Psycho I

           Arbogast walks into the motel office and then into the parlor and notices the stuffed birds on the wall. He then starts up the three tiers ofd stone stairs towards the Bates mansion. He slowly opens the main door and goes in. He then starts the slow climb to the second floor. As he gets to the top a tall person in a dark dress with a butcher knife meets him and stabs him in the face and he falls down the stairs hitting the bottom with a crash. The killer then begins to stab him numerous times and that's the end of the Private Investigator.

           Sam and Lila are still waiting at the hardware store. Sam decides to go out to the Bates Motel and does so and finds nothing except "mother" sitting in the bedroom window, not answering the door. He comes back to the store and he and Lila decide to go to see Sheriff Chambers.

          They get Sheriff Chambers, (John MacIntire), out of bed. The sheriff calls Norman Bates but gets nothing except the P. I. had left. Then the sheriff tells Sam and Lila that Mrs. Bates died ten years before. Actually Norman murdered his mother and her boyfriend with iced tea laced with strychnine but the sheriff said she killed her lover and then took some herself. ("Ugly way to die,) the sheriff said.

          Norman's real father was really killed by Miss Spool, a waitress in Statler's nearby diner, years before. She was in love with him but her sister, Norma, stole him away from her when Norman was just a baby. Miss Spool was put in an asylum for a while. She appears again at the end of Psycho II and tells Norman her story.

          Now Sam and Lila decide that they can no longer wait so they decide to go out to the old Bates Motel and try to find out what happened to Marion, Lila's sister. They are greeted by a suspicious Norman Bates who gives them cabin #10 as man and wife. At their first chance they come up to cabin #1, the late Marion's cabin, and go inside. In the bathroom they find a clue on a piece of paper which has the $40,000 less $700 on it proving Marion was there a week before. After seeing this they decide they have to go up to the mansion on the hill and talk to mother Bates.

         While Sam keeps Norman busy talking in the office, Lila goes up to the mansion and goes in. It should be noted that Norman has carried his mother down to be hidden in the fruit cellar. Lila looks around and then starts to go up to mother's room. It's all very fancy like they all were in the 1800's. Mother's body imprint is in the mattress and there is even a sink in the bedroom with roses imprinted in the basin. All very typical of that period--Victorian. It should also be noted that the floors in the house are alternating colors of oak, light and dark. Lila then goes into Norman's bedroom and finds children's toys and adult items such as a record player, 33 1/3, version of  Eroica, 1803. She also finds some porno books. In the 1800's porno was done up in nameless leather covered books. (to be continued)