Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Escape From Witch Island
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.16.1999
Long line of kids. Andie. Belinda the ex-cheerleader, apparently her lieutenant. Andie: "They all violated the Rules of Conduct." Principal Green: "Get that stick out of your ass, Crazy Maisie; those Rules were written in 1957. I'd think you could remember that, since it's the year you were born." Andie: "D'oh!" (I'm paraphrasing.) Wing Chun: "All of you should just shut up."
Pacey sleeps behind the counter at the video store. Jen crouches in front of him with her chin on her folded hands, and a kittenish expression on her face, asking when they were "going to talk about it." Pacey is confused. She's referring to the booty call they discussed on the island. He tries to tell her that he was taking the unexplained events of their time on the island as an omen that they shouldn't have sex after all, but she disagrees, and he quickly and cheerfully changes his position on the issue. He wants to know if she wants to do it now. Reluctantly, she asks if he does. He says no, because he's "kind of tired." She says that's okay, because "Roswell's on in five minutes, anyway." Uh, okay, you know -- oh, forget it, I don't even care enough to complain about that. Jen says that sometime she will come to him and ask a favour, but of course we all know that Pacey will end up not with a horse's head in his bed, but a pig's.
Joey and Dawson watch the tape again in his bedroom. Joey says that it's Wendy and Boat Guy, and that there isn't any other explanation. Dawson says that it's William and Mary, based on the clothes. Yeah, because Wendy, who works for the Historical Society, could never get her hands on any old-fashioned clothes, or anything. Joey says that Wendy and Boat Guy were "screwing" with them the whole time. Dawson calls her a skeptic and a cynic; she calls him gullible and a sucker. Dawson finally agrees that she's probably right, and then she says that he may be right, and that William and Mary found their way back to each other after all, oh GOD just END THIS already. Dawson apologizes for taking their friendship for granted, and says that it was wrong of him to think they could just pick up where they left off. Joey says it wasn't only his fault and yammers on about intellectualizing their feelings, and haven't I seen this conversation six hundred thousand times before? Thanks -- thought so.
She says that all that matters is how they take care of each other, "so let's not talk this to death." TOO LATE. She suggests that they "take it slow" and check in with each other once in a while. He says, "That sounds immensely do-able." She looks back at the TV screen and says that this is one X-File they're never going to solve. Dawson says, "Unless we go back." Joey refuses. Dawson suggests a sequel. Joey says, "Let's just see how this one opens first." Dawson says, "By the way, how did you do on your PSATs." Joey makes a very weird face and says, "Brilliantly." So, the opposite of this episode, then.