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Finding the pawnshop closed, Sylvia breaks into the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self, dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe emerges from the back room to reveal that the corpse is of that of his long-dead wife, having used the beauty of Sylvia and all his other female customers to restore the body. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder. Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a local cop about Ronnie's death, all the evidence she left behind at the scene, and the fact that she's getting sent to the electric chair should she ever show her face again, Sylvia tearfully leaves the jewelry behind and exits with the mold Joe made of her face. On the street, she bumps into Raven (who rebukes her as an old hag) and drops the mold, which shatters on the pavement. Never able to be rich or beautiful again, Sylvia pitifully cries over the pieces of the mold, fruitlessly trying to put it back together as the world goes on around her.
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Finding the pawnshop shop closed, Sylvia breaks into the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self, dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe emerges from the back room to reveal that the corpse is of that of his long-dead wife, having used the beauty of Sylvia and all his other female customers to restore the body. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder. Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a local cop about Ronnie's death, all the evidence she left behind at the scene, and the fact that she's getting sent to the electric chair should she ever show her face again, Sylvia tearfully leaves the jewelry behind and exits with the mold Joe made of her face. On the street, she bumps into Raven (who rebukes her as an old hag) and drops the mold, which shatters on the pavement. Never able to be rich or beautiful again, Sylvia pitifully cries over the pieces of the mold, fruitlessly trying to put it back together as the world goes on around her.
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** After killing Raven's pimp with his own gun, Sylvia takes said gun and just leaves him in the alley. Both of these attritbutes come into play at the end, when she does the same to Ronnie and is screwed over when she forgets to clean up any evidence of the murder, especially the gun.
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** After killing Raven's pimp with his own gun, Sylvia takes said gun and just leaves him in the alley. Both of these attritbutes attributes come into play at the end, when she does the same to Ronnie and is screwed over when she forgets to clean up any evidence of the murder, especially the gun.
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* ILoveTheDead: Joe uses the beauty he gets from his female customers to preserve the corpse of his dead wife. He's even seen sweet-talking the corpse, still in the wedding gown and clutching a boquet, telling her that he can't wait for her to be beautiful again.
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* ILoveTheDead: Joe uses the beauty he gets from his female customers to preserve the corpse of his dead wife. He's even seen sweet-talking the corpse, still in the wedding gown and clutching a boquet, bouquet, telling her that he can't wait for her to be beautiful again.
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* MortonsFork: By the end of the episode, Syliva can either get her beauty back and get sent to the electric chair for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone the rest of her life to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her. The episode makes the choice for her by making her bump into Raven and dropping the mold of her beauty Joe made, leaving her stuck with the latter option.
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* MortonsFork: By the end of the episode, Syliva Sylvia can either get her beauty back and get sent to the electric chair for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone the rest of her life to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her. The episode makes the choice for her by making her bump into Raven and dropping the mold of her beauty Joe made, leaving her stuck with the latter option.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Talk about two-faced.]]
->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wipes some dirt off a mirror, then stares at his reflection)'' "Mirror, mirror, on the wall... who's the ''fearest'' of them all?" ''(the mirror shatters; he laughs)'' Looks like I just bought seven years' bad luck! Speaking of "bad luck", it's time for another nasty little terror tale from my crawly collection... and this one's got a message, too. It's a story about greed, death, and a girl who learned that beauty... is '''Only Sin Deep!''' ''(cackles)''
Sylvia Vane (Creator/LeaThompson) is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe (Britt Leach), turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price (Creator/BrettCullen).
Four months later, Sylvia is living with Ronnie and reveling in the gifts he lavishes on her. However, her face begins to age rapidly, and she remembers the deal she made with Joe. She hurries to the shop, ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers that she is one day past the deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his price, and he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
Sylvia frantically ransacks Ronnie's apartment, gathering up all the jewelry he gave her. Ronnie comes home from a business trip but does not recognize her; when he tries to call the police, she shoots and kills him. Finding the pawn shop closed, Sylvia breaks in and enters the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe has used her beauty and that of other women to restore the withered corpse of his long-dead wife. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper front page that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder.
Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she idiotically left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into Raven, a fellow hooker she used to know, and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
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->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wipes some dirt off a mirror, then stares at his reflection)'' "Mirror, mirror, on the wall... who's the ''fearest'' of them all?" ''(the mirror shatters; he laughs)'' Looks like I just bought seven years' bad luck! Speaking of "bad luck", it's time for another nasty little terror tale from my crawly collection... and this one's got a message, too. It's a story about greed, death, and a girl who learned that beauty... is '''Only Sin Deep!''' ''(cackles)''
Sylvia Vane (Creator/LeaThompson) is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe (Britt Leach), turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price (Creator/BrettCullen).
Four months later, Sylvia is living with Ronnie and reveling in the gifts he lavishes on her. However, her face begins to age rapidly, and she remembers the deal she made with Joe. She hurries to the shop, ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers that she is one day past the deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his price, and he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
Sylvia frantically ransacks Ronnie's apartment, gathering up all the jewelry he gave her. Ronnie comes home from a business trip but does not recognize her; when he tries to call the police, she shoots and kills him. Finding the pawn shop closed, Sylvia breaks in and enters the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe has used her beauty and that of other women to restore the withered corpse of his long-dead wife. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper front page that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder.
Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she idiotically left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into Raven, a fellow hooker she used to know, and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Talk about two-faced.[[Creator/LeaThompson If]] [[ActorAllusion your]] [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 son]] could see you now...]]
->'''Crypt Keeper:'''''(wipes (''wipes some dirt off a mirror, then stares at his reflection)'' reflection'') "Mirror, mirror, on the wall... who's the ''fearest'' of them all?" ''(the (''the mirror shatters; he laughs)'' cackles'') Looks like I just bought seven years' bad luck! Speaking of "bad luck", it's time for another nasty little terror tale from my crawly collection... and this one's got a message, too. It's a story about greed, death, and a girl who learned that beauty... is '''Only Sin Deep!''' ''(cackles)''
(''cackles'')
Sylvia Vane (Creator/LeaThompson) is ahooker prostitute obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite elite, and keeping herself beautiful. beautiful forever. She robs and kills a her fellow hooker Raven's pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, broker, Joe (Britt Leach), turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and right as a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Hatching a new idea, Joe offers Sylvia $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's her beauty, giving her four months to buy pay it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast mold of her face, and leaves with the cash in hand. One After getting a makeover and a new wardrobe later, she wardrobe, Sylvia attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman wealthy playboy Ronnie Price (Creator/BrettCullen).
Four months later, Sylvia is living withRonnie and Ronnie, reveling in the gifts he lavishes he's been lavishing on her. However, she notices wrinkles appearing on her face begins to age rapidly, and face, which throws the doctor she remembers sees for a loop. Remembering the deal she made with Joe. She Joe, she hurries to the his shop, throwing out another woman who Joe was fancying. She's ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers Joe tells her that she is she's one day past the her deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his new price, and to which he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
$100,000. Sylvia rushes back to Ronnie's office and frantically ransacks Ronnie's apartment, the place, gathering up all the jewelry he gave her. Ronnie comes Ronnie, coming home from a business trip but does not recognize her; when he trip, no longer recognizes Sylvia and tries to call the police, she to which Sylvia shoots and kills him. Finding the pawn shop closed, Sylvia breaks in and enters the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe has used her beauty and that of other women to restore the withered corpse of his long-dead wife. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper front page that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder.him dead.
Finding the pawnshop closed, Sylvia breaks into the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self, dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe emerges from the back room to reveal that the corpse is of that of his long-dead wife, having used the beauty of Sylvia and all his other female customers to restore the body. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder. Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a local cop aboutthe shooting - and Ronnie's death, all the evidence she idiotically left behind tying herself at the scene, and the fact that she's getting sent to it - the electric chair should she ever show her face again, Sylvia tearfully leaves her the jewelry behind and slips out of the shop exits with the cast mold Joe made of her face. Out on On the street, she bumps into Raven, a fellow hooker she used to know, Raven (who rebukes her as an old hag) and drops the cast, mold, which shatters on the pavement. Never able to be rich or beautiful again, Sylvia pitifully cries over the pieces of the mold, fruitlessly tries trying to piece put it back together as the world goes on around her.
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->'''Crypt Keeper:'''
Sylvia Vane (Creator/LeaThompson) is a
Four months later, Sylvia is living with
Finding the pawnshop closed, Sylvia breaks into the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self, dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe emerges from the back room to reveal that the corpse is of that of his long-dead wife, having used the beauty of Sylvia and all his other female customers to restore the body. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder. Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a local cop about
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* AntiVillain: Joe uses voodoo to rob women of their beauty, but only so he can use it to preserve the corpse of his dead wife.
* AssholeVictim: By the end, Sylvia’s life is ruined, but she deserves it for being a thieving murderer.
* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Joe was so horrified by Sylvia's aged face that he was willing to give her back her beauty. But then it's made clear that he isn't ''really'' planning on it:
-->'''Joe''': Sure, sure! (steps to the left) I could do that! I could give you your beauty back... [[CouldSayItBut if that's what you really want...]]
-->(camera pans down to reveal that Joe is holding [[OhCrap a newspaper, reporting on Sylvia's murder of Ronnie]])
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she can be rich, but she ends up regretting it four months later when her transformation finally begins.
* AssholeVictim: By the end, Sylvia’s life is ruined, but she deserves it for being a thieving murderer.
* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Joe was so horrified by Sylvia's aged face that he was willing to give her back her beauty. But then it's made clear that he isn't ''really'' planning on it:
-->'''Joe''': Sure, sure! (steps to the left) I could do that! I could give you your beauty back... [[CouldSayItBut if that's what you really want...]]
-->(camera pans down to reveal that Joe is holding [[OhCrap a newspaper, reporting on Sylvia's murder of Ronnie]])
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she can be rich, but she ends up regretting it four months later when her transformation finally begins.
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* AntiVillain: Joe uses voodoo to rob women of their beauty, but only so he can use it to preserve restore the corpse of his dead long-dead wife.
* AssholeVictim:By the end, Sylvia’s life is ruined, but she deserves it for being a thieving murderer.
* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Joe was so horrified by Sylvia's aged face that he was willing to give her back herbeauty. But then it's beauty for free. It's made clear that he isn't ''really'' planning on it:
-->'''Joe''': Sure, sure! (steps -->'''Joe:''' Sure. Sure! (''steps to the left) left'') I could do that! I could give you your beauty back... back!... [[CouldSayItBut if that's what you really want...want.]]
-->(camera -->(''the camera pans down to reveal that Joe is he's holding [[OhCrap a newspaper, reporting on Sylvia's murder of Ronnie]])
Ronnie]]'')
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she can be rich, but she ends up regretting it four monthslater later, when her transformation rapid aging finally begins.
* AssholeVictim:
* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Joe was so horrified by Sylvia's aged face that he was willing to give her back her
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she can be rich, but she ends up regretting it four months
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* BrainlessBeauty: Sylvia is this at first, being beautiful, but dumb. By the end of the story, she’s no longer beautiful.
* BrooklynRage: Sylvia has a stereotypically over-the-top New York accent when she talks.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken, and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. She spent all her money on a mask that can change her face back to normal, but if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her being sent to the electric chair. Then to top it off, she drops the mask and it shatters, dooming her to be ugly for the rest of her life.
* ForeShadowing: An old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that he's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it quickly makes sense that she's one of his customers who missed their deadline. The woman even wears a veil to cover her aged face, much like Sylvia does later in the episode. And just like she does, Sylvia tells a woman who Joe was admiring to get out of his store, deeming him untrustworthy.
** Raven's pimp also tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her "could get ugly real fast with an attitude."
* GenreSavvy: Joe is one step ahead of Sylvia throughout the episode. First, he can tell that the jewelry she tries to pawn off on him, which she robbed from Raven's pimp before she shot him dead, is "hot", and refuses to take it from her. Then, when she misses her deadline, he offers to give back her beauty for $100,000, leading her to rob Ronnie's place and shoot him dead in the process. Finally, when she begs him to give back her beauty, he reveals a newspaper headlining about her murder of Ronnie, ultimately screwing her.
* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal, besides maintaining her beauty, is to get off the streets and marry a wealthy playboy to live off his riches.
* BrooklynRage: Sylvia has a stereotypically over-the-top New York accent when she talks.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken, and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. She spent all her money on a mask that can change her face back to normal, but if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her being sent to the electric chair. Then to top it off, she drops the mask and it shatters, dooming her to be ugly for the rest of her life.
* ForeShadowing: An old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that he's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it quickly makes sense that she's one of his customers who missed their deadline. The woman even wears a veil to cover her aged face, much like Sylvia does later in the episode. And just like she does, Sylvia tells a woman who Joe was admiring to get out of his store, deeming him untrustworthy.
** Raven's pimp also tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her "could get ugly real fast with an attitude."
* GenreSavvy: Joe is one step ahead of Sylvia throughout the episode. First, he can tell that the jewelry she tries to pawn off on him, which she robbed from Raven's pimp before she shot him dead, is "hot", and refuses to take it from her. Then, when she misses her deadline, he offers to give back her beauty for $100,000, leading her to rob Ronnie's place and shoot him dead in the process. Finally, when she begs him to give back her beauty, he reveals a newspaper headlining about her murder of Ronnie, ultimately screwing her.
* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal, besides maintaining her beauty, is to get off the streets and marry a wealthy playboy to live off his riches.
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* BrainlessBeauty: Sylvia is this at first, such a case, being beautiful, but dumb. drop-dead gorgeous while lacking in intelligence. By the end of the story, episode, she’s no longer beautiful.
* BrooklynRage: Sylviahas speaks in a stereotypically deep, over-the-top New York accent Brooklyn accent, notably when she's enraged or being serious.
* ChekhovsGun: A literal example comes from the gun Sylvia swipes from Raven's pimp early in the episode. She uses it to kill Ronnie near the end and stupidly leaves it behind in his penthouse, fingerprints all over it. The cops are able to recognize her prints from her arrest record, so she'll be sent to the chair when shetalks.reveals herself again.
* DownerEnding: After losing all her money and clumsily leaving behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. She steals the plaster mold Joe made of her beauty, which ''can'' change her face back to normal, but if she does so, showing her face anywhere in public will send her to the electric chair. To top it off, she drops the mold and it shatters on the sidewalk, dooming her to be ugly for the rest of her life.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Sylvia and Raven spot Ronnie heading into his building at the beginning of the episode, walking his latest lover inside.
* FemmeFatale: Sylvia, who desires above all else to be rich and beautiful forever, not caring who she has to kill in the process.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Raven's pimp tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her could "get ugly real fast" with that attitude of hers.
** After killing Raven's pimp with his own gun, Sylvia takes said gun and just leaves him in the alley. Both of these attritbutes come into play at the end, when she does the same to Ronnie and is screwed over when she forgets to clean up any evidence of the murder, especially the gun.
** During his and Sylvia's first meeting, an old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that he's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it becomes apparent that she was one of his customers who missed their deadline.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken, and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. She spent all her money on a mask that can change her face back to normal, but if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her being sent to the electric chair. Then to top it off, she drops the mask and it shatters, dooming her to be ugly for the rest of her life.
* ForeShadowing: An old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that he's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it quickly makes sense that she's one of his customers who missed their deadline.** The woman even wears a veil to cover her aged face, much like Sylvia does later in the episode. And just like she does, Sylvia tells a woman who Joe was admiring to get out of his store, deeming him untrustworthy.
** Raven's pimp also tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her "could get ugly real fast with an attitude."
episode.
* GenreSavvy: Joeis spends the whole episode one step ahead of Sylvia throughout the episode. First, he Sylvia:
** He can tell that the jewelry she tries to pawn off on him, which she robbed from Raven's pimp before she shot him dead, is"hot", "hot" and refuses to take it from her. her.
** Then, when she misses her deadline, he offers to give back her beauty for $100,000, leading her to rob Ronnie's place of its valuables and shoot him dead in theprocess. process.
** Finally, when she begshim Joe to give her back her beauty, he reveals a newspaper headlining about her murder of Ronnie, ultimately screwing her.
her over.
* GoldDigger:Sylvia's main goal, besides Besides maintaining her beauty, Sylvia's lifelong goal is to get off the streets and marry a wealthy playboy to live off his riches.
* BrooklynRage: Sylvia
* ChekhovsGun: A literal example comes from the gun Sylvia swipes from Raven's pimp early in the episode. She uses it to kill Ronnie near the end and stupidly leaves it behind in his penthouse, fingerprints all over it. The cops are able to recognize her prints from her arrest record, so she'll be sent to the chair when she
* DownerEnding: After losing all her money and clumsily leaving behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. She steals the plaster mold Joe made of her beauty, which ''can'' change her face back to normal, but if she does so, showing her face anywhere in public will send her to the electric chair. To top it off, she drops the mold and it shatters on the sidewalk, dooming her to be ugly for the rest of her life.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Sylvia and Raven spot Ronnie heading into his building at the beginning of the episode, walking his latest lover inside.
* FemmeFatale: Sylvia, who desires above all else to be rich and beautiful forever, not caring who she has to kill in the process.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Raven's pimp tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her could "get ugly real fast" with that attitude of hers.
** After killing Raven's pimp with his own gun, Sylvia takes said gun and just leaves him in the alley. Both of these attritbutes come into play at the end, when she does the same to Ronnie and is screwed over when she forgets to clean up any evidence of the murder, especially the gun.
** During his and Sylvia's first meeting, an old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that he's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it becomes apparent that she was one of his customers who missed their deadline.
* ForeShadowing: An old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that he's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it quickly makes sense that she's one of his customers who missed their deadline.
** Raven's pimp also tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her "could get ugly real fast with an attitude."
* GenreSavvy: Joe
** He can tell that the jewelry she tries to pawn off on him, which she robbed from Raven's pimp before she shot him dead, is
** Then, when she misses her deadline, he offers to give back her beauty for $100,000, leading her to rob Ronnie's place of its valuables and shoot him dead in the
** Finally, when she begs
* GoldDigger:
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* ILoveTheDead: Joe uses the beauty he gets from his female customers to preserve the corpse of his wife.
* JustAKid: Sylvia, a freelance hooker on the street, states that she's only 21 years old.
* KarmaHoudini: Joe gets away with swindling Sylvia out of her beauty and is free to continue doing so to other women.
* LargeHam: Sylvia, whenever her New York accent slips through.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her husband in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being arrested for Ronnie's murder. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MakeoverMontage: Sylvia has one when she uses the money she got from Joe to doll herself up and slip into Ronnie's party.
* JustAKid: Sylvia, a freelance hooker on the street, states that she's only 21 years old.
* KarmaHoudini: Joe gets away with swindling Sylvia out of her beauty and is free to continue doing so to other women.
* LargeHam: Sylvia, whenever her New York accent slips through.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her husband in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being arrested for Ronnie's murder. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MakeoverMontage: Sylvia has one when she uses the money she got from Joe to doll herself up and slip into Ronnie's party.
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* ILoveTheDead: Joe uses the beauty he gets from his female customers to preserve the corpse of his wife.
dead wife. He's even seen sweet-talking the corpse, still in the wedding gown and clutching a boquet, telling her that he can't wait for her to be beautiful again.
* JustAKid:Sylvia, a freelance hooker on At one point, Sylvia tells the street, states doctor she visits that she's only 21 years old.
old, yet she's spent most of that time as a freelance hooker on the street,
* KarmaHoudini: Even though he claims it to be for a noble cause, Joe gets away with swindling Sylvia and countless other women out ofher beauty their beauty, and is free to continue doing so to other women.
by the episode's end.
* LargeHam: Sylvia,whenever with her New York accent slips through.
thick Brooklyn accent.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp andher husband Ronnie in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being arrested and sent to the chair for Ronnie's murder. For a GoldDigger like someone as greedy and vain as her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MakeoverMontage: Sylvia has one when she uses the money shegot gets from Joe to doll herself up and slip into Ronnie's party.
* JustAKid:
* KarmaHoudini: Even though he claims it to be for a noble cause, Joe gets away with swindling Sylvia and countless other women out of
* LargeHam: Sylvia,
* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and
* MakeoverMontage: Sylvia has one when she uses the money she
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* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks, "Who's the fearest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and faces a murder charge for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
* RapidAging: After pawning her beauty, this happens to Sylvia's face days after her four-month deadline lapses. By the time she kills Ronnie, she looks so old that he no longer recognizes her.
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with one for Sylvia. She either lives without her beauty for a better chance of eluding the police, or she gets her beauty back, but risks getting tracked down and sentenced to death for her rich husband’s murder -- it's undesirable for her, either way. Then she drops the mask that can change her face back to normal and it shatters to pieces, taking the choice out of her hands and forcing her to remain ugly.
* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and faces a murder charge for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
* RapidAging: After pawning her beauty, this happens to Sylvia's face days after her four-month deadline lapses. By the time she kills Ronnie, she looks so old that he no longer recognizes her.
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with one for Sylvia. She either lives without her beauty for a better chance of eluding the police, or she gets her beauty back, but risks getting tracked down and sentenced to death for her rich husband’s murder -- it's undesirable for her, either way. Then she drops the mask that can change her face back to normal and it shatters to pieces, taking the choice out of her hands and forcing her to remain ugly.
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* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks, asks it, "Who's the fearest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
* MortonsFork:Sylvia's plight by By the end of the episode. Either she gets episode, Syliva can either get her beauty back and faces a murder charge get sent to the electric chair for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone the rest of her life to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
her. The episode makes the choice for her by making her bump into Raven and dropping the mold of her beauty Joe made, leaving her stuck with the latter option.
* RapidAging: After pawning her beauty, this happens to Sylvia's face days afterher the four-month deadline lapses. By the time she kills Ronnie, she looks so old that he no longer recognizes her.
doesn't even recognize her anymore.
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with one forSylvia. She Sylvia: she either lives without her beauty for a better chance of eluding the police, or she gets her beauty back, but back and risks getting tracked down and sentenced to death for her rich husband’s murder -- it's Ronnie's murder, either choice being highly undesirable for her, either way. Then her. To twist the knife further, she drops the mask mold that can change her face back to normal and it shatters to pieces, taking the choice out of her hands and forcing her to remain ugly.ugly.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Raven's pimp, who Sylvia kills for his jewelry, which she tries to pawn off to Joe, leading her to discover his "beauty bargain". She also swipes his gun to kill him, and later Ronnie, leaving it covered in her fingerprints for the police to find.
* MortonsFork:
* RapidAging: After pawning her beauty, this happens to Sylvia's face days after
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with one for
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Raven's pimp, who Sylvia kills for his jewelry, which she tries to pawn off to Joe, leading her to discover his "beauty bargain". She also swipes his gun to kill him, and later Ronnie, leaving it covered in her fingerprints for the police to find.
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* TooDumbToLive: After looting Ronnie's place of its valuables, Sylvia makes no effort to clean up the crime scene, get rid of her murder weapon, or wipe her fingerprints off the weapon itself. The cops are instantly able to piece everything together, and since Sylvia already had an arrest record for solicitation, she'll be arrested and charged with murder -- and almost certainly get the death penalty upon conviction -- the next time she shows her face. The officer who investigated the scene even lampshades that their culprit is no rocket scientist, but she certainly is attractive.
-->'''Officer:''' With a face like that, who needs brains?
* VanityIsFeminine: Raven, one of Sylvia's fellow hookers, comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of a mirror. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume that this is the natural state of affairs for someone as beautiful as herself.
* VillainProtagonist: This story’s protagonist, Sylvia, is a shallow, greedy, selfish gold digger who robs and murders two people.
-->'''Officer:''' With a face like that, who needs brains?
* VanityIsFeminine: Raven, one of Sylvia's fellow hookers, comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of a mirror. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume that this is the natural state of affairs for someone as beautiful as herself.
* VillainProtagonist: This story’s protagonist, Sylvia, is a shallow, greedy, selfish gold digger who robs and murders two people.
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* TooDumbToLive: After looting Ronnie's place of penthouse for its valuables, Sylvia makes no effort to clean up the crime scene, get rid of her murder weapon, gun, or wipe her fingerprints off the weapon itself. it. The cops are instantly able to piece everything together, and since Sylvia already had has an arrest record for solicitation, she'll be arrested and charged with murder -- and almost certainly get sent to the death penalty upon conviction -- the next time electric chair whenever she shows her face. The face again. Joe's police officer friend Mac, who investigated the scene scene, even lampshades that their culprit is no rocket scientist, but she he can certainly is attractive.
-->'''Officer:'''understand why that wouldn't normally be a problem for someone like her:
-->'''Mac:''' With a face like that, who needs brains?
* UnclePennybags: Ronnie uses his wealth to shower Sylvia with jewels, furs, and other luxuries, and the two meet when he's hosting a lavish party, even ditching his latest lover to talk to her, which she brings up. Raven even comments in the opening scene that every night is a party night for him.
* VanityIsFeminine: Raven, one of Sylvia's fellow hookers,comments sarcastically comments on the amount of time she spends preening herself in front of a mirror. mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume assumes that this is the natural state of affairs for someone as beautiful as herself.
* VillainProtagonist:This story’s protagonist, Sylvia, Sylvia is a shallow, greedy, selfish gold digger selfish, vain, egotistical, gold-digging prostitute who robs and murders two people.
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-->'''Mac:''' With a face like that, who needs brains?
* UnclePennybags: Ronnie uses his wealth to shower Sylvia with jewels, furs, and other luxuries, and the two meet when he's hosting a lavish party, even ditching his latest lover to talk to her, which she brings up. Raven even comments in the opening scene that every night is a party night for him.
* VanityIsFeminine: Raven, one of Sylvia's fellow hookers,
* VillainProtagonist:
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->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(applying beauty cream to his face)'' Poor Sylvia, eh, kiddies? Guess she heard the old saying, "if looks could kill"... ''so she did!'' ''(cackles)'' Just goes to show ya, if you wanna sell yourself, take a look in the mirror first. ''(looks at his reflection and flinches)'' Euugh! Well, see you next time, boys and ''ghouls''! ''(cackles)''
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->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(applying beauty (''applying acne cream to his face)'' face'') Poor Sylvia, eh, kiddies? Guess she heard the old saying, "if saying "If looks could kill"... kill...", ''so she did!'' ''(cackles)'' (''chuckles'') Just goes to show ya, ya: if you wanna sell yourself, take a look in the mirror first. ''(looks (''looks at his reflection and flinches)'' flinches'') Euugh! Well, see you next time, boys and ''ghouls''! ''(cackles)''(''cackles'')
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* AssholeVictim: By the end, Sylvia’s life is ruined, but she deserves it for being a thieving murderer.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she can be rich, but she ends up regretting it four months later.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she can be rich, but she ends up regretting it four months later.later when her transformation finally begins.
* BrainlessBeauty: Sylvia is this at first, being beautiful, but dumb. By the end of the story, she’s no longer beautiful.
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* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken, and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her being sent to the electric chair.
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* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken, and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even She spent all her money on a mask that can change her face back to normal, but if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her being sent to the electric chair.chair. Then to top it off, she drops the mask and it shatters, dooming her to be ugly for the rest of her life.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her boyfriend in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being arrested for Ronnie's murder. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her boyfriend husband in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being arrested for Ronnie's murder. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with one for Sylvia. She either lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and sentenced to death for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
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* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with one for Sylvia. She either lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with gets her beauty and/or riches only to make it easier for her to be back, but risks getting tracked down and sentenced to death for her rich boyfriend's husband’s murder -- it's undesirable for her her, either way.way. Then she drops the mask that can change her face back to normal and it shatters to pieces, taking the choice out of her hands and forcing her to remain ugly.
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* VillainProtagonist: Sylvia.
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* VillainProtagonist: Sylvia.This story’s protagonist, Sylvia, is a shallow, greedy, selfish gold digger who robs and murders two people.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her boyfriend in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being executed by the cops. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her boyfriend in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being executed by the cops.arrested for Ronnie's murder. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and is executed for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
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* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and is executed faces a murder charge for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
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* TooDumbToLive: After looting Ronnie's place of its valuables, Sylvia makes no effort to clean up the crime scene, get rid of her murder weapon, or wipe her fingerprints off the weapon itself. The cops are instantly able to piece everything together, and since Sylvia already had an arrest record for solicitation, she's getting a one way ticket to the electric chair the next time she shows her face. The officer who investigated the scene even lampshades that their culprit is no rocket scientist, but she certainly is attractive.
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* TooDumbToLive: After looting Ronnie's place of its valuables, Sylvia makes no effort to clean up the crime scene, get rid of her murder weapon, or wipe her fingerprints off the weapon itself. The cops are instantly able to piece everything together, and since Sylvia already had an arrest record for solicitation, she's getting a one way ticket to she'll be arrested and charged with murder -- and almost certainly get the electric chair death penalty upon conviction -- the next time she shows her face. The officer who investigated the scene even lampshades that their culprit is no rocket scientist, but she certainly is attractive.
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* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and executed for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
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* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and is executed for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
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[[caption-width-right:350: Talk about two-faced.]]
->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wipes some dirt off a mirror, then stares at his reflection)'' "Mirror, mirror, on the wall... who's the ''fearest'' of them all?" ''(the mirror shatters; he laughs)'' Looks like I just bought seven years' bad luck! Speaking of "bad luck", it's time for another nasty little terror tale from my crawly collection... and this one's got a message, too. It's a story about greed, death, and a girl who learned that beauty... is '''Only Sin Deep!''' ''(cackles)''
->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wipes some dirt off a mirror, then stares at his reflection)'' "Mirror, mirror, on the wall... who's the ''fearest'' of them all?" ''(the mirror shatters; he laughs)'' Looks like I just bought seven years' bad luck! Speaking of "bad luck", it's time for another nasty little terror tale from my crawly collection... and this one's got a message, too. It's a story about greed, death, and a girl who learned that beauty... is '''Only Sin Deep!''' ''(cackles)''
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Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into a hooker she used to know and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
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Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she idiotically left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into Raven, a fellow hooker she used to know know, and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
* AntiVillain: Joe uses voodoo to rob women of their beauty, but only so he can use it to preserve the corpse of his dead wife.
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-->'''Joe''': (steps to the left) I could do that... I could give you your beauty back... [[CouldSayItBut If that's what you really want...]]
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-->'''Joe''': Sure, sure! (steps to the left) I could do that... that! I could give you your beauty back... [[CouldSayItBut If if that's what you really want...]]
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she could be rich and she ends up regretting it after four months have passed.
* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidly decaying and aging]] over the course of days.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.
* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal -- besides maintaining her beauty, that is.
* IfIHadANickel: "You know somethin' honey, if I had a dollar for every time you stood in the mirror admirin' your face, I could get off these streets and retire to the Bahamas."
* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her vanity.
* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks, "Who's the fairest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
* RapidAging: This happens to Sylvia's face in days once her four-month deadline lapses after pawning her own beauty.
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
* VanityIsFeminine: One of Sylvia's fellow hookers comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it is the natural state of affairs for someone as beautiful as she is.
* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidly decaying and aging]] over the course of days.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.
* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal -- besides maintaining her beauty, that is.
* IfIHadANickel: "You know somethin' honey, if I had a dollar for every time you stood in the mirror admirin' your face, I could get off these streets and retire to the Bahamas."
* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her vanity.
* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks, "Who's the fairest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
* RapidAging: This happens to Sylvia's face in days once her four-month deadline lapses after pawning her own beauty.
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
* VanityIsFeminine: One of Sylvia's fellow hookers comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it is the natural state of affairs for someone as beautiful as she is.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she could can be rich and rich, but she ends up regretting it after four months have passed.
later.
* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidlydecaying and aging]] over the course of days.
* BrooklynRage: Sylvia has a stereotypically over-the-top New York accent when she talks.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beautytaken taken, and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.
being sent to the electric chair.
*GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal -- besides maintaining her beauty, ForeShadowing: An old lady barges into Joe's shop and feebly tries to attack him. When it's revealed that is.
* IfIHadANickel: "You know somethin' honey, if I hadhe's been buying women's beauty to preserve his wife's corpse, it quickly makes sense that she's one of his customers who missed their deadline. The woman even wears a dollar for every time you stood veil to cover her aged face, much like Sylvia does later in the mirror admirin' your face, I could episode. And just like she does, Sylvia tells a woman who Joe was admiring to get off these streets and retire to the Bahamas.out of his store, deeming him untrustworthy.
** Raven's pimp also tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her "could get ugly real fast with an attitude."
* GenreSavvy: Joe is one step ahead of Sylvia throughout the episode. First, he can tell that the jewelry she tries to pawn off on him, which she robbed from Raven's pimp before she shot him dead, is "hot", and refuses to take it from her. Then, when she misses her deadline, he offers to give back her beauty for $100,000, leading her to rob Ronnie's place and shoot him dead in the process. Finally, when she begs him to give back her beauty, he reveals a newspaper headlining about her murder of Ronnie, ultimately screwing her.
* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal, besides maintaining her beauty, is to get off the streets and marry a wealthy playboy to live off his riches.
* IfIHadANickel: From Raven to Sylvia:
-->'''Raven:''' You know somethin', honey, if I had a dollar for every time you stood in the mirror admirin' your face, I could get off these streets and retire to the Bahamas.
* ILoveTheDead: Joe uses the beauty he gets from his female customers to preserve the corpse of his wife.
* JustAKid: Sylvia, a freelance hooker on the street, states that she's only 21 years old.
* KarmaHoudini: Joe gets away with swindling Sylvia out of her beauty and is free to continue doing so to other women.
* LargeHam: Sylvia, whenever her New York accent slips through.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her boyfriend in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being executed by the cops. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MakeoverMontage: Sylvia has one when she uses the money she got from Joe to doll herself up and slip into Ronnie's party.
* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her incredible vanity.
* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks, "Who's thefairest fearest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and executed for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
* RapidAging:This After pawning her beauty, this happens to Sylvia's face in days once after her four-month deadline lapses after pawning her own beauty.
lapses. By the time she kills Ronnie, she looks so old that he no longer recognizes her.
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends withthis one for Sylvia. Either she She either lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested sentenced to death for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
* TimeSkip: When Ronnie and Sylvia meet for the first time, the episode skips ahead four months later, where Sylvia has been living with him... and notices wrinkles appearing on her face.
* TooDumbToLive: After looting Ronnie's place of its valuables, Sylvia makes no effort to clean up the crime scene, get rid of her murder weapon, or wipe her fingerprints off the weapon itself. The cops are instantly able to piece everything together, and since Sylvia already had an arrest record for solicitation, she's getting a one way ticket to the electric chair the next time she shows her face. The officer who investigated the scene even lampshades that their culprit is no rocket scientist, but she certainly is attractive.
-->'''Officer:''' With a face like that, who needs brains?
* VanityIsFeminine:One Raven, one of Sylvia's fellow hookers hookers, comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. a mirror. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it that this is the natural state of affairs for someone as beautiful as herself.
* VillainProtagonist: Sylvia.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: By the end of the episode, neither Ronnie nor Raven recognize Sylvia, the latter calling her an "old, ugly, triflin' bitch."
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->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(applying beauty cream to his face)'' Poor Sylvia, eh, kiddies? Guess sheis.heard the old saying, "if looks could kill"... ''so she did!'' ''(cackles)'' Just goes to show ya, if you wanna sell yourself, take a look in the mirror first. ''(looks at his reflection and flinches)'' Euugh! Well, see you next time, boys and ''ghouls''! ''(cackles)''
* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidly
* BrooklynRage: Sylvia has a stereotypically over-the-top New York accent when she talks.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty
*
* IfIHadANickel: "You know somethin' honey, if I had
** Raven's pimp also tells Sylvia, while threatening her, that a pretty young thing like her "could get ugly real fast with an attitude."
* GenreSavvy: Joe is one step ahead of Sylvia throughout the episode. First, he can tell that the jewelry she tries to pawn off on him, which she robbed from Raven's pimp before she shot him dead, is "hot", and refuses to take it from her. Then, when she misses her deadline, he offers to give back her beauty for $100,000, leading her to rob Ronnie's place and shoot him dead in the process. Finally, when she begs him to give back her beauty, he reveals a newspaper headlining about her murder of Ronnie, ultimately screwing her.
* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goal, besides maintaining her beauty, is to get off the streets and marry a wealthy playboy to live off his riches.
* IfIHadANickel: From Raven to Sylvia:
-->'''Raven:''' You know somethin', honey, if I had a dollar for every time you stood in the mirror admirin' your face, I could get off these streets and retire to the Bahamas.
* ILoveTheDead: Joe uses the beauty he gets from his female customers to preserve the corpse of his wife.
* JustAKid: Sylvia, a freelance hooker on the street, states that she's only 21 years old.
* KarmaHoudini: Joe gets away with swindling Sylvia out of her beauty and is free to continue doing so to other women.
* LargeHam: Sylvia, whenever her New York accent slips through.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After murdering Raven's pimp and her boyfriend in the name of greed and vanity, Sylvia is forced to live with being broke and ugly to avoid being executed by the cops. For a GoldDigger like her, this is considered a FateWorseThanDeath.
* MakeoverMontage: Sylvia has one when she uses the money she got from Joe to doll herself up and slip into Ronnie's party.
* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her incredible vanity.
* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks, "Who's the
* MortonsFork: Sylvia's plight by the end of the episode. Either she gets her beauty back and executed for killing Ronnie, or she stays ugly and alone to evade the police. Either way, it's unbearably horrific for a woman like her.
* RapidAging:
* SadisticChoice: The episode ends with
* TimeSkip: When Ronnie and Sylvia meet for the first time, the episode skips ahead four months later, where Sylvia has been living with him... and notices wrinkles appearing on her face.
* TooDumbToLive: After looting Ronnie's place of its valuables, Sylvia makes no effort to clean up the crime scene, get rid of her murder weapon, or wipe her fingerprints off the weapon itself. The cops are instantly able to piece everything together, and since Sylvia already had an arrest record for solicitation, she's getting a one way ticket to the electric chair the next time she shows her face. The officer who investigated the scene even lampshades that their culprit is no rocket scientist, but she certainly is attractive.
-->'''Officer:''' With a face like that, who needs brains?
* VanityIsFeminine:
* VillainProtagonist: Sylvia.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: By the end of the episode, neither Ronnie nor Raven recognize Sylvia, the latter calling her an "old, ugly, triflin' bitch."
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->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(applying beauty cream to his face)'' Poor Sylvia, eh, kiddies? Guess she
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* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidly decaying aging]] over the course of days.
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* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidly decaying and aging]] over the course of days.
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* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks "Who's the fairest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
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* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks asks, "Who's the fairest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At first, it seems like Joe was so horrified by Sylvia's aged face that he was willing to give her back her beauty. But then it's made clear that he isn't ''really'' planning on it:
-->'''Joe''': (steps to the left) I could do that... I could give you your beauty back... [[CouldSayItBut If that's what you really want...]]
-->(camera pans down to reveal that Joe is holding [[OhCrap a newspaper, reporting on Sylvia's murder of Ronnie]])
-->'''Joe''': (steps to the left) I could do that... I could give you your beauty back... [[CouldSayItBut If that's what you really want...]]
-->(camera pans down to reveal that Joe is holding [[OhCrap a newspaper, reporting on Sylvia's murder of Ronnie]])
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Sylvia Vane is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe, turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price.
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Sylvia Vane (Creator/LeaThompson) is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe, Joe (Britt Leach), turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price.
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* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts rapidly decaying aging over the course of days.
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* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts [[RapidAging rapidly decaying aging aging]] over the course of days.
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* RapidAging: This happens to Sylvia's face in days once her four-month deadline lapses after pawning her own beauty.
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* VanityIsFeminine: One of Sylvia's fellow hookers comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it is the natural state of affairs for someone as as beautiful as she is.
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* VanityIsFeminine: One of Sylvia's fellow hookers comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it is the natural state of affairs for someone as as beautiful as she is.
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* MortonsFork: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
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* MortonsFork: SadisticChoice: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
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* MortonsFork: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
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* MortonsFork: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.way.
* VanityIsFeminine: One of Sylvia's fellow hookers comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it is the natural state of affairs for someone as as beautiful as she is.
* VanityIsFeminine: One of Sylvia's fellow hookers comments sarcastically on the amount of time she spends preening in front of mirrors. Sylvia shrugs it off and seems to assume it is the natural state of affairs for someone as as beautiful as she is.
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* MirrorCrackingUgly: In the prologue, the Crypt Keeper looks into a mirror and asks "Who's the fairest of them all?" The mirror promptly shatters.
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* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goals -- besides maintaining her beauty, that is.
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* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goals goal -- besides maintaining her beauty, that is.
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* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her vanity.
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* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her vanity.vanity.
* MortonsFork: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
* MortonsFork: The episode ends with this for Sylvia. Either she lives without her beauty and/or riches for a better chance of eluding the police, or she lives with her beauty and/or riches back only to make it easier for her to be tracked down and arrested for her rich boyfriend's murder -- it's undesirable for her either way.
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* GoldDigger: Sylvia's main goals -- besides maintaining her beauty, that is.
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* IfIHadANickel: "You know somethin' honey, if I had a dollar for every time you stood in the mirror admirin' your face, I could get off these streets and retire to the Bahamas."
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* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.
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* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.arrested.
* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her vanity.
* MeaningfulName: Sylvia’s last name, Vane, easily foreshadows her vanity.
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Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into a hooker she used to know and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
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Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into a hooker she used to know and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.her.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she could be rich and she ends up regretting it after four months have passed.
* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts rapidly decaying aging over the course of days.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Sylvia sells her beauty so she could be rich and she ends up regretting it after four months have passed.
* BodyHorror: After four months, Sylvia's face starts rapidly decaying aging over the course of days.
* DownerEnding: With her riches pawned, her beauty taken and having clumsily left behind evidence tying her to her rich boyfriend's murder, Sylvia can never get her beauty back. Even if she did, showing her face anywhere in public could ultimately lead to her getting arrested.
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Four months later, Sylvia is living with Ronnie and reveling in the gifts he lavishes on her. However, her face begins to age rapidly, and she remembers the deal she made with Joe. She hurries to the shop, ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers that she is one day past the four-month deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his price, and he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
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Four months later, Sylvia is living with Ronnie and reveling in the gifts he lavishes on her. However, her face begins to age rapidly, and she remembers the deal she made with Joe. She hurries to the shop, ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers that she is one day past the four-month deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his price, and he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
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Sylvia Vane is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe, turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price
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Sylvia Vane is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe, turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price
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Sylvia Vane is a hooker obsessed with two things: getting into the city's wealthy elite and keeping herself beautiful. She robs and kills a pimp, then takes his jewelry to a pawn shop filled with strange artifacts. The pawnbroker, Joe, turns her away, suspecting the items to be stolen, and a sobbing old woman barges in and feebly tries to attack him. Joe offers $10,000 in exchange for Sylvia's beauty, giving her four months to buy it back with interest. She accepts the deal, allows him to make a plaster cast of her face, and leaves with cash in hand. One makeover and new wardrobe later, she attends a high-class cocktail party and draws the attention of businessman Ronnie Price
Four months later, Sylvia is living with Ronnie and reveling in the gifts he lavishes on her. However, her face begins to age rapidly, and she remembers the deal she made with Joe. She hurries to the shop, ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers that she is one day past the four-month deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his price, and he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
Sylvia frantically ransacks Ronnie's apartment, gathering up all the jewelry he gave her. Ronnie comes home from a business trip but does not recognize her; when he tries to call the police, she shoots and kills him. Finding the pawn shop closed, Sylvia breaks in and enters the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe has used her beauty and that of other women to restore the withered corpse of his long-dead wife. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper front page that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder.
Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into a hooker she used to know and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
Four months later, Sylvia is living with Ronnie and reveling in the gifts he lavishes on her. However, her face begins to age rapidly, and she remembers the deal she made with Joe. She hurries to the shop, ready to pay him off and reclaim her beauty, but discovers that she is one day past the four-month deadline. Holding him at gunpoint, she demands that he name his price, and he offers to return her beauty for $100,000.
Sylvia frantically ransacks Ronnie's apartment, gathering up all the jewelry he gave her. Ronnie comes home from a business trip but does not recognize her; when he tries to call the police, she shoots and kills him. Finding the pawn shop closed, Sylvia breaks in and enters the back room, where she finds an exact duplicate of her original self dressed in a wedding gown and lying in a coffin. Joe has used her beauty and that of other women to restore the withered corpse of his long-dead wife. He offers to return Sylvia's beauty, but shows her a newspaper front page that declares her the prime suspect in Ronnie's murder.
Overhearing a conversation between Joe and a cop about the shooting - and all the evidence she left behind tying herself to it - Sylvia tearfully leaves her jewelry behind and slips out of the shop with the cast Joe made of her face. Out on the street, she bumps into a hooker she used to know and drops the cast, which shatters on the pavement. Sylvia fruitlessly tries to piece it back together as the world goes on around her.
