Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crime And Punishment
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.08.2000
At school the next day, lunch is being served in the cafeteria. Pacey strolls up behind a couple of jock-looking guys, makes a predictable joke about the quality of the food (which they receive warmly, which is odd because I thought Pacey was a pariah at Capeside and that the gang were his only friends...but anyway). He smoothly segues to a post-mortem on the unveiling of Joey's ruined mural. The jock on the left opines that the look on Joey's face was "classic," and Pacey swallows his pride, lets that one slide, and tells them that he's running a pool as to who the culprit is. Both jocks pay up and tell Pacey that it "had to be Caufield," and that "there's no other possibility." See what the guy did there? He said "possibility," because that's what Joey's mural was called. The jocks laugh it up, as jocks are wont to do. Just then Pacey sees Matt striding in, and he goes over to his table and tries to Columbo him into admitting that he painted over Joey's mural. Matt evidently shares the jock's feeling that the whole event was "pretty classic," but claims not to be able to "take credit for it," although he thinks that since everyone thinks he did it, anyway, the polite thing may be for him to go along with the majority opinion, and "say 'thank you.'" Pacey tells Matt that "not everybody thinks what [he] did was funny," and Matt tries as hard as he can to be threatening as he tells Pacey that some people don't have a sense of humour, and maybe that's Pacey's problem. Pacey agrees that he's "humourless." Matt's henchmen lean forward in some sad burlesque of menace. Matt asks Pacey what he wants, and Pacey tells him that he wants Matt to apologize, and to turn himself in, and that he had better to do both before the day is out. Matt asks why he should, and Pacey replies, "This time, you just happened to mess with somebody I care about." Matt and the Henchmen squint as Pacey leaves. Okay, I always thought Chris "Teen" Wolfe was pretty wussy as high-school villains go, but he's like John freaking Gotti compared to Matt Caufield. I'm sorry, but I just can't be that intimidated by a kid who looks like Andy Kaufman's yearbook picture.
Students walk up the stairs past the unmolested lighthouse mural, and Dawson strides purposefully toward Joey's taped-over mural, peels away the tarp, and sighs with disappointment at the sight that she evidently did not reproduce a month's work overnight. As Andie hurries past, Dawson asks her whether she's seen Joey, and Andie tells him Joey wasn't in homeroom. He sighs again, and walks away.