- Outside the Fairvale Church (which has a helpful sign on it saying "Fairvale Church"), the Chambers meet Sam and Lila.
- The Sheriff says he went to the motel to talk to Norman, and the boy was alone. The Sheriff didn't see the old woman in the window.
- Chambers tells Lila and Sam to report the missing person and the theft.
- Lila wants to go out to the Bates place, so the two of them decide to head out.
- They plan to register as man and wife (scandalous) and then search the place.
- At the motel, we see a shot from upstairs, from Norman's perspective. He sees them from the window where his mother had been sitting.
- Norman comes downstairs and offers to check them in.
- Sam says he needs to sign in to get a receipt for his boss.
- Sam and Norman and Lila all seem tense and nervous.
- Lila and Sam head off to the cabin (#10).
- Lila is determined to look in Cabin 1; she thinks Norman took the money from Lila.
- She also thinks Norman did something to Arbogast.
- And Sam and Lila mosey around the motel to Cabin 1.
- They search around; Sam notices that the shower curtain got torn down. You'd think Norman would have replaced it, but to be fair, he's been busy sinking people in the swamp.
- And Lila finds one of the torn bits of paper that Marion threw in the toilet; it has the figure $40,000 on it.
- Lila thinks that means that Norman knew about the money.
- She also thinks Arbogast talked to Mrs. Bates. So Lila is determined to talk to Mrs. Bates.
- Sam decides to find Norman and talk to him while Lila talks to the mother.
- Sam finds him and says he'd like to chat with Norman while Lila naps.
- But Lila isn't napping; she's sneaking up to the house.
- The ominous strings come up; just like all the others, though, Lila doesn't listen.
- She enters the house…
- Cut back to Norman and Sam.
- Sam seems super tense, and is trying to grill Norman, which seems dumb, but we haven't really gotten any evidence that Sam's an especially bright guy.
- Anyway, Lila searches upstairs in the house, but Mrs. Bates isn't there. Which is weird, because there's a wardrobe of woman's dresses.
- Lila is startled by her own reflection moving in the mirror.
- And the bed looks like someone has been sleeping in it.
- So where is the mother anyway?
- Sam is still talking to Norman and being very confrontational. Norman is getting cranky. "My mother and I were more than happy," Norman says. Okay, Norman.
- Lila snoops around more. Sam provokes a confrontation with Norman by talking about his mother, causing him to get suspicious.
- Sam, you're not supposed to make him suspicious, you dope.
- Sam all but accuses him of stealing the money. He also tells Norman that they're going to talk to Mrs. Bates.
- Norman figures out that Lila is at the house. He struggles with Sam and clonks him in the big dumb head.
- Lila comes down the stairs and sees Norman running up to the house.
- She hides on the stairs to the fruit cellar. Norman goes upstairs.
- Lila goes into the fruit cellar. Uh oh.
- Down in the fruit cellar, she sees a woman sitting in a chair.
- She touches the woman on the shoulder, the figure turns around…and it's a corpse.
- Here's the "scree! scree! scree!" again on the soundtrack; bad news for Lila.
- A figure bursts into the fruit cellar in women's clothes, wielding a knife.
- It's Norman in a wig. Sam runs in a second later and wrestles him to the ground.
- There's a shot of the corpse, watching. Then fade out.