Off-Camera
Living Room
Home of Chiaki Sanada and Jane Harper
San Clemente, California
Monday, September 22, 2025
7:01 AM PDT
Zenna Zdunich: How are the babies?
Her wife grins, the smiling face of Linnéa Lacroix telling Zenna all she needed to know through the screen of her phone.
Linnéa Lacroix: Morgan Ash asked when you were coming home. Livvie and Lissa were happy playing with Lovie and Ingrid. Little SG wants to know when the next band rehearsal was.
Zenna smiles, her eyes closing as she does so.
Zenna Zdunich: They're so beautiful. Seleana's children asked me about them too. Aurora asked if they could get to come see them. Elijah asked if we were leaving too. He was scared.
Linnéa nods.
Linnéa Lacroix: How's she?
Zenna shrugs.
Zenna Zdunich: She cries. She has not stopped. I cannot tell if it is because she cannot believe Christina lost love for her or because being left cost her Alexandra as well.
Linnéa sighs.
Linnéa Lacroix: So she left too?
Zenna nods.
Zenna Zdunich: Went home to Los Angeles then found comfort with Mary.
Linnéa smiles.
Linnéa Lacroix: That's good. At least we know she's in good hands.
Zenna nods her agreement.
Zenna Zdunich: They invited Sel as well. She is not ready to give them an answer.
Linnéa Lacroix: She probably won't be for a while. They've been married for a while. It's not crazy to believe that Sel was taken completely by surprise. Who saw Chistina leaving her coming after all the shit she's done and Sel still took her back.
She snickers.
Linnéa Lacroix: I bet Chi Chi practically threw a party that she was gone. God knows Olive is probably thinkin' about one.
Zenna Zdunich: Chi Chi did not say as much in front of Seleana.
She pauses.
Zenna Zdunich: Not in front of the children either. I think she knows it would make all three cry and she does not want that.
Linnéa smiles like a proud mother.
Linnéa Lacroix: She's always been a cool chick that way. How are Brittany and Halo taking it?
Zenna shrugs.
Zenna Zdunich: Brittany, I cannot tell if she's in shock or simply not surprised at what her mother has done. Halo seems to be a bit of both.
Linnéa nods thoughtfully.
Linnéa Lacroix: And Freja?
Zenna Zdunich: I think she is afraid. She does not know what comes next. She holds Lucy all the tighter now. She does not know what happens now if Seleana goes to Mary's because They already had a nanny for their children so Freja might be left behind.
Linnéa shakes her head.
Linnéa Lacroix: I don't think Sel would do that. It'd mean ripping something else away from the kids.
Zenna nods.
Zenna Zdunich: I wonder what will happen business-wise if they do get divorced. What assets would Sel get?
Linnéa shrugs like this is almost a joke.
Linnéa Lacroix: My question would be more what assets would she not get? What has Christina built without her?
Zenna nods in acknowledgment.
Zenna Zdunich: The house was destroyed earlier this year. I do not know what went with it. I know Seleana still has the car. I do not think she wants it anymore because it reminds her of Christina.
Linnéa nods.
Linnéa Lacroix: So she cries whenever she sees it?
Zenna nods.
Zenna Zdunich: It is almost enough to depress anyone who sees it.
Linnéa Lacroix: Do you wrestle this week?
Zenna nods.
Zenna Zdunich: Yes, against someone named Miss Manners. I can only imagine what someone like that will say to a tattooed foreigner in recovery.
Linnéa smiles.
Linnéa Lacroix: You're beautiful. Don't let anyone make hens out of feathers with the work you've put in, Z. You've come so far in the last nine years, they cannot minimize the work you've done.
Zenna nods.
Zenna Zdunich: There is no cow on the ice, Li. They will not get me.
Linnéa smiles.
LL I love you!
Zenna Zdunich: I love you too!
On-Camera
Parking Lot
The Walter Pyramid
Long Beach, California
Friday, September 26, 2025
3:01 PM PDT
The camera opens on Zenna Zdunich standing just in front of the pyramid-shaped venue for the SCW Climax Control show on Sunday, wearing a custom made black Metallica script t-shirt for American Murder Log and jeans, her red hair flowing down her back and her myriad of tattoos showing quite readily down her arms and through the holes in the knees of her jeans.
Zenna Zdunich: Miss Manners…
Zenna just glares straight into the camera.
Zenna Zdunich: I feel like this is a set-up, ja?
She nods ever so slightly.
Zenna Zdunich: You will make hens out of feathers about everything about me if you are half of what I have heard about you. My tattoos are filthy, my jeans are filthy, both untoward for a lady. My guitar is unsuitable for public consumption. I do not even play it properly anyway so why even carry it?
Zenna shrugs like it doesn't matter at all.
Zenna Zdunich: It is true my younger sister is a much better player than I am and she and my wife are what make the band go. My sister-in-law makes sure that we stay on task and that there is no cow on the ice or that no one shit's in the blue locker.
She turns her head with an expression of mock surprise.
Zenna Zdunich: Oh, you do not appreciate me using that particular Swedish idiom?
She waves off the response as if it's a useless sentiment.
Zenna Zdunich: It is appropriate for why I am here in SCW because Christina did that with my sister as well as Mercedes Vargas and now, you will demand to know why it has an odor in here. When people are actively covering everything in that, you should know why it smells this bad.
She shakes her head.
Zenna Zdunich: But they are for later, Miss Manners, you are for now. You will undoubtedly attempt to show me how I am doing nothing properly and I am a plague upon society.
She shrugs.
Zenna Zdunich: And it will be unoriginal as a thought can be heard as I have heard it many times over my career in the last fifteen years. My years in the wilderness of addiction mean I heard it many times and sometimes, it was true. More times than not, it was a poor reaction by an even poorer excuse of a human being desperately trying to be more than such things and trying to hold themselves above it all as if they might get some on them if they must spend another second near me.
She nods pointedly.
Zenna Zdunich: I will beat that thought out of you even if the people who spread that smell arrive to run interference. Christina is already aware of how bad an idea that is from when she got us arrested on Bourbon Street. My sister is much more tolerant, I am not.
Again, Zenna glares into the camera.
Zenna Zdunich: To the devil in hell with you, things are about to happen here and you will not like any of them.
