- Dylan Massett: Why are you giving me a free pass? Not that I don't appreciate it.
- Sheriff Alex Romero: Because I think you get it. I think you're smart enough to understand how things work around here - what you can do, what you can't do. And right now... right now there's a vacuum. Somebody's gonna fill that vacuum. That's as inevitable as the sun rising in the morning.
- [first lines]
- Dylan Massett: Nick Ford's dead, I just killed him. He's got Norman, I don't know where.
- Norman Bates: [recalling a murder] It wasn't a hallucination, it was a memory. I could feel it! It happened! I can still feel it. I remember it the way you remember how gingerbread tasted at Christmas.