Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor)’s Timeline and Summary

Mitch's father dies. His bereaved mother, Lydia, clings to Mitch.
Mitch, a defense lawyer in San Francisco, meets Annie Hayworth in San Francisco, and they start dating.
After they break up, she comes to Bodega Bay as the schoolteacher to be near him.
Mitch sees a case in court in which socialite Melanie Daniels is responsible for breaking a window.
Mitch meets Melanie in a pet store in San Francisco and plays a practical joke on her by pretending to believe she's a saleswoman there.
Melanie surprises Mitch by bringing a pair of lovebirds to his sister, Cathy, as a gift to their home up the coast in Bodega Bay.
Mitch invites Melanie to dinner and generally lets her know he's interested in her.
They get more serious, but their romance is interrupted by increasingly violent bird attacks.
Under the pressure of the bird attacks, Melanie and Mitch become more serious about their relationship. They're in the trenches together.
Mitch tries to fight off a massive bird assault in his home, and afterward, he can't even get the police to believe what happened.
During an even bigger bird attack, Mitch boards up the windows and valiantly defends his family.
Melanie is badly injured and traumatized by an attack, and Mitch determines to get her to a hospital despite the danger of being outside.
Mitch, Lydia, and Cathy drive away from Bodega Bay, with lots and lots of birds sitting around watching them with supposedly sinister intent.