Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Living Dead Girl
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 6 | Aired on 10.29.2002
Party. Audrey wanders the faux graveyard, climbs into a coffin as if to rest (if we were lucky, she would be resting forever), but spies some people coming and shuts the coffin lid tightly. This set-up is not at all contrived. Anyway, the person who drove her to her early grave is Pacey, who is presumably looking for her. He sits on a gravestone and looks depressed. Enter Emma, who asks if everything's okay with him. Pacey tells her that it is…if her definition of "okay" is "wanting to draw a warm bath and slit your wrists." Emma wonders if he needs to "have a bit of a chat," but Pacey tells her that he knows that's not really her thing. Emma shrugs and sits next to him. "No, but we are flatmates," she says, "and I suppose that entitles you to something." Pacey agrees, and stretches out his legs. "I used to think that Audrey and I were the perfect fit," he begins, "and we were, because for the first time in any of my relationships, we were on equal footing. And it was no mind games, no high drama, no angst. It was just fun." Emma grins and says that this situation sounds good…in theory. But it's hard to sustain, she tells him. Pacey says that he's finding that out. "And it's making me second-guess myself. I'm not really sure if the reason I'm checking out is because I just can't handle the rough spots, or if it's that I just don't love her anymore. Or, really, for that matter, if I ever truly loved her," he says.
Emma looks thoughtful and tells him that only he can answer that. Pacey furrows his brow and admits that he really doesn't want to find out tonight. He suggests they rejoin the party. Emma agrees. Pacey thanks her for listening to him. Which is nice and all, but why isn't Pacey talking about these issues with his other friends? They're at the same party. They've known him forever. I mean, I guess Emma needs screen time or something, but it makes more sense, as far as I am concerned, for this kind of conversation to happen within a established friendship. I mean, do any of these people talk to each other at all anymore? I feel sometimes like I'm watching four separate shows: The Audrey and Pacey Hour of Pain, Jack & Jen, The Joey Potter It-a-thon and The Head Stays In The Picture: The Dawson Leery Story. Remember when these characters used to interact? I think maybe I would care more if any of the story arcs on this show intersected, like, ever. Anyway, Emma tells Pacey that just because they had "one proper conversation," he shouldn't think that he can "cry on her shoulder any time he likes." Pacey grins and agrees, and they walk off. Audrey swings her coffin open and looks…well, frankly, just mildly annoyed. Like she broke a nail or something.