Episode Report Card 1 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Abby Morgan, Rest In Peace
By Sars | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 05.04.1999
Dawson comes through the front door of the No-Fault Hacienda. Gale "The Once And Future Mrs. Flash" Leery comes down the stairs and asks him about school, and Dawson compares the "dutiful mourners" at Capeside High to Munchkins set free from the Wicked Witch of the East. Shut up, Dawson. Mrs. Flash says she has some news she has to share with him, and Dawson looks concerned until she tells him that she won a Peale Vision Award for excellence in news broadcasting for her story on teenage girls. Apparently, the Peale committee will give an award to just about anyone. Mrs. Flash also says that, as a result, the network offered her a correspondent gig in Philadelphia. Some reward.
Dawson asks if she plans to take it. Mrs. Flash says that professionally, she can't afford not to, and she's been working towards this her entire career, but of course Dawson doesn't hear her and breaks in with, "I don't want to move to Philadelphia." Mrs. Flash tells him not to worry -- if she takes the job, Dawson can stay here and live with the Flash, and she would come home when she could. Dawson asks about her and the Flash: "Are you guys just throwing in the towel?" Mrs. Flash points out that the Flash doesn't seem to want to work things out, and if she gives up the correspondent position too, what has she got left? Dawson's response? "You still have me." Gee, what a relief. Well, except for the "relief" part. Gale smiles weakly as if to say, "My point precisely," and doesn't answer.
Jen lies in bed wrapped in -- a blanket. No comment. Grams knocks and comes in: "Jennifer, I'm worried about you." Jen, brusquely: "Don't be, I'm just tired." Grams admits that she didn't like Abby much; she thought Abby was mocking her. Jen snorts, and Grams says, "She was, wasn't she?" and Jen tells her not to take it personally, Abby was mocking everyone. Grams starts in with her the-Lord-works-in-mysterious-ways routine and remarks that the death of someone so young "really tests one's faith." Jen says, "Lucky me, I didn't have any faith to begin with," and she gets off the bed where Grams has sat down next to her and stands with her arms folded, sulking, as Grams continues to prattle on about God's plan. Jen remarks that if God had a plan for Abby, she didn't follow it very well, but Grams says that God did have a plan for Abby and He has one for Jen, too, and Jen gets all prickly and doesn't "want to have a religious discussion right now," and Grams presses the point but Jen says, "Grams, please, okay?" Grams drops it, but tells Jen, "I'm here for you, whenever you need me." Jen doesn't answer. Grams leaves.