Episode Report Card Jessica: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Guerilla Filmmaking (1)
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.05.2002
wrong!" Audrey continues. "It's obviously wrong, that's why we stopped," Pacey points out. Silence. "Any notes?" Audrey asks. Pacey shakes his head furiously.Audrey's smooch-y muscles (a technical term) are getting a real workout, because next thing you know, she's kissing Charlie. But it's just acting. She pulls away, a look of irritated disgust on her face. "Cut! Cut!" Dawson says. "It's just that my costar Charlie Sheen over here is ramming his tongue down my throat!" Audrey says. "It's like he's looking for my diaphragm!" I spend the next fifteen minutes wondering if Audrey means her mid-section diaphragm or her birth-control-device diaphragm. Do girls still use diaphragms? They've always seemed so 1968 to me. Anyway. Dawson heaves a giant sigh and tells them to take the shot over again. "Pace," he says, "I see the boom dip into the frame again, I begin to forget our friendship." That was refreshing! It was almost classic dicky Dawson! But Pacey smiles cheerfully and agrees. Take twelve. Action. Mackery. Charlie's mouth is opened abnormally wide, I feel. He seems to be sucking her face into his throat. Dawson looks vaguely nauseated; Pacey, somewhat uncomfortable. Finally, the kids come up for air. "I never wanted any -- can we do that different?" Charlie asks. "Still rolling," Dawson instructs. More kissing. "I didn't know. I never wanted anything like this before," Charlie says. "Neither have I," Audrey replies. "Line," Charlie calls. "I'm afraid of falling," Jen supplies irritably. "I'm afraid --" Charlie begins, then interrupts himself to ask, "Would Gage really --" "For the love of God, just say it," Dawson grits. "I'm afraid of falling," Charlie says. "Don't worry. I'll catch you," Audrey promises. And…more kissing. "And cut," Dawson calls. Audrey pulls out of Charlie's embrace and cuffs him. She can't work like this, she says. "It's completely unprofessional!" she squeals. "And it's too intense, with you standing right there next to me!" she snaps at Pacey, who looks mildly taken aback. Everyone stares. "You're a terrible boom operator," Audrey finishes lamely, then runs off. Dawson has no idea what's wrong with his leading lady, and he looks it.
Creepy's living room. He and Joey perch on opposite ends of the sofa in silence, before she sarcastically comments that she's so glad there's no awkward tension between them. Creepy agrees, saying that he's "so relaxed, [he] might fall asleep." Joey rolls her eyes, and Creepy stares ahead and then blurts out that he can't afford to lose his job. Joey doesn't want that! He's never done anything like this before! She knows! That's such a lie, by the way. I betcha Creepy's got an entire attic full of skinny little co-eds that he's somehow managed to seduce with his so-called "charm." "I've never met anyone like you, Joey Potter," he offers. Joey giggles that all the boys tell her that. "They're right," Creepy says. Joey breathes that this is her example for class: the conflict between her ideals and her desires. They're slowly leaning in for the kiss when her phone rings. They leap apart, she answers, she yammers, she has to leave. She takes her coat and bails, but is hardly out the door when she turns around, runs back in the room, takes his face in her hands, plants one on him, grins, and takes off.