Episode Report Card Jessica: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2002
Pacey sadly wanders the empty streets of New Orleans at dawn. Wow -- apparently, New Orleans has no homeless people, no one sweeping the streets, no delivery men, no paperboys, no police looking for passed out drunks, and no people driving, ever. And what a sad moment for Pacey, when he has to grapple with the fact that he's working for a man who tried to buy him a woman. Much worse than, say, the time that his girlfriend entered the loony bin, or when he broke up with Joey, or that time that he got in trouble for sleeping with his teacher, or all the times his family told him that he was a worthless piece of shit, or when his boat got all smashed up in that storm and stupid Dawson had to save him, or that one time when he brought that girl home from rehab and she dyed her hair to look like him and then tried to steal his boyfriend and then attempted to kill him in his Beemer. Oh, wait, that last one was Kelly Taylor.
Worthington. Joey wakes up slowly and looks over at Audrey's bed. Which hasn't been slept in. She makes a concerned, thoughtful face, but gets out of bed and sets to studying. After a tiresome studying/staring at bed montage, a knock comes at the door. It's Oliver, who is impressed by her room. "What are you doing here?" Joey asks. Oliver explains that Audrey left her wallet at the bar. "I can't imagine how she forgot it, with the drunken spectacle and the vomiting and all," he says. Joey takes it from him with a cursory thanks and tries to shut the door on him. Oliver puts his hand out to stop it. "Last night, I said a lot of things I didn't mean," he says. Joey crosses her arms. "Like what?" she asks. "It could be that I have some unresolved anger towards society that has nothing to do with you," Oliver reels off. Joey nods and smirks. "I've been working on that one a while," Oliver admits. Joey agrees that it was almost an apology. "I've been thinking about it all night," Oliver says. "What's 'It'?" Joey asks. Shout-out? I vote yes. "I can't believe she's denying me like this," the It calls from the bedroom, where It's playing backgammon with Evil Dr. Will. Oliver says that "It" is the two of them. "It doesn't feel good. The not pursuing it part," he says. Joey tries very hard not to smile and mostly fails. "You know, pushing away usually comes when there's something to push away from," she tells him. Oliver grins that he'd love to learn to resent her, if she'd just give him a chance. But Joey is tired of his banter. She finds it "maddening." "What would you say if you said what you meant?" he asks her, smiling. Oliver Hudson is pretty dreamy. Joey takes a breath and tells him that she'd say that she'd like to go on a date with him. "An actual date." Oliver smiles. "What would you say?" she asks him. "Well, that I'd like to get to know you and prove myself wrong," he says. "Wrong about what?" Joey asks. "About thinking that you represent everything I hate," Oliver tells her. "I think you might just represent everything I'm missing." Oh, jeez. Okay, I admit it: that line was cheesy, but he pulled it off. "Oliver had me at 'It,'" the It calls from the other room. Joey just melts. "Okay. So it's a date," she says. And he reaches out and shakes her hand, then leaves with a smile. The song in the background wails something about the "orange sky," as we focus on Joey's very orange, very happy little face.