Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Like A Virgin
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.1999
Dawson walks down the dock where Eve is standing in what she says is her boss's boat. She offers to take him for a ride. Ew. Dawson says he'd been hoping they'd graduated from the open ocean to dry land. Is the creek "ocean"? Just asking. Eve says, "If at first you don't succeed..." leaving me no option but to decide that she only speaks in clichés and aphorisms. Then an authoritative voice yells Dawson's name. D'oh! It's the Flash, back early from his Conference of Contrivance. Dawson covers his face. Eve tells him that he's "one step away from the rest of [his] life" (see?) and tells him to get in. He laughs nervously and tells her that having crashed his dad's boat, and wrecked his house, he can't disappear. She tells him that he can't do anything about either of those things tonight, and asks what can change in a night. He says, "Me." She gets in the boat and, SURPRISE, leans way back to stretch out her stomach, and says, "Last chance." He says he can't. She laughs and says she doesn't know who's the biggest mystery -- herself, or him. Actually, they're both pretty open books to me: a self-involved blowhard and an undiscriminating chippy. Am I wrong?
Joey cries on her dock. Pacey appears in Dawson's boat and tells her he got in and it took him to her dock of its own volition. Because it's Dawson's boat. And Dawson likes her so much that even the boat knows. Geddit? She tries to warn him off with threats of murder, which he ignores, hopping up beside her. She pauses a moment, and then says, "He told you what happened, didn't he?" Pacey doesn't answer until she repeats the question, at which point he mutters, "Well, what do you think?" Okay, in those two lines of dialogue, Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson had more chemistry than she and the Beek have ever had, and I am not joking. Anyway, Joey says she thinks she hates them both. Pacey says he's really going to hate him when he tells her what he has to say -- that Dawson was right, and that the two of them need to be apart right now. Joey asks how Pacey would know what she needs. Pacey chuckles ruefully like the man of the world that he is...not, and says words to the effect of, she's right, how would he know how hard it is to have to give up someone you love, only he says it in nine different ways and talks for about twenty minutes, like, yeah, you had to do that with Andie, it's parallel, WE GET IT. She cries some more and says, "Of all the people to see me like this, it had to be you." Pacey says that, it's a new year, and they might even become friends. She pouts, "I'm upset enough as it is." He puts her arm around her. She continues to cry. That was actually a nice scene.