The Academy is three weeks into the year. Tara is throwing Abigail her first birthday party, while Christian still has not enrolled or even shown up to the Academy. No one knows where he is or can get in touch with him. There are three openings for fill-ins for the corps de ballet in The Company's production of Giselle.

Tara finds Christian at his dad's surf shop. He blows her off to be with his new and reckless friends. Tara, Ben, and Grace rehearse for Giselle. Kat helps Abigail appeal to other dance companies. Saskia is back and gives Tara a journal to express her feelings about the school year.

Christian catches up with his friends at the Academy and goes through an interview to renew his scholarship. Grace starts meddling in Ms. Raine's private life so that Ms. Raine will stop messing with her. Marcus Caine, Ms. Raine's boyfriend while she was a student and company dancer at the Academy, comes to the Academy to help the second year students. He gives them an assignment to study a non-dancer and then reinterpret that person in a dance. Abigail and Christian spend the day together, which inspires Christian to stay at the Academy. Kat takes her second year assignment as an opportunity to study a man named Nick Hesk, who is the driver that hit Sammy in series two. She begins to feel insecure and becomes bulimic. She talks to Nick again and hears his side of the story. In the end, Kat ends up not using Nick as her assignment; she uses herself.