Patience's corpse washes up on a small island, where she is greeted by the mysterious gray cat she encountered earlier. The gray cat meows loudly, summoning a crew of housecats who form a circle around Patience. As the other cats observe, the gray cat climbs on top of Patience and exhales in her face, bringing her back to life instantly. Patience's pupils change to those of a cat: she has become Catwoman.

Patience uses her new abilities to chase a spider and be scared by a bird before journeying home on foot. Upon reaching her apartment building, Patience leaps to the second-floor fire escape and smashes a window, crawling inside while the gray cat meows from the alley below.

With exactly zero spoken words, Catwoman presents its most pivotal sequence, as Patience makes the transition from an ordinary woman to Catwoman, thanks to a gray cat breathing green gas in her face. This enigmatic feline is clearly powerful: with one meow, a dozen cats are inspired to sneak out of their homes and make their way to this dead woman lying on a rock. While these cats do not appear to serve any useful purpose, in fact only their combined housecat powers are enough to bring Patience back to life as a Catwoman.

Additionally, there are several other reasons for the crowd of felines in this remote location:

• some of the sturdier cats helped drag Patience out of the water
• some cats have formed a chorus, chanting along with the score
• some are just rubberneckers

In the end, however, Catwoman's central miscalculation makes itself evident in this chapter: the premise that cats are (a) interesting, (b) interested in people, or (c) interested in bringing doormat women back to life as Catwomen. Surely, most films ask the viewer to invest in implausible concepts, but even some atmospheric lighting and the most portentous score in cinema history are not enough to convince us that these cats wouldn't rather be licking themselves or napping in a sunbeam.

And yet, it cannot be said that these supernatural kitties don't get results, as Patience sits up immediately and coughs up some water. As she proceeds to cower from a seagull and scrape the ground for a computer-generated spider, we reflect on how deeply Halle Berry must have trusted director Pitof not to make her look like an imbecile, and how utterly he has failed her. On the other hand, it is impossible to feel bad for Patience since, as we learned in the first clip, this is when she really started to live.

Now that she has been reborn as Catwoman, the viewer is eager to learn more about Patience's new abilities; after shuffling home, she makes an impressively catlike leap to the fire escape, demonstrating newfound agility. Inspecting her reflection in the window, Patience appears shocked at the mud and grime caking her face, suggesting that perhaps this new Patience will be more concerned with hygiene and less inclined to wear the same clothes every day like she has so far.