Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Appetite For Destruction
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 12.18.2001
Inside. Jen takes her seat, apologizing. "T-shirt returned, case closed," she says, with a close-mouthed smile. Joey watches as Dawson reaches over and takes Jen's hand. She smiles tightly and looks at her plate, then stands up and announces that she's going to get some more salad. She skedaddles. Dawson chases her. Everyone looks at the ceiling. Jack stands up and grabs Jen and tells her to come with him to "change the music." Jen shrugs. "Excuse me, I guess," she offers to the rest of the table.
Living room. Jen switches CDs. "You happy now?" she asks. Jack's not. He wants to pretend they're best friends for five minutes so they can talk about this whole having-sex-with-Dawson thing. "You're sleeping with Dawson?" he asks. "I mean, come on! Any steps you want to fill me in on, here?" Jen mutters that it just happened. Jack's scared that Jen's moving too fast. She's still getting over Charlie, Dawson's dealing with The Death Of The Flash. "I don't think you're aware of how delicate this little scenario is," he tells her. She insists that she is. "If you think what's going on in the kitchen doesn't affect me, then you're wrong. It does," she tells him. And then she snaps that everything would have been much easier if they hadn't come home to this entire dinner thing. Jack tells her that "it's not an intervention." Jen snorts that it sure feels like one. And she's all, who are you to talk? "You've conveniently erased yourself from my life over the past few months," she reminds him. Jack tells her that "it's a two-way street" -- it's not like she's been around all that much, either. Jen snaps that she can't talk to a "guy who would choose a beer bong over his boyfriend." And he snaps that he can't explain things to someone who's already made up her mind! "Then you should know how I feel," Jen tells him. She sits down next to him on the sofa. This introduces the "what happened to our love?" portion of the evening. "It's like you haven't known me over the past two years if you think I'm capable of hurting Dawson," Jen says. "How could you think that?" Blah blah blah. "You knew how I took my coffee," Jen says sadly. "I knew how you liked your toast. What happened to those people?" Jack and Jen sit on the sofa and look sad.
Dining room. Pacey chirps that he's "as happy living in denial as the next guy, but is the food really that bad?" Audrey smiles, and says that she gives him "kudos" for holding it together throughout the entire drama of the evening. Pacey gives her props, in turn, because it's nice to see someone, he says, "who's not ready to kill herself, or the person directly to her right." Audrey raises her water in a toast "to not hating each other." That's the traditional Christmas toast in my family, by the way.