Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT To Green, With Love
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.15.2000
Pacey drags Joey across a street in town and announces, "Perfect, we're here." Joey laughs that she doesn't know where Pacey thinks "here" is, "but it seems to me we're nowhere." Pacey reminds her of where "this whole thing" got started, with "a girl, a wall, and a paintbrush," and punctuates it by whipping a paintbrush out of his pocket. "You bought me a paintbrush," Joey says. "No, you lame-o, I stole this from your permanent collection," Pacey says, and points over his shoulder with the brush at a peeling wall behind him. "You bought me a wall?" Joey asks. Pacey says he actually rented it, for a hundred bucks. Aw. "You bought me a wall?" Joey repeats, but she's smiling. Pacey says that she said that already, and tells her, "It's a limited-time offer, so you should get cracking." Joey, giggling, asks if Pacey noticed "the size of this thing," and Pacey says he thought her next "endeavor" should be bigger and better than her last one. Then he picks up a can of paint, saying that it might not cover the whole wall, but that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; Joey says she'll need Pacey's help on this one. Pacey hands her can and brush and says, "Nope, not this time. You're on your own, sister." He makes to leave, but before he can go, Joey tells him that he's unbelievable, and that just when she thinks she has him figured out, he does something outrageous that "completely challenges" her, that nobody else would ever think of, and -- she stops herself, smiling, and adds, "In case I don't say it enough -- thank you." Pacey looks at her tenderly, but settles for saying, "It's about time, Potter. It's about time." Word. As the James Taylor song starts up again, Pacey heads off, and Joey turns back to look at the wall, and the camera pans back to show her looking up at the blank canvas of the brick and seeming very small in front of it. Nice shot by the DP.
Strangely, the captioning has a voice-over by Dawson as he narrates his mother's news story, but since we don't hear it on the soundtrack, I won't bother with it. On the next Dawson's Creek, Joey gets in some sort of trouble, and Pacey kisses her. Speaking of "it's about time."