Psycho III starts in a nunnery in the West where Maureen Coyle attempts suicide in a bell tower. She doesn't succeed but another nun falls to her death and Maureen is blamed for it. She leaves for good and takes off across the desert with a suitcase towards a main highway. Along comes Wayne Duke, a folk singer in a beat up olds, who gives her a ride. Night falls and the rains come and they have to stop and sleep. Duke makes advances, she gets mad, and throws her out with her suitcase. Duke carries on to the Bates motel. Norman Bates, in the meantime, is stuffing birds with sawdust on the kitchen table when he hears Duke's horn blowing down at the motel. Norman yells down that he'll, "be right down".
They both go into the office and Norman tells Duke there's a job opening at $5 an hour as assistant manager. Norman says they've been closed for a while for renovations but business is bound to pick up. He's booked two or three cabins for later in the week for a football game - Central vs. Fairvale. Duke says that he doesn't want a long time job but he only wants to make enough money to get his brakes fixed and that he won't be staying around long. Norman says, "Nobody ever does." That's the first dark joke of the movie. Norman decides to go to Statler's Diner and tells Duke he'll bring him back a couple of burgers. He tells Duke to remember the motel rates. $20.95 single and $25.95 double. Duke doesn't always keep to those rates. In the diner we meet Maureen and Sheriff Hunt. con't
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