Episode Report Card 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Abby Morgan, Rest In Peace
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 05.04.1999
I love that "somebody order a Saturn?" guy. I don't know why. I just do.
At the Potter breakfast table, Joey and her father eat without speaking. Joey clearly has something on her mind, and eventually Mr. Potter says, "What are you thinking about?" Joey is starting to forget her mother: "I'm trying to remember Mom, and -- I can't get a clear picture of her in my head." Mr. Potter looks concerned as Joey says, "It's the scariest thing -- it's like she's -- slowly fading away and -- do you know what I mean?" Mr. Potter nods and says after a pause, "Joey, when I was in prison, I missed your mother." First of all, as Wing pointed out, you gotta love it when someone starts a sentence with "when I was in prison." Second of all, I've heard about prison, and when Mr. Potter says he missed the company of a woman, I'm not disinclined to believe him.
Anyway, Big Daddy goes on to say, "The loss combined with the guilt was almost too much for me. But I look at you, and I know she's still here. You are so like your mother, Joey -- she was tough, and independent, funny, in the exact same ways you're funny -- stubborn, whew, she was stubborn. If you told her the sky was blue, she'd say it was green." As Joey smiles, her father finishes, "So she's not gone. She lives on in you. And that comforts me to no end." Joey looks a little sad. So do the future prospects for Gareth Williams's acting career.
Pacey and Andie on the beach. Andie still agonizing over what to say in her eulogy for Abby; Pacey suggesting that Andie just make something up. Andie sputtering, "Lie -- you want me to lie." Pacey saying she could always tell the truth instead and refer to Abby as a "hideous abomination." Andie not knowing what to do. Pacey offering to write the damn thing for her. Andie saying, "You'd do that for me?" Pacey saying that he'd do anything to keep her from "having a nervous breakdown," and Andie protesting that she isn't having a nervous breakdown, and Pacey telling her that "living vicariously through" Andie is about to give him a nervous breakdown. Sars going ahead and having a nervous breakdown herself and finding it much more entertaining than Pacey and Andie's relationship. Andie not wanting to burden Pacey with her mental illness; Pacey mounting his white charger and wanting to know how he can "help but come to [her] rescue" when he sees her "in distress." Andie not wanting their roles to become "etched in stone -- [Andie] the helpless lunatic and [Pacey] the hero on horseback." Sars muttering, "Word." Andie needing to take care of herself; Andie vowing to give the speech and saying she'll "think of something." Nobody caring.