Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Secrets And Lies
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.09.1999
Cut to the lawn of a well-appointed home. Beside the police SUV, Andie, Pacey, and Joey all crouch on the ground. Joey asks her what happened. Andie doesn't want to talk about it. Okay, sidebar. I never understand why women "don't want to talk about" men trying to rape them. I could see why a woman wouldn't want to relive it if the guy had actually succeeded in raping them, but I for one enjoy spreading the word about any psychotic fuckwit that tries to get a leg over on me without permission, because it makes me feel better and it warns other women as well. One time, a guy pinned me against a wall because I didn't want to fool around with him, and I kicked him in the nuts. Hard. And I told all my friends and a few acquaintances and a total stranger or two about it, too, and I used his name. I don't want to sound judgmental; to each her own, really. I just don't get that, and the same story came up on Party Of Five this week and I didn't get that either. Anyhow, back to your regularly scheduled Maalox. Andie just wants to go home. Pacey says she has to tell them what happened first. Andie moans, "Pacey, please," and Joey asks her if Rob tried to hurt her, and Pacey asks again what Rob did to her. Andie says they went upstairs, and "we were just kissing -- and then he started trying to -" and she doesn't say "have sex with me," but that's what she means. She says she kept saying no, but Rob kept trying, and finally she managed to get away and go downstairs, and she called Joey, and "can we just go now, please?" She stands up, sobbing. Pacey asks grimly, "Where is he?" Andie tells him not to "worry about it," and Joey says they should just go, but Pacey says, "I'm not leaving until I talk to that bastard." He stalks towards the house, from which we can hear the sounds of a kegger, and Andie squawks, "Pacey, no!" but Pacey doesn't stop. Joey looks concerned and gives Andie a comforting hug.
Pacey storms into the house, cuts through the partygoers and out to the back yard, and confronts Rob "Swing" Logan by sucker-punching him and yelling, "What'd you do to her, man?" Rob, restrained by his friends, shouts, "Nothing!" Pacey, also restrained by Rob's friends, wonders why, if he didn't do anything, Andie "is bawling her eyes out" outside. Finally, the friends let go of Rob and Pacey, and Pacey tells Rob to stay away from Andie, and if Rob so much as touches Andie, "I am gonna nail you to a cross." Rob protests again that he didn't even lay a hand on Andie, and Pacey tells him to save it for the judge. Rob tells Pacey to get out. Pacey stomps off; Rob's friends hand him a highball glass, and Rob leers. Everyone who figured out from this scene alone that Andie made up that story to worm her way back into Pacey's good graces, raise your hands. Wow, all of you, huh? Yeah, me too.
A shot of the moon. Loons. Cut to the greenhouse. How long have Jen and Henry spent in there? When they ran in, the sun was still up. Anyhow, Jen comments on how beautiful it is in there, and Henry tells her she's "looking at over two hundred plants." He names some of them for her, reeling off the more "suggestive" plant genera, while totally not writing Abby Morgan a check for the single entendres. Jen makes a dumb joke about blushing, and Henry laughs nervously; Jen tells him to relax, "it'll take a lot more than a flower to offend me." Hey, Jen? Did you mean to imply that you have seen, and done, a lot in your short life? Because you've never pointed that out before, and God knows we wouldn't have gotten dead sick of it if you had. Oh, wait. You did. About a thousand times. And we have. So shut. Up. Jen asks how he learned so much about the flowers, and Henry says Miss F taught him. Jen wonders, "What's the deal with her?" and calls her uptight. Henry says she's "sad" because she's got nobody in her life -- no children, no relatives -- and adds that he's lived next door to her most of his life and "I think I'm her best friend." Jen chuckles, "I don't know who to feel sorrier for, you or her." Like, ha ha. Not. Henry tells Jen to fuck right off. Well, okay, he doesn't say anything, but he should have. Jen says that Henry needs to toughen up: "You keep wearing your heart on your sleeve like that, you'll bleed to death." Henry takes Jen on the weekend-stay guilt-trip, commenting on how much Miss F had looked forward to meeting Jen, how he'd told Miss F all about Jen, and how Miss F only has two events on her social calendar every year: the World Orchid Conference, and the HQ gala. Jen thinks this over.