Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 1 USERS: D YOU GRADE IT Four To Tango
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.30.1999
Jack stands outside a bright coffee house, looking very tense. He walks up to the glass door and sees Ben Street inside drinking coffee and looking around expectantly. Jack swallows hard. Ben looks up at someone whose hand is on the chair beside him, and nods, clearly saying that someone is going to use that chair. The hand is withdrawn. Jack swallows again. Cut to his hand on the doorknob. Don't stand Ben up! He looks so nice, and he's nervous too!
Back at the studio, Joey is walking out into the lobby area, followed by Dawson, who is telling her he didn't mean to accuse her of anything, but that something strange is going on: "If Pacey's not sleeping with you, he's definitely sleeping with someone." Careful what you call "definite," dude. Joey shrugs as they go into the coat room and see Pacey and Jen making out. Dawson lets out one surprised chuckle. Jen and Pacey look mortified. Poor Joey doesn't know where to look. Poor Joey, period.
Hey, Crash is back at Pizza Hut! That's the game Pacey was playing! It must be really great! I'm going to Pizza Hut right now!
Back in the coat room, Dawson asks, "What do we have here?" Jen and Pacey both say that it's nothing. Dawson says it doesn't look like nothing. Jen says that she and Pacey are just friends. Joey spits, "Is that what the kids are calling it these days?" Hey, can Maggie and I get a tm on that, please? She goes on: "You guys are so stupid -- you're both going to get hurt by this." Pacey says that nobody's going to get hurt. Jen says that they've both agreed their emotions aren't in it. Joey asks, "And you're proud of that fact?" Jen says that they were just messing around. Joey whips around at Dawson as if looking for him to back her up in her outrage, and he says simply, "They lost me at 'nothing.'" Joey says, "Pacey, this isn't you. I mean, Jen, maybe you're trying to prove something to somebody about --" Jen's face slowly falls, and Pacey tells Joey that this arrangement was as much his idea as it was Jen's. Joey asks Pacey if this is why he named his boat True Love -- because he thinks it's okay for friends to "use each other as scratching posts?" Jen looks at the floor, clearly very hurt. Pacey says he knew Joey wouldn't understand. Joey says she understands "just fine," and stomps out. Dawson waits a moment longer to sigh at them paternally, then follows her out. Jen says that she's never seen someone so worked up over "just a kiss," and Pacey confesses that he had told Joey about their arrangement. Jen looks horrified, then disappointed, and asks, "You went to Joey for advice about us?" Pacey admits that was "not so smart." Jen says, "Smart or not smart, it's just funny you went to her." Pacey says he wouldn't say he "went to her," but that she was just around because they were studying together. Jen asks Pacey, "What is it about her?" Pacey asks what she means, and Jen says, "She's obviously got something that makes boys in emotional turmoil just flock to her," and adds that "Dawson's the same way; whatever small problem got to him, he went straight to Joey." Pacey asks who Jen would have him go to on this, since he couldn't exactly go to Andie. Jen asks why he couldn't go to Dawson, unless Pacey's uncomfortable discussing his sex life with Dawson given that Pacey's "current girl Friday used to be" Dawson's. Pacey scoffs, "Correct me if I'm wrong, but Dawson Leery didn't actually know about you and I [sic] until what -- two minutes ago?" Jen says she's not talking about herself and Pacey, and Pacey insists this has nothing to do with Joey. Jen says she saw Pacey overreact to Dawson, saw Joey overreact to Pacey and Jen, and that the two overreactions add up. Pacey continues to protest that there's nothing between himself and Joey, and Jen yells, "No, there's nothing between us! And no matter what we do, it's not going to work out between us." Pacey looks dismayed, and answers, "No, it's not, is it?" Jen asks if he's disappointed. Pacey ruefully says that he is, "and at the same time, I think I'm also a little relieved." Jen says, "Me too." She leaves. He watches her go, looking lost and confused. She comes back, takes his hand, and kindly says, "You know what, Pacey? Thanks for nothing." She kisses him on the cheek.
Jack walks into the kitchen at Grams's house, where Andie is nursing a cup of something at the table. He asks what she's still doing there, and she says she's "anxiously awaiting [sic] to be regaled with first-date stories." He says that in order to have first-date stories, you have to have a first date. She asks what happened, and he says he can't get into it with her because she'll hassle him about what he did wrong. She says that isn't fair, because he's always "scraping [her] off the concrete," and wants to "return the favour." He sighs, and reluctantly admits that he couldn't go in, and that he panicked. He says he got there, looked in the window, and saw Ben waiting: "And then I saw this couple -- this girl and this guy -- and when I saw them...when I saw them at that moment, I didn't want to be me. I wanted to be them. I got so upset that I just left. So I guess when it comes right down to it, I'm not brave enough to walk through the door." Andie protests that he has been nothing but brave his entire life. He says he isn't, this time: "I keep taking these baby steps, but I'm not getting anywhere. I'm not getting any braver." She tells him not to be so hard on himself: "That's what fear is for -- it's life's way of telling us we're not ready for certain things." Jack asks if this advice comes from the same girl who spent the past week dragging him, kicking and screaming, toward his romantic destiny. She says yes, but that she learned when to push and when not to from annoyingsister.com. She adds: "When it's right, you'll know it, and that's when you'll walk through that door: When you're ready." If someone's smart, they'll go register annoyingsister.com right now, and make it an anti-Andie site. But that was a nice scene, too. I think Jack actually gets off better when he doesn't have to interact with the Fearsome Foursome.