Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below. After a bit of thumb-twiddling in Seasons 2 and 3, Bates Motel rocketed back with a moving, thrilling fourth season, setting us up for a final endgame season that looks to take us through the entire Norman Bates saga in a really unique and captivating way. When the show first started, there was an idea floating around that it'd work solely as an origin story.