when does norma bates die in bates motel
Norma Bates (Psycho) When Norman's sanity begins to deteriorate, Norma marries the town sheriff, Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell), so she can use his insurance coverage to pay for Norman to be treated in a mental institution.[10] While the marriage is at first merely a financial arrangement, they eventually fall in love.[11] After Norman is released from the institution and finds out that Norma is married, he grows insanely jealous and tries to kill himself and Norma by flooding the house with carbon monoxide while his mother sleeps. Romero arrives at the house in time to revive Norman, but finds that Norma is already dead.[12] Romero finds out what happened and swears revenge, but is arrested for perjury before he can do anything. Meanwhile, Norman can not bear losing his mother, so he digs up her corpse and assumes her personality to preserve the illusion of her being alive.[13]