel room and talked to him as if he was his mother. Norma, as always, says that "there's nothing wrong with him".

Later that night, Bradley makes plans to leave town. She offers to take Norman with her, but he refuses. Bradley reminds Norman of the time he said he loved her, and she wishes that she could go back to the time that he wanted her. The two begin making out, but Norman has a hallucination of his mother that stops him in his tracks. He runs out of the room and continues to talk to his fake mother. "Norma" says she evener trusted Bradley, and coaxes Norman back into the house.

Judging from next week's preview, it looks like Norman is going to skip town with Bradley after all. Will he have blackout while he's alone with Bradley? Next week is the season finale, and I'm not sure if Bradley will making it out of this season alive. Keep tuning in to BATES MOTEL Monday nights at 9pm EST on A&E!

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