Episode Report Card Jessica: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All The Right Moves
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.21.2003
Worchester -- which, according to this episode, is second only to hell as far as undesirable neighborhoods go. Joey walks right up to Oliver's front door and knocks. He answers. "Hey." "Hey." Scintillating. Anyway, Joey hands him his stories, and tells him about the Very Convenient Writer's Program. Oliver walks onto the porch. "What's the point, Joey?" he asks, telling her that he can't afford the program even if he gets in. Joey tells him he could always get a scholarship, or financial aid, or maybe one of his friends will give him a pile of money in exchange for having sex with him the following season. "This is a shot, Oliver, a real shot," Joey tells him. "I suggest you take it." Oliver makes a wishy-washy face, and Joey tells him not to be such a coward, not to give up so easily. She turns to go, and then walks back and gets right in his face and tells him that she thought he wanted to be one of those people who, you know, really lives life, but now she knows that he's just afraid. Oliver looks at the ground and then admits that she's right. Joey's hair, by the way, looks awful. It's parted in the middle and all flat and two-toned. She looks wretched. And I know Katie Holmes has the ability to look very pretty, so I have to think that she's made an enemy of the hair and make-up folks somewhere along the way. "So, now what? What are you going to do about it?" she asks. He kisses her. "No. Wrong answer," Joey tells him. Oliver yelps that he's just taking a chance. "That's not what I meant. It's too late for that," Joey says, then tries to escape. Oliver calls her back. "I love you," he says. They stare at each other. "Please, Joey, don't go. I don't want it to be too late," he says. "I love you, too," Joey confesses. And then she walks away. "Bye," she calls sadly. Oliver stands on the porch and looks all choked up. Is she walking back to Boston? Are they…broken up? Or…what just happened there? Oy.
Worthington. Joey walks into her room and sees Audrey fast asleep in her jammies. I guess she came to, changed, and climbed back into bed. I'd say that was impossible in her drunken state, but this past New Year's Eve, I came home totally sloshed and made spinach dip, so I guess anything is possible. Joey kneels down to pick up Audrey's coat and spies the broken glass on the floor of the bathroom. Looking concerned, she tries to wake Audrey and can't. Scared, she goes to the phone and dials 911.