Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Psychic Friends
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.09.1999
Jack brings Joey more hot chocolate -- shouldn't they all have gone into diabetic shock by now? -- and apologizes for overreacting. He explains that, although he wants to move forward "towards this whole new sexual identity," he doesn't feel ready yet. Joey, as much to convince herself as to comfort Jack, says they have a lifetime of adventures and romance ahead of them. Jack kisses Joey's forehead and says, "Plenty of time to be kissed." They smile at each other, and Joey scoots over to sit next to Jack, and Jack puts his arm around her and she rests her head on his shoulder. Awww.
Meanwhile, Dawson staggers through the fair, hands shoved in pockets, moments away from sobbing hysterically. As he and his furrowed brow stumble along and Natalie Merchant soughs in the background, he sees The Flash helping Miss Kennedy into the front seat of his (The Flash's) car, and he sees Joey selling a painting to a guy and his daughter (who happens to have the same hat as Joey and looks a lot like her) and hugging Jack in celebration, and he winces under his Muppet hair as everyone in the world lines up to dump an entire shaker of salt into his wounds. Like, boo hoo. Not.
Okay, Puddy -- quit picking on the crunchy M&M.
Pacey and Andie sit pensively by the fire. Pacey can't take it anymore and demands that Andie tell him what happened. Andie flails about with her fists and says, "I just wanted to know that things were going to get better. But they're not -- she said that the troubles of my past are only a preview of what's to come." Pacey sighs as she says, "I need to know that the worst is behind me, Pacey, because -- I don't know if I can handle any more unhappiness." Pacey asks how she can take Madame Z seriously, and tells her, "Your future is gonna be so bright and so magnificent that it's off the scale. There is no measure for how wonderful [sic] your life is gonna turn out." I sort of hoped he would say, "Your future is gonna be so bright, you gotta wear shades," but he didn't, and either way, Andie doesn't buy it: "I wish I could believe that." Pacey she doesn't have to; he'll believe it for her. He kisses her hand and puts his arm around her shoulders.
Joey comes up to Colin at the fire and tells him, "Jack isn't coming." She says she had no right to accept on Jack's behalf. Colin says he understands, and goes back to staring at the fire. Joey starts to go on her way, but stops and asks, "Are you okay?" Colin, ruefully: "With this? Yeah." Joey, sitting down beside him: "Sure?" Colin, sort of laughing: "The truth is, I'm on the proverbial rebound, and, uh -- I just recently broke up with someone [The Flash, perhaps?], and we'd been friends for a long time before that, and now -- I don't have the relationship or the friend." Joey nods knowingly as he goes on, "I guess I'm just trying to fill the void." Joey wants to know why they broke up, and Colin shakes his head and says, "You know, at, at the time I could think of a million different reasons, but now I can't think of any? Does that make any sense?" Joey responds wryly, "Yeah. More than you can imagine." Colin remarks that sometimes he wishes he "hadn't been in such a hurry to move forward -- you know? Just -- comes a point where it's impossible to go back." As Joey looks at him thoughtfully, Colin kisses her on the cheek and takes off.
Cut to Jen, drinking -- all together now -- hot chocolate. She turns around to see New And Improved Grams sitting alone by the fire. "Grams? Grams, what, what's the matter, where's Whit?" Grams says that Whit's wife "wasn't feeling well, so he had to cancel." Jen: "His wife?" Grams: "Mm hmm." Jen feels "like crap" about pressuring Grams to go out with Whit and says she had no idea, and asks, "Are you okay?" Grams says, "I'm fine," and tells Jen not to feel bad because she "did something wonderful for [Grams] today." Grams goes on to say that, since Gramps died, she assumed she had done all the living she was meant to do, but now she sees that she can't live in the past and that she needs to "open up to new people, new friends." Jen asks if Grams ever fears facing the future alone. Grams admits, "Yes. Sometimes." Jen says, "Me too." They exchange a look. I must say that I like where the writers have gone with the relationship between Jen and Grams.