Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Psychic Friends
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.09.1999
Madame Z takes down her sign as Dawson comes up behind her and asks, "It's five dollars, right?" She answers brusquely, "I'm closed." Dawson makes of-course-how-perfect noises, and whines that he doesn't need a reading because he already knows what his future has in store: "Dawson Leery is destined to live in misery and die loveless, friendless, and in complete obscurity." Might want to ease up on the self-pity throttle there, Big D. Madame Z takes him to task for mocking the powerful spirits -- why, I don't know. She and her sparkly purple eyeshadow take a seat next to Dawson with the tarot deck; she draws a card, The Lovers, and muses, "It's very interesting. A soulmate walks in your path, one you have known for many lifetimes before this one. She knows you well, she sees into your soul, she feels your pain." Dawson gripes, "She blew me off." Heh. Madame Z taps the card with her fingernail and says, "No, she is here. She surrounds you." I don't think that card really means what she said it did, but I can't find my tarot book, so I'll have to take Madame Z's word for it. Dawson asks why he keeps losing her (his soulmate), and Madame Z sighs, "That which is lost can be found again." Ooooh, profundity. Dawson raises his eyes to the heavens and tries not to cry, and the camera stays on him while he digs for a five-dollar bill in his pocket, so we know that when he turns around, Madame Z will have vanished. Sure enough, when he turns to her and says, "Thanks," she has disappeared. If only she had taken the insufferable soulmate leitmotif with her.
Over at the No-Fault Hacienda, Dawson sulks under his Misery poster and glares at the scale model of Capeside that Jack built. Then he shoves most of it onto the floor in a fit of pique as an ovary wails, "How does your heart beat? How do you cry?" on the soundtrack. Outside, Joey walks up the Leerys' lawn and looks up at Dawson's window; inside, Dawson gazes at Joey's picture and picks up the phone to call her, but when she doesn't answer, he fidgets and hangs up. He turns out his desk lamp. Joey sees the lights go out and heads back to her boat as Dawson rests his head on his knee and mopes. Joey row, row, rows her boat all the way home, mirroring the scene from Creek Daze, and strolls up the front walk of Bessie's Bastard Barn to see a stranger on the front porch. She calls out, "Who's there?" The man turns around, and it's her father, fresh from the clink. Joey mutters, "Daddy," with the start of a smile. Neither Joey nor Potter père explains why she didn't know he'd gotten paroled.