Team Zude

I like everything you've mentioned so far. Zude drama is fine, as long as it's not between them. I like the idea of them dealing with it as a team.

They set up so many potential plot-lines last season that they really shouldn't leave them hanging. They definitely should cast someone as Zero's sister, and have him deal with his past some more (with Jude's support of course.)

More Lionel is a good!

Maybe even go a little more into Jude's relationship with his mother as well.

I definitely see Jude and Jelena working fairly well, at least on a professional level. She already has a certain level of respect for him. Maybe, if she really does take her new role seriously, he would come to respect her too, to a point. - Much to Zero's chagrin.

I do want to see Zero confront Oscar as well. Oscar's reaction to Zero being the "gentleman"-caller would be interesting. What if this realization happens during Oscar's trial or something? No doubt Jude would probably be called to testify. That could add a lot of drama. Though, I wonder if it would be too repetitive for the show, since they already did the whole Olivia murder trial thing with German?

And of course, we could always see more domestic Zude -moving, housewarming, fostering/adoption, whatever, - any of that or all of that would be great!