Episode Report Card Sars: F | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Baby blues
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.24.2001
Later, Joey picks up the phone to find Pacey "Over The Edge" Witter on the other end. He asks what's wrong, and she tells him she's okay now; she thought she had a big problem, but she "was wrong." He asks what problem, and she tells him not to worry about it: "The important thing is that you focus on yourself." Then, after a long pause: "Where are you?" Pacey says that he's "fishing with Dougie," and raves about having the time of his life and blah, and he mentions that the two of them will have to go out there sometime; he's obviously lying, but I don't know why. Joey waits about a year before saying shyly, "Yeah, we will." Okay, for real -- what's going on here? He thinks she doesn't know about the arrest...? She thinks he doesn't...okay, forget it. It doesn't even matter. Awkward pause. Pacey misses her. She misses him too. Awkward pause. Awkward hanging up.
In front of Baby Acres, Gretchen chills on the hood of her car, waiting for Dawson. Dawson gets out of the Jeep and stares at her; she gazes lustily back at him. Oh, ew. Dawson thought she had a train to catch. Gretchen sultries that the best thing about trains is that "there's always a later one." He walks over to her, and they kiss noisily, and there's a flute on the soundtrack that's entirely too happy about that. Dawson says that "this is crazy." "Insane," Gretchen agrees, pawing his chest (ew). "What are we doing?" Dawson wants to know. "Prolonging the inevitable...living in denial," Gretchen leers, continuing to finger his chest (ew, ew, ew). "Who knew denial could feel this good?" Dawson cracks. More in this "witty" vein -- there's no hope, they should break up right now, "I never want to see you again" -- and then they start kissing even more noisily (ew), and Gretchen grinds her pelvis around on the hood of the car (ew), and the flute tootles. Ew. Shut up, flute.
Next week: The prom. Ohhhh lordy.