Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Indian Summer
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.26.1999
Deputy Doug says, "Let me guess -- research for your screenplay." Dawson claims that a friend of his lives on the boat. DD asks if the "friend" is the mysterious femme fatale; Dawson says it's nothing that lurid -- just a friend. DD says he never figured Dawson for the type who'd be "pals with octogenarians," since it seems that the boat belongs to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stepmuck, who only come to Capeside in the summertime. Dawson says that he may have "clambered" onto the wrong boat. DD says it's either that, or that Dawson's friend is the one "we've been looking for." Dawson expresses confusion, so DD tells him that a couple of weeks ago, someone stole a speedboat from the marina and took it for a joyride. No doubt remembering the boat Skeeve was standing in, then reclining in, the night of the stripper party, Dawson says, "A speedboat. Really," and says he doesn't know anything about that. DD clearly doesn't believe him, and, putting his arm around Dawson, tells him that between the 911 call, the questions about the screenplay, and the trespassing, DD knows something's going on with Dawson. Saving Dawson from answering is Pacey, who calls out Deputy Doug's name. DD drops his arm, and says he should have known that Pacey had to be involved. Pacey says, "If I've told you once, I've told you a million times: Despite his dapper, Gap-clad appearance, my friend Dawson does not play for your team, okay? You're just going to have to find another date for the policeman's ball." I thought it was American Eagle Outfitters. DD says that Pacey's obsession with DD's sexual orientation is "just plain weird" and adds, "Do I have to talk to Dad again?" DD is a tattletale? Pacey says that one of these days, DD will open his mailbox, and that Advocate cover story will be his, with the headline, "Good Cop, Gay Cop." Pacey goes on in this vein for a while until DD finally shrieks, "I AM NOT GAY!" in the way that so clearly communicates that a man is gay, but is deeply in denial about it. DD orders them both off the dock, and stomps away. When DD is gone, Pacey tells Dawson that Skeeve is "squirrelly" and lost him.
It seems that, to celebrate its "re-opening," the Rialto is showing Blue Streak (classy!), or at least so says the poorly superimposed CG writing on the establishing shot. Within, Joey tentatively wanders through the lobby, stopping to peer in at the cinema, where she sees Rob sitting alone. She turns back to wander through the lobby and out bounces Andie from what is presumably the restroom. "Ohmigod, Joey!" she squeals, and asks what she's doing there. Andie takes her aside and babbles about how excited she is to be on a date with Rob Logan -- "Senator Logan's son" -- whose parents are loaded, "not that that matters," but "it doesn't hurt either." Joey looks nervous, and tells Andie that Rob is not a nice guy, and that since she's been working for him, Joey's life has "become one gigantic leerfest." Andie chirps, "This may come as a surprise to you, but not everybody minds being looked at as a sexual object." Joey blinks, but, undeterred, goes on to say that he constantly hits on her, and that he walked in on her changing clothes on her first day. That was her first day?
Andie asks why Joey's trying to ruin this for her. Joey protests that she isn't, but that she thought Andie should know what kind of guy Rob is. Andie condescendingly says, "Joey, guys is [sic] hardly your area of expertise." Joey glares at her in disbelief. Andie goes on: "I mean, between Dawson and my gay brother -- I'm sorry, but it's true. You're not exactly sophisticated when it comes to dealing with guys." Uh, I wonder how Jack would react to Andie's describing him as "my gay brother" as if he were "my three-legged dog." Joey insists, "This is not about me." Andie says that it is, because Joey is so fixated on Dawson that she's "closed off to any new experience," so that if a guy so much as looks at Joey, she freaks out. Andie, why don't you go home and wait by your mailbox, since that degree in psychology is going to arrive any day now (tm Cate). Andie adds, "Staying home every Friday night isn't going to bring him back." Before Andie can put the capper on her Tai impression and conclude: "You're just a virgin who can't drive," Joey snorts, "Going out with a nimrod like Rob Logan is a recipe for recovery?" Joey starts to say something about Andie's wanting to get over Pacey, but Andie cuts her off by saying that she's moving on with her life, and she thought Joey would understand that: "I guess I was wrong." Andie flounces off. Joey looks amazed.