Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hurricane
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 02.16.1998
Sanctum Dawsonorum. Joey, head resting on her knees, stares out Dawson's window. Dawson comes into the room and says, "I was hoping you'd still be here." Joey says nothing. Dawson approaches her and says, "Joey, I owe you an apology. I have been thoughtless and insensitive and self-obsessed in the extreme. But if you give me a chance to rectify my belligerent ways, I promise I will make every effort to be a friend worthy of you." Yes, he did behave in all the ways he described; yes, he'll behave that way again, and worse, but that apology was sort of sweet. Joey favors him with her patented half-smile and says, "That was a mouthful," and she apologizes too, "for using the mother card -- I keep it in my back pocket and it's way too easy." Dawson sits beside her as she hugs her knee to her chest and says, "Joe, I don't know what I would do if I lost my mother." Joey says very quietly, "It hurts, Dawson. I mean, you're born and you die and you make a lot of mistakes in between, you know? The funny thing is, you know, now that she's gone I can't seem to remember a single mistake." Okay, mock me if you will, but I found that rather touching. Sniffle.
Dawson says, in a -- for him, at least -- remarkable display of sincere unselfishness, "What can I do for you, Joey? I want to be a good friend -- what can I do?" Joey looks at him and sighs, "Well, just for tonight, can we put our rapid ascent into adulthood on hold? Please?" Dawson looks across the room, then back at Joey, then grabs Joey's arm and pulls her across the bed and into the closet, and intones, "'Sheriff Brody, that's a twenty-footer,'" as Joey chuckles and they get into the closet together (no comment), and as they trade lines from the movie from inside the closet, the camera pans down to the stuffed shark on Dawson's bed, which probably has a better chance of getting laid than Dawson does.