Scenes with Norman Bates
3 scenes
Norman Bates' Mother
No! I tell you no! I won't have you bringing in some young girl in for supper! By candlelight, I suppose, in the cheap erotic fashion of young men with cheap erotic minds!
Norman Bates
Mother, please...!
Norman Bates' Mother
And then what? After supper? Music? Whispers?
Norman Bates
Mother, she's a stranger. She's hungry, and it's raining out!
Norman Bates' Mother
[mockingly]
"Mother, she's just a stranger"! As if men don't desire strangers! As if.. ooh, I refuse to speak of disgusting things, because they disgust me! You understand, boy? Go on, go tell her she'll not be appeasing her ugly appetite with my food or my son! Or do I have to tell you because you don't have the guts?
Norman Bates
[shouts]
Mother, shut up! Shut up!
Marion Crane
Wouldn't it be better if you... if you... put her someplace?
Norman Bates
Do you mean an institution? A madhouse? People always call a madhouse "someplace", don't they? "Put her in someplace."
Marion Crane
I'm sorry. I didn't mean it to sound uncaring. I...
Norman Bates
What do you know about caring? Have you ever seen the inside of one those places? The laughing and the tears, and the cruel eyes studying you. My mother in there? But she's harmless. She's as harmless as one of these stuffed birds.
Marion Crane
I am sorry. I only felt... I...
Norman Bates
You felt what?
Marion Crane
It seems that she was... she's hurting you. I meant well.
Norman Bates
People always mean well. They cluck their thick tongues and they shake their heads and they suggest, oh, so very delicately... [calms down] Of course, I've suggested it myself.
Norman Bates
It's not as if she were a maniac or a raving thing. She just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven't you?
Marion Crane
Yes. Sometimes just one time can be enough. Thank you.
Norman Bates
Thank you, Norman.
Marion Crane
Norman.
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