Super appreciate the responses, @DonkeyBot and @Gregory Jones
Yeah, I think I was able to get the first part of it down. I created a custom checkbox on the Item record and added a summary filter of case when this checkbox is true, return 0, else 1. This seems to work, although to be honest - I feel like the method you laid out @Gregory Jones would've worked as well, without the need to create the checkbox honestly 🙂
But yes, as you both pointed out, this mainline is making me bald prematurely.
Thanks again ya'll!