The short program results are posted, with The Jumping Shrimp coming in first and Gen coming in fourth. Casey places fifth, but Gen insists that she can still knock her out of fourth in the long program and go to sectionals. Tina is visibly disturbed to hear this, and instructs Casey to come with her somewhere. At a skate shop, Tina purchases Casey a brand new pair of skates.

During her routine, Casey falls on the ice while Tina looks on with a scheming look on her face. When the final results are posted, Casey has not made it to sectionals with the rest of the ice princesses.

In the locker room, Casey's feet are raw and bloody. Zoey informs Casey that (a) new skates must be broken in, and (b) Tina was involved in some scandal at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Casey angrily confronts the Harwoods, but Tina is unsympathetic.

Casey calls her mom to come pick her up. Upon arriving, Joan engages in a screaming fight with Tina about her treatment of Casey, and the example she is setting for her own daughter.

In this chapter, Ice Princess once again feels the viewer's sympathy for Casey slipping away, and takes swift and decisive action to reclaim it. While Casey is not the most charismatic figure to grace the ice or the silver screen, at least she is comparatively appealing next to the most evil woman in the world, who knowingly sends Casey into public injury and humiliation in an act disguised as heartfelt generosity. In a nod to Tiffany's father, Tina's ominous instruction to Casey -- "Just show me you deserve them" -- can roughly be translated to, "And you'll be even more worth it when you lose."

Thus, the viewer is cleverly maneuvered into feeling bad for Casey as she wipes out on the ice, instead of waving our homemade "ZOEY ROCKS!" banner and reminding the judges that Casey should already be disqualified for her short program music choice . On the other hand, it seems Casey hardly needs our sympathy considering she still manages to place fifth -- only one place behind Gen, Nikki, and Tiffany, who have been training for YEARS. Seeing as Tiffany placed third even though she, too, dined on ice during her performance, one might deduce that Casey's placement speaks less to her raw talent and more to the scarcity of talent in the state of Connecticut.

Interestingly, Zoey continues to be villified even though she is Casey's only source of reliable information in this movie, as she finally clues her in to the following:

1. Casey fell and ruined her feet because she was using new skates
2. Tina deliberately bought Casey new skates to prevent her from placing higher than Gen
3. Tina was apparently involved in a scandal that is probably explained in detail on her Wikipedia page, if Casey had ever bothered to look her up

But even though it is tempting to blame Casey for her own cluelessness, we are equally inclined to agree with Casey's outrage that Tina thinks she can get away with this -- especially considering that Gen, Nikki, Nikki's mom, Nikki's coach, Tiffany, Tiffany's dad, and Tiffany's coach are supposed to ride home in the same van with Casey and the Harwoods. One imagines there is a major possibility that SOMEONE will mention Casey's tumble as well as her conspicuously brand new skates, not to mention Casey's tears, bloody feet, and Tina's credit card bill. Frankly, Tina's confidence that she has totally pulled this off is embarrassingly reminiscent of Laurel Hedare thinking she could get away with releasing Beau-line .

In fact, Tina has obviously messed with the wrong mother's daughter, as Joan's battered Volvo pulls up after only the amount of time it took the Harwoods to exit the building into the parking lot. Since the towns of Millbrook, CT and Westerly, CT are fictional, it is impossible to calculate the exact speed with which Joan has warped across the state to kick Tina's ass, but assuming it took 2 minutes for the Harwoods to walk down a single hallway, we are talking about 300 mph even if these towns are merely 10 miles apart.

As Joan and Tina approach each other in the parking lot, it is immediately clear that this scene will be dramatic due to the shakier hand-held camerawork, most likely a result of the cameraman's real terror of being dismembered by Tina or Joan if caught in the crossfire of their epic battle. Even Casey knows the smart thing to do is hide in the car for this scene, as the laws of physics state that every action will produce an equal and opposite reaction -- and if there is one person capable of matching the human ugliness displayed by Tina today, it is definitely, definitely Casey's mother.

Sure enough, Joan has the audacity to take the position of Casey's supporter: "My daughter is brilliant. She will succeed at whatever she does... despite people like you trying to convince her otherwise." In fact, as we have clearly witnessed , Tina is only one of two people in this conversation who would like to convince Casey that she cannot succeed at whatever she does.

Tina Harwood is a lying, underhanded coach with suspicious ties to Sarajevo. Joan Carlyle is a sour lesbian professor with the same first name as Joan Cusack.

Don't miss a moment of this thrilling confrontation, as Tina and Joan fight for the right to exploit Casey in different but equally vile ways!