Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Making money hand over fisticuffs
By Miss Alli | Season 6 | Episode 20 | Aired on 04.22.2003
In Joey's Giant Dorm Room, Audrey is reading the Europe-on-the-cheap book. As Joey enters, Audrey complains to her that seeing Europe on five bucks a day would suck, as it wouldn't even buy "a pint of Guinness in Dublin." Joey points out that Audrey is supposed to be thinking about summer school, and she'd better shake a leg, because the registrar's office is closing in ten minutes. Audrey whines loudly that the classes all look boring, and she recalls Joey telling her never to take a class where Beowulf is required. Joey chastises her that she has no choice and had better hurry. As Audrey reluctantly gets up to head out, Joey says that she needs the book -- she needs to start reading up for the trip. Spotting her little smile, Audrey returns it and asks when Joey decided to go. Joey says just now. Oh, the excitement, the thrill, the very Magic Mountain of it all. "Joey Potter," Audrey says, in order to avoid referring to all the other Joeys in the room, "you are just full of little surprises." And most of them are hair colors. "Ciao, bella," Audrey calls out over her shoulder as she leaves. Ooh, low blow of endearingness. My friend Pool Boy says "ciao, bella" to me from time to time, and I always really like it, and then I always really hate myself. It's like what Mr. Miyagi said about the crane kick -- "If done correctly, no can defend."
Anyway, Joey looks giddily at the book and heads for the phone, presumably to call her beloved. When she gets there, though, there's a note for her. Eddie voices over that he's not good at goodbyes, but he's telling her goodbye. More than he wants to be with Joey, he explains, he wants to live life with no questions or doubts and no reservations -- you know, like a twelve-year-old before the first time he breaks his collarbone riding his skateboard on the roof. He claims that he wants to be "someone who dares to disturb the universe," and BACK AWAY FROM THE PRUFROCK, ass, because there are certain things you don't trifle with. He tells Joey that she isn't that kind of person. "Maybe you'll prove me wrong," he continues, as we fade to Dawson's house, where a miserable and still suit-clad Pacey is walking up to the house, presumably to tell Dawson about the whole financial-collapse thing. "Maybe people can't change," he says, pretty much apropos of nothing except fitting in with the image of Pacey staring into space with regret. "Maybe we're doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, no matter how hard we try." Wow, subtle. "I always hoped for a happy ending," Eddie's voice says. "How crazy is that?" Fade to black, Pacey still looking miserable.