Episode Report Card Sars: D | 2 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Longest Day
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 20 | Aired on 05.02.2000
Credits. Cat in a roomful of rocking chairs.
Back from commercials to the Pacey's-eye view. Pacey explains the meaning of lateness to Buzz. Enter "Dig" Doug Witter to exposition that Buzz's mother bricked, so now Pacey's stuck with Buzz for the day. Pacey tries to fob Buzz off on Doug. Doug says no, picks Buzz up bodily, and hands him to Pacey; Pacey says he has this thing he's got to do and it's important, and he hands Buzz bodily back to Doug while saying that he'll "just do this one thing" and then take over. Doug objects, but Pacey says, "It's just one thing, I'll be right back, I swear," and he takes off, and Doug shouts, "Pacey!" but Pacey just shouts back, "Dougie!" and doesn't turn around.
At the Ryan Home For Prematurely Sexualized Girls, Grams "Boot Sweet" Ryan bustles out to the car with Jen "Mary Kay LeTour-not" Lindley -- whose hair looks fabulous -- in tow. Grams describes Henry as a "very respectable young man" and says she doesn't "suspect him of ill intentions, but with no one here to chaperone --" Jen helps Grams load the trunk and finishes for her, "You never know what sort of hijinks might ensue." Grams chides her that it's no laughing matter, adding that she established "these rules" not because she doesn't trust Jen, but because "the sexual impulses of a teenage boy --" Jen cuts her off again by saying that she can handle Henry's sexual impulses just fine on her own. Grams gives her a look and gets into the car. Jen waves goodbye. As an ovary keens on the soundtrack, Jen spots Pacey standing on the Leerys' lawn with his arms folded, and she goes over to talk to him. "Anybody home?" she asks. Pacey doesn't know. "Could knock and find out," she suggests gently. Pacey says he could just walk right in, because "they never lock it"; he's walked right in and made himself at home since the age of five. Yeah, I think we get it.
Jen cuts to the chase: "She wants to be with you, Pace. She does." Pacey asks how she knows, and Jen allows that Joey told her so that morning, and Pacey asks why he isn't happier to hear that "right now." Jen says it's because right now, Pacey has to walk through the Leerys' front door and tell his best friend that the only girl his best friend can't live without -- "is the same one that I can't live without," Pacey fills in the rest. Jen murmurs, "Yeah." Pacey says he's had this conversation with Dawson in his head "a thousand times." Jen asks how it goes, and Pacey says, "You know, Dawson saying something along the lines of, 'Vaya con dios, Pace. I had my shot at making her happy, now -- why don't you give it a try?'" and I choose to view this line as a minor shout-out since Wing Chun says "vaya con dios" frequently. ["That's true. I bust it out for situations where 'smell ya later' would be inappropriate." -- Wing Chun] Anyway, Jen says it could happen, "minus the Spanish part." Yeah, and minus that other part. Pacey chuckles. Just then, the Flash comes out the front door and tells them that they've just missed Dawson; Pacey asks if Dawson said where he was going, and the Flash says Dawson said something about going to the library. Pacey looks queasy.