Psycho II (1983)

         They later find Toomey's car in Falls Lake, the swamp, locked in the trunk.

         Norman quit his job at the diner and decides to recondition Bates Motel by painting it a light yellow. While painting one afternoon he sees a figure up in mother's bedroom window. It's actually Mary Loomis dressed up to look like Norman's mother. Norman then goes up to the house and is locked in for hours. A moaning voice calling Norman is heard and finally Mary opens the door and lets Norman out. Mary actually did this so she could take all the furnishings out of "mother' room" down the back stairway.

        In the meantime, two young teenagers enter the fruit cellar through a window and spread an old mattress out and start to smoke and fool around with each other. The girl suddenly hears a thump and freezes. Her boyfriend says she's just high and not to pay attention. A minute later she hears another thump and this time her boyfriend hears it too. They look through a opening in the fruit cellar door and see a woman in a black dress with a butcher knife. She exits through the cellar window but he's not fast enough and is stabbed to death while his fingers squeak a vertical pattern down the cellar window. She runs, falls down, and continues to run away as fast as she can. She actually tells Sheriff Hunt about the incident. The killer was probably Miss Spool.

         A while later, Sheriff  Hunt comes to the front door and tells Norman and Mary about the girl who is in the squad car down by the motel. The body of the boy is gone and the fruit cellar cleaned up. Mary covers for Norman.

         Upstairs Norman is washing his face when the toilet gives a burping noise. Norman flushes it and blood spills over the floor. Mary comes up and is mad. A rag is found in the toilet but nobody knows how it got there. After this Mary gets her pistol her mother gave her. Norman comes up from downstairs and says his mother is down there. They decide to sleep there for the night but Norman can't sleep. There now is sort of a romantic scene between the two and she holds Norman's head in her lap. There's small talk but it's obvious there is something between them when he tells her she smells like a toasted cheese sandwich like his mother used to give him when he was in bed with a fever.

         It's quite possible that Miss Spool did most of the killing, including Toomey. She gives it away at the end of Psycho II when she says, "when I saw what they were trying to do to my poor little boy I couldn't stand it so one by one.........." Miss Spool was Norman's aunt his   mother.