Jim Blackwell

James Henry "Jim" Blackwell was a minor antagonist in the Bates Motel episode Dark Paradise. He was a parolee hired by Alex Romero to kill his stepson Norman Bates as revenge for killing his wife, Norma.

Biography
Jim Blackwell was born on April 6th, 1967 and had lived in Canyon City. For unknown reasons, he was arrested and put in the same prison with Alex Romero, who had been arrested on account of perjory. Wanting revenge on his stepson, Norman Bates, for killing his wife and Norman's mother, Norma, Alex hired Jim to go over to the Bates Motel and kill Norman. Once Jim gets out, he skips his parole and tracks Norman to the motel as the latter is putting up shower curtains in a room. When Jim gets his gun ready to shoot, Norman slashes his hand and stabs him to death while under his "Mother" personality. "She" then takes Jim's body and puts it in "her" freezer in the basement, takes his wallet, and parks his car in the woods. After Mother reveals to Norman Jim's body, "they" sail out to the lake and dump his body in, but not before Alex calls Jim on his cell phone, giving himself away. Jim's body was later found in the lake by the police, along with the body of Audrey Ellis, whom Norman had killed two years earlier.