Episode: 1
Tasha Kovac sits in a lift control room, presses the stop button, and rubs her hurt leg. She recalls standing on the podium with the World Cup trophy as the flag rose. Everything changed on an ordinary training day. In a memory, her coach Mark Brennan makes her try a triple backflip she has never done. Tasha hurtles toward the lip of the jump at top speed.
Tasha Kovac watches ski slopes from a small operator booth. She reaches out and hits a switch to stop the machinery. Then she leans down to massage her injured leg while recalling her old aerial flips on the snow.
Tasha remembers raising the World Cup trophy on the victory stand while her national flag went up. She contrasts that peak moment with her present reality, noting that her skiing career came to a sudden halt on an ordinary practice day.
In a flashback to a cold, windy day, Mark Brennan gestures toward a towering ski jump. He insists that Tasha perform a triple backflip. She has never attempted this trick before, but her coach and ex-boyfriend commands her to do it.
The camera switches to Tasha's point of view on the snowy mountain. She races down the steep incline, rapidly gathering momentum. The edge of the massive jump approaches fast as she prepares to launch herself into the open air.
“My name is Tasha Kovac. I used to be a freestyle skier.”
“My ex-boyfriend and also my coach, Mark Brennan, made me attempt a trick I had never done before. Triple backflip.”
The episode concludes with Tasha rushing toward the lip of the jump from a first-person perspective. She is traveling at high speed, moments away from leaving the ground for an untested stunt. Will Tasha survive the impact of this reckless jump, and how will Mark react when she hits the snow?