Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Northern Lights
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.25.2000
After the break, Henry pretty much recreates the skylight scene from the play, only instead of requiring her to declare her love, he makes her admit that she's embarrassed to be on a date with him. Someone in the crowd yells, "Get over it, Jen!" Jen quietly tells Henry to get down. After a beat, Henry asks, "Does somebody have a ladder?" Ugh. I'm angry that I've wasted even that much time writing about these two star-crossed losers.
Water. A.J. and Joey walk along a bridge. Joey asks him why he came back. A.J. admits that he never left -- just sat in the car thinking that when someone says something you don't understand, you have a small window to ask him or her to explain what he or she meant, or else spend the rest of your life pretending you understood them. After his sitting in the car, he decided that he wanted to re-open the window and ask her whether he did something wrong. Joey says that he didn't, and that she panicked, and that she lacks the ability to exhibit grace under pressure. A.J. tells her it was just a kiss, and she says that when he kissed her, she realized how much further ahead he is in his life than she is in hers. She knew that when he stopped kissing her, he'd realize that he'd made a mistake, because she doesn't know what most of the things he talks about are. I can tell you what they are: BORING. And if he's boring you, that's his problem, not yours! She finishes by asking whether there's anything on which he's not an authority, and he predictably replies, "Girls. Beautiful girls." She says something about the northern lights they didn't get to see. He says, "No, next time." That's hopeful. He says he's seen them before. She asks him to tell her about them. He says some crap about the sky looking like it's on fire. She says it sounds "kind of scary." He says it is, but that it's beautiful. Go back to non-Harvard, you dull-ass prig!
Jack and Andie clean up the after-party. Jack says he's sorry their dad couldn't be there, and she says that she's actually glad he didn't make it, and that it was refreshing for her to be around people who believe in the person she is now, and don't know anything about the way she used to be. She says that the whole night, she just felt like herself, and Jack says that her saying that is some of the best news he's heard in a while. Aw. Andie says that when she was in the Bed & Breakdown, she had a mantra: "Structure and Purpose." She says that she knows that it was only a crappy little school play, but that it represented structure and purpose to her. She says that it's good to have a goal to hold on to, rather than another person, because then it's like you're really holding on to a part of yourself. Jack asks if she's really okay, these days, and she says she's great. Jack looks up, points outside, and asks, "You sure you're that great?" The camera cuts to Pacey, sitting outside, alone, looking very sad indeed. Andie says there's only one way to find out, and goes outside.