Lila Crane quotes from Psycho (1960)

Your detective told you he couldn't come right back because he was goin' to question Norman Bates' mother. Right?

Lila Crane

Yes.

Norman Bates' mother has been dead and buried in Greenlawn Cemetery for the past ten years!

I helped Norman pick out the dress she was buried in. Periwinkle blue.

It ain't only local history, Sam. It's the only case of murder and suicide on Fairvale ledgers. Mrs. Bates poisoned this guy she was involved with when she found out he was married. Then took a helpin' of the same stuff herself. Strychnine. Ugly way to die.

Norman found them dead together in bed.

Sam Loomis

You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?

Now wait a minute, Sam, are you sure you saw an old woman?

Sam Loomis

Yes! In the house behind the motel! I called and pounded but she just ignored me!

You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?

Lila Crane

But it had to be, because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.

Well if the woman up there is Mrs. Bates, who's that woman buried out in Greenlawn Cemetery?

Lila Crane

Look, that old woman, whoever she is, she told Arbogast something. I want her to tell us the same thing.

Sam Loomis

Hold it, you can't go up there.

Lila Crane

Why not?

Sam Loomis

Bates.

Lila Crane

Then, let's find him. One of us can keep him occupied while the other gets to the old woman.

Sam Loomis

You'll never be able to hold him still even if he doesn't want to be held. And, I don't like you going into that house alone.

Lila Crane

I can handle a sick old woman!

Lila Crane

She left home on Friday. I was in Tuscon over the weekend and I haven't heard from her since -- not even a phone call. Look if you two are in this thing together, I don't care -- It's none of my business -- but I want to talk to Marion and I want her to tell me it's none of my business! And then I'll go--

Sam Loomis

Bob! Run out and get yourself some lunch, will you?

Oh, that's okay, Sam, I brought it with me.

Sam Loomis

Run out and eat it!

No. I got the whole story -- but not from Norman. I got it... from his mother. Norman Bates no longer exists. He only half-existed to begin with. And now, the other half has taken over. Probably for all time.

Lila Crane

Did he kill my sister?

Yes -- and no.