On the frozen pond in her backyard, Casey practices skating, but falls down every time she jumps. Suddenly, Teddy drives a zamboni over the hill and onto the ice, smoothing its surface so Casey can skate with ease.

Casey tells Teddy that she has trouble talking to people, but feels totally comfortable around him. Teddy explains that Casey lets people see her when she skates. He adds that she can't win without some help.

At this point, it might seem appropriate to observe that Casey is right back where she started, having learned a lot about herself and ice skating over the course of the last 71 minutes. However, after noticing one shot where her foot appears in frame without an ice skate on it, one might argue that Casey's knowledge of ice skating has actually declined since the opening credits. In fact, attempting to ice skate without wearing ice skates sounds like an alarming step backward for someone who would like to compete as a professional ice skater.

Of all the exotic locations introduced in this movie, the frozen pond behind the Carlyle house is the most puzzling (even more than the Harwood Skating Club, which once read Casey's mind and made her thoughts come true ). Both within the context of the film and as an isolated entity, the pond consistently defies expectation much like the island on Lost. First of all, when we first saw Casey on the pond , she effortlessly skated like an ice princess, despite the fact that its surface had never been graced by a 3-ton zamboni. At the ice rink shortly thereafter , however, Casey was barely able to stay on her two feet (and even exploded her butt cushion out of sheer clumsiness).

Here, we see that Casey is unable to land a single jump successfully, symbolically indicating that she does not believe in herself anymore; interestingly, being unable to land a single jump is also a common affliction among those who are just not very good at ice skating. After so many hours of applying physics calculations to her athletic performance, however, one must acknowledge the possibility that Casey's lingering failure is actually due to her shortcomings in math and science -- not ice skating. In fact, no other explanation seems likely after Teddy drives a 3-ton Zamboni onto a frozen pond while Casey just stands there and beams like a goober.

But the frozen pond does NOT shatter instantly under the weight of this 3-ton Zamboni, hinting that this area may be some kind of supernatural epicenter (not unlike the 2nd Largest Farmer's Market In The World in Elizabethtown ) where the laws of physics do not apply as usual. In this topsy-turvy environment, Casey's metaphorical low point is literally smoothed over with the aid of a 3-ton Zamboni which is all of a sudden perfectly safe to skate directly behind, despite Teddy's furious reaction when Casey committed this exact crime at the Harwood Skating Club . Of course, if Teddy is in the frame of mind to drive a 3-ton Zamboni onto a frozen pond without even hesitating, it is hardly surprising that he fails to register the possibility of squashing Casey into springtime.

Continuing in what must be a dream sequence, since there is no way Teddy actually drove a Zamboni across town directly into Casey's backyard (to the certain horror of their respective mothers), Casey and Teddy engage in flirtatious banter notable mainly for being borderline Dadaist :

Casey: How did you know?
Teddy: Didn't think you'd just give up. Which meant you'd be here, bumping it out.

Thus, the viewer is placed in the awkward position of deciding whether Casey means "How did you know my pond needed resurfacing?" or "How did you know where I live?". Meanwhile, Teddy's comment is also somewhat baffling, since the only acceptable thing he could really say at this point is, "Oh my god. I am SO SORRY that my mom lost her mind and injured you on purpose. How can you ever look me in the eye again?" Instead, Teddy submits his brilliant prediction that Casey might be found at her own house as indisputable proof of how well he knows her.