The scene opens with nothing more than a patch of grass in sight. Before long, a pair of feet - donned in white Vans hi top trainers - walk into view; a female voice with a Welsh accent is then heard.
'Next Sunday's episode of Climax Control is going to feature six matches and sixteen competitors, including four people who will be setting foot inside an SCW ring for the first time. But while plenty of people will recognise the names of Eric Paisano, Dillon Killborn, and maybe even Marcellus King, most people that have looked at the line-up for the upcoming show and seen the second match on the card, will have been left asking, "Who is Lowri Moss?"'
The camera pans upwards from the grass, and into view comes the aforementioned Lowri Moss, who is wearing a pair of dark blue jeans and a black zip up hoodie; she smiles at the camera, before speaking again.
Lowri: 'Hi there! I'm Lowri - if you hadn't already guessed.'
Lowri waves at the camera.
Lowri: 'Like I said a moment ago, until it was announced that I would be competing in a match in SCW next Sunday against Twisted Sister, I'm sure that the vast majority of you who are watching this had never heard of me. That's okay, though - until recently, I hadn't heard of me either.'
Lowri's smile broadens into a grin.
Lowri: 'So, with that in mind, I thought I would tell you all some things about me, to help you to get to know me a little better, before I make my first appearance in an SCW ring. I'll start with my age and my hometown: I'm twenty-one years old, and I'm from Llanelli - that's a town in South West Wales, which I'm guessing most of you also won't have heard of until now.'
Lowri shrugs her shoulders slightly.
Lowri: 'I've been a wrestling fan for most of my life, pretty much since the first time I watched a wrestling show on TV, and for about as long as I can remember, I've dreamt of being a professional wrestler. I started training to be a wrestler while I was at university; I needed to spend my student loan on something, and I don't think there was any better way for me to use it than as a means to pay for wrestling training - well, perhaps apart from using it buy alcohol.'
Lowri winks.
Lowri: 'Once I graduated from university, earlier this year, it was time for me to embark upon my career as a professional wrestler. I shot some promotional photos, which I then sent to a number of different wrestling promotions, hoping that one of them would take a chance on me. Thankfully, one of of them did take a chance on me, and I became a member of the roster of a London-based promotion. Since making my debut, I haven't yet been on the losing end in a match - although admittedly, you can count on one hand the number of matches that I've been in. Nevertheless, I'm yet to lose a match, and I plan for that record to still be intact by the time that my match with Twisted Sister is over.'
There is a single, confident nod of the head from Lowri.
Lowri: 'At present, I can't truly refer to myself as a professional wrestler - it's more accurate for me to say that I'm a semi-professional wrestler. You see, while I want to have a full-time career as a wrestler, at the moment, wrestling is just what I do at weekends - during the week, I have a job working in a bank. I'm on a rolling contract, rather than being a permanent member of staff, and I look forward to the time when I start making enough money from wrestling for me to be able to give up my day job, but until that time comes, I'm stuck working in a bank five days a week - I've got to pay for my travel and accommodation somehow.'
Lowri lets out a small sigh.
Lowri: 'My wrestling career is very much still in its infancy, and I see my match next Sunday as being another stage in my development. This will be my first time competing in the US - or anywhere outside the UK, for that matter - and I have no intentions of having my first match overseas be an unsuccessful one.'
Lowri shakes her head.
Lowri: 'I'm coming to Climax Control to win!'
She pauses to take a breath, before continuing.
Lowri: 'Okay, so, now you all know a little bit more about me, but I guess there's one question about me that still remains: just how did this Welsh girl, who has so few matches under her belt, come to be in a match on an SCW show? Well, I think that's a story for another day.'
Lowri gazes up at sky.
Lowri: 'It's getting dark, and I've still got things to say about my match against Twisted Sister.'
She then looks back down at the camera.
Lowri: 'Oh well, I suppose I'll call it a night, and pick this up again later in the week; until then, nos da!'
As a smiling Lowri waves at the camera again, we switch to a scene from earlier this year, inside Lowri's bedroom at her home in Cardiff, in the late afternoon/early evening of Wednesday 25th May. Dressed in a pair of black leggings and a purple tank top, Lowri is seemingly preparing for a workout: she can currently be seen putting some items into a pink gym bag that is sat atop her bed. A knock on the bedroom door is then heard, followed by a male voice.
Man: 'Lowri? Are you there?'
Lowri: 'Yes, Adam; I'm here.'
"Adam" is Adam Williams - one of Lowri's housemates; he is, of course, no relation to either Casey or Jordan.
Lowri: 'If your next question is going to be, "Can I come in?" the answer is yes.'
As Lowri does up the zip on her gym bag, the door to her room opens, and in walks Adam. Like Lowri, Adam is in his early twenties; he has short dark hair and stubble, and he is wearing a pair of navy blue jeans and a black button-up shirt. He shuts the door behind him, and then plops himself down on Lowri's bed.
Lowri: 'Are you alright?'
Adam: 'Yeah, I'm fine. I was just a bit bored, and I was looking for something to do to kill time before I need to leave to meet the missus for our date tonight...'
Lowri finishes Adam's sentence for him.
Lowri: 'And so you decided that you would come and annoy me for a bit.'
She then smirks.
Adam: 'Yeah, something like that.'
He smiles wryly. Turning away from Adam briefly, Lowri moves towards a nearby desk.
Lowri: 'Where are you and Chloe going for your date?'
"Chloe" is the name of Adam's current girlfriend. Lowri retrieves her mobile phone from the desk, and then turns back to face Adam.
Adam: 'We're going to the cinema to see A Hologram for the King...'
Lowri interrupts Adam, at the same time as she swipes the screen of the phone with her thumb.
Lowri: 'That's the new Tom Hanks film, isn't it?'
Adam: 'Yup. Then after the cinema, we're going to go somewhere for a meal and some drinks, but we haven't decided where yet.'
With Lowri's attention now drawn to her phone, as she scrolls through something on it, Adam gazes around her room.
Adam: 'What are you going to be doing this evening? Revising for your exam tomorrow, I presume.'
Lowri: 'Not exactly.'
Adam then spots the gym bag, which he had not noticed until now.
Adam: 'Are you going to the gym?'
He looks back to Lowri, although she does not respond to his question, instead continuing to focus on her phone.
Adam: 'Wait, I know what you're doing: you're planning to go to wrestling training this evening, aren't you?'
Lowri replies ironically.
Lowri: 'Guilty as charged.'
She then puts her phone back down on the desk, and looks at Adam.
Adam: 'Lowri...'
Adam's voice trails off, unsure whether he should try to persuade Lowri that a better use of her time this evening would be to stay at home and study for her impending exam.
Lowri: 'What?'
Lowri stares at Adam. She knows exactly what it is that he is getting at, but she wants to hear him say it.
Adam: 'Do you really think you should be going off to wrestling training this evening, when you've got an important exam tomorrow morning?'
Lowri gives an indifferent shrug.
Lowri: 'I don't see what the big deal is.'
Adam gives Lowri a look like she has grown a second head.
Adam: 'Are you serious? You - or rather, we - are on the verge of graduating; this is your future we're talking about.'
Lowri takes a step forward, towards Adam.
Lowri: 'No, Adam, that...'
She gestures towards her gym bag.
Lowri: '...that's my future - wrestling is my future.'
Lowri sighs. She then puts her hands on her hips.
Lowri: 'We've known each other for what - the better part of three years?'
It is a rhetorical question, but one that Adam answers anyway.
Adam: 'Right.'
Lowri: 'And it probably wasn't long after we became friends that I told you about my ambition of wanting to be a professional wrestler.'
Adam nods.
Adam: 'Yes, I've been aware of that for a while now.'
Lowri: 'And so surely it shouldn't come as a surprise to you that I would choose to spend my evening continuing to work towards a career in wrestling, rather than revising for an exam.'
Now it is Adam's turn to sigh, as he begrudgingly accepts Lowri's statement.
Adam: 'Perhaps not. I mean, I know how much you enjoy watching wrestling, and I know how much you want to be a wrestler, but still...'
Again, Lowri interrupts Adam.
Lowri: 'But what?'
Adam: 'But...what if it doesn't work out?'
Lowri crosses her arms.
Lowri: 'Don't you believe in me?'
Adam: 'Lowri, you're one of my closest friends - of course I believe in you. You're talking about wanting to be a professional athlete, though - how many people have that ambition, and how many of them actually get to fulfill it?'
Lowri does not respond to Adam's question.
Adam: 'I admire how determined you are to achieve your ambition of becoming a wrestler, but you need to have something to fall back on, in case it doesn't work out for you: your degree would be that something.'
Lowri: 'So that I can do what - work in a call centre? Because of the friends of mine who were a year above me in school, and who finished uni last year, that's what most of them seem to be doing now.'
Lowri sighs again, as she unfolds her arms.
Lowri: 'I'm sorry, Adam. I know I'm behaving defensively, but...'
Lowri pauses for a moment, before continuing.
Lowri: 'I know you said that you know how much I want to be a wrestler, but I'm not sure you do - I'm not sure you truly appreciate just how much I want this.'
Adam rubs his chin, as he considers what Lowri has said.
Adam: 'Maybe I don't. It's just that - as your friend - I'm concerned about you, Lowri.'
Lowri: 'You don't need to worry about me, Adam - leave that to my parents.'
Adam laughs at Lowri's quip.
Lowri: 'And anyway, putting to one side my sarky comments about how much use my degree would be to me, I'm still well on course to graduate.'
Lowri smiles at Adam.
Lowri: 'I'll be fine.'
Adam: 'Yeah, I suppose you're probably right. But would it really harm your ambitions that much if you were to give the wrestling training a miss just this once, to stay home and revise?'
Lowri: 'Adam!'
Lowri gives Adam a playful shove.
Adam: 'Alright, alright; I'll give it a rest - I can see I'm fighting a losing battle.'
Lowri: 'Yes - you are.'
Adam holds his hands up, accepting defeat.
Lowri: 'Anyone listening to you would think that I haven't done any revision at all; I've spent most of today revising, not to mention all of the revision that I've done in the past few weeks - for this exam, and all of the others.'
Lowri runs a hand through her hair.
Lowri: 'I've gone over the notes that I have to study so many times that I'm not sure I would be able to absorb anything more from them - I think my brain is already full up; if I read through them again, and tried to take anything else in, I might forget something important - like how to counter a chinlock!'
Adam replies in jest.
Adam: 'And we wouldn't want that to happen.'
Lowri gently shakes her head.
Lowri: 'No, definitely not.'
Adam takes a quick look at his watch, to check the time.
Adam: 'Right, I think it's about time for me to go and meet Chloe - I don't want to keep her waiting.'
He gets up from the bed.
Adam: 'Just promise me one thing, Lowri.'
Lowri raises her eyebrows.
Lowri: 'What's that?'
Adam: 'I may not pay as much attention to the sport as you do, but I know enough about it to know that, while wrestling is undergoing a resurgence in the UK, if you really want to make a name for yourself, then the US is the place to be.'
Lowri nods, but she is still unsure what Adam has in mind.
Adam: 'So promise me, Lowri, that when the time comes for you to make a trip to America, you'll let me tag along.'
Lowri grins.
Lowri: 'Sure thing, Adam - just as long as you don't expect me to pay for your plane tickets.'
Adam: 'No, of course not.'
Adam heads towards the door, to make his exit.
Adam: 'Right, I'll see you later.'
Lowri: 'Enjoy your evening.'
Adam: 'Thanks. And you.'
As Adam takes off for his date, we leave Lowri to check her gym bag, making sure she has not forgotten anything that she is going to need, and come forward to the present day. Lowri can now be seen stood somewhere in Saguaro National Park, on the outskirts of Tucson, with the mountains and the wilderness visible in the background; she is dressed in a pair of pale blue jeans, and a white t-shirt.
Like before, Lowri flashes a smile at the camera, and then begins to speak.
Lowri: 'As you can probably tell from what you can see behind me, I have arrived in Arizona, ahead of match at Climax Control against Twisted Sister; that match is now only forty-eight or so hours away, and I'm very excited about getting to set foot in SCW's six-sided ring.'
Lowri pauses for a moment and looks to her right, then to her left, before returning her focus to the camera.
Lowri: 'To describe Twister Sister as unorthodox would be an understatement, but I've tried to prepare for her as best as I can. One thing that I wasn't prepared for though, is the heat here in Arizona - I'm not used to weather like this; it's hotter here now than it is in Wales at the peak of summer - but then, our summers do only last for about eight minutes each year.'
Lowri smiles wryly.
Lowri: 'I mentioned that normally, I work in a bank five days a week. However, for me to be able to appear at Climax Control, I've had to take four days off from my day job, which is four days' pay that I'm missing out on - I don't have a full-time contract, so if I'm not in work, I don't get paid. SCW are only paying me a nominal amount for my appearance on Sunday - an amount that isn't enough to cover the cost of my trip to Tucson - so being here for this match against Twisted Sister is actually going to leave me out of pocket. But I'm okay with that - I'm so grateful for this opportunity that I probably would have accepted it even if SCW weren't going to pay me anything for my appearance.'
Lowri leans towards the camera to whisper something.
Lowri: 'Just don't let Mark Ward know that.'
She then stands up straight again.
Lowri: 'Seriously though, this is quite an opportunity for me, at such an early stage in my career. Sin City Wrestling has become one of the most well known wrestling promotions around - if you want proof of that, you only need to see the number of Twitter followers that SCW has - and now I'm being given the chance to show what I can do inside the six-sided ring. It's an opportunity that I'm determined to make the most of, and while I may be stood here all smiles, I'm not a wide-eyed tourist, who's just happy to be here - I'm here to win.'
Contemplating something, Lowri taps her chin.
Lowri: 'I realise that so far, in the course of these two videos - the one that was recorded a few days, and now this one - I'm yet to say anything directly to the woman that is going to be my opponent on Sunday: Twisted Sister. The thing is, I've seen Twisted Sister, and I get the impression that if I was to direct any comments at her, I would simply be wasting my time - it doesn't seem like she takes any notice of what anyone says to her.'
Lowri quickly glances down, towards the ground, before looking back up at the camera, and continuing.
Lowri: 'I've seen what Twisted Sister has done to opponents in the past, and the harm that she has inflicted upon them - even when Twisted Sister loses, rarely do her opponents walk away unscathed; the phrase "scarred for life" is usually used figuratively, but when it comes to people who set foot in the ring with Twisted Sister, it's a phrase that tends to be used literally. I'm not frightened about what Twisted Sister might do to me, though. I mean, sure, I hope she doesn't try to burn me, or anything like that, but I'm not worried about her possibly trying to draw blood. Besides, I want to cut Twisted Sister in my own way - with a rolling cutter.'
Lowri does a scissors gesture with her right hand.
Lowri: 'I don't know what's going to happen after this weekend, in terms of me and SCW - I don't know whether you will see me inside the six-sided ring again after Sunday. It could well turn out to be a case of one and done, so if this does turn out to be my only match in SCW, I'm going to make sure that it's a successful one. It won't be easy for me against the unpredictable Twisted Sister, but I haven't travelled all this way - some five thousand miles - to lose.'
Lowri takes a step backwards, away from the camera.
Lowri: 'One of my best friends - Adam - has also made the journey here with me. He's currently playing the role of cameraman for me, but I know that he hasn't come all this way to see me lose either, and I don't intend to disappoint him.'
She then takes another couple of steps backwards, and it can now be seen that Lowri is wearing the same white Vans hi top trainers as before.
Lowri: 'Twister Sister may have given even some of the most talented bombshells in SCW a torrid time, but I'm confident that I have the tools to beat her; whether it's Nos Da or Breuddwydion Melus, once I connect with either one of those, it will be gêm drosodd.'
Lowri turns her back to the camera. She raises her right foot for the camera to see the sole of her shoe, on which is the word...
Lowri: 'Game...'
Lowri puts her right foot down; she then lifts up her left foot, and on the sole of that shoe is the word...
Lowri: '...over.'
After putting her left foot down, Lowri looks over her shoulder, towards the camera.
Lowri: 'Hwyl fawr am y tro.*'
With a smile still on her face, Lowri then turns back around, and as she does so, the scene fades to black.
*"Hwyl fawr am y tro" is Welsh for "Goodbye for now."
