Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Parental Discretion Advised
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 22 | Aired on 05.25.1999
In the Sheriff's office, the Sheriff is telling Joey that he doesn't have enough proof to arrest her father. Joey asks why, that being the case, she should go along with any plan to catch him. The Sheriff tells her that the people who told the Sheriff about Mr. Pothead's activities were his competitors, and that they're also the people who started the fire. If Mr. Pothead doesn't help the Sheriff get these competitors, they will continue to feed the Sheriff information until the Sheriff gets Mr. Pothead. Joey tells him (and the assemblage of the family Flash, including Dawson, who seems to have finally taken a shower) that they have no idea what they're asking her to do. The Sheriff tells Joey that her father is putting their entire family in danger. Joey says that it's her family, and that what benefits her family is being together and trusting each other. The Sheriff asks whether Joey thinks her father has betrayed that trust. Joey sits back in her chair and smugly replies that she trusts her father a lot more than she trusts anyone in the room. The adults look at one another, stymied by this display of feistiness and loyalty. Dawson asks if they can have a few minutes alone, and everyone else clears out. He turns to Joey and says, "He wants to help, Joey. He cares. We all do." Joey says, "I appreciate the concern, Dawson. What I don't appreciate is having the solution forced down my throat." Dawson says, "I tried to talk to him." Joey snarls, "Yes, that's just it, Dawson. You tried. But he's not your father, Dawson; it doesn't matter if he goes off to prison for the rest of your life, does it?" Dawson says, "That's why I came to you." Joey says, "Yeah, with the decision already made!" At this, Dawson LAUGHS with frustration at Joey's adorable yet frustrating stubbornness, and says, "I wish there was another option. There isn't! You have to understand that." Joey stands up and says, "I understand, Dawson, that in that black-and-white world in which you live, you didn't see any choices. But that's not my world. I see things in gray, and that's what makes us different, and that's what made me fall in love with you, and that is what is tearing us apart." Joey? Honey? It might be a little easier for the rest of us to get on your side if you were giving us any indication of what your shades-of-gray solution would be, mmmmkay?
The Flashes sit on top of a picnic table, next to some artfully-arranged lobster traps. He: "We did well with our son." She: "Our one success." He: "We've had more success than that, Gale." Wing Chun: "God, I certainly hope so, or maybe you, and not Jen, should be out on a window ledge." He: "The past twenty-four hours have reminded me what I love so much about being part of our family....[on bended knee] Stay here with me." She: "You want what we had. We'll never have that again, Mitch....so I'm going to take the unplanned route for a little while in the hopes that whatever we lost, we'll be able to stumble upon again." He: "Does Dawson understand?" North America: "Who cares?"