Ava's Relocation to Fort Wayne: Five Years Later
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 29-30 | ||
| Production code | 429 430 | ||
| Original air date | May 1, 2023 May 8, 2023 | ||
| Running time | Part 1: 59:29 Part 2: 54:00 Total: 1:53:29 | ||
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Ava's Relocation to Fort Wayne: Five Years Later is the official two-part season finale episode of the fourth season of Caprice & Ella, which aired on May 1 and May 8, 2023. The episode deals with how things have gone since relocating from Marion to Fort Wayne in 2018.
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Plot[edit]
The episode begins with Ava Zinn's first sign-on as a Fort Wayne resident at 4:00 PM May 14, 2018, but rewinds to the present day as Ava, Breeanna, Karly, Rachael, Maribel, Donna, Tracia, Hank, and George share their memories about Ava's relatively quick move to Fort Wayne in 2018 took 10 years and $25,000 to prepare for. Ava began preparations in Marion on September 30, 2008 (days before the WISH-TV/Bright House Dispute). Ava held a questions and ansers session via Facebook live on the morning off March 25, 2018 before heading to Fort Wayne from Marion.
After arriving, Ava walks out and about in Fort Wayne and first store Ava went to as a resident of Fort Wayne was the then-Lassus Handy Dandy #10 (now My Market #3) on Paulding Road. She bought a few bags of Seyfert's Potato Chips and a 60 ounce fountain drink, followed by Walmart on Southtown Crossing Boulevard (former site of Southtown Mall), and finally Kroger at Southgate Plaza after spending some time at Tillman Park.
Part one ends with the final days and hours in Marion, Indiana as a resident after 22 years and the first moments in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Part two begins as Tracia, Season, Maribel, and Ava talk about the February 23, 2018, announcement of the relocation from Marion to Fort Wayne. The episode reveals that Ava decided to keep the storage unit in Marion as well as retaining a bank account at Afena Federal Credit Union as part of a settlement between a local (Marion) mental health facility, Indiana Wesleyan University, and Afena FCU. Maribel reveals that Tracia, Karly, Donna, Racahel, Ava, the late Alexandra Moffitt, Kendra Ray, and Ava's children Samantha, Tiffani, Tabitha used the different routes from Marion to Fort Wayne as the infamous 26-foot U-Haul arrived on the morning of May 14, 2018 taken as a diversion tactic. It is also revealed that Season knew not only as a broadcast journalist, but as the mother-in-law of Ava's transgendered daughter, Tiffani, she had to follow Ava since 2008 as Tracia recalls Ava going to Pittsburgh to audition for the 11th season of American Idol at what was then Heinz Field and even obtained a Giant Eagle Advantage Card that would eventually come in handy in November 2022.
When Ava had things unpacked and settleed in at Brendonwood Park on the southeast side of Fort Wayne, Ava returned to Marion on June 1, 2018 as a visitor since relocating from Chicago in November 1983 as Ava makes her final visits to Grant County, including the First Friday on June 1, 2018 and the Mississinewa High School Class of 2018 on June 3, 2018. Ava's girlfriend at the time, Elisa Everman (also Tiffani's mother), was at the Marion High School graduation, and after the daughter of one of Ava's long time friends, revealed to be Kaylee Parker (daughter of Stacey Parker), graduated from high school at 4:00 PM June 3, 2018. Ava's transgendered daughter Tiffani graduated from Marion High School at 4:35 PM June 3, 2018 and by 5:00 PM Tiffani's wife, Jenna (Atkins) Zinn, went into labor and delivered what eventually became Ava's first grandchild, a girl named Alisan Brynn Zinn. It is interesting to note only two of Ava's children, Samantha and Tiffani (respectively died in November 2020 and August 2021 from diabetes complications), lived to graduate from high school in 2012 and 2018, respectively as the four other children of Ava's (Thomas, Sheryl, Tabitha, and Baby Kenny) died before they would have graduated from high school.
The two-part episode winds down as Ava finally reveals her recollections on how she made the move from Marion to Fort Wayne possible. It has been said that Ava's move from Marion Fort Wayne took 10 years and $25,000 when in reality, took Ava 19 years, $50,000, and a gender transition to prepare after three rapes in 2002, 2010, and 2015; a prom date revocation in 2011 following a 10 year investigation; a 2001 college dismissal that was eventually cracked in 2019; the deaths of Ava's immediate family and closest early friends in 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, and 2018; inadequate housing and facilities that met the needs of Ava Zinn; a fateful cable TV dispute in 2008; and the June 29, 2012 derencho all factored in to Ava's move to Fort Wayne from Marion. Caprice and Ella finally get some screen time as they hgave their thoughts as they were not even born until 2020 and 2021, respectively, with Ava revealing the final thoughts, plans for next season, and the feature film Caprice & Ella: The Movie, which was planned at the time.
Cast[edit]
- Caprice Zinn as herself
- Ella Zinn as herself
- Ava Zinn as herself
- Breeanna Sorensen as herself
- Hank Cash as himself
- George Williamston
- Karly Jameson as herself/narrator
- Rachael Passalt as herself/co-narrator
- Donna Doogan as herself
- Jackson Doogan as himself
Guest Stars[edit]
- Season Atkins as herself
- Tracia Matthewson as herself
- Maribel Mort as herself
Production[edit]
Cultural References[edit]
- In the opening scene of the episode, instead of the usual theme song, a sequence similar to that of the 1983-87 NBC series The A-Team is played.
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