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Real scary, he's a sociopath and total excon.  Anna probably senses somewhere in her heart that he really killed his exwife.  When he first arrived, she saw his potential and felt that she could help him.  Anna has always struck me as having low self esteem deep down.  Gosh, I hope they don't turn her character into an abused woman.

I think it was pretty well-established that he did not actually kill his ex-wife, right? She committed suicide and framed him at the same time.

And I still love Bates, but it sucks that all this crap has happened to him and Anna.[/quote]

We were lead to believe that is what happened, the framed suicide.  But, everyone seems so sure he would kill the rapist and I think that is because they really believe he killed his wife.[/quote]

Anna even believes that he's capable of murder, reason she was afraid to tell him about the rape.  She even went so far as to sit next to her rapist a few times during servant tea time.  Interesting that Bates picked up bad vibes about the rapist from the start when no one else did.

While it was established that Vera Bates may have framed him, he sure was capable of threatening and killing his cellmate.  I totally believed that he could have killed him and never doubted that he killed Vera.  Not sure why this side of his personality was revealed back then if not to be used as foreshadowing.   In episode one, this season Bates secretly forges Mosesly's signature on some doc (being helpful to give him money) which I thought was sort of sketchy and saying something about his character, the quiet forger.

Season five may reveal Bates for who/what he is, I fear that Anna will suffer.  I didn't feel any sense of conflict when thinking of him as a cold-blooded murderer vs. a loving, gallant husband revenging his wife's rape.  [/quote]

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