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{{BSZ}} One of the most instructive things to do about Hitchcock's masterpieces is to play the game of mental experiments. What if things were to take a different path (as they almost did)? Say, what if Bernard Hermann were to write for Psycho the planned score in free jazz style with heavy saxophone sound? Vertigo has three such "what-if": what if Vera Miles hadn't gotten pregnant and had been able to play Madeleine-Judy — would it still be the same movie? What if — and this option cannot but strike us as ridiculous — Hitchcock had bowed to Paramount studio's pressure and accepted for the credit sequence the song Vertigo, already written by the standard couple Livingstone-Evans? And, what if the film had been released with the extended ending, the additional short scene in Midge's apartment, with Scottie and Midge listening to the radio which announces that Elster was arrested abroad for the murder of his wife?