Janu visits the music store where Roni works, where he finds her engaged in a discussion about G-funk and the history of hip-hop with Zena. The conversation touches on the nuances of sub-genres and the "toxic egos" of modern artists versus traditionalists. Zena, whose background involves restrictive boarding schools, expresses fascination with both the music and Roni herself.
Tensions rise when Zena explicitly expresses her sexual attraction to Roni, commenting on her physical appearance, including her breasts and symmetrical freckles. Roni is deeply offended by these remarks, maintaining that she dislikes being treated as a sexual object and threatening to eject both Zena and Janu from the store. Janu attempts to diffuse the situation by jokingly suggesting Zena is just trying to rile Roni up, but Roni remains firm about her discomfort with being sexualized regardless of the intent.
After Zena leaves for her shift at the soup kitchen, Janu and Roni have a private, candid conversation about the nature of being perceived and treated as a "piece of meat." Janu observes that Roni is "oddly cool" with his own perverted tendencies, though Roni retorts that she prefers he not pretend to be something he is not. The scene concludes with Janu purchasing a redundant CD of "relaxing traffic noise" as compensation for his time, before realizing that Zena has walked off with Roni's headphones.