Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Hurricane
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 5 | Aired on 02.16.1998
TaMAHra's house. Monopoly game. Wide World Of Musical Theater. Doug asks TaMAHra out, Pacey glowers, Doug blathers cheesily about "getting to know each other a little more intimately," Sars predicts that if Doug uses the phrase "get to know each other" once more she will jam the business end of a grapefruit spoon into her eye, TaMAHra mistakenly thinks Doug likes men and says, "Well, not really a real date," Doug accuses Pacey of telling TaMAHra that he's gay, TaMAHra tries to smooth things over by explaining, "I have good gaydar," Pacey swallows a gleeful smile, Doug shouts, "Tell her I'm not gay!" Doug whips out his gun and points it at Pacey and demands, "All right, you tell her right now I am not gay!" (And, really, what better way is there to convince an onlooker that you aren't gay than pulling a gun on anyone who says you are? -- WC) TaMAHra freaks, but Pacey keeps his cool, and obviously he doesn't have to take it back because Doug wouldn't actually shoot him in front of TaMAHra, but finally he admits that Doug isn't gay and Doug puts his gun away, and if you think this scene sounds boring, try actually watching it.
The SUV. The Flash scowls. A drenched Hussy rushes through the downpour and jumps into the front seat, and shivers tearfully in The Flash's general direction. The Flash asks, "It's Bob, isn't it?" The Faithless Hussy sort of nods and looks out the windshield. The Flash begins reminiscing about the first time he saw her, on the pier at the marina, and her friend that wouldn't shut up and had a soap-opera name, and as my eyelids begin to feel heavy and I wonder where The Flash is going with this, FH smiles encouragingly and reminds him of the name, and The Flash says, "From the minute Phoebe introduced us, I knew that I loved you. I mean, it was that quick, you know, because love comes that quick. It's like a decision -- love is the decision that you make, and I made it, right there, on the spot. What I need for you to know," he continues after a long pause, "is that our love came quick, and it's lasted, it's weathered the storm." He brushes her chin with his finger, and she closes her eyes hopefully, but then The Flash hits her with this: "But as quickly as I made that decision twenty years ago to love you, I'm taking it back." FH prepares to sob and beg. The Flash says in a hard tone, "I don't wanna love you anymore. I choose to hate you now." Gale pleads, "No, Mitch, don't," and The Flash informs her coldly, "It's already done, just like that. So I suggest you get OUT OF THE CAR! Before I physically remove you from it." Openly weeping, FH crawls from the front seat and stands in the muddy driveway, rubbing her arms to keep warm, as The Flash peels out.