Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT 100 Light Years From Home
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.16.2002
Later, Jack's all damp and wrapped in a blanket, but Dawson is completely dry. Dawson is magic! Jack's sobbing and sobbing about how Tobey has a boyfriend now, and he (Jack) is flunking out of school and he's also a big drunk and his life is a giant pile of crap and he didn't think it would be this hard! Whatever will he do with the disaster that is his life? Dawson looks vaguely sympathetic and assures Jack that "they'll all" help him out. Jack snarks that everyone says that -- they all did when the Flash died -- but it doesn't really help. Dawson begs to differ. They helped him, he says. "It made all the difference in the world." Jack snuffles back another fakola tear. "How am I supposed to fix my life if I don't even know where I went wrong?" he asks. "I just want to go back. I just want to start over!" Sob! Dawson gulps in the face of such very bad acting.
Audrey. Pacey. Poolside. She has to tell him something. "You kissed [Josh Hart-not]," Pacey says. "Yeah. What the hell?" Audrey asks, incredulous. Pacey tells her that he's now psychic. Not really; he tells her that he had private investigators on her trail and that what they found out "wasn't pretty." No, he really did say that. Audrey shrugs that his spending "all that time tracking [her] down, would kind of mean [he] care[s]." Pacey agrees that it sort of would. "So, do you?" Audrey asks. "I can't keep going down this road that we've been on." She tells him that she's not good with "this vulnerable thing," and she really just wants to be his girlfriend. Period. And she wants him to want it, too. "I do. I do," Pacey coos, and takes her in his arms. He's been wanting to tell her that all day, he says. "I was just waiting for my moment." Audrey purrs that "right now" is looking pretty good. "Audrey? Will you be my girlfriend?" Pacey asks, telling her that if the answer is yes, she should meet him under the jungle gym at recess.
Dawson. Pacey. Beach house. Pacey's outfit is quite literally eyeball searing. I am now blind. From what I recall before my sight was ripped from me, he's wearing a taupe-colored Hawaiian shirt and blue Hawaiian shorts. Yes, it's that bad. Actually, no, it's worse. He's surprised to see Dawson. Dawson, looking knackered, explains that he's there....he trails off. "To find Joey," Pacey fills in for him. "Yeah," Dawson says. Pacey stares at him for a moment, then says that "this is a bad idea." Dawson gripes that he's going on no sleep whatsoever and he doesn't want to talk about it. "I'm serious. You've got to give this thing up," Pacey says, pouring himself a cup of coffee. "That thing you do to each other, the heroes of bad timing, you have got to give that up. It's over," he says. Sing it, brother. Dawson sets his jaw. "No, it's not," he says. Pacey can't understand why Dawson keeps doing this to himself. "How many times you going to come back?" he asks. "Until there's nothing left to come back for, I guess," Dawson says. And the thing is, I don't even hate him for this. He's just...pathetic. At some point, you have to fish or cut bait, and Dawson can't really seem to do either. Pacey looks sad for Dawson, too. "Suppose I were to tell you there's nothing right now," he says. Dawson wishes that was the case. "But it's not. I can feel it," he insists. Pacey sputters that Dawson's just going to hurt himself, but Dawson interrupts, saying that Pacey is the cynic, while Dawson is the idealist. "That's how it works," he says wearily. He feels something so strong, he says, pulling him to Joey. And he has to act on it. "It's the only thing I know how to do. Tell me where she is." Pacey sort of shakes his head. "She's with Charlie, Dawson," Pacey says quietly. And Dawson just looks sad.