Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Northern Lights
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 13 | Aired on 01.25.2000
We cut to the porch, where Pacey says "hey," sounding surprised to see her. She observes that he wasn't exactly the life of the party tonight, and he says that he has a lot of things on his mind. She says it's too bad his parents couldn't come. He says that there were a lot of people who couldn't come opening night, "so c'est la vie." Andie presses him some more, saying it's too bad his parents couldn't see him "being a star." Pacey gets up and tells her that they both know who the real star of the production is -- that the actors hog the glory, but that the people behind the scenes make things happen, and that no one knows how much work Andie and her crew did. Andie says simply, "They know," and adds that Pacey's sure to get that guaranteed "C" in English now. Pacey tells her that she must be disappointed that he's sunk back into academic mediocrity. Andie tells him that she's not disappointed, and that girls have misguided notions that they can fix guys up. Pacey says that he did have "fixer-upper" written all over him. Andie agrees, in a kind way, and says that she was wrong, and that nothing about him ever needed fixing up, because he's perfect as he is. Sounding hoarse, he says that she is too, and they hug. Aw. She asks him what he thinks her next project should be, and that it won't involve him at all. They walk off, chattering in a natural, friendly way, for a change. I'm not a big Andie fan, but that was handled nicely by both actors.
Jen and Henry stroll along elsewhere. Henry says that he can't remember the last time he felt this depressed, and then says, "Oh yeah. Ten minutes ago." Shut up, Henry. Jen tells him that he'll get no sympathy from her. He says he knows, and adds that he thought he saw her smiling a second ago. She laughs and says he's not like other boys. He gives her the stalker staredown. She tells him he should lay off the grand gestures, and says, "You're like the Christo of teenage gestures." Ha! He asks who Christo is, and she tells him he's kind of like a sculptor, and starts to explain about his installations, but then stops and says, "Never mind." (I'd say he's more of a conceptual/performance artist, myself.) She tells him again not to try so hard. He says that it's just because he wants to know her, and to be completely honest with her. She says that no one over the age of six can be completely honest. He says that he can, and she agrees that, although she doesn't know how he does, he has "that thing that children have." He tells her that she has it too, and she says that she doesn't think she ever had it. You know who has "had it"? ME. I've had it with both of you. He says he can teach her to be honest like he is, and tells her to say whatever is in her heard right now. She leans forward and gives him a peck on the mouth, and asks whether that was honest enough. He says it was almost honest enough, and then they kiss for real. I'd like to add that in this scene, Henry's hair was very depressed, and he was wearing this long black overcoat into the pockets of which his hands were thrust so deep that he was kind of hunched over, and all I could think was "Trenchcoat Mafia." So I really hope they're not building to some kind of Very Special Episode in which Jen's four thousandth ambiguous rejection of Henry causes him to lose it and open fire on the school. OR DO I?