Arbogast traces Marion to the motel and questions Norman, who lies unconvincingly that Marion stayed for one night and left the following morning. Sam is contacted by both Marion's sister, Lila, and private detective Milton Arbogast, who has been hired by Marion's employer to find her and recover the money. He cleans the bathroom and places Marion's body, wrapped in the shower curtain, and all her possessions-including the money-in the trunk of her car and sinks it in a nearby swamp. Later, finding the corpse, Norman is horrified. An unidentified female figure, presumed to be Norman's mother, enters the bathroom and stabs Marion to death. After calculating how she can repay the money she has spent, Marion dumps her notes down the toilet and begins to shower. Marion resolves to return to Phoenix to return the money. Later that night, while Marion is changing, Norman secretly watches her from a peephole in his office and masturbates before heading back to the house. He admits he would like to do so, but he does not want to abandon her. She overhears Norman arguing with his mother about letting Marion in the house and, during the meal, she angers him by suggesting he institutionalize his mother. He invites Marion to have supper with him. Owner Norman Bates tells Marion he rarely has customers because of a new interstate highway nearby and mentions he lives with his mother Norma in the house overlooking the motel. Marion returns to the road but, rather than drive in a heavy storm, decides to spend the night at the Bates Motel. When she trades her car for another one at a dealership, he notes the new vehicle's details. A highway patrol officer awakens her and, suspicious of her agitated state, begins to follow her. While en route to Sam's California home, she parks along the road to sleep. Marion Crane steals $400,000 from her employer to get her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, out of debt.

Psycho 1998 cast