SAMPLE EPISODES
EPISODE ONE
NYC 1995 - Deija, a voluptuous stripper is watching a morning TV reportage about a new business platform called the internet and how people like Madeleine Altmann are starting to use it for safe and discreet video phone sex. She and her coworker Tina’s are interested as they want out of their current set up of being manhandled by customers at the club. WIth no computers around, let alone an internet connection, it takes them a while to chase down the contact info for Babes4u.
We then meet Madeleine IRL surrounded by sex toys at her Babes4u studio, testing cameras hooked up to computers. The programmer she’s hired is having a hard time with the whole set up. Not just technically, but with the sex content as well. They’ve set up a live stream where, for the first time ever, a person could see another live person. It was still one way. Madeleine could not see the viewer. Afterall there are no digital cameras, and the only way to hear anyone is through an old fashioned corded telephone as a separate lanline call.
Initially 800 numbers are used to connect and download software that then needs to be installed on PCs only. CD drives are mistaken as cup holders and other fun mishaps as the public navigate windows and the B4U service on the internet with their home computers. The learning curve for the client is high. Luckily sex is a big motivator.
Madeleine is also a student at the cutting edge interactive program at NYU. That’s where she’s learning about the technology that gave her the EUREKA moment to start Babes4u. Unfortunately Red Burns, the head of the department, is disappointed with Madeleine’s amateurish performance at NYU. She questions Professor Nick West’s decision of giving her the work study scholarship. Nick reminds Red of Madeleine’s previous success with interactive TV in San Francisco and the freedom of speech case she’s trying to win against Viacom. Things dear to Red’s heart.
FLASHBACK of Madeleine’s Variety TV (MVTV) LIVE show in SF where viewers supplied the content and could call in to control the cameras and action. Suddenly the feed gets cut. Viacom deemed it was not in adherence with community standards. Madeleine knew it was not up to a corporation to decide that.
END FLASHBACK
Madeleine’s sister Beth is also not happy with her, especially after that Future Sex Magazine spread she did to promote MVTV. Even though it was a while ago and in a niche magazine in SF, she’s worried Madeleine has over exposed herself. When we see a strange man looking at that revealing photo spread in the magazine, we get stalker vibes.
Madeleine takes on Steffani Martin as partner to help grow the business. Steffani hires two new Babes, Deija and her coworker from the strip club Tina, a Korean performance artist. She likes that Babes 4U is women run and that the pay is better than other places.
When the programmer quits, Babes4u finds itself at risk of complete shutdown.
EPISODE TWO
Andreas Uthoff is a freelance writer who’s traveling the world after the death of his father. He’s writing an article about interactive computing and has come to NYU to interview Nick about their program. He’s clearly ruffled when he meets Madeleine though we have no idea why. He seems intimidated by her but soon covers it well with his stoic demeanor.
Babes4u was struggling with technical woes, but taking on Steffani as partner made things easier, for now at least. She’s helping to process the customer’s checks that still needed to be picked up at a remote P.O. box, input by hand into a computer back at the studio and then finally walked over to the bank to be deposited.
Business is still very slow. That morning show hardly got any new customers and it’s hard for people to find you on the internet. To save on the extra costs of more staff, Madeleine decides to take on extra shifts performing herself and gets hooked getting off online. It’s so easy in that private booth with all those sex toys having fun with the anonymous faceless guys adoring her online. She’s confronting her desires in the most public and private way. Publicly she becomes a sex advocate and siren. Privately she questions her judgement and choices while wrestling with her own needs. It’s wild journey of ecstasy and exposure. And for what, to make more money and get off? Wasn’t it initially to liberate the women from the dangers of having to go to a strip clubs? And isn’t it now a safe place open for everyone to understand and safely fulfill their sexual desires?
Interestingly the types of fetish requests that start coming in, are even a surprise to the Babes. The most popular is smoking a cigarettes with a glove on and laughing. Another more hazardous one involves throwing oranges at the camera.
Red and Madeleine keep running into each other at the NYU sauna as they have the same gym schedule. Red tells Madeleine she wants women to be the entrepreneurial force on the internet and she should start her own business. Madeleine is desperate to tell Red about Babes4u but knows better.
EPISODE THREE
Andreas is clearly intimidated by Madeleine when he asks her out to dinner. After a charming evening, she makes a move on him but he turns her down.
Steffani deals with her menopause while pretending to be both younger and older women online. A NYC native with a quick tongue, Steffani turns out to be a real expert as she chats with customers to lure them into paid time with the Babes. She never goes in front of the camera, but if a customer is rude to one of the Babes, she comes right on camera and gives him a big scolding and if he does it again his account is terminated. She starts forging a serious relationship with Hammy, one of their best customers online.
Business picks up when Babes4u can finally accept credit cards. Tina and Deija demand Steffani hire more Babes to cover the shifts. This motivates Madeleine to perform even more, especially since she’s getting off multiple times a day!
Andreas surprises Madeleine with a getaway trip to the Bahamas. They finally have sex and he reveals that he had known she was perfect for him, ever since he saw her in that Future Sex magazine. He had tracked down a contact number for her in SF and was shocked to see her in Nick’s office.
Madeleine, with the help of the ACLU, wins the big case against Viacom. NYU is finally happy with her. Another programmer is hired and expired. But Madeleine doesn’t care, she’s ecstatic!
EPISODE FOUR
Nick tries to capitalize on the Viacom victory by sending an AP reporter friend to interview Madeleine about it. Inadvertently this get loads of press coverage for Babes4u and suddenly everyone knows. Red and Nick are very upset. Red has mixed emotions for Madeleine who fulfilled her mandate but just with the wrong kind of business. Nick is also terribly disappointed she never told him about this before. He believed in her when no one else did. Madeleine feels mortified she’s let her mentor down but also distracted and exhilarated by all the press exposure and increased business! Red tells her how much she loves and hates her at the same time when they run into each other in the sauna again, both are naked and exposed.
Babes4u takes off and everyone is very busy. Mentally and physically Steffani and Madeleine are stretched to the limit. She wants Madeleine to stop performing and deal more with the software and hardware issues. Hammy is surprised to find he’s developed feelings for Steffani, but very unclear whether she feels the same. Maybe she’s pretending to like him just to lure him in for more money.
Madeleine meets the androgynous, nerdy programmer Martin. When she hires him for Babes4u he makes major technical breakthroughs, both in video streaming ease and speed and enabling users to pay with a credit card online in real time! This had never been done on the internet before. The financial success that Babes4u is getting draws the attention of a NY organized crime family. Steffani manages to rebuff their offers to take over the business. Deija, however, pretends to help them for some extra cash, but she’s secretly she’s sabotaging their efforts in order to protect Babes4u.
Troubles mount for Babes4U with fraud and chargebacks. Hammy’s 15-year-old son gets caught using the service. Credit card fraud becomes such a serious problem from some countries that all of Australia is banned from using Babes4u. Every chargeback results in a $25 fine for Babes4u and often with hundreds of chargebacks a day, this really adds up. On top of that the Babe who performs for the client using that fake credit card number also has to be paid. Some days Babes4u is making as much money as it’s losing to credit fraud. Martin programs a software to spot and stop the use of fake credit card numbers and profits improve again.
Andreas suddenly announces he has to return to Germany. Madeleine is worried for their future and wonders if it’s because she’s still performing or not performing enough! And she’s worried for Babes4u as well, even though business is booming, she’s getting tired of the grueling hours. There’s also a noticeable shift in the online sex community that feels corrupted and uncaring. The exciting heady groundbreaking days of the early years are gone. Now she just wishes she could be with Andreas in real life instead of with all these guys online. The allure is gone and she doesn’t really need to perform anymore to save money. When Andreas comes on as a customer to see her it feels weird and wrong.
EPISODE FIVE
Madeleine’s sister begs her to give up the business rather than have their reputation and future ruined by this kind of work. Some guys at work were ragging her about it and asking for freebies. Beth knows she’s not always made the right choices for Madeleine, but at least she was around when their mother was not. Doesn’t her opinion count for something?
The mob is putting more pressure on Madeleine and Steffani for a cut of the business. Deija is trying to cope with her double agent life. Her plans are finally discovered by Steffani, who is concerned but is distracted by turning 50. She’s come to regard Hammy as an ally while still dealing with her own confusing attitudes about body image and sexuality. Suspicious of Hammy for being on line with the Babes, she begins dating younger men who ultimately don’t work out. Steffani finally admits to Hammy she has feeling for him but when he asks her to come to Chicago she is hesitant.
Martin is not distracted by the sexy babes around him. He is however fascinated by how men online trust the Babes with their secret desires. Martin begins to communicate about his own feelings of bisexuality with Tina.
Steffani hires Tina’s girlfriend Trudy to work at Babes4u. Trudy gets jealous of customers and starts vying for Tina’s attention offline. The customers love the girl-on-girl action but Trudy gets upset and keeping turning off the camera. Steffani must sadly let Trudy go which makes Tina questions if she wants to work there anymore. Much to Trudy’s distress, she decides to stick around Babes4u.
Meanwhile Madeleine is getting ready to graduate from NYU and wishes Andreas was there to share this special day.
EPISODE SIX
Madeleine graduates and the press show up as she receives her diploma. Andreas flies in as a surprise graduation gift. Red tries to reconcile her feelings of mortification and pride that their rising star has gone awry. Nick reconciles his hurt and anger with Madeleine by giving her a Pioneer Award.
Beth shows up to the ceremony and when she sees NBC covering Madeleine as a young successful entrepreneur, and getting that award, she’s finally impressed.
Steffani tells Madeleine she wants out but can’t lose the income. Her lack of saving or planning and her litany of inappropriate men including Hammy, have motivated her to gain financial security and be happy on her own.
The mob tries to poach Martin from Babes4U, but he gets a better offer from British Telecom and leaves Babes4u. Competitors are popping up everywhere now.
After 3 years Madeleine and Steffani are burned out and want to move on to other things. The scene was changing fast. They had been the first, when it felt like a unique exciting community. Now it was becoming a gold rush of sordid sex sites.
Babes4u able to find operating partners and negotiate to keep a percentage of the profits. They are no longer in charge of the babes or the operations. Deija negotiates a manager job with the new partners and moves out to LA with the whole operation.
When Andreas proposes to Madeleine, acknowledges her priorities have shifted, probably because she’s pregnant!
EPILOGUE
Steffani moves to Florida.
Babes4U’s new partners becomes the largest LIVE streaming site on the internet. The gold rush effect takes place and Babes4u sees their profits shrink.
Madeleine becomes the director of a small town tv station. A board member sexually harasses her and when she stands up to him she gets fired and the town is divided.
Madeleine hires a lawyer and sues for unlawful termination. A local lawyer takes on the case for the Board in hopes of helping his political ambition. They settle and Madeleine is compensated for wrongful termination. The local lawyer is now a State Senator and is scared his past will catch with him badly in the current #metoo era.
Madeleine and Steffani still collect a percentage of the profits every month. We see them at the Playboy mansion having a Christmas party for their business, which has now become the largest sex site in the world.
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