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She'd been abused by men all her life...her father, brother, both husbands (didn't ever say her first husband abused her, but she said the marriage was not good, so I don't know)....I'd say it's pretty common to feel superior to those who are younger than you, so maybe she went for mostly younger guys, to feel like she had an advantage over them, so she wouldn't be a victim to them.
I didn't notice it until now, but Alex was the only guy in her life in White Pine Bay that was older, that she never really hit on or tried to win over by using her sexuality. Going by real life ages, George was older than her, but he was so even tempered and calm that maybe his being older didn't intimidate her.
Yes she did try to sort of blackmail Romero early on to try to do something about the bypass, but that was more her thinking, like he said, that they were now on the same level as each other because she knew things...it wasn't the same sexual approach she used with Shelby and other men.
Even right up until they were already married, there was a ton of sexual chemistry and tension between them, but she never really openly treated him as more than a friend/acquaintance. And regardless of age, Romero was a pretty intimidating guy, so it makes sense that she wouldn't be so openly flirtatious with him and feel superior to him. Even though little things showed that she cared for him, she wouldn't let herself really acknowledge it for a long time.
That line was used though, although by Norma (actually Norma, not Norman/mother/Norma). Though I'm assuming it was a Norman delivered line in the movie...I've only seen part of it, I fell asleep and never finished it, so I don't know. But it's when Dylan shows up with all of the trimmers and asks Norma how many rooms are available. She says all of them, 12 rooms, 12 vacancies.
At this point she knows Norman killed her own mom, so I don't think it would have been difficult for her to make the leap into considering that Norman killed Norma as well. Especially since she knew her and was quite close...obviously anyone is capable of committing suicide and people around them may not always know, but I think Emma was close enough to her to immediately suspect the suicide story.
But I think in general, the I'm sorry was just a blanket, I'm so sorry you're gone. I'm sorry for anything you went through. According to the dates on her headstone, she was 41. That's very young to die, regardless of the cause, so just about anyone would feel sorry that someone died so young.
It was the prison guard's gun, was it not? Ha, I just watched the final episode the other day, but I don't remember, what happened to the gun after Norman shot Romero with it? When they found Chick, they likely wouldn't have been able to tell much about the gun that shot him, other than maybe what kind from the bullet and just write it off as another victim of Norman's in his crazy fun house.
If the gun was found at the scene by Romero's body, they might connect it to him, but since he was shot with it, they might again just assume it was Norman's. If they ever discover it was the guard's gun, they would very likely assume Romero had it, and given time of death, Norman couldn't have killed Chick because he was in custody at the time. It's also not hard to piece together that Romero would have first gone to the house looking for Norman, found Chick and killed him. I guess it all depends on how much police work they wanted to do, but in the end it didn't really matter since both possible assailants were now dead.
I agree with your third point. She didn't figure anything out, and had he not confessed/been arrested, he would have continued to fool her.
However, she did not know that Dylan wasn't around, she had no way of knowing what their home life was like, what he did or didn't know. It was all coming from grief and anger. Despite how wrong she may have been, her tirade is understandable considering her husband was just violently murdered by this guy that she thought was a friend, and whom she cared for as more or was at least attracted to. She was looking for someone to blame, and Dylan fit the bill at that moment.
I doubt his murder helped her any. She clearly loved her husband and did not want to be left alone so often and ultimately cheated on. Even if you hate your husband and look forward to the divorce, most people will be very shaken up and devastated if they are murdered.
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