Bates Motel Season 3 Spoiler alert! The showrunners of this popular Psycho spin-off have announced the juiciest tidbits about the show's upcoming season.
According to Kerry Ehrin, executive producer of the show, Kenny Johnson will be back on Bates Motel Season 3 as Norma's (Vera Farmiga) brother. Caleb.
The actor himself, Kenny Johnson made an unexpected appearance at the Bates Motel Season 3 panel during the Comic-con 2014 in San Diego, last Friday.
"There's a great deal of unfinished story in the relationship of Caleb to the Bates family," says Ehrin. "You can't just sweep something like their twisted history under a rug and hope it will go away. You can be sure when he reappears in their lives it will test the boundaries of everything Norma and Dylan have worked so hard for."
It will be remembered that Bates Motel season 2 was when the shocking revelation that Dylan's (Max Theiriot) father is in fact, her mother's brother (Norma was raped by Caleb), was played out. Caleb's presence in the upcoming season will be one of the biggest challenges Dylan will face, as he tries to go after his dreams.
"The dark presence of Caleb will be a fascinating story of Dylan caught between what he knows about Caleb, and a longing that any person would have to know their own father. But knowing Caleb is a dangerous venture," the executive producer explains.
Everybody in Bates Motel season 3 will be shaken up by the return of Caleb. Even Norman (Freddie Highmore). According to Ehrin, "Norman's main emotional duty, in every instinct in his body, is to make sure his mother is happy. Given that, it's a complicated and fascinating journey for Norman to accept Caleb at all, in any fashion, let alone look to him as a father figure. But the lure of father, even a father figure, is a powerful thing."
And this will all very well contribute into the forming of Norman, into who he will eventually become. His struggles against what he is becoming will be well played out in Bates Motel season 3, and audiences get to see this young man grow up to be the pyscho he was in the Alfred Hitchcock movie.
