Bates Motel: Freddie Highmore on the Fate of Norman Bates

Warning: The following contains major spoilers about the Bates Motel finale...

Don't scroll through any further if you haven't watched the final episode of Bates Motel. I spoke to star Freddie Highmore about all that transpired, from Norman's confrontations with Dylan and Romero to his final act of delusion. Was Norman fully crazy in the end? Did Dylan intend to kill him when he arrived for dinner? Here's what Highmore had to say...

IGN: In the end, Norman died. Was this the only option for him? We know how much he didn't want to be locked away.

Freddie Highmore: I think so. I think it's sad when you realize that Dylan was pitching his dream and what he wanted, what he had hoped would transpire between him and Norma and Norman and wanting them to all be together. It's sad because everyone had the same dream, really. They all wanted to be together. They all wanted to have their family intact. They loved each other but that wasn't enough. That's not just the tragedy of Norman and Norma, but Dylan as well. He wanted to be there with them but it just didn't work out. But if you look at it all as a love story between Norman and Norma, this was the happy end. It was the only way it could end. They had to be reunited and this was the only way for that to happen. I think though that the last scene had so many great beats in it that it summed up what Bates Motel was always about. Dylan's expression of his desires, but also Norman when he said "If you believe hard enough, you can make it that way." That line seemed so key to me and so heartbreaking because that's what he believed. But it's also something that we all can latch onto. We're almost taught it as we grow up, that if you have a dream and you keep working toward it that it'll come true. If you work hard enough then things will turn out okay.

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