1:38:00
Did he kill my sister?
1:38:02
Yes... and no.
1:38:05
Now look, if you're trying to lay
some psychiatric groundwork...
1:38:08
f or some sort of plea
this f ellow would like to cop...
1:38:11
(Chuckling) A psychiatrist
doesn't lay the groundwork.
1:38:14
He merely tries
to explain it.
1:38:16
- But my sister is...
- Yes.
1:38:21
Yes, I'm sorry.
The private investigator too.
1:38:26
If you drag that swamp somewhere in
the vicinity of the motel, you'll...
1:38:33
Uh, have you any unsolved
missing persons cases on your books?
1:38:36
- Yes, two.
- Young girls?
1:38:39
- Did he conf ess to...
- Like I said...
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the "mother."
1:38:46
To understand it the way I understood
it, hearing it from the "mother"...
1:38:50
that is from the "mother" half
of Norman's mind...
1:38:53
you have to go back
ten years...
1:38:56
to the time when Norman murdered
his mother and her lover.
1:38:59
He was already dangerously disturbed,
had been since his f ather died.
1:39:05
His mother was
a clinging, demanding woman...
1:39:10
and f or years the two of them lived as
if there was no one else in the world.
1:39:15
Then she met a man...
1:39:17
and it seemed to Norman that
she threw him over f or this man.
1:39:22
That pushed him over the line
and he killed them both.
1:39:25
Matricide is probably the most
unbearable crime of all...
1:39:31
most unbearable
to the son who commits it.
1:39:34
So he had to erase the crime,
at least in his own mind.
1:39:42
He stole her corpse.
1:39:46
A weighted coffin
was buried.
1:39:49
He hid the body
in the fruit cellar...
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even treated it to keep it
as well as it would keep.
1:39:55
And that still
wasn't enough.
1:39:58
She was there...
but she was a corpse.