Should have taken the sandwich, Mrs. Spool...
- Lila's slow transition into a villain herself (or descent to She Who Fights Monsters for some viewers who still sees her as a Hero Antagonist) is slightly unsettling. She abuses her daughter every time they interact, showing that she's now not so different from Norma Bates.
- When Norman returns to his house, we're treated to a flashback of his mother's death. We never actually see his mother, but we do see her hand fall to the ground after being poisoned by her son.
- Two teenagers look for a spot to make out at. They decide to do it under the basement of Norman's house. However, it's also in this scene that we discover Norman isn't the killer in this film because he's locked himself up in the attic by mistake. But, a strange woman with a knife is walking under the basement chasing the two teens. The girl gets away, but she helplessly watches the killer slaughter her boyfriend after he fails to escape the house.
- Norman suffers a heavy Sanity Slippage while trying to live a normal life. However, he can't stop seeing someone harassing him by dressing up like his mother. Paranoia Fuel doesn't even begin to describe this.
- It turns out that somebody really is following Norman around. When Mary stays over to comfort Norman by providing company, she notices a peephole in the bathroom and catches a glimpse of something moving in his mother's old room. She calls out for Norman, but it turns out he's been downstairs the whole time making tea. Mary enters into his mother's old room to see the peephole from the other side and sees the Death Glare of an intruder now in the bathroom.
- When Norman needs proof that his mother is truly out of his life for good, he and his psychiatrist dig up Norma Bates' old grave. Cue Norma making a cameo as a festering corpse.
- The death of Lila Loomis. She breaks into Norman's basement in the middle of the day, when suddenly Mother follows her down, not Norman, an actual female killer. She murders Lila by shoving her kitchen knife through her mouth and out the back of her head. Her body is later seen falling from behind a coal pile, now hideously butchered.
- Norman killing Mrs. Spool. At first it seems like they're sharing a normal conversation together. After he asks if she would like a sandwich, he suddenly strikes her on the head with a shovel. We then see her body twitch in pain as she slowly dies while Norman just watches in awe.
