Nestor can be seen starring in Universal's "Bates Motel" (2013-2017) as Sheriff Alex Romero, lover to Vera Farmiga's Norma Bates and nemesis to her son Norman.
The Sheriff of White Pine Bay, Romero is the “moral” center of the town, although morality is often a shifting line here. Imposing and discerning, he gets involved in Norma Bates' life after an unfortunate incident at the motel.
Romero (Nestor Carbonell) fulfilled his death wish when he forced “Norman” (Freddie Highmore) to show him where he'd left Norma's (Vera Farmiga) body. Only Norman — who was still “Mother” at that point — killed Romero as he was sobbing over Norma's corpse.
Marcus worked a cop in Stokley, Missouri for about 11 years, serving the last four as sheriff. After White Pine Bay's pot fields were destroyed by the DEA, Marcus' father told him to take Alex Romero's place as sheriff with his one of his friends, Bob Paris, backing him up.
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As "Mother", he also murders Milton Arbogast (Martin Balsam), a private detective hired by Marion's employer, days later. Norman is finally caught when Marion's sister Lila (Vera Miles) and boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), arrive at the motel looking for her.
On Monday's episode (10/9c, A&E), Dylan meets Jodi Wilson (Beverly Hills, 90210 and Boss alum Kathleen Robertson), the head of the drug family and his de facto boss.
After five seasons of love, loss, and a few too many bodies, “Bates Motel” wrapped up its run with a heartbreaking finale. Mother and son were finally reunited — albeit tragically in death, when Dylan (Max Theriot) was forced to shoot Norman (Freddie Highmore) when he charged at him with a knife.
Sheriff Alexander "Alex" Romero is the secondary antagonist of the television series Bates Motel, which acts as a contemporary prequel and re-imagining to the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho, itself based off the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch.
The author accredited serial killer Ed Gein as the basis for Norman Bates. Gein lived less than fifty miles from Bloch's home in Wisconsin and the man shared similarities with Norman. Both Gein and Norman carried out their killings in rural areas.
While driving away Norman slips into "Norma" mode - which is his murderous alter ego. He pulls over and chases after a terrified Bradley, but "Norma" finally catches up and brutally bashes her head against some rocks. He then put her body in the trunk of the car and drives it into the water.
Bates Motel also won the People's Choice Award for Favourite Cable TV Drama. Among the main cast members was the character Emma Decody, who was Norman's classmate at high school. Emma has cystic fibrosis and the series provides an accurate portrayal of how it affects her life.
Norman is knocked out, but Dylan engages with Zack in a shooting spree that ends with Zack getting shot to death by Dylan. Even in death, Zack manages to affect Norma and her life, as his boss, Jake, comes to the Bates Motel only to continue the sex slave business.
Fans of “Bates Motel” probably recognize the famously deep voice of executive producer Carlton Cuse as the narrator of the “previously on” teasers that run before each episode.
He tells her that Shelby has a woman tied up in his basement and that he was running an Asian sex slave business with Keith. He tells her the whole story. And adds that it was her who told him to go steal the belt from Keith's house.
Bates leaves Anna without telling her the true reason, breaking not only her heart but her dreams. Eventually she learns through Lady Mary (who found out through Sir Richard Carlisle) that Mr. Bates has been working in a pub nearby.
Spoiler alert: This story contains significant details from Monday's series finale of A&E's Bates Motel. In the end, Norman Bates got his wish: He'll be with his mother for eternity.
Romero returns to the Bates' property and finds Chick, who has set up his writing desk in the house. Chick is killed by Romero after mocking him and the entire situation. Sam's body is found next, and Norman, with "Mother" still in control, is charged with three murders.
Both the 1959 novel, and its 1960 film adaptation explain that after the death of her husband, Norma (whose maiden name is never revealed in the novels) raises her son Norman with cruelty: she forbids him to have a life away from her, and teaches him that sexual intercourse is sinful and that all women (except herself) ...
The series finale of Bates Motel was a bloody one. Norman killed Alex after showing him where Norma was buried, but it was Alex's dying words that would prove to be Norman's undoing. Alex used his final breath to tell Norman, “You killed your own mother.
“'Til Death Do You Part” is about two men who go to extreme measures to play savior to the women in their lives. In one case, Sheriff Alex Romero (Nestor Carbonell) has decided to marry Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga), just so her son Norman (Freddie Highmore) can get the medical help he so clearly needs.
Bradley (Nicola Peltz) is in trouble. She killed Gil Norton, the man who murdered her father. Unfortunately for her, Gil was a major player in White Pine Bay's drug-based economy. Hunted, she turns to Norman, who creates a hiding place for her in his basement.
