Psycho, the rob.

After leaving the hotel, Marion comes back to her office (Hitchcock`s Cameo in front of the office) and meets with her colleague Caroline (Patricia Hitchcock).

Her Boss arrives with a man dealing with petroleum, Tom Cassidy: he decides to buy a 40.000$ house for her daughter`s marriage gift. Visibly drunk after a good dinner, he boasts the envelope containing the banknotes to the employees.

This money is the MacGuffin that makes the story begin.Hitchcock shows it a lot of times, in close-up (in Cassidy`s hands, on Marion`s bed, in the car and later in the motel)

Marion`s boss asks her to deposit the money in the bank at the end of her working hours. Saying she`s got a headache, Marion goes home, leans the envelope on the bed and undresses herself (another time!)

The temptation is high: with 40.000$ she could pay Sam`s debts and start a new life with him. She takes frequently glances at the envelope, thinks, hesitates....

Close-up at the envelope and at Marion`s suitcase (the departure is imminent?)

Marion looks at herself in the mirror, -What am I going to do?- she`s wondering;

she takes a glance to the photo of her parents as to ask for forgivement, then she closes the suitcase and heads her car towards California.

The music suggests Marion`s exitation.

On the road, waiting at a traffic light, she sees her boss crossing the street: he sees her too, and stops, wondering why she`s not home. Does he understand what`s going on?

After this moment, the music changes because Marion has become a fugitive on a desperate escape. (Bernard Herrmann uses the same music of the Opening Credits, AU 175 Kb).

Fallen asleep in her car parked at the border of the road, she`s awakened and interrogated by a oppressing policeman: Marion is more and more frightened.

He lets her go. Who has never seen the film is relieved, but the others know what is going to happen to Marion...

Index	Phoenix	The rob	The Motel	The Shower	Arbogast	The end