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 a shot of a spinning disco ball, we catch up with Pacey and Joey, the latter of whom is reminding the former that she'd told him everything would work out. Pacey bluntly asks Joey what she's doing there, and whether A.J. bailed on her. She makes up some story about the clouds, and the cold, and before she can get to the part where she ends up at the after-party, Pacey asks, "He kissed you, didn't he?" Joey asks him what makes him say that, and Pacey says A.J. would have to be a moron not to, and that her lipstick is smeared all over her face. (Unlikely, since their mouths didn't even move when they kissed.) She nervously regards Pacey over the rim of her glass. He asks if she's going to see A.J. again. She says she doesn't know, and then goes into the many reasons they shouldn't bother -- his age, the fact that he's supposedly smarter than she is, and the distance. She winds up by asking rhetorically, "How could I feel about him the way that I --" "Feel about Dawson," Pacey finishes for her, with an air of resignation. She pauses, and then corrects him: "No, I was actually going to say 'felt.'" Oh, man. If that's true -- if she really is over him -- then praise Jesus.
Pacey looks taken aback, and then says, "You want to know something, Miss Josephine Potter? I think the world may just surprise you yet." She looks skeptical. He continues: "I mean, you fall in love, and it doesn't work out, and you think that it'll never happen again, but it does. Believe me, it does -- in the strangest of places." He looks down as if he's afraid to meet her eyes. She asks what makes him "such an expert." He replies that he's an actor, and as such, it's his job to understand the workings of the human heart. She flirtatiously says that she liked him better when he was brooding and defeatist. Looking over her shoulder, he curtly says, "Uh huh." She says, "What?" He tells her that her date may not be as "over" as she thinks it is. She gives him a sultrily quizzical look, and then turns around to see A.J. at the entrance. She turns back around, looking disappointed. Pacey tells her to go talk to A.J. -- "You know you want to" -- and she thanks him and takes off. Pacey watches her go, looking resigned some more.
When the music stops, everyone hears Henry call Jen's name. She looks up and says, "Henry, what the hell are you doing?" The camera pans up to show Henry standing in the rafters. No, he doesn't have a noose around his neck, and no, he's not wearing Samantha Sanders's costume from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Unfortunately. Jen smiles as if to say, "That darn cat!"