Casey rides her bicycle to the Harwood Skating Club. Inside, she finds a collection of framed photos and trophies on her way to the rink, where three female skaters suddenly appear on the ice. Casey begins filming the girls with her camcorder, but is quickly interrupted by Tina Harwood (Kim Cattrall), who accuses her of being a spy and stealing her secret skating moves.

Casey protests that she is simply a student, but Tina calls over a young man named Teddy (Trevor Blumas) to search Casey's belongings. Finally, Tina is convinced of Casey's innocence when her daughter Gen skates over and scornfully identifies her as nothing more than a science geek.

Casey explains to Tina that she just wants to study her skaters for a science project. Tina tells Casey she doesn't mind, but she'll have to convince the skaters' parents.

As Casey rides through her small town, it is certainly inspiring to witness her new sense of purpose, but it is also important to note the helmet she's wearing, as it represents Casey's lingering cautiousness. As the film progresses, it seems reasonable to expect that Casey will throw some of this caution to the wind as she comes out of her shell in pursuit of her dream; in addition to figure skating (presumably without a helmet), we would sincerely encourage Casey to explore other risky and exciting ways of expressing herself, such as BMX racing blindfolded or skydiving without a parachute.

Casey's dreamy stroll through the Harwood Skating Club can be seen as a journey to a different world, both literally and figuratively; while Casey has shown herself to be a whiz on the ice behind her house, these artifacts from the world of professional skating (trophies, newspaper clippings, etc.) are clearly foreign to her. Even more fascinating, however, is the fact that Casey's approach to the ice triggers a sudden blast of lights as a trio of scantily-clad teen girls take to the ice, as if awaiting her presence to materialize into existence -- all to the Sapphic groove of Jewel's latest single. Clearly, the Harwood Skating Club has brought Casey's dream to life so literally that we might not be surprised if the closing credits rolled at this very moment.

Thus, it is somewhat unsurprising when Casey whips out her video camera and starts filming these girls twirling around on the ice. It is certainly a well-known school of thought in film analysis that the camera gaze is "male" by default , in the sense that it dominates and objectifies those it observes; in fact, it appears that even Tina has taken Cinema 101 and is not unaware of these implications, quickly putting a stop to this perverted voyeurism. And while Gen ultimately vouches for Casey as her classmate, from the look of disgust on Gen's face, Casey has a long way to go before she proves that figure skating and science can intersect as intimately as she would like.

Nevertheless, after Casey exhibits further science cred by uttering a sentence including the words "digitize some images into my computer," Tina is sufficiently wowed by her noble intellectual ambitions and agrees to let Casey continue filming the girls. On the other hand, it also seems possible that Tina has already had it with Casey's grating brand of earnestness and quickly improvises a line designed to trigger the next scene.