Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT High Risk Behavior
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 10 | Aired on 01.12.1999
A little later we get an ad for Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane. Whatever.
In the drugstore, Andie is having a prescription filled. The pharmacist tells her to be careful with the dosage, and that he put a pamphlet in there for her. She politely says, " I'm familiar with the drug, thank you." As she starts to leave, Pacey comes up behind her and she tries to put the prescription bag in her shopping basket before he can see it, but he grabs it out of her hand too quickly. Uh, I don't care if they are dating; even if they were married it wouldn't be appropriate for him to snatch away her prescription drugs and inspect them if she didn't want him to. Not impressed with Pacey there, at all, and she shouldn't have let him get away with it. Anyway, he takes the pill bottle out of the bag and, over her anxious requests that he give it back to her, reads it aloud, in the store, WHEN THERE IS A STRANGER STANDING NOT A FOOT BEHIND THEM: "'Andrea McPhee; take two tablets daily as directed: Xanax, 20 mg.' Xanax -- that's, uh, that's for severe depression and anxiety; right? It's like Prozac, so...." Sars tells me that is not at all what Xanax is for, and I will take her word for it over Pacey's. ["Xanax treats anxiety and panic attacks; Prozac treats depression. Thus, the medications are COMPLETE FLIPPIN' OPPOSITES. And no, I don't have a degree." -- Sars] Andie stammers that it's her mom's; they have the same first name. Pacey sort of apologizes and gives it back, and Andie reminds him that she's sensitive about her mom, and then gazes at him nervously, and with some irritation. I would just like to add here that they must be in the crappiest drugstore in the world, since in the same aisle are a miniscule lipstick display, Neutrogena hand soap, perfume, and something behind Andie that looks to be some kind of medical apparatus, like an enema kit, maybe. Anyway, Pacey tells her she's such a good daughter. Andie asks what he's doing here. I prepare to poke my eyes out. Pacey says he was just "checking out some stuff." Andie says, "In the...condom section?" And sure enough, as if this aisle weren't stocked bizarrely enough, there's also a sizeable rack of condoms behind Pacey. In order to spare myself the pain of complete transcription, they debate for a few moments as to whether or not they should buy condoms, in order to be prepared for 'the moment' whenever it might present itself, and ultimately decide that they should get some just in case. I can't even go into the way that Andie examines a box and casts doubt as to whether the developers of the condoms could know how to make them enhance a woman's pleasure. No, I said I can't.
Back at the auditions, Abby whines, "Isn't there anyone else I can read with?" since Chris is standing next to her on stage. Dawson tells her they're pressed for time and asks them to start at page three, beaming widely, for some unknown reason. Chris has a quick question first, though: "I just, I don't understand why they don't ever do it. I mean, you have all the hot foreplay stuff, but they never hook up." Dawson tells him, "Your character believes that sometimes true love goes beyond that which is merely physical." Chris says that's the part he doesn't get, and Abby agrees that Dawson should rethink that part since it's "a little heady." Jen tells them to keep moving with the scene, so Chris and Abby start to read the scene, except at the end Chris kisses her, causing Abby to tear herself away and scream at him that while the kiss is in the script, his tongue in her mouth isn't part of the deal. Dawson and Jen both look weary. Chris defends himself on the grounds that he was just getting into the role, whereas Abby feels he was trying to get into her pants, and stomps offstage. Chris bows. Jen tells him that will be all. ["If only I could believe that." -- Sars]