The Ace of Clubs is having trouble keeping a regularly nightly singer due to the fact that the costumed criminal Tatterdemalion appears warning the women from performing and making them all quit. When Alison Blaire goes there to apply for the job, her assumed alias is seen right through by the clubs owner Rick Conti. Conti however, is interested in the added business of having a mutant performer. Alison is disgusted at first, telling Conti that she is a musician not a freak-show, however Conti convinces her to take the job because he is desperate to find a replacement singer, and will hire her if she can wow him with her audition. With Julia Walker, the clubs pianist playing the piano Alison does just that with her amazing vocals and Conti hires her on the spot. When Conti offers her a whack of money to buy some new outfits, Alison declines telling him that she has a policy of only accepting money that she has earned. Leaving the club she notices an old poster advertising Julia as the clubs main singing act, and realizes that Julia Walker was the famous actress of the same name and wonders what happened to her career.
