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 his daughter`s marriage gift. Visibly drunk after a good dinner, he flaunts 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 frequent 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 if to ask for forgiveness, 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 intimidating policeman: Marion is more and more frightened.

He lets her go. Those who haven`t seen the film are relieved, but the others know what is going to happen to Marion...