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
At the trailer, Joey has cleaned herself up and walks into the kitchen, where Bessie is making plans to get working on their insurance claim. Joey asks why the Icehouse is staked off, and why the police are involved. Mr. Pothead says that because the fire was arson-related, it's typical operating procedure for the police to be involved. Joey skeptically asks, "So there's nothing else going on?" Bessie says, "Joey, what are you saying?" Joey says she's just asking Mr. Pothead if he knows why the police are so interested in the fire or why there was even a fire in the first place. Bessie gets increasingly peeved, but Joey insists that Mr. Pothead swear he doesn't know any more than he's saying. Mr. Pothead swears that he doesn't know who started the fire. She melts with relief and hugs him. Careful, Joey -- there's a bridge washed out ahead!
At the No-Fault Hacienda, the Flashes are telling Dawson -- who evidently has just told them what he knows about Mr. Pothead -- that he has no choice but to go to the police. It must be said that he hasn't seen fit to take a shower or change his clothes yet. Dawson makes anti-cop noises to the effect that if he leaves him alone maybe Mr. Pothead will solve this stuff on his own -- a notable departure from his posturing throughout the rest of this episode. Mrs. Flash says that Joey's in danger and she needs Dawson's "strength," even if that strength comes in a form that will cause her to have to rat on her own father. The Flash tells him again that he has to go to the police, and that there's really nothing left to do. Dawson says, "There is one thing." Does it involve soap?
Over at Orphan Villa, Jack is telling Jen that he saw her standing and staring at the fire, and apparently refusing to move, and he wants to know why. She says she was in shock. He says he doesn't believe her. She says she doesn't remember what happened. He says he wants to know how much she means all her little suicide-themed comments. She says she's not the kind of person who would take her own life, but that when she was standing in the fire, she kept thinking maybe that was fate's way of deciding the issue. She said that she doesn't want to die, but that she didn't care enough to run. Jack says he understands what she's going through, and the pain of hating oneself, and the way it makes you want to push away the people who care about one the most, but that she shouldn't if she ever wants to be happy. I can't decide if her hair is flat in this scene because she's trying to take it in a new direction, or because her failure to go into product overload is meant to signal to the audience that she's too depressed to take care of her appearance. Either way, it does look a lot better, even if it is a lot more like Jennie Garth's hair a few years ago.