Episode Report Card Jessica: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Song Remains The Same (2)
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.01.2002
Hell's Kitchen. Audrey, Jack, Pacey, and Jen stare at their sodas. Audrey mutters that Dawson and Joey must do this all the time, right? And it's healthy to argue, right? "I wouldn't use the word 'healthy,'" Pacey says, settling instead on "structurally unsound." Jack agrees. He thinks Joey and Dawson's relationship is super-dysfunctional. Ah, at last! These are my people! Jen turns to Jack, shocked, and asks if he's "a non-believer." No, he's just sane, sweetie. Jack points out that she broke them up the first time! Jen twists her mouth up and takes a sip of soda. Audrey leans over and asks Jen what she thinks of the Dawson/Joey relationship. Jen shrugs that she's totally biased, since she's all mixed up in it. "I'm just roadkill on the Dawson and Joey Highway," she says. Heh. Everyone laughs, as Emma swing by with another round of strictly non-alcoholic beverages. She leaves after making sure that they don't need anything else and Jack chases her. He wants to apologize for that afternoon, he tells her. "You can have it," she says. Jack's all, "What?" Emma purses her lips up. "The flat. You can have it," she says, explaining that she didn't want to give Pacey the satisfaction, but they eventually convinced her. What did I tell you? This entire plotline has been an enormous waste of my time. "You will not regret this!" Jack crows. Emma looks wearily over at Pacey. "Oh, yes, I will," she says. I already do.
Back at the table, Jack hands Pacey the keys to their new pad. "We're moving in this weekend," he says. Everyone is very excited about this, although Jen is sad to be left alone at Grams's, and Audrey isn't wild about celebrating something that could prove "the death knell of her relationship." Oh, shut up. Your own spoiled harpy behavior is going to kill your relationship, kid. They toast "to friendship."
Dawson sits against Joey's bed and looks sad and lost. Joey sobs in the background. How glad am I that I'm not 19 anymore? So very glad. Eventually, she comes out of the bathroom, all teary-eyed. "What time's your flight?" she asks. "Ten," Dawson monotones. Joey advises him to leave plenty of time. He will. This is scintillating. Staring. Staring. Ah, there's a tiny nostril! "Why are you doing this, Joey?" the Head finally asks. "We're doing this, Dawson. It's what we do. It's what we always do," Joey sighs. "Last night was real," Dawson insists. "Today was real. It's you, not me, that doesn't want to deal with the realities of an adult relationship." Joey stares at him for a long moment and finally tells Dawson that he's right. She wants the fantasy. "I want more than anything for us to be together. But not like this. Not screaming at the top of our lungs about things that happened four years ago." Girl, please. People argue. Every single relationship is marked by a screaming bout here or there. Get over it. Dawson tells her that if they can't argue like this and get past it, then.… "Maybe there's nothing here worth saving," Joey finishes sadly. Okay, drama queen. She looks at her feet, then tells Dawson that maybe having sex was "a mistake." It certainly was as far as I am concerned. I'm still picking shards of glass out of my cheek from around the 8:56 PM mark, when I threw myself through my living room window to escape their love-making. Dawson looks gobsmacked. "Wow," he stammers. "If that's the way you feel, then…I should go." And so he does.