The Favorites

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of emotional abuse and physical abuse.

A documentary clip before the start of the chapter shows the new pairs posing for photographs: Kat and Garrett, and Bella and Zach. Multiple people weigh in about how Kat and Garrett’s partnership was tremendous from the start, with the pair garnering multiple consecutive gold medals at different events; Bella and Zach did not fare as well. The stage is set for the 2005 World Championships, the one title that Kat and Garrett still have not won.

Garrett and Kat perform exceptionally well at the 2005 World Championships in Moscow. They are in the lead as they take their positions for their final event, the free dance. Just before the music starts, Kat is stunned to see Heath in the crowd. Despite making a couple of mistakes, she and Garrett skate well enough to win gold. A shaken Kat sees Heath again when she is on the podium, and she takes off immediately after the anthem. Sheila finds and reprimands her, telling her to act like the champion she now is.

In the documentary, Garrett and Ellis discuss Kat’s strange behavior after winning the Worlds, while Jane and Veronika express their disapproval of it.