Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Like A Virgin
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 09.28.1999
Sars: "Oh, it's back on."
DockDude has a calculator and tells Dawson it'll cost $3000 to repair the damage. It's not clear whether that covers the damage to the boat, or to the dock, or both. Dawson looks out at Eve kicking her legs in the water and says, "I should have gone down with the ship." DockDude, regarding Eve, says, "No argument here." Dawson looks at him suspiciously. "Gone down with the ship," geddit? Dawson walks down to sit beside Eve, who is now leaning back so far that she's practically prone, and who tells him things could have been worse. Dawson mumbles something unintelligible about someone who thought that before going insane and killing himself. Eve reminds him that no one was hurt, and adds, with a somewhat lascivious tone, that he'll never forget this day for as long as he lives. He says that's what he's afraid of. She says more of what she was saying above on the subject of risk and what's sexy. Dawson mutters something about her treacly truisms' making his teeth ache. She perceives that he's mad at her. He sort of chuckles in a passive-aggressive way and says, by way of explanation, that she made him crash his father's boat. She angrily replies that she didn't "make" him do anything. He sighs heavily and muses that he might not be ready for "this friendliness." Eve says, "I have only known you for forty-eight hours, but I think it's safe to say that you have got to stop living from the neck up." First of all, "the neck up" on Dawson is about 73% of his total body mass, so that's kind of inevitable. And second, Eve, once you've known Dawson a bit longer, you'll see that he's just as insufferable, if not more so, when he's living from the neck down. Eve starts to leave, but he gets up and wanly calls, "Don't go." She tells him he'll have to do better than that. He launches into a pretty unconvincing explanation of his behaviour, the gist of which is that the way he's been acting since he met her isn't what he's really like, and that the destruction in his path is evidence of the bad things that happen when he deviates from type. She says that's too bad: "This girl just wants to have fun." Have fun with someone your own age!
A dazed-looking Jen stomps down the hall doing what was once referred to on ER as "the P.I.D. shuffle." Jen, you're not so graceful to begin with, and the cowboy boots aren't doing you any favours. Jack catches up with her and is perplexed at all the people who seem to be wishing her well in the hall. She explains that there was a "coup d'état," and that her speech proved so rousing that not only did she make the cheerleading squad, but they deposed Belinda and made her head cheerleader instead. Maybe I'm an idiot, but since the thesis of Jen's speech was "Screw Cheerleading," why can't she just screw cheerleading? On the other hand, I still don't care, except that this plotline is so random that I'm a little mystified it ever made it through a story meeting.
Bessie and Joey fold sheets. Joey has evidently just told Bessie the story of Eve, because she admits that she lied about the first day of school, and adds that Dawson has been dodging her since they returned to class. Bessie remarks that between avoiding Joey and "crashing Mitch's pride and joy," it's like one Dawson left for Philadelphia and another one came back. Joey says, "Yeah -- his evil twin." Joey says that she just wishes Dawson had told her about Eve, so that she wouldn't feel like such a fool: "One look and I knew. I mean, she's everything I'm not. She's wild, and confident. Blonde." Bessie says she remembers another time when there was a blonde in the picture, and Joey perks up and says, "And look how well that turned out." Joey says it's different now. Bessie agrees that it is. Joey looks down reflectively.