“In the film Under the Skin (2013), Scarlett Johansson peels off her white skin and reveals her self as a black, impenetrable being of extraterrestrial origin. This radical body peeling is triggered by a sexual assault and is punished, medieval-style, with death by fire. Drenched in gasoline and covered in flames, Scarlett tumbles through a Caspar David Friedrichcian mental landscape of white snow and dark forest; trembles, falls and burns. In the final shot, Scarlett’s other-worldly remains fall as ashes from an indifferent sky, intermingle with descending snowflakes and come to rest on a hillside somewhere in the nowhere of rural Scotland. This essay proposes an alternative ending to the narrative, or, rather, a number of other possible endings, which aim to explore the potential of a multi-layered body-model and perhaps render Alien-Scarlett as a trans-feminist vanguard in-becoming. In the proposed trajectory, the performance of radical body peeling can be seen as a victorious step towards the emancipation of lustful subjectivity in ambiguously gendered body, rather than as a precursor of annihilation”