Bates Motel has been a prequel leading up to the infamous shower scene as shown in Alfred Hitchcock’s cult classic movie Psycho for years now, and the show ultimately caught up to that moment in the timeline. But things didn’t go as everyone speculated: Marion Crane, the character who dies in the shower in the original movie, actually survived this time because young Norman Bates decided to murder Marion’s lover, Sam Loomis, instead.
Check out this side-by-side video comparing the shower scenes in the film and TV show.