Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | 11 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT ...Must Come To An End (2)
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.13.2003
You know what's neat about getting this tape from Sars? New York commercials. Apparently, they're trying to hike subway fares! That's a travesty!
Back to Capeside General, where Joey is beautifying Jen. It's important to look good on your deathbed. While she brushes Jen's hair, Joey tells her about the big break-up with Creepy Jesus. Apparently, his only comment about the failure of their relationship was a quote from Pablo Neruda. Jen sort of chuckles and wonders what she's going to do with Joey. "Your heart and your head have always been in constant conflict with each other," she says. Joey shakes her head, and swears that she's "all out of conflict" and has been for years. Jen snorts that if Joey ever wants to revisit her conflicted years, she can just watch Dawson's show. "What about that girl that they cast as me? I've often thought about getting a lawyer and suing his ass," Jen adds. Joey retorts that at least Jen gets to have sex. All her character ever does is mope around and not make any decisions. It's sad, she says, that it took a TV show to make her see that. "The only decision left is the one that I need to make with myself. Stop running. Once and for all. I mean, I know who I'm supposed to be with. I've always known," she says. "Really?" Jen squeals. It's nice to hear that you don't lose your taste for gossip even when you're dying. I'm serious. Gossip is practically the only thing keeping me alive right now as it is. Joey gazes off into the distance and reflects that "the fear takes over" and she has to run. "Jen, I am completely comfortable running. I really don't know any other way," she says. Jen thinks about this, and announces that she can help. "I demand that you make that decision. No more running. I'm going to make it my dying wish," she says, pretty cheerfully for someone who legitimately has a dying wish. Joey just looks sad. "My death will serve a greater purpose. It's your ultimate motivator," Jen continues. Although, she says, she does need to know which boy Joey has chosen. Joey smiles and opens her mouth…as Dawson enters the room. He announces that he's there to kidnap Jen. Joey's face falls.
Dawson wheels Jen out to…some gardens somewhere. Jen breathes that it's so beautiful outside, and then yammers some more I'm A Dying Woman stuff about how you can feel the power of the sunshine changing the earth or some such. "Okay, Mrs. Dalloway," Dawson says, as he parks her wheelchair in front of a pond. "Thank God, your humor has returned," Jen says. Because Mrs Dalloway? FUNNY. Is it wrong that all this Locking The Wheelchair Hoo-Ha reminds me of that time on Passions when Ivy threw herself and her wheelchair down the stairs to frame Theresa for murder? It was really hard on Theresa, because she had just escaped from death row and faked her own death, and that had all been really draining, so, understandably, she didn't want to go back to prison.