Psycho (1960)

John McIntire: Sheriff Al Chambers

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• Sam Loomis : You mean the old woman I saw tonight wasn't Mrs. Bates?

  Sheriff Al Chambers : 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 I pounded, but she just ignored me!

  Sheriff Al Chambers : You mean to tell me you saw Norman Bates' mother?

  Lila Crane : It had to be - because Arbogast said so too. And the young man wouldn't let him see her because she was too ill.

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

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

  Lila Crane : Yes.

  Sheriff Al Chambers : Norman Bates' mother has been dead and buried in Greenlawn Cenetery for the past ten years!

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

  Sheriff Al Chambers : 'Tain't only local history, Sam. It's the only case of murder and suicide on Fairvale ledgers.

• Sheriff Al Chambers : You must've seen an illusion, Sam. Now, I know you're not the seeing illusion type; but, no woman was there and I don't believe in ghosts. So, there it is.