Episode Report Card Sars: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dear old golden rule days
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.10.2001
Waterfront. Jen approaches Drue "Value" Valentine; he snarks at her, and she responds, "I need to talk to you, Captain A-Hole," and drags him away from the boat he's working on. Tee hee! Drue engages in some of his trademark needling, and Jen grumbles that he's "gonna make this so hard," and says she can't believe they "used to be friends," and Drue does his we're-alike song-and-dance and blathers something about "an intense desire to feel nothing," and Foreshadowing goes on a beer run while Jen says she has to ask Drue about something and she wants him to take her seriously. Then she asks what happened "the last night [they] were together in New York." Drue laughs at her, then realizes she really doesn't remember. "That's why I'm here," she says reluctantly. Drue gives her the rundown: she invited him over "because [her] horrible parents were sending [her] away"; they went through the Valentine liquor supply before heading over to Washington Square Park to pick up "some good stuff"; next stop, Casa Lindley, where they "got particularly comfy on the sofa"; then they heard keys in the door, so they hid in Jen's room, "where [she] continued to ravish [him]." Jen shakes her head in disgust, calls him repulsive, and asks why he's doing this. "Why are you?" he sneers. "The past is past, Lindley, just let it be." Um, okay -- but isn't Drue the one who keeps bringing up her past, and urging her to relive the more debauched elements of said past, in the first place? Continuity holds an ice bag to his forehead and wanly pets the cats as Jen snaps that she'd love to, but she can't, so could Drue just please tell her what happened? Drue bitches at her. Jen bitches back and walks off. Drue looks conflicted.
On the lawn of the PB&B, Joey huddles in a chair and broods. Pacey approaches, and remarks gently that he could "still sell a kidney." Heh. Joey's got no sense of humor, though, and grumps that "this isn't a joke, Pacey." Pacey sighs that he knows that. Joey thinks that maybe she can stay in Capeside another year, declare herself "financially independent" (?), and then reapply, but Pacey says she's not doing any such thing. Joey snorts that it's only a year, but Pacey basically tells her that if she stays a year, she'll wind up staying forever, and nobody wants that for her, blah blah blah fishcakes. Joey looks thoughtful.
Ryan Home. Jen answers a knock on the door to find Drue, and after a bit of sniping, Drue says he's come to apologize and to tell Jen "the truth about what happened that night." Jen, not impressed: "I'm listening." Drue lays it out for her -- she got really wasted; she brought Drue home, which shocked him because she'd told him about getting caught with Billy; they got down on the sofa, and she knew he liked her, but she "didn't seem that into it, whatever"; they didn't get far before her parents came home. Jen gives him a quizzical look when he gets to the "whatever" part, then asks, "And my dad?" Apparently, Jen's dad wigged, and they started screaming at each other, Dad calling Jen a slut, Jen calling Dad a hypocrite. Then Dad booted Drue "just as it started getting interesting." Jen, from a million miles away, asks if "that's it," if Drue doesn't remember what else she and her dad fought about; Drue says, sort of sadly, that he doesn't, but she "made it perfectly clear that it wasn't about us. Nothing that night was about us." Jen realizes aloud that she "used [Drue] to provoke him, didn't I?" Drue sighs, then tells her, "No worries. I just figured you were a lesbian or something." Jen laughs, and apologizes for using him. Drue, surprised: "Apology accepted." So Drue has a thing for Jen. Hmm. I don't know where they're going with this but already I don't like it.