User blog comment:Cartoonprincess/Off-Topic Blog!!!! :)/@comment-3211359-20110202121609/@comment-1251488-20110202185219

well, the shower scene is definitely the most famous scene, but it's not the plot. A woman steals 14,000 dollars from her job and goes across the country to meet her boyfriend. However, she gets lost in a storm and ends up at the Bates Motel, where she meets Norman Bates, a taxidermist and the manager, who lives with his mother in a creepy ol' mansion on a hill near the motel. It is obvious Norman is smitten with the woman, Marian Crane. Later, Marian tears up the money and flushes it down a toilet before starting to take a shower. Suddenly, a shadowy woman appears and murders her. Norman, discovering her, wraps her up in the shower curtain and places her in her car before dumping the car into a nearby lake (i've seen the house, the motel and the lake at Universal Studios Hollywood). Later, Marian's sister and her boyfriend look for Crane and get a detective to check out the motel. The detective looks around and is murdered by the same shadowy woman while going up the stairs of the mansion. It is soon revealed that the woman is actually Norman's mother. Marian's sister and her boyfriend go to a policeman to ask about the motel, and discover that Norman's mother has actually been dead and buried in a nearby graveyard. finally, the sister and the boyfriend go to the motel. the boyfriend distracts Norman while the sister looks inside the mansion. When she enteres the basement, she discovers that norman's mother is in the cellar, now not much more than a decaying body dressed in her old clothes. Suddenly, Norman, dressed as the Mother, runs in and attempts to murder the sister, but the boyfriend stops him. After interrogating Norman, who is now not much more than his mother, a detective sums it up; Norman killed his mother 10 years ago, but felt guilty and took her back to his house. He then imagined his mother was in the house by dressing up as her and walking around the house as her. Finally, his mother became his own double personality. The final scene depicts "The Mother" deciding that they wouldn't lock her/him up because she wouldn't hurt a fly. Norman's face slowly morphs into his mother's as the car is pulled out of the lake.