Psycho I and Psycho II

          It should be noted that the end of Psycho I Hitchcock superimposed the skull of his mother over Norman Bates' face just for about a half second. This was done on only a few of the movies and most of the audience probably missed it.

         I was talking to a psychiatrist friend of mine and it was his feeling that it's not likely that a person can have two or more distinct personalities in the same mind. Norman had two. His mother and himself.

PSYCHO II

        Norman was put in an institution for twenty two years where they erased all the bad parts of his memory under the care of a psychiatrist names Doctor Raymond. In the meantime  Lila Crane, Marion's sister played by Vera Miles went on a crusade getting over seven hundred names on a petition to keep Norman institutionalized. She, in the meantime, married Marion's boyfriend Sam Loomis who, a few years later, died. She also had a girl by Sam. Her name was Mary, played by Meg Tilly. Miss Spool, who works in the local diner, plays a major part in the murders in and around the Bates Motel, although it's not known until the end of the movie when she visits,(her last visit), Norman late at night in the kitchen of the house.

        Norman is released under the care of Dr. Raymond in the Kern County Courthouse under the objection of Lila Loomis who is thrown out of the courtroom by the presiding judge. Dr. Raymond takes Norman to the Motel, now in need of upkeep, and while going up the stairs to the house, sees someone in his mother's window. Mary Loomis dressed up to look like his mother. Both she and her mother Lila are trying to destabilize Norman and put him back in the institution because of his murdering Marion, Lila's sister, in Psycho I. Norman also meets Warren Toomey, the man, played by Dennis Frantz, who was hired by the hospital to run the motel while Norman was away. Frantz also had a major part in the T V series NYPD years later. Frantz says he's running a motel that makes money, drugs and all, and that infuriates Norman. Norman fires his motel manager and they part with Frantz saying, "My customers have a good time. What do yours get Bates? Murdered. Murdered by you, you loony!"

        Mary agrees to stay in the house with Norman and they sit in the kitchen to eat. Norman loses his appetite and so does Mary. She says she learned from Myrna, a waitress, that he'd been locked away. Norman explains and they go to bed. Mary upstairs and Norman Downstairs.

        The next thing you hear is a horn blowing at the office and Toomey yells up to the house, "Hey you nut cases I just wanted to let you know that I'm leaving." You hear a crow cawing and the next thing you see is Toomey being stabbed in the motel office by a woman in a long black dress.