Episode Report Card Sars: D+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Discovery
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 02.09.1998
Faithless Hussy. The Flash. The Flash inspecting himself in the mirror; FH reading a book in her wicker chair. Both Leerys mentioning "twenty years of marriage." The Flash can't believe FH never noticed the scar on his chin, a scar which Dawson not only sees but knows the origin of. The Flash: "My son knows my face better than you do. Maybe you should, uh, start coming home early, see my face in the daylight for a change." Ouch. He kisses FH's nose. They kiss some more. Dawson leaves. Did this scene have a point?
In the Sanctum Dawsonorum, Dawson walks in on Pacey frantically shuffling through his tapes. Dawson gets all annoyed and asks what he's doing, and Pacey keeps throwing stuff around and muttering about "the tape, the tape," and Dawson reproves him: "Stop, you're messing up my dailies!" Shut up, Dawson. Dawson then asks if Pacey couldn't have waited for Dawson to show it to him, and Pacey mumbles, "I guess not," and Dawson takes it out of a secret compartment in a book and hands it to him, saying, "Dude, I knew you had it bad for her, but calm down, it's not such a big deal." Pacey sits down, turning the tape over in his hands nervously, and confesses, "Dawson, you know, maybe I haven't been entirely honest with you lately. I mean, not that I've lied to you or anything, just -- about some details." Dawson sits down and fixes Pacey with a worried look as Pacey launches into a monologue about knowing how people see him blah blah blah not "the guy who gets the girl" blah blah blah believing the things people say about him after hearing them enough times blah blah blah fishcakes. Dawson doesn't follow. Pacey, grimly: "I got the girl this time, Dawson." Dawson, incredulously: "What?" Pacey: "Call it the law of averages, call it an act of God, call it whatever you want, but -- I got her." Dawson, eyes alight with the joy of gossip: "Who? Who, who'd you get, Pacey?"
Pacey shakes his head as he gets up: "Oh, man. Uh, Dawson, I don't know how to tell you this, but, uh, the guy with the brown hair and the throbbing neck muscles, the guy with TaMAHra Jacobs, that's -- that's me." He continues fiddling with the tape case as Dawson breathes, "No." Pacey assures him that he isn't "just talking this time," even though he wishes he were, because he "can think of about forty reasons why this tape could ruin my life, not the least of which is the embarrassment factor, I mean, no guy's first time should be captured on video." Pacey trails off. A shocked Dawson sort of gabbles in response, and Pacey protests that he really likes TaMAHra, above and beyond sexual attraction, despite the fact that it probably won't work out between them. Dawson, ever the supportive friend, bandies the word "bizarre" about. Pacey very awkwardly asks if, on the tape, he looked "all right" -- if he performed well. Dawson, uncomfortable and trying not to laugh, reassures Pacey, "Yeah, you did fine, man." Pacey smiles as Dawson adds, "From what I could tell, yeah, you did fine," and Dawson looks Pacey up and down as Pacey nods and smiles some more and says, "Cool, man. Thanks," and he tells Dawson not to tell anyone and leaves, closing the door behind him. Dawson stares after him for a moment and then sighs, his forehead wrinkling in disbelief, much like the shifting of tectonic plates.