Episode Report Card Sars: D | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT A Weekend In The Country
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.18.2000
In the front yard of the PB&B, Pacey helps Dawson with the video camera. Dawson asks, "Pacey, do you have any idea what you're doing?" Pacey replies impatiently that he has put a lens cap on before, but Dawson means "in general." A quick disclaimer: I may not have transcribed all the dialogue correctly, but I could barely concentrate, because Dawson's hair looks like a bleached ostrich feather, and I'm fascinated and terrified at the same time. Dawson talks about everything changing, losing his bearings, yadda yadda; Pacey empathizes. Dawson again mentions his empty walls, saying that when he tries to imagine his future, "it's as blank as the walls." Pacey folds the tripod as Dawson continues babbling about the past, which he barely recognizes anymore; Dawson then says, "Perfect example -- you." Pacey: "Me?" Dawson: "Yeah, you've come through this whole metamorphosis. You used to be glib and predictable, and -- I don't know, I thought it was your relationship with Andie, but now you're not with her, you're still -- I guess what I'm trying to say is 'thank you.'" Pacey: "For what, man?" Dawson: "Doing what I asked you to do -- taking care of Joey." Pacey sort of blows it off, but Dawson says that Pacey "went above and beyond" and "did something really special" for Joey, and he's glad Joey has Pacey. Pacey, discomfited, switches gears and says, "Let me tell you something, man -- it's no picnic, okay? That Potter girl, she ain't easy, all right? She, she's physically incapable of keeping her mouth shut for more than two seconds at a time, she's got an opinion about everything -- I mean, it's uncanny [sic], all right, so anytime you wanna jump back in there, you just let me know, because I am eager to return to our regularly scheduled programming." Dawson chuckles through Pacey's tirade, then raises a brow at him. Pacey: "That glib enough for ya?" Dawson: "That'll do fine, Pace." Huh?
Grams comes out onto the porch, singing, and Jen follows her out and asks Grams if she mixed her red pills with her blue ones; Grams snorts, "I like that song." Jack comes up on the porch, and they make "oh, just in time" noises and hand Jack their bags. Heh. Jack puts the bags down and asks if he can "talk something through" with them. Jen can tell it's serious: "Absolutely -- what is it?" Jack clears his throat and stammers, "Andie's giving me the hard sell about moving back home." "What about your dad?" Jen asks, and Jack says moving back home doesn't have much to do with Angry, who's not there half the time anyway: "It's about Andie." Jen and Grams begin to see where he's going with this as he continues, "See, when you invited me last summer to, to stay with you, I didn't have anything. Or anyone. And it was so generous of both of you, and it's not that you just offered me a home, it -- it was the act of reminding me that somebody cared about me, even when I didn't really feel like I deserved it." Grams folds her lips and looks at Jen, whose eyes have filled with tears. Jack, also starting to cry: "Now Andie needs to be reminded of that. I'm her brother." Jen nods. Jack apologizes; he doesn't want them to think he doesn't appreciate everything, and he says they did so much for him. Before he can finish, Jen chokes out, "Go home, Jack. Go home." Jack looks at Grams, who smiles. Jen hugs Jack, and then Grams puts her arms around them both. Sniffle.