Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Castaways
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.11.2003
Joey plaintively wonders if he's really suggesting that they just take this big portion of their lives and pretend it doesn't exist. "Worked for you and Dawson," Pacey retorts coolly. Oh, snap! Joey's jaw drops. "What did you say?" she yelps. "I said --" Pacey begins. "I heard what you said," Joey interrupts. "I just can't quite believe my ears." Pacey looks at her carefully. "Was there anything essentially untrue about that statement?" he finally asks. "No," Joey finally grunts. But, she explains, she's grown up since then, and she doesn't want to live her life that way. Pacey yelps that she doesn't even care who he sleeps with, sounding really a bit hurt about the whole thing. "Pacey, you slept with my roommate for an entire year. I think it's a little late for me to get skittish on the subject of other women," Joey snaps. Pacey sighs and wonders if she truly doesn't understand what he's talking about. Joey shakes her head, confused. "Are you upset that I'm upset? Are you upset that I'm not upset? Are you upset that I'm not upset enough?" Joey asks, telling him that she honestly doesn't get it.
They stand in silence for a moment, as Pacey looks down at the floor. After a moment, Joey rather loudly reminds him that they broke up. They moved on. "Was I supposed to spend my life feeling miserable about the way things ended between us?" she asks. "Okay, you know what? Now that you've brought it up, yes," he says. "A couple of months here and there really wouldn't have hurt. I mean, I'm not asking for the lifetime you've devoted to feeling bad about Dawson, but just a couple of months." At this, Joey's mouth drops open. "Unbelievable!" she yells. "Pacey! I just…I can never win, can I?" Pacey doesn't respond, and Joey snaps that this Pacey Versus Dawson thing makes her want to beat her head against the wall. Sister, join the club. "Isn't there some kind of boy calculus you can do to figure out who won and leave me out of it?" she asks sharply. Pacey asks her to think about the possibility that he might just be talking about the two of them for once, and not Dawson. "There is no 'you and me,' Pacey. We've moved on, and I'm sorry I didn't dash myself into a thousands pieces when you broke up with me, but you know what? Life goes on! No matter how ungratifying that may be for your male ego." Pacey looks at her sort of sadly and says that this isn't about his ego. Joey wants to know what it's all about, then? "What good can come of this? Tell me, why do you all of a sudden want to revisit something that is better left alone?" she asks. He opens his mouth just as the phone rings. Joey glares at him and asks if he plans to answer the phone, or if they should finish this. "We could live for a thousand years and never finish this," Pacey tells her wearily, and answers the phone. Joey rolls her eyes and goes to lean against the fridge and glare at him. "No, we don't have any place to go, now, do we?" Pacey says to the police.