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. Dawson wanders around, looking at the guests. Finally, he sees the stupid, stupid, fake, fake ghost and gives chase. Again. The ghost leads him into a room where Natasha and Todd are making out. Again. Todd yelps that "this isn't what it looks like." Dawson flares his nostrils. "Really? You guys aren't screwing behind my back?" he asks. "No, we are," Todd says, but explains that Natasha can be "very persuasive." Dawson snaps at him to shut up, then tells Natasha that he's very sorry about the whole stupid Dumping Via Voicemail thing and he admits that he made the wrong choice and he doesn't think he's really communicated that to her and he likes her and he's very, very jealous of Todd, and also, he quits! He stomps dramatically out of the room, but comes back in a moment later to wish Todd good luck with the rest of the movie. That was almost funny.
After the ads, Dawson goes back to ghost-chasing. After much running around, he comes face to face with Non-Dead, Non-Ghostly Melanie Ray, who takes off her wig and her glasses and is, of course, Natasha. She laughs at him as Todd sneaks out of the darkness with a video camera. "This is bloody gold, mate!" Todd chortles. Dawson is confused, because he is an idiot. Natasha smiles and wishes him a happy Halloween. "We've had the immense pleasure of screwing with your mind this evening," she giggles. Dawson rubs his forehead. That's a lot of ground to cover, there. "So, wait, you two aren't…?" he asks. "No way, " Natasha sneers. "Too old, too many extras." Todd, for his part, smirks that he isn't into sloppy seconds. Dawson wonders if all the phony footage wasn't a lot to go through, just for a prank at his expense. Todd tells him that, on the contrary, it was worth every second. He's running to find Pepe right now, to have him cut the video footage together. And this is why Todd's movie is behind schedule and over budget. He's making his editors cut footage of his assistant running around in his Halloween costume. "You weren't serious about the quitting thing, were you?" Todd asks as he goes. Dawson assures him that he wasn't. Thank God, I can sleep easy tonight!
Outside, Jen talks to Blandy, telling him that she was reconsidering joining the Andrea Zuckerman Memorial Help Youth Help Teen Help Crisis Help Helpline. Blandy assures her that they'd love to have her. If she's doing it for the right reasons. "Are there any other reasons?" she wonders. Poor Jen. She so likes him. She's so being set up for disappointment. "I don't know," Blandy says awkwardly. Jen grins that he'd save her a lot of trouble if he'd just go out with her. And Blandy just smiles at her.