| Director | Robert Vince |
|---|---|
| Budget | $2 million |
Jack is invited to play for the Seattle Simians hockey team, but when the Los Angeles Carjackers team sets Jack up by making it look like he bit the finger of one of the players, Jack leaves while other Simians players look for him. Jack meets Ben Johnson, a runaway orphan skater boy, who lives in a shack at an old pool. Over time, the two become best friends, but when a police officer finds out where Jack and Ben live, they have to leave the pool. When leaving the pool, Ben broke his board, but he was going to enter a skating competition and get sponsored.
Jack goes to Oliver Plant's dumpster full of old skateboard stuff, but Oliver finds Ben, who tells him about his board and the competition, so Oliver gives him a board to use. They stay with Oliver overnight, with him not knowing about the pool incident. When Oliver says "good night, Ben", Ben suspects him of knowing that he was a runaway. Jack asks him to stay since there is no other place to sleep, and Ben agrees.
Oliver gets a visit from someone who deals with children like Ben, so that night Oliver calls her and says he found Ben. The next day, they go to the competition, and when it's Ben's turn, he says he can't do it, but Jack realizes he has the uncanny ability to skateboard. He says he would ride with Ben, so Ben decides to do it. Ben wins the competition and gets sponsored by Bob Burnquist, and Oliver adopts Ben. Meanwhile, Louie, Jack's little brother, gets a ride to Seattle and pretends to be Jack, being terrible at hockey. Jack shows up and wins the ZHL cup for the Simians. After the Simians win and Jack and Louie decide to go back home, Ben gives Louie a skateboard so Jack can teach him.