Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crime And Punishment
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.08.2000
Outside, school has let out, and within, Joey's in her paintin' overalls, with a kerchief on her head and painting tools in both hands. As she walks toward the site of her mural, she stops, and the camera cuts to Pacey, up on the scaffold, busily painting primer over the ex-mural. She smirks, and happily asks what he's doing. AS IF THAT WEREN'T OBVIOUS. Pacey says he thought it would be good if she could start with a blank canvas. She asks who told him she was planning on repainting the mural. He says it was "some guy" he met on the street -- some "do-gooder." She nods.
Pacey asks her whether she'd planned to thank him. She asks for what, and he says, "Defending your honour, bucking the system --" "Tilting at windmills while in the throes of a misguided hero complex?" she finishes. He blinks, and then grins, "Well, yeah, that too." She smiles back, and says that if she were going to thank him for anything, it would be for being himself, and for not caring what anyone else thinks, and for knowing in his heart what's right and wrong, and for being there for her this year, when she needed him most. He looks surprised, and says she's welcome, and, handing her a paint can, asks if she wants any help. She says she does, on one condition: "Be honest. The only reason you've been hanging out with me is simply because Dawson told you to?" Pacey, already working his roller (his PAINT roller!), says, "Yep, that's the only reason." Joey says, "You need to get a life." He chuckles. She smiles at him. They both vigorously continue painting over the former mural. At the other end of the hall, a door opens and Dawson emerges. He glances up the hall and spies the two likebirds, and then NODS smugly as if to say, "Yes, I grant leave for these two young people to be happy in spite of me." Because, you know, that means he won't set up all his usual roadblocks and make people fight with him over his little passive-aggressive digs. Or at least, so we're meant to think. I believe he'll be as obnoxious as always.