Having recently been dumped by her "boyfriend", all she wants is some peace and quiet in her newly rented small flat near Brunswick Square.
Tim, a young man living in one of the houses across her backyard, takes a fancy to the new arrival and soon starts watching and eventually molesting her.
On Saturday night, dressed to kill, she enters the lobby of one of the large seafront hotels and only has to wait for a few minutes until she is chatted up.
She steals the vehicle and soon afterwards comes to the rescue of an old tramp called "Liverpool Mary" who is biding her time in a cul-de-sac near Brighton station.
She shoots three yuppie-style young men who, drunk and angry, are threatening to set fire to the bag lady.
The man watching her, a serial killer, thinks he has found his next victim, but when he attacks Bella she stabs him with a flick-knife in the leg.