Episode Report Card Jessica: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Highway To Hell
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 17 | Aired on 04.02.2002
"going upstate to sing with Charlie's band." She then admits that it "sounds kind of crazy." Dawson just looks monumentally amused by this turn of events and tells her that they're going to miss her. Joey smiles at this, hands him Lily's birthday gift, and bails.Meanwhile, Jack's eating cereal in the kitchen while Jen drinks OJ. "Is this a new kind of orange juice?" she asks. "I think it's Some Pulp instead of Tons of Pulp," Jack says through a mouthful of Flutie Flakes. And I don't know why, but that cracked my shit up. It may be connected to my loathing of pulp. I don't want to drink something that gets stuck in my teeth, people. "I think I'm going to break up with Dawson," Jen admits suddenly. Jack spits an entire mouthful of cereal back into his bowl and shoots her an incredulous look, but the conversation ends because Dawson waddles into the room. "Ready to go?" he asks. And they are. I liked Jack more in that one little scene than I have all season.
Capeside. Small children are running, basically unsupervised, through the Leery backyard. Shouldn't someone be making sure that none of them falls into the Creek? "I had no idea you were throwing such a shindig," Dawson says as he gets out of the car and embraces his mother. Gale admits that she's been "cooped up" lately, and Lily's birthday is an excuse to mix it up a little bit. A man with a baby in his arms strolls over to them and tells the Faithless Widow that "everything is ready." He extends a hand to Dawson. "Hey, you must be Dawson. It's nice to meet you," he says pleasantly. Gale intros The Man With The Baby as her friend Nathan. Jack makes an hysterically perturbed face in the background, like he's afraid Dawson's cranium is going to explode and bury them all in bits of brain and skull. Gale worries aloud that she forgot to pick up the cake at the bakery, and Jack jumps on this, offering to take Jen and pick it up for her. Gale thanks him, and invites Grams and the Head into the house for a cup of java. Jack and Jen stare at each other. "Well, you can't dump him now," Jack points out. Jen snips that it isn't funny. "No, it's not funny," Jack agrees. "Which is why we're going to pick up this cake and you're going to tell me what the hell is going on," he says. Jen just looks miserable
Audrey and Pacey stand in front of his wheels. Long story short, she's talked him into driving them to the gig, despite the fact that he doesn't like the idea of "catering to Chip Mark and his merry band." At this, Charlie comes racing up, panting that he overslept and he needs to catch a ride. Pacey makes a series of irritated noises, but finally agrees after much huffing. Charlie chirps his thanks and piles into the back seat. Joey apologizes over the top of the car and follows him. Audrey and Pacey look at each other. Audrey offers that she had no idea that Charlie would miss his van, but that it was just a mistake. "I beg to differ," Pacey says. "I am pretty sure Laughing Boy over there planned this. 'I missed my ride,'" he whines. "You know he's just stalking Joey." Audrey raises both brows. "Hello? Current love interest right here." Pacey twists his mouth up and tells Audrey that he knows what Charlie did to Jen, and he doesn't want to see the same thing happen to Joey. "Let's just have fun," Audrey says. "Fine. But keep him away from me," Pacey says.