Tales from the Crypt S1E4
"Only Sin Deep"
Sylvia is a prostitute and is shown walking the streets of New York city night along with her acquaintence, Raven. She is just so full of herself constantly looking in the mirror which Raven comments that if she had a nickel every time she looked in that thing, should could retire fo life! So yes, Sylvia is a very pretty woman and she's tough because well, she has to be or just be swallowed up by life. Raven's pimp tries to recruit her and she asserts her independence by telling him to fuck off in more nice words. She ends up luring him into an alley feigning compliance until it quickly turns into a mugging. She also shot him freeing Raven. How nice.
Sylvia goes to a nearby pawnshop the next day to see what kind of profit she could turn up but the pawn shop owner knows the tell tale signs of a stolen goods and he outright refuses to buy them off her. In a huff, she gives a big "Fuck you!" and storms out.
Except!
"Wait a moment! How would you like to earn a big $10 grand?"
She sees $$$ like literally this time. It's in dangling in front of her frickin' face! Well hell yes she does!
The man takes her in the back of the store, sits her in a chair. She can't believe she is getting paid $10,000 just so he can mold her face. However, he corrects that not her face per se but her BEAUTY. This old fart wants to make a mold of her beauty. She's like yeah ok whatever let's get this over with so I can have my moolahhhhh.
Skipping a few moments later when he removes the mold of her face, excuse me I mean her beauty, he cautions her that she will only have 4 months until she can keep her beauty. She just rolls her eyes and heads out the door with cash in hand ready to go on her spending spree!
This is the 90s so imagine a cheesy 90s era dance music along with a montage of her living it up and trying then buying all these expensive clothes. lol.
With her new wardrobe in tow, she decided to crash an elegant fancy party of some rich dude's house. The host of the party notices her from the moment she walks in. Even though he had a date with him, he totally ditches her to romance the bombshell that is Sylvia.
She was playing hard to get which she could only get away with it due to her looks since she obviously has this rich dude on the hook just waiting to reel him in. As a lovestruck dude as he is, he ends up romancing the hell out of her and they officially become a couple in which she has gracefully moves in his place as well.
Things are going perfect for the both of them and she clearly forgets about the words of pawn shop man. Days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months. Four months has officially gone by and it's the damn dreaded deadline she has long gone past her memory. She gets a daunting reminder when she wakes up one morning and sees a blemish. Her crows feet and other facial aging signs become more and more visible so she freaks the fuck out. That's when it dawns on her that the old man was right!
She first tries to see a dermatologist but to no avail.
In a desperate attempt to get her beauty back, she comes raging in an emotional mess how he fucked her up. Things are getting pretty heated but a police friend shows up right when she pulled a gun on him so she skeddadles out of there. She heads back home and tries to gather as much money as she can since the pawn shop fart says he will reverse the process for $100,000! Yeah, you read right. Sylvia trashes up the house looking for money, jewelery just anything that has some kind of monetary value. Her rich boyfriend comes home and all he sees is an old lady. Not believing she's Sylvia, he tries to call the police. In a panic, Sylvia ends up shooting her lover to death. Yikes.
We don't know how much time has passed but by the time she reaches the pawn shop again he's like "Are you suuuuure?" He holds up a newspaper. Hmm. News flys fast, eh?
Sylvia ends up learning the truth of why the mold of her beauty was made. It was to keep the beauty of the pawn shop dude's late wife that was lying in a casket even further back in the shop. Ewww. Freaking the fuck out, police buddy has great timing and comes in the front of the shop to have a snack with his ol pal.
Sylvia ends up taking the mold of her face and runs out of the shop. She's then walking all sad and stuff not looking where she's going until...she bumps into Raven which causes her to drop and shatter the mold bust. Raven cusses her out not realizing that is her friend and storms off. Sylvia is last seen reeling from the shattered mess in the middle of the road and camera pans away.....
Yeah.
