Episode Report Card Sars: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Lie lady lie
By Sars | Season 4 | Episode 16 | Aired on 02.27.2001
Long tracking shot up to the Witterschlossportal, where Pacey pads out and asks Gretchen, "All right, so what'd I miss?" "Nothing," Gretchen chirps innocently. Pacey says that she and Dawson had "some sort of a fight," and Gretchen sighs, "Since when do you care, Pacey?" but Pacey doesn't take the bait: "What, I can't take an interest in your life?" "No," Gretchen snaps, and I understand her not wanting to deal with him, but out of the three of them, he's the last one she should take her frustration out on. Anyway, Pacey starts to get annoyed, asking what she and Joey were talking about, and why Dawson showed up at the Witterschloss first thing that morning, if Gretchen and Dawson didn't have a fight. "Dawson was here?" Gretchen says, puzzled. Yes, but Pacey isn't supposed to tell her that, so she didn't hear it from him, but Dawson is "under the impression" that he and Gretchen had a fight. Gretchen, impatiently: "Pacey, you don't want to hear about me and Dawson, so just stop, okay?" Stop what? Stop asking. Gretchen's refusal to divulge anything makes Pacey all the more curious; Gretchen tells him he doesn't want to know, "believe me." Pacey gets the "horrifying feeling that it somehow involves" him. Gretchen gives him an "uh duh" look, heaves a sigh, and walks off of the porch.
Pacey follows her with a victorious, "Ahhh -- no comment." Gretchen snipes that he should ask Joey. "You want me to ask Joey about the problem you and Dawson are having?" "Yeah," she snaps, and then snaps, "No," and then says she's "not in the best of moods right now," adding that maybe Pacey's right about her and Dawson: "Maybe he's too young for me." "My goal is not to be right," Pacey huffs. "My goal is to figure out what's going on, especially if it involves me and Joey, so I think that you should just tell me what's going on!" She just did tell you, Pacey; you don't want to hear it, but it's all right there. Pacey adds that, "whatever it is," he won't mention it to Dawson and Joey. Gretchen looks conflicted, then snorts, "Great, more lies, that's really gonna help." Pacey splutters that he doesn't know about any lies except the ones she, his own sister, is telling right now. Pacey, wake up, will you? Gretchen looks sad, but the guilt trip works -- she gives in and tells him that Joey lied to Dawson, and she doesn't know why, or "what it meant," but Dawson asked Joey point-blank about whether she and Pacey were having sex, and Joey lied. "And that's the truth, Pacey." Pacey stares grimly at Gretchen.