Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crossroads
By Wing Chun | Season 2 | Episode 2 | Aired on 10.13.1998
Then we get a scene where Andie asks Joey if she works at The Ice House and Joey says yes and Andie introduces herself and tells Joey with really excessive enthusiasm that her brother Jack needs a job and Joey says okay and Andie practically pees her pants with gratitude and leaves. Other than the fact that I suspect Andie's brother will turn out to be the gay character, whatever.
So then Joey is walking across a little footbridge in her brownish-reddish spaghetti-strapped tank top and jeans and white Keds which is a pretty dorky outfit if you ask me and Dawson catches up with her and contrivedly tells her that he was cleaning out his closet (no comment) and found the costume that she wore in his movie and goes on about how pretty and vulnerable she looked in it and how he then was led to wonder whether she was happy with her performance, and then comes right out and asks what she thought of his movie all litmus-test, and she answers that she loved it, and he knows it, and he prods her by asking if she'd be honest, and she says that he's very talented, which is one of his "many attractions" (whatever), and of course he's convinced that she's lying to spare his feelings and squares his jaw and once again tests her by saying he wants to make sure she didn't think it was "on...the 'stupid' or 'putrid' side" and she rolls her eyes and tells him he's acting weird and his voice starts to break as he tells her, "It's just really important for me to know that you think that I have talent and potential as a filmmaker" and as I went rummaging through my medicine cabinet for Gravol I could barely make out Joey's voice as she answered in an appropriately horrified tone, "You read my journal" and he defends himself by saying that she left it out for him to see, and she is having none of it and rightly answers that he could only interpret events that way if "it blew open or you suddenly developed X-Ray vision," and furthermore tells him he invaded her privacy, and that she could sue him for it, and he decides to make matters worse for himself by musing about what else she might have written about him, and "What else does Joey Potter really think of me?" and she shoots back, "Right now, Dawson, you really don't want to know" and I say GO JOEY.
Then we see the Flash as he shows up at the fish-gutting place of a guy who is evidently a friend of the Flash's and is for some reason all butch but wearing a really ostentatious New Age-y necklace and I would like to defer to owen's or bstewart's assessment of the Flash as a circuit queen if this is the way his pals dress, and the reason the Flash is in the neighbourhood is supposedly that he was scouting a warehouse next door as a possible restaurant location, to which I would like to respond that (a) I would never EVER patronize a restaurant next door to a fish cannery or guttery or whatever and (b) this is the first I've ever heard of the Flash having a job other than breaking Gale's balls. And the friend, whose name is Cole, is totally onto the Flash and asks why the Flash is really there, and the Flash demurs presumably until Cole hands him a beer, and then he sighs...