She discovers his eyeless corpse, pecked lifeless by birds, and flees in horror. The next morning, Lydia visits her neighbor to discuss why their chickens will not eat. After, Mitch insists she delay driving back to San Francisco and stay the night. Later that evening, as Melanie dines with the Brenners, sparrows swarm the house through the chimney. During a game, the children are attacked and some injured by gulls. A dead gull is found at the threshold.Īt Cathy's party, Melanie privately tells Mitch about her troubled past and her mother running off with another man when Melanie was Cathy's age. Shortly after, there is a violent thud at Annie's front door. Mitch calls Melanie and invites her to Cathy's birthday party being held the next day. Lydia expresses her disapproval of Melanie to Mitch due to her exaggerated reputation, as reported in gossip columns. At the farm, Lydia's hens are suddenly refusing to eat. Melanie returns to Annie's house and asks to spend the night. Lydia arrives, meets Melanie, and Mitch announces to Lydia that he is inviting Melanie to dinner. Mitch tends her head wound inside the cafe. As Melanie approaches the wharf, a gull attacks her. Mitch spots Melanie during her retreat and drives into town to meet her at the dock. Melanie rents a boat in town and crosses the bay to leave the lovebirds at the Brenner farm discreetly. Annie previously dated Mitch but ended it due to Mitch's cold, overbearing mother, Lydia, who dislikes any woman in Mitch's life. Melanie is directed to the local teacher, Annie Hayworth, to learn Cathy's name. Finding him attractive, Melanie buys the lovebirds to make amends and drives to Bodega Bay after she learns Mitch has gone to his family's farm for the weekend. He discloses his prior knowledge of her and that his ruse was intended to make her appreciate being on the other end of a joke. Mitch tests Melanie's knowledge of birds, which she fails. Recognizing Melanie from her court appearance regarding a practical joke gone awry, Mitch pretends to mistake her for a shop employee.
In the early 1960s, at a San Francisco pet store, socialite Melanie Daniels meets lawyer Mitch Brenner who is looking to buy lovebirds for his sister Cathy's 11th birthday.
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