Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Appetite For Destruction
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.18.2001
Everyone sits around the table, staring at the chicken. "Pace, if I spot a vein, do I win a prize?" Jack asks. Pacey grins, and admits that "the chicken was taken a bit before its time. But that said, [he] did serve [them] the cooked parts." The meal shouldn't pose "a health hazard," Pacey says, "so eat in peace." Everyone picks at his or her meal. Jack finally alights on a topic of conversation. "Aside from the obvious," he asks, "how was the film festival?" Dawson yammers about how everyone loved him, and then mentions that he thinks he might check out this film school he heard about. In Boston. "Really?" Joey asks. Dawson mutters something else unintelligible. I guess getting laid has rendered him unable to speak clearly, an unexpected but welcome side effect. "So, then, you'd end up in Boston after all?" Joey asks. Dawson admits that it looks that way. Jack says that, if he's looking for somewhere to live, there's plenty of room at Grams's. Jen turns bright red. Pacey stifles a chuckle. Dawson stares at his plate and says that's "a definite possibility." Awkward moment. Awkward moment. Audrey looks around the table and then just dumps her entire plate of chicken on her lap. "God! Not again! Joey?" She grabs her roommate's hand and drags her out of the room.
In the kitchen, Joey cleans off Audrey's pants and reminds her that, usually, the person who needs to talk is the person who does the spilling of food. Audrey grabs Joey's arm and hisses that she needs to talk. Joey sarcastically wonders what she can do to make Audrey feel better. They sit at the kitchen table, and Joey complains that everyone is treating her like "a delicate flower." "So?" Audrey asks. "Why aren't you a delicate little flower? Have you no soul, just a black, black void?" Heh. "Which question should I answer?" Joey asks. Audrey asks how Joey feels about Dawson moving to Boston. Joey responds that she feels nothing. She's feeling nothing! His moving isn't that shocking, she says. The Melancholy Piano Of Her Soulmate Boned Another starts up again. "You know what?" Joey begins, "When [the Flash] died, it cancelled everything out." She admits that she and Dawson were "at the point of possibilities," but they'll never know what could have happened. Because the Flash died! He died! "So, yeah, maybe, if this broke my heart, I wouldn't have any right to say so," she says. Audrey looks sad. "Honey, you have the right to say anything you want when it comes to how you feel," she says. Joey shakes her head, and tells Audrey that it doesn't matter, anyway. The situation is what it is. She gets up and heads back to the dining room. Audrey stares at the bowl of fruit on the table.