Film is forever.
At this point, yours truly and all present are absolutely clueless. Everyone in the film immediately feels safer once Donald Pleasance arrives on the set. The person that feels the safest is obviously the killer as he begins calling Pleasance on the phone and taunting him. York then travels to his mother's house in Italy, and then its two months later. The next thing you know, York is beating some guy senseless in a public restroom because he made a remark about the star's receeding hairline.