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Scene 1
Off Camera
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Angelica
Jones remembers quite clearly the day she chose to sign with Silas Mason. She had quite a tumultuous experience with
Samantha Hodgson, her former agent, the woman who had led her to multiple world
championships, and was looking forward to a new, brighter future with Silas Mason
leading the way. Sure enough, with Silas
Mason at the helm of her new career, Angelica Jones would go on to win several
more world championships and further proving to the world that she is not yet
finished in professional wrestling, that she still has quite a lot yet to
accomplish in her hall of fame career.
Unfortunately
things began to change with Shot of Adrenaline.
The moment that tournament was booked Angelica felt backed against the
wall. She felt she was in a position
where she had to, once again, prove that she could win in any situation. She had to prove that she could advance in
the Shot of Adrenaline Tournament. Sure,
she had to use some nefarious means to do it, but she did advance in the
tournament…
…only to get
eliminated in the semi-finals by Selena Frost.
Not to be dissuaded,
Angelica Jones attempted to avenge that loss by facing Selena Frost at
Flawless. Unfortunately, Jones once
again lost to Selena. And now, most
recently, Angelica was put into a tag team match with fellow Silas World member
Harmony Fisher and the two ladies came up short.
For the
first time in a long time in Angelica’s long and illustrious career, she is
beginning to question her career choices, her very future in this industry. Jessica Lasiewicz, Angelica’s daughter, has
already used this as an opportunity to strike out at Angelica.
Jessica has
long questioned her mother’s choice of Silas Mason as an agent and she has
already used this as an opportunity to tell her what she thinks. And Angelica does not want to talk to Jessica
again. Not right now. Especially not considering Angelica is
beginning to question her career choices herself.
All of
them. Including Silas Mason.
The
red-headed superstar, thus, is trying her best to haul tail out of the New
Orleans Arena from Breakdown to try and get away before anyone catches her,
namely her daughter. She doesn’t want to
talk to her anymore, especially not about Silas Mason. Unfortunately…
“Mother!”
Angelica
spins on her heel in the parking lot area.
She spots her daughter, Jessica Lasiewicz, standing a few feet
away. The young, black haired, Polish
woman has a very determined look on her face as she stares a hole right through
her famous mother. Angelica doesn’t back
down, though. Jones, despite her string
of bad luck, isn’t easily intimidated, let alone by her own daughter.
“What do you want?” Angelica asks.
“I want to finish what we started earlier.”
Jessica and Angelica
tried to have a conversation earlier but Angelica just brushed her off as if
she didn’t even care. Which isn’t
true. Angelica Jones does care about her
daughter and does want to listen to her.
She just doesn’t want to listen to what she has to say right now. For she already knows what is going to be
said. It’s the same old song and dance in
terms of Jessica Lasiewicz. She is
convinced that Silas Mason is a bad choice of representation, a bad choice of
agent. In fact, in her exact words, he
is a cancer that Angelica should be trying to eradicate.
“Why bother?” Angelica asks, shrugging
her shoulders. “Why bother finish this
discussion when I know exactly how it will go?”
Angelica
mockingly parodies her daughter. “Oh
mother, Silas Mason is the devil incarnate!
You should leave that evil man before he rapes you and eats your intestines!”
Jessica
rolls her eyes. “You’re a smart ass, you
know that?”
“So are you.” Angelica remarks with a
sly grin of her own.
“So that’s where I get it from…” Jessica
snickers lightly “…and here I thought I
got it from my father.”
“You get it from both of us, unfortunately.”
Angelica says with a low sight. “I
just wish you didn’t inherit the damnable Jones stubborn streak.”
“Unfortunately for you I have it in a double
dose. I have a Jones stubborn streak and
a Lasiewicz stubborn streak. So that
means you’re not getting rid of me until I get to have a meaningful
conversation with you.”
Angelica
stares at Jessica for a long, tense moment.
A car pulls up a few feet behind her.
Jones turns around and spots the car, a 2015 Ford. It belongs to Lindsey Carter, Angelica’s
wife. She knows that it is nearly time
to go. But she also realizes that she
must address this issue with her daughter and address it soon. So, Angelica sets her gym bag down, and turns
back to face Jessica.
“It’s time I explained some things to you,
Jessica.”
Jessica
laughs lightly. “You already gave me the
birds and the bees talk, mom.”
Angelica
rears back and slaps her across the cheek.
Jessica immediately rubs her cheek, which is stinging in pain.
“I’m being serious, young lady.”
“So was I.” Jessica retorts. “And yet you weren’t taking me seriously,
either.”
“You will listen to me, Jessica Corey
Lasiewicz!” Angelica exclaims, slightly louder. “Because the fact is that you do not know as much about this industry
as you would like to think.”
Jessica nods,
folding her arms over her chest. “Go on.”
“No one individual is an island unto
themselves.” Angelica begins. “No one
can be successful on their own.”
“What great philosopher did you get that from?”
Jessica asks. “Aristotle?”
“There’s that smart ass attitude of yours
again.” Angelica responds.
“I’m just finding it very ironic that you,
the great Angelica Jones, thinks she NEEDS Silas Mason.”
Angelica
once more stares into her daughter’s eyes.
Jessica’s stare is cold and emotionless.
Angelica seems to go soft and even break as she watches her daughter. She realizes that Jessica does have a point,
unfortunately, and she must confront this awful truth eventually. Finally she sighs, shrugging her shoulders.
“Who is the current SCW World Champion?”
“Kennedy Street.”
“Managed by whom?”
“Ethan Von Aaron.”
“Then there’s Perfection herself…Kelcey
Wallace…she’s surrounded by…”
Jessica
sighs. “Shawn Mason…Chris Cannon…”
“You see my point?” Angelica runs her hand through her daughter’s
long black hair. “The best, and I mean
the VERY best, surround themselves with an entourage to watch over their
career, to watch over their well being.
At the start of my career I had Samantha Hodgson watch over my career
and she did her job just fine for several years. But then it was time for a change.”
“But Silas Mason isn’t that change!”
Jessica exclaims loudly. “You were doing
fine on your own! Why can’t you see
that?! Why can’t you see that you can be
successful on your own and you do not need nor did you ever need a manager?”
“I do!” Angelica stands right back up,
picking up her gym bag along the way and turning towards Lindsey Carter’s
vehicle. “I need Silas Mason!”
Angelica
flings open the backseat door and roughly tosses her gym bag into the backseat
before slamming the door shut. Then she
opens the passenger’s side door and steps inside and slams the door shut behind
her.
“Mom!” Jessica shouts loudly, rushing up
to the side of the car. “Wait!”
The window
rolls down and Angelica looks out at her daughter. “Not here, Jessica. Not now.”
“Why not now?” Jessica demands.
“Because I am not in the mood.” She
sighs as the window slowly goes back up. “I’m
not sure if I will ever be in the mood for this conversation.”
With that
the car drives off, leaving Jessica in the dust, and leaving Jessica wondering
if she can ever get through to her mother.
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Jessica
Lasiewicz
On Camera
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Ok, so I don’t
exactly agree with all of her career choices, especially not many of the career
choices she has made lately involving Silas Mason, but one thing that you
cannot deny about Angelica Jones is her talent and ability as a professional
wrestler.
Angelica
Jones is a good wrestler. She is a damn
good wrestler. Which is really why I don’t
understand the whole purpose behind her joining with Silas Mason. She is good enough that she doesn’t need
Silas Mason. She is good enough that she
doesn’t need anyone to assist her. She
can do it on her own.
The Best of
the Best Tournament is coming up. Best
of the Best is a term that could very well describe Angelica Jones to a “T” and
that isn’t familial bias talking. That’s
cold hard facts. All she has to do, all
she needs to do, is remember who she really is…
If she can
remember that she IS the best of the best, that she is the greatest
professional wrestler in the world and that she doesn’t need anyone to hold her
hand, or that she doesn’t need Silas Mason as a crutch, then she can dominate
this tournament, and that goes for anyone whether it’s Alexander Sire, Syren,
or even her Silas World pals Harmony Fisher and Sienna Swann.
My mother
just needs to remember who she is. If
she does that…then she will own Seattle…
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Angelica
Jones
On Camera
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Hello
Seattle! You know what the irony is of
me competing in Seattle? I’m a Boston
Girl and my Pats beat your Seahawks in the Super Bowl!
Now if I
have my way, I can work that same New England magic one more time and pull off
another big time victory for Boston by winning the Best of the Best Tournament.
Every great
legend was truly a partnership. Even the
New England Patriots and their legacy was built upon the partnership of Tom
Brady and Bill Belichick. And my career,
my legacy, it began as a partnership of Angelica Jones and Samantha Hodgson and
I won multiple world titles.
Now all good
things must come to an end and so did my partnership with Samantha
Hodgson. So began the partnership of
Angelica Jones and Silas Mason. And that
partnership also kicked off with multiple world championship victories.
Some
question my allegiance to Silas Mason; namely my own daughter, Jessica
Lasiewicz, questions my allegiance to him.
Jessica seems to make her decisions based on a concept of morality. If that works for her then that’s fine, but I
do things differently.
I base my
decision on a concept I call winning. My
decisions are based upon my success rate.
I could go on and on listing my successes, conversely my enemies could
go on and on about my failures.
Ultimately
it’s up to me then. Best of the Best
Tournament is coming up and it’s my time to put up or shut up, it’s my time to
prove once and for all if I’ve been making good decisions or if I need to make changes.
Quite
frankly, I like what I’ve been doing lately.
I think I made the best decision I could be siding with Silas
Mason. I’m going to prove it by winning
Seattle.
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Scene 2
Off Camera
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Angelica
Jones has been a professional wrestler for over two decades now and one thing
about all of those two decades plus years of wrestling has remained constant
and that’s the fact that she has always had an agent by her side. She has always had someone standing next to
her, guiding her career, leading her to greatness.
Her first
agent, and longest lasting agent, was none other than Samantha Hodgson. This agent, perhaps the most narcissistic of
the agents, guided Angelica during her years with Global Division of Wrestling,
Millennium Wrestling Alliance, and Motor City Wrestling. Jones and Hodgson had quite a partnership
going together and would have continued
to have a successful partnership were it not for Samantha’s overbearing
controlling ego getting the best of her.
It got so
bad that Samantha Hodgson was even requiring Angelica to keep her relationship
with Lindsey Carter under wraps, fearing that news of Angelica’s homosexual
relationship would cause her success to plummet. She feared no company would want to get
behind a lesbian. Samantha’s prejudice
towards the LGBT community was the last straw for Angelica and she put her foot
down. She told Hodgson that if she got
wind of one more prejudicial act on the part of Hodgson, then Hodgson would be
fired and that she would go straight to Silas Mason.
What
Angelica didn’t know, and still doesn’t know to this day, is that Lindsey
Carter wanted Samantha Hodgson gone so badly that she invented a lie. She made up a story about how Samantha
insulted her and mocked her homosexuality, knowing that Angelica would
immediately fire her.
Lindsey
Carter can observe, just as Jessica Lasiewicz has observed, how Angelica’s
career has taken a downturn as of late.
She has observed what Silas Mason has done to Angelica Jones and Lindsey
does not like it. She does not like it
one bit and yet she knows that she is partially responsible for this, because
it was her lies that tore Angelica and Samantha apart and brought Angelica and
Silas together.
Lindsey is
in the kitchen, wearing a pink summer sun dress, preparing breakfast. These thoughts and more are going through her
head as she listens carefully. She hears
the sound of footsteps descending the stairs.
It isn’t long before those footsteps get closer. Soon Lindsey turns and finds her lover, her
wife Angelica Jones standing in the kitchen doorway, wearing a frilly lace
black bra and panty. It is clear that
she just woke up.
“Good morning glory!”
Lindsey puts
down the plates on the table and then walks over to greet her wife wit h a hug
and a kiss on the lips.
“My name is not Glory,” Angelica
responds with a snarky grin “my name is
Angelica. Glory is my crazy cousin who
thinks she’s some kind of royalty.”
“It’s a figure of speech, babe!” Lindsey
says with a laugh.
“Apologies, but you should know that I’m
extra snarky if you let me sleep late.”
Lindsey nods
her head in agreement. “I do know that, but I couldn’t help
it. You looked so peaceful that I couldn’t
bear to wake you.”
“Thanks,” Angelia says as she walks on
past Lindsey and sits down at the table “I
definitely needed the sleep.”
“What’s wrong?” Lindsey asks, walking
over to Angelica, leaning over and placing her hands on her shoulders. “Rough day at the office?”
“You could say that.” Angelica sighs.
“How about we talk about it?”
Lindsey
suggests as she reaches over the stove and picks up the plate of pancakes over
and brings it over to Angelica, placing three of them on her plate.
“Pancakes?” Angelica asks with a knowing
grin.
“Your favorite.” Lindsey says with a
wink.
“You know me all too well.” Angelica
says, taking her fork and digging into the pancakes. “You definitely know me all too well, Linds.”
“I do my best, babe.” Lindsey says, kissing
Angelica on her cheek. “I just want to
make you feel good.”
“I know you do and I appreciate everything
you do for me.” Angelica says with a grin. “Seriously, we have been great for each other.”
“I agree.” Lindsey says as she sits down
at the table next, placing three pancakes on her own plate. “We make a great team, you and I.”
Lindsey
watches as her wife, the great Angelica Jones, digs into the pancakes. It is clear by the noise she makes that she
is enjoying each and every bite. Lindsey
is happy knowing that she is making Angelica feel good, especially after having
such a rough time on SCW Breakdown.
“So, what happened that has you in a rotten
mood, babe?”
Angelica
shakes her head. “You wouldn’t want to
hear it, Linds.”
“Try me.”
Angelica
nods. “Ok, it goes like this...I really
do love my daughter, I really do, but I think she’s all wrong when it comes to
Silas Mason.”
Lindsey
Carter frowns. She didn’t want to hear
his name get brought up again, especially knowing that she is the one
responsible for putting Angelica and Silas together in the first place. Nevertheless, she lets Angelica continue her
story.
“Samantha Hodgson had done well for me for
quite a while but it was time for a change, and Silas Mason did well. I won a few world championships with
Silas. But lately my career has slowed
down definitively.”
Angelica
sighs, shaking her head in disappointment. “I
lost to that idiot Merrick Wiseman. I
lost to that fake Selena Frost. Harmony
and I lost to Next Level. I just…keep…losing!”
Angelica
looks up at Lindsey with a fire in her eyes. “I’m not supposed to lose, Linds!”
“I know.” Lindsey says quietly.
“Then you also know that something has to
change. I cannot keep this up, I WILL
NOT keep this up! Things are going to
change and you know, maybe The Best of the Best Tournament is a good place to
start.”
“Angelica…” Lindsey attempts to
interrupt but Angelica is having none of it.
“So they’re sending me to the Key Arena in
Seattle? I have no problem starting
there. I’ll take out Alexander Sire and
I hope to God I get Selena Frost next because I would love to get one last chance
to beat her. And I’ll go on to beat
anyone and everyone else who gets in my way.
And yes, that includes Sienna or Harmony if it comes down to it. I am going to prove that I have what it
takes, that I still am the best in the business.”
Lindsey
shoots straight up out of her chair. “Angelica,
I have to tell you something.”
“What is it?” Angelica asks. “Can’t you see I’m busy ranting?”
“I know but this is important because I know
you’ve been having trouble lately with Jessica.
I know she thinks your allegiance to Silas isn’t a good thing.”
Angelica
rolls her eyes. “Not you too…you do
realize that you helped put us together, right?”
“I do realize that, and that’s why I feel
guilty, because I lied.”
Angelica
frowns. “Wait a minute, did you just say
you lied?”
Lindsey nods
her head. “I lied, Angelica. I did.
I lied.”
“What did you lie about?”
“Remember how prejudicial Samantha Hodgson
was towards me and other homosexuals?”
Angelica
nods her head. “Yes. I gave her an ultimatum. She needed to get better or I’d fire
her. She kept on mocking you so I fired
her.”
“No, she didn’t.” Lindsey shakes her
head. “I made that up, Samantha never
mocked or insulted me. I just wanted you
to fire her because I thought you would do better without her, I thought you
would do better with Silas.”
“So you manipulated this whole situation? You manipulated all of it because you didn’t
like Samantha but you did like Silas? Is
that it?”
Lindsey
shakes her head. “It isn’t like that,
Angelica…”
“It certainly sounds that way to me.”
Angelica hops up out of her chair. She turns to storm away from the table. “I need to leave.”
“Angelica!
Wait!”
“No…I need to be by myself…I need to think
things through…”
Angelica
storms out of the room.
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Lindsey
Carter
On Camera
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Wrestling
was not my first career. Hell, never in
my wildest dreams did I consider that I would be anywhere near this great sport
of ours…
…but then I
met Angelica Jones and my life changed forever.
I love
Angelica and she loves me. We would do
anything for one another and she was willing to change her entire career all
for my sake. I saw that. I knew that.
I took advantage of that when I wanted to get rid of Samantha Hodgson.
So I
lied. I made up a lie about Samantha
Hodgson in order to manipulate Angelica into firing Samantha and signing on
with Silas Mason.
Yes, I am
responsible for this Angelica Jones that you see before you. Don’t blame Silas. Blame me.
Angelica
Jones is a great athlete and even in my limited wrestling knowledge I know that
she doesn’t need any help winning her matches.
I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that she does not need any help
winning Best of the Best Tournament.
Yet she
thinks she does and that’s partially my fault…
Her daughter
is right; Angelica Jones does not need any help because she already is the best
in the business today. If she can
remember that, then the Seattle brackets are hers and hers alone. She will own this tournament if she can just
remember who she is.
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Angelica
Jones
On Camera
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Jessica
Lasiewicz and Lindsey Carter, my daughter and my wife respectively, both kept
saying the same thing, they both think that I need to remember who I am.
Maybe it isn’t
me who needs to remember who I am?
Perhaps it’s the rest of you who needs to remember just who in the hell
I am? Because I think some of you have
forgotten. I think some of you have
forgotten when you step foot into the ring with Angelica Jones, you are setting
foot inside the squared circle with one of the very best to ever lace up a pair
of wrestling boots.
You are
forgetting that when you stare across the ring into the eyes of Angelica Jones,
you are staring across the ring into the eyes of one of the deadliest monsters
to ever compete in this sport, one of the most sadistic bitches in this
industry.
You want
some cold hard facts?
FACT: I ran
right through round one of Shot of Adrenaline, making it to the semi-finals.
FACT: I am
willing to do ANYTHING to win. Just ask
the cowboy whose career I damn near ended, Merrick Wiseman.
FACT: I will
do ANYTHING to win Best of the Best.
And do not
forget, NEVER EVER FORGET, that there has never been anyone, never been any
obstacle, that I have not been able to overcome. Never EVER forget that Angelica Jones is the
best of the best and coming up in Seattle I take the first step towards proving
that.
Another
fact? Tournaments are my specialty,
ladies and gentlemen. Like I said, I
worked my way through the competition and made it to the semi-finals of Shot of
Adrenaline. Tournaments are all about
endurance and endurance is something I have plenty of. My endurance is what will keep me going, it
will keep me alive in Best of the Best, and the end of the day, my endurance
will be why my arm will be raised in victory in Seattle.
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