At the time the footage was filmed in 2000, Lučić was married and Severina was reportedly in a relationship with general Stanko Sopta .

Tape’s most complex romantic dynamic is with herself. She is constantly betraying her own moral code for the rush of proximity to power. Every time she falls into bed with a Roy (or, in a cut storyline, a Pierce scion), she is cheating on her younger self—the student who wrote a thesis on “Objectivity as a Colonial Construct.”