Clarice paid for the motel room in cash--$35. She suspected that her room number would be marked as needing some sort of repair and that the money would go straight into the greasy-haired clerk’s pocket. She tried not to think of Psycho as she unlocked her room and relocked it with the two deadbolts and the chain lock once she was inside. But she was in the middle of nowhere, without even a cell phone. Tentatively, she picked up the room’s phone’s receiver and was relieved to hear a dial tone.

He wouldn’t stop here to look for her.