Like just about everyone else in the film, Harold begins by confusing Bateman for somebody else, and is fully convinced that the message he was left was just a prank - with the punchline being the idea of a dork like Patrick Bateman being a serial killer. The real bombshell, though, is dropped as Bateman makes his way to the bar to meet with his lawyer. Jean (Chloe Sevigny) finds a notebook that seem to be reflections of her boss' psychosis, and we are suddenly left to wonder if it's all just his fantasy. The body parts that Bateman has been storing in Paul Allen's apartment are gone, and a realtor explains that nobody named Paul Allen actually lived there. It is after this point when everything we understood to be true in American Psycho begins to unravel. He finishes the call telling his lawyer where he can meet him tomorrow. He says that he has killed anywhere between 20 and 40 people, including Paul Allen (Jared Leto), and doesn't think he can get away with it anymore. Sobbing and speaking to an answering machine, he admits to every monstrous act he's done - some of which we've seen in the movie, some of which we haven't. As he hides under his desk from helicopter search lights, Bateman makes a call to his lawyer, Harold (Stephen Bogaert) to make his confession.
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