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2022 television miniseries

Breaking Boiling Point (Caprice & Ella)
Genre	Comedy Drama Suspense
Created by	Ava Zinn
Written by	N/A
Directed by	N/A
Starring	Caprice Zinn Ella Zinn Ava Zinn
Narrated by	Karly Jameson
Composer(s)	Kevin MacLeod
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producer(s)	Ava Zinn
Producer(s)	Karly Jameson
Editor(s)	Kendra Ray
Location(s)	Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Cinematography	N/A
Running time	TBD
Production company(s)	Aeverine Zinn Digital Media Group
Distributor	N/A
Broadcast
Original channel	N/A
Picture format	2160p Ultra-high definition
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	January 15, 2023 (2023-01-15) – January 31, 2023 (2023-01-31)

Breaking Boiling Point is an American 13-part episode of the fourth season of Caprice & Ella and is the first miniseries in the show's history.^[1] The miniseries, which aired from January 15, 2023, to January 31, 2023, covers the period of Caprice, Ella, and Ava Zinn of their lease not being renewed and forced to find another place to live from June 10, 2022 to early fall 2022. It was initally scheduled to air from November 11, 2022 to November 28, 2022 but due to ongoing issues, it was pushed back to January 2023.

Plot

When Ava gets a 90-day notice of her lease at Black Pine Flats is not being renewed due to the new owner's decision to no longer accepting Housing Choice Vouchers, Ava immediately takes action and soon finds and applies to Golfview Apartments, which not only accepts Housing Choice Vouchers, but also allows pets and meets the needs of Ava, Caprice, and Ella. However, Ava soon discovers there is not only a wait list, she goes to extremes to get help with the impending move and must find a way to hold on to hope and do it without any disruptions.

On learning about losing the place they've called Black Pine Flats (the former Brendonwood Park Apartments) home, Caprice and Ella becomes violent with Caprice hissing at the rude property manager an astonishing 300+ times and Ella growling only 60 times, yet do not attack the property manager whom Caprice thinks is responsible for this decision.

Throughout the miniseies, Ava tries to obtain $2,600 (later $3,100) to cover first month rent (as she believes the Housing Choice Voucher will not allow overlapping subsidy), security deposit, pet deposit for Caprice and Ella, and moving costs. Due to only having only $600 for just the pet deposit, Ava tries to obtain the needed funds by applying for assistance from BrightPoint, Wayne Township Trustee, and IvyCares via IvyTech Fort Wayne.

In Part 8 of the miniseies, Ava reveals the the IvyCares application for the move's funds were denied yet she managed to obtain only the pet deposit for Caprice and Ella. Rather than accepting the denial, Ava decides to fight back and later learns from a source at IvyTech that funds were limited. Ava joins forces with a Facebook group as well as going undercover in a complicated operation. However, Ava still manages to make things even worse as she still needs the funds for first month rent, security deposit, and moving expenses. Ava does, however, manage to only obtain the $600 needed for the pet deposit for Caprice and Ella to live at Golfview Apartments, yet is still short by $2,000.

In Part 9 of the miniseries, Ava dedicates herself to obtaining the $2,000 needed. When the GoFundMe campaign and organizations fail to help Ava obtain funds that are still needed for the move to Golfview, Ava decides to take matters into her own hands and will stop at nothing to see that Ava does get the $2,000 needed to complete the relocation from Black Pine Flats to Golfview Apartments. When Ava's attempts are not enough, she finds herself in an unfamiliar, awkward, and undesirable situation to come up with the much needed $2,000, which leads to serious double crossings and game playing. What's even worse, in a deleted scene, she also finds out the apartment at Golfview will not be ready until after November. Realizing that development, Ava vomits profusely for sixty uninterrupted seconds, and then she, Caprice, and Ella begin panicking. She later finds out via Lutheran Social Services that Ava is now third on Golfview's waitlist as well as the Section 8 voucher being extended through October 16, 2022 as well as an unexpected lease extension at Black Pine Flats that now ends on October 31, 2022.

Despite the good news, Ava is not only psychologically traumatized, but she states she nearly had 15 heart attacks after going through the whole ordeal as the damage had already been done.

In part 10, Ava mails the $600 pet deposit and also learns good news via LaSar'a Johnson of Lutheran Social Services, of which Ava's Housing Choice Voucher being extended to October 16, 2022 as well as her current lease at Black Pine Flats being extended through October 31, 2022, and initially Ava learned from LaSar'a that Ava moved from fifth to third on the Golfview Apartments waitlist yet a week later, she learns that Golfview Apartments, Fort Wayne Housing Authority, and Ava are close to a deal and is on standby while awaiting the funds for the $675 first month rent, $1,050 security deposit, and $575 moving expenses (at which point comes to $2,300–$300 more than expected).

In part 12/13, Ava finally recives the funds needed for her move to Golfview Apartments. Ava admits that she had lost control of herself in the moment she was notified of her lease was not renewed at Black Pine Flats, snapped at the heat of the moment during the nearly four month transition period between the move from Black Pine to Golfview by begging complete strangers to help fund the move, and realizing that any further strain would not be good for Ava, Caprice, Ella or Ava's coworkers (Rachael Passalt, Karly Jameson, Thia Tola, and Kendra Ray).

Also realizing everything Caprice and Ella has been through, and knowing any reprimands/disciplinary actions will not make what Caprice, Ella, and Ava had gone through (particularly Caprice's 44 hour ordeal) or Ava's actions before, during, and after the move go away. Ava reaches an out-of-court settlement with Black Pine Flats that will likely see Ava forego getting her security deposit back, placing benches at the CitiLink bus stops at Black Pine Flats, and Ava delivering three bags of aluminum cans to a maintenance guy.

The miniseries ends with Caprice, Ella, and Ava fully settled in at Golfview after a brutal, expensive (in the process becoming the second-most expensive after Ava's November 1983 move from Chicago to Mill Township, Indiana, which at the time was $1,500--$4,500 in 2022 American dollars), and dangerous move. The miniseries' title refers to the point where the stress of a pet peeve is so high and overwhelming.

Cast

Episodes

Production

Production began on June 10, 2022, but was halted on July 29, 2022 after Caprice went missing in Fort Wayne, Indiana ^[2] and was found 44 hours later on July 31, 2022 ^[3]. Production resumed on August 5, 2022.

Alternate plot

In Part 10 of the miniseries, making good on her threat of legal action (defined by Ava as also getting the Fort Wayne Police Department involved), Ava secures the services of a well-known low cost law firm, which hears her argument yet doesn't take the case, but warns her that it will be difficult to pursue without hard evidence.

Ava later confronts the propery manager of Black Pine Flats (with Caprice & Ella in tow as well as a Fort Wayne police officer) about her lease not being renewed and the new place not being ready. However, despite this setback, things begin to turn around when what is close to a Plan B (stay at Black Pine by paying $620 instead of the $82 in rent she has been paying or staying at a pet-friendly hotel in the meantime) until the apartment at Golfview is ready as part of a settlement/transitional agreement per the Fair Housing Act. Ava stands firm, reminding the Black Pine Flats property manager, identified as "Bitch Becky" by Caprice, that as per the conditions of the Fair Housing Act, the settlement and Indiana law, this cannot be done until after the apartment at Golfview is ready and has been 100 percent resolved (by which time, as Ava threatens to "kick her ass up Decatur (Road) and down Tillman (Road)" and is now too late as the emotional damage was done).

Cultural References

• Ava makes reference to Brian Randolph, a Detroit father who robbed a credit union in 2015 to pay for chemotherapy treatments for his daughter Braylinn, giving her particular view of the story.
• The episode is a follow-up to "Lapsed Lease."
• The miniseries' trailer is a parody of the 1993 HBO film Strapped.^[1] The trailer mentions that "Breaking Boiling Point" is "more comelling than Bitter Blood, Cruel Justice, and A Mother's Revenge combined."
• Ava makes a reference to the Queen of the Willis character Ava Willis (also voiced by Ava Zinn) as Ava is usually set in her ways and afraid of taking risks, but generally a good person. Although she is traditionally conservative in her attitude, in how she dislikes change and novel situations, she can adapt to them quite well, quickly mastering unfamiliar social milieus. She can be pushed too far on occasion, usually it is the running joke throughout that series is an angry Ava yelling "I'm gonna kick your ass!" This is just a threat; she rarely, if ever, harms anyone. Ava's honesty and naivety often get her in unpredictable and troublesome situations. Ultimately, Ava cares for the people around her, particularly her family and friends and is always out to do what is right.
• Ava also refrences the Queen of the Willis episode "The Story of Melissa's Mother", of which talking lobster Heather's 60-second vomiting scene in the kitchen after Tabby and Shushu tells Heather that Melissa's mom has completed a sex change and reveals that Jill is now called Bill, Heather realizes that she has had sex with Bill and vomits profusely for sixty uninterrupted seconds.

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