Fort Mills - California Highway Patrolman
The plot of this film is rather complex and undoubtedly subject to a whole lot of interpretations. Nevertheless the film starts off with the beautiful Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), a real estate secretary in Phoenix, Arizona and lover of Sam Loomis (John Gavin) warning Sam that she is sick and tired of their illegal sexual escapades. She scolds Sam that she wants respectability and the right thing for them would be to get married so that everything would be legitimate.
Sam says he is financially handicapped because of a hefty alimony he pays to his ex-wife and obligations to his late father`s debtors and insists that they have to wait for some time to put his finances in order before they get married. When Marion`s boss gives her $40,000 cash to deposit in the bank, she decides to take off with the money and go see her lover Sam who has returned to Fairvale, California with the intention that they can settle some of the debts and finally get married. Having drove all night and day, she checks into this off- the -road motel. There she meets this timid, shy and stuttering manager Norman Bates who invites her to dinner at his house.
After a loud argument ensues between the manager and his mom who is said to be not too well, they have dinner in the office. Conversations with Norman reveals how trapped he is with his dominant mother but Norman philosophies how ultimately we have all fallen into various traps of our own makings. Marion seems to have had a change of heart and decides to return with the money back to Phoenix the following morning. She is however brutally murdered as she takes her bath by a shadowy figure believed to Norman`s mom.