Episode Report Card Sars: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT A Weekend In The Country
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.18.2000
Anyhow, Bessie gets up and pulls Joey aside: "I was up for hours last night, thinking about what you said by the fire, and I went up to the attic." Joey starts to interrupt, but stops when she sees that Bessie has a guest book in her hands. "Dad gave this to Mom for Christmas ten years ago," Bessie says, opening the book to her own signature and the childish block print of Joey's. "Her first guest," Bessie says, shaking her head. "How could I have forgotten her dream?" Joey points out that Bessie had a few other things to worry about, like the lives of two kids. Word -- now see that you remember that. The sisters hug. In the dining room, Fricke proposes a toast to the PB&B.
Upstairs, Gail asks The Flash to help her with her necklace clasp. The Flash says that talking about "that whole nostalgia vanilla thing" the night before brought back another memory. "The fish bistro," Gail says with a sigh, calling it a pipe dream; The Flash says they thought up "Leery's Fresh Fish" when Gail was pregnant with Dawson. He says that when he thinks back on it, "that wasn't really my dream at all. It was yours." Gail says she doesn't know about that, and The Flash hastily says that he doesn't mean she "bailed on it or anything," that she just became "more successful at doing something else." Then he tells her he knows she has interviews at a lot of stations and so on, but he spotted an empty place by the river and he wrote down the number for her just in case, and he takes the number out of his wallet and holds it up. Gail thanks him, but says "that dream was so very long ago." "Seems like yesterday to" The Flash. He wiggles his eyebrows encouragingly. Gail looks at the number in his hand.
At the waterfront, Henry asks Jen, "This is why you brought me here?" Jen repeats for our benefit that she's just told him all about her past, which she calls "a veritable laundry list of sexual crimes and misdemeanors." For the last time, Jen, get off that train, will you? Unless a goat got involved somehow, your New York sexcapades just aren't that shocking. Anyway, Jen expresses surprise that Henry isn't shocked, or self-righteous, or "agog," and Henry asks why he would be any of those things, and Jen says, "'Cause that's how boys always react." Henry muses that "whatever you -- did before is part of what makes you who you are. I'm thankful for that." How very -- mature. And -- unrealistic. Jen can't believe her ears: "Did you just say what I think you said?" Henry, eager to please: "Whatever it was, I think I did, yeah." Jen laughs, "Who are you, Henry Parker?"