A young woman stops at a motel for the night while traveling alone. After a strange knock on her door, she takes her medication, which causes her to have hallucinations of her own worst fears while she is in the shower.
[Contains Spoilers] Marie, a young woman in her mid-twenties, comes to a motel for an evening while traveling alone. While in her room, she hears a knock at the door. While she is at the door, a mysterious black gloved hand is seen grabbing the pills, a fantastical embodiment of her inner darkness and anxiety that clings to these drugs for comfort. She opens the door to find no one is there. Getting nervous, she chooses to take a dose of her prescription medication. After swallowing the pills, she gets comfortable in her room and begins to watch a horror film, "Night of Living Dead." The ominous sounds of the film resound in the room as she prepares to take a shower. While the shower, the drugs begin to have an effect, causing her to hallucinate and see three frightening, visceral visions. First she sees herself in a hospital room, restrained to a bed and bound in a straight-jacket. A nurse asks her several questions, and she is unable to answer. Frustrated by her lack of response, the nurse begins to be rough with her, climbs on top of her and forces pills down her throat. It cuts back to Marie in the shower, who spits out identical looking pills. As the steam rises, she finds herself within a second vision, a hallway filled with locked doors. She walks down the hallway, attempting to escape. At the end of the hallway there is a room with a table, where something is covered with a white cloth. As Marie uncovers it, she is shocked to see her own dead body lying there. The corpse opens its eyes, and says the phrase "You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting." Marie screams, and the body reaches up and grabs her by the throat. Marie reaches up to cover the hand, and finds herself in the third and final vision, a graveyard. She is standing before an enormous gravestone. On it she is horrified to see her own name written there, along with her date of death and the same phrase carved into the stone. She tries to run, and falls backwards. As she begins to fall, she briefly comes back to reality and collapses in the shower, falling down hard and her head hitting the tub. Her eyes are red, and there is blood seen running down the drain. The mirror carries the same message, seemingly written in blood. "You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting," the final verdict of her own mind as she tragically succumbs to her overdose. The hotel sign, which is revealed to read The Bates Motel, now has a neon sign under it that flashes Vacancy.—Hayley Stoddard