
Haunted by fantasies that her crime will be discovered Monday morning, Marion runs into bad weather, checking into a rundown motel called "The Bates Motel," operated by young, neurotic, apparently callow NORMAN BATES, who is clearly attracted to Marion and talks about his dominating mother, whom Marion thinks she sees walking behind a bedroom curtain in the huge gingerbread mansion behind the motel. On the way, she attracts the suspicion of a PATROLMAN, and Marion, increasingly agitated, trades her car for a new one - paying with five-thousand dollars from her stolen cash. But Marion decides the money might buy her out of the dilemma with Sam, and she packs hastily, taking off in her car for Fairview with the cash stuffed in an envelope. Lowery, nervous, asks Marion to bank it on her way home, as shes developed a headache and is leaving early. Both Marion and co-worker CAROLINE are stunned by all the cash, and Mr. CASSIDY, is buying his daughter a house with cash - four-hundred thousand dollars. LOWERY, only to find that a vulgar Texan, MR. Marion returns to her job in a real estate office owned by MR. But Sam, owner of a hardware store in Fairview, California, burned by his previous marriage, is skittish of commitment, crushed by debt and alimony demands from his ex-wife, feeling incapable of supporting Marion in another marriage. When Phoenix secretary MARION CRANE, late 20s, meets her lover SAM LOOMIS in a seedy downtown hotel, she longs for the respectability of marriage.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
