SNAFU, good point. I hadn't thought about that. If it turns out Norman didn't kill the teacher but witnessed the crime, then the question becomes how did he get away from the killer himself? If that's the case, maybe the imagined "you know what you have to do" was simply him getting out of there....then maybe the killer/"Eric"? (name of the guy on the phone with the teacher)showed up but didn't see Norman if he was outside the house by then; Norman spots this guy going into/breaking into the house and ends up witnessing everything through a window but too late to do anything about it -- if he evene could have. I don't know, just some way that he could have been around to see it without the killer doing him in.
Or Norman really killed her and the phone call is to fake us out.
Could be either way I guess. Good to be kept guessing!
Her throat was slit pretty darned good. Wouldn't it really be whacked if it turned out the good therapist Dr. Kurata is this "Eric" person we heard on the phone with the teacher, and he used the samurai (?) sword we see displayed behind him in his office? I know, crazy talk, but on this show where people who seem sane/normal at first turn out to be crazy/psycho (the deputy for instance), maybe it's not too horribly farfetched a thought.
Just re-watched it and upon viewing Norma's talk with Norman about being abused by her brother, all she said was that it started when she was 13 and went on until the brother moved out. Nothing about how old the brother was at the start or end or her age when he left. So I suppose that could at least for now leave open the possibility of Dylan having an Uncle-Daddy.
Good to be left with more questions than answers with another season to come.
Edit to ask: Can anyone think of any significance there might possibly be to the poem written on the blackboard in the scene with the teacher? It was Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice."
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Updated On: 5/22/13 at 08:59 PM