- A woman goes to the a bar where she is mesmerized by a seductive dancer who offers her an experience in pleasure and pain. Her friend attempts to warn her away.
- Gaunt host David Bowie tells you about people's desire to change. Cute Catherine Delaney sees herself as a total failure in relationships, both in the straight and gay world. She has turned gothic and confesses to her friend Lanie that she has only had two lovers in her whole life (presumably, then, one man, one girl) and with Lanie's encouragement, she phones up a former acquaintance, a girl, who just blows her off by putting down the phone when she invites her for tea. Kat wants change, and plans to do something to realize this. Off to the neighborhood night-club, she and her friend go. There is a dancer in a skintight, milk-white latex outfit who writhes about on the floor like a starved tigress that mesmerizes Kat no end. The low-cut suit reveals her back to be completely covered by a jumble of tattoos, mostly girls' faces, and Kat becomes totally intrigued by tattoos and wants some too. She wants the dancer, Roxanne, but is spurned by her at first, then told to come back later, and, despite Lanie's misgivings, becomes just more steadfast in her pursuit of tattoo parlours and her desire to be rid of her 'pathetic' score of only having been with two lovers her whole life. She throws out everything dark and Gothic in her apartment and Lanie congratulates her for this total transformation, but warns her that her intended quest, the dancer Roxanne, well known to Lanie, will rip her apart, for she is not meant for her, because it is not about what you want, but what you are. But Kat pays no heed, and goes off alone into the night, pondering her 'pathetic' lovelife on the subway and resolutely heading back to the night-club, telling the receptionist at the club that Lanie sent her, and peeks in on what happens to the paying customers backstage. Roxanne plays the dominant Mistress and has her female patrons in tears and hugs them motherly afterwards as they sob forlornly after (presumably) having been punished for their misdeeds. Kat wants what she wants, she is not deterred by a prospect of nothing but pain, she gets her permanent works of art from the hairy-armed tattooist, one on her arm, celebrating the first time she saw Roxanne in the PVC outfit, the other on her shoulder, a nude rear view. She pays to have a tryst with Roxanne; Lanie is the strung-up other customer, disappointed that she did not take her advice. Roxanne and Kat go at it passionately out in the hallway and on the bed, flailing arms and legs and everything inbetween. Next morning a dazed Roxanne wakes up alone on the red sheets and then stumbles sobbing to the bathroom mirror. All that is left of Kat is the added tattoo on Roxanne's back, it is Kat's face, she has become absolutely nothing more than just another notch. The Thin White Duke then reminds us in the closing statement that the singular most effective transformation is Death, the only escape from Earthly constraints.
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