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Synopsis: Norman Bates is back again running his "quiet" little motel a month after the events in Psycho II. Norman meets three new people, one being a beautiful young nun with whom his budding relationship is beginning to make his "Mother" jealous. He also hires a young man in need of a job to take care of the motel. A snooping reporter is showing interest in Norman's case. What will these new friends do for Norman?
Director(s): Anthony Perkins
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
58%
R
Year:
1986
93 min
597 Views


lay off the third-degree, OK?

Can't you just leave

the poor slob alone?

What are you? His fan club?

- No, we believe in second chances.

What Norman did was a long time ago,

and he paid the price.

It depends on who you ask.

is paying the price, girly.

The guy's okay now.

When he worked here,

he was always on time and reliable.

A real Employee of the Month!

Go ahead and talk smart, lady.

He just wants to be left in peace.

Now look, Norman Bates has suffered

enough. Just leave him...

Afternoon, sheriff.

- ... alone.

Mrs. Oudley...

- What'll it be, Norman?

Chicken fried steak is good today.

Alright, and a glass of milk, please.

And a couple of burgers to go.

I'm warning you. I don't want trouble.

Then let go of my arm

or I'll holler police brutality.

Mind if I join you, Mr. Bates?

Tracy Vanderbilt.

Thanks, Myrna.

Coastal Reports?

- I write for them sometimes.

If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you

a few questions. - I mind.

Mr. Bates... - Norman.

- I'm writing on the insanity defense

and the rehabilitation

of mentally ill murderers.

Many people think

they can't be rehabilitated

and there shouldn't be

an insanity defense.

We hear the objections of the victims

and relatives, but the murderers,

who can't help themselves,

are victims too. What do you think?

If this lady's bothering you,

I'll have her leave.

Isn't your coffee break over, sheriff?

Anything else, Norman?

What do you think?

- About? - What we were just saying.

You were incarcerated for 20 years.

- 22.

Right.

For 22 years, you were locked away.

The state says you're sane.

You paid your debt.

Then Lila Loomis starts

to persecute you. - Because of

what happened to her sister.

- Yes.

Marion Crane. Right?

Right.

- But that was 20 years ago.

A long time to harbor revenge.

Aren't you bitter about

what Lila Loomis tried to do to you?

I understand.

My cure

couldn't cure the hurt I caused.

My return to sanity

didn't return the dead.

There's no way

to make up that loss.

The past is never really past.

It stays with me all the time.

No matter how hard I try,

I can't escape. It's always there.

Throbbing inside you.

Coloring your perceptions of the world,

and sometimes controlling them.

That's my point, Norman. You have

a conscience. You live with guilt.

You punish yourself all the time.

Why does the rest of society have to?

Take Mrs. Spool's disappearance.

What if a well-meaning citizen

thought that

you had something to do with it?

I'm not upsetting you, Norman?

All this talk

is only hypothetical.

- What's yours, babe?

She is only an example

of how people might,

given your past history,

tend to automatically blame you

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Charles Edward Pogue

Charles Edward Pogue Jr. (born January 18, 1950) is an American screenwriter, playwright and stage actor. He is best known for writing the screenplays of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983), Psycho III (1986), The Fly (1986) and Dragonheart (1996). more…

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