Bates Motel (TV Series)

The Body (2017)

Ryan Hurst: Chick Hogan

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• Chick Hogan : After Norma died, Norman felt lonely. And I felt lonely after my kid and my wife took off, so we became friends. You know, but when I say it like that it sounds like, you know, reductive. It wasn't just a-a-a friendship of necessity. I recognized in Norman that he had the soul of an artist.

• Alex Romero : So what the hell are you doin' here?

  Chick Hogan : I'm dancing with newborn angels, trying to catch a muse.

  Alex Romero : [brandishing his gun]  Why don't you say it like a normal person?

  Chick Hogan : [shouting]  I'm writing a book!

• Alex Romero : If you know what Norman's done, you're an accessory to murder.

  Chick Hogan : Says the escaped convict.

• Chick Hogan : [sitting at his typewriter]  Lookin' at you standin' there, the sheriff who's escaped from prison, out on a mission to avenge the woman he loves from her murderous and sick son. It's like

  [chuckling] 

  Chick Hogan : It's, like, too much, man. You guys are perfectly worthy adversaries. Perfect.

  [chuckles] 

  Chick Hogan : The artificiality of of scripted drama doesn't hold a candle to true crime. Utter surprise, without contrivance.

  [starts typing gleefully as if writing] 

  Chick Hogan : More surprise than the brain would allow you to imagine.