STRIPPED TO KILL

While working undercover in Skid Row, Los Angeles, police officer Cody and her partner, Sergeant Heineman, witness a stripper named Angel being thrown off a bridge and set on fire. Their investigation leads to Cody posing undercover as a stripper at Rock Bottom, the club where the murdered woman was employed. Despite not being much of a dancer, Cody manages to win an amateur night, after which the club's owner, Ray, offers her a job.

Cody slowly befriends the other dancers, winning their trust. Meanwhile, another one of the dancers, Cinnamon, who's been let go by Ray due to her being addicted to pills, is strangled to death by the assailant with a metal cord.

When Cody and Heineman's superiors discover that she has been dancing at the club, they order her to stop. But Cody defies them. Tensions arise between her and Heineman, who has romantic feelings toward her. The two of them have sex, only to argue the following morning.

Heineman investigates a series of potential suspects, including Roxanne, a stripper who happened to be Angel's lover. He believes, however, that the killer is Pocket, a young man who's always at the club. Heineman confronts Pocket, only to discover that the man is missing his hand and his genitals from a war injury.

Cody pays a visit to Roxanne, encountering instead the woman's younger brother, Eric. When Eric's behavior reminds her of Roxanne's, Cody searches the apartment, discovering in the process a neighbor's corpse. Roxanne reveals herself to be Eric, dressed in drag; he has been posing and performing as his dead sister at the club, wearing fake latex breasts.

Eric explains that he killed Roxanne because he feared that she was going to leave him for her lover, Angel. Heineman arrives at the apartment and Eric shoots him. Cody flees, with Eric in pursuit. Their chase eventually leads them back to the Rock Bottom, where Eric begins indiscriminately shooting people. Cody douses Eric in gasoline, and when he tries to shoot her, he accidentally sets himself on fire. The fire spreads to Cody, but Heineman arrives and tamps it out. He reveals that he survived the gunshots thanks to a bulletproof vest. Cody, who realizes she's been shot in the leg, embraces Heineman.

The killer is revealed to be Eric, who was posing as his dead sister Roxanne; after a violent confrontation at the club, Eric is set on fire and killed, and Cody survives with Heineman's help.

The film's ending exposes the fractured identity and motivations of the murderer, bringing the investigation full circle as Cody’s undercover work leads to a deadly showdown. The use of disguise and mistaken identity plays directly into the film’s themes of performance and deception, while the final scene offers a cathartic—if chaotic—resolution for the surviving characters.