Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crossroads
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.13.1998
Then we're back at The Ice House which is evidently closed as Joey gazes wistfully out the window at some guy hosing off the parking lot (or at least, as wistfully as she is able to communicate to the audience using her back), and then sighs and starts wiping tables and then becomes aware of the fact that Probably Gay Jack is staring at her and she asks, "What?!" and he says "Nothing" and he asks "First fight?" and she asks "what?" again and he answers "boyfriend" and she at first says "hardly" and then clarifies that it's their first fight as boyfriend and girlfriend although when they were friends they fought constantly, but it's different now and Probably Gay Jack points out that they therefore haven't had their first make-up yet and she gives the Crooked Joey Smile (tm) and agrees that's true, and Probably Gay Jack tells her to go ahead because he'll "lock up" and Joey demurs for a moment since Bessie would kill her, and then accepts, and I realize that I don't know a lot about family-owned businesses, but it seems to me that it would take a bit longer than, um, A SHIFT for someone outside the family to prove himself sufficiently trustworthy to be allowed to lock up; I mean, there's no reason he should even have a key yet -- he doesn't even have a uniform! But whatever; this being a tertiary character of great blandness (other than the probability of his gayness) I guess he probably won't rob the place which I guess is Joey's reasoning as she high-tails it outta there leaving Probably Gay Jack to finish her own duties and he gazes wistfully after her and then as Joey is about to cross the threshold she hears the sound of a breaking dish but instead of going back in, she rolls her eyes and continues on her way.
Then we're back at the dock where Pacey appears greatly annoyed by the drunken hooligans armed with Super Soakers who probably don't even know his name and Dawson drops down in front of him and starts hectoring him again about requiring advice about Joey since he and Pacey know everything about each other which finally causes Pacey to crack and ask Dawson whether he knows how Pacey got "this scar on my cheek" or "why my dad hates me" or "the real reason I ride the fine line between insecurity and supreme self-confidence" and concludes that Dawson doesn't know the answer to any of those questions and furthermore doesn't even know when Pacey was born and it finally dawns on stupid Dawson what is up Pacey's ass and he starts apologizing about the botched road trip and expressing regret that Pacey didn't get his driver's license and Pacey corrects Dawson, saying none of that matters since the real reason he's upset today is that he's just realized that everyone in Capeside has written him off as beneath their notice and that his best friend feels the same way and Dawson wants to know how he can fix it and Pacey says he can't since what Dawson has with Joey can't compare with what Pacey and Dawson have and that furthermore Pacey isn't "the third-wheel type" as Sars in New York screeches "IT'S 'FIFTH WHEEL'!" as Pacey stomps off leaving Dawson staring dumbly after him as we cut to commercial.