Episode Report Card Jessica: B+ | 3 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT Castaways
By Jessica | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.11.2003
After several more close shots of Joey shaving Pacey's chin, she finishes up. She looks very proud and wipes his now clean chin with a towel. "Hello, chin!" she says. "You're back!" Amen, sister. "I was never really gone," Pacey tells her quietly. "You weren't?" Joey asks. "No," Pacey tells her. He's really giving her the googly love eye. "It kind of seemed like it," she says. And then he reaches up and kisses her. Aw. Aww. Eee! EEEE! Aw. Ahem.
When we come back from the break, they're still kissing. Joey finally pulls away and opens her eyes slowly. He smiles up at her. She blinks. I sigh, totally in spite of myself. "What was that?" she breathes. Pacey says he doesn't know. "But you remember how you said you were willing to be surprised by the future?" he asks. "Yeah?" she says. "Surprise," he says. Joey looks down at him and observes that he doesn't seem all that surprised. He thinks about this. "Well, maybe because I've wanted to kiss you ever since I saw you in that outfit," he says. Joey looks down at her jammies, and Pacey clarifies that he's talking about her first outfit of the evening. "Wait, wait, wait. You wanted to kiss me all night?" she asks. "Yes," Pacey tells her. "Even when you were yelling at me?" Pacey chuckles. "Especially when I was yelling at you," he says. Even when he was making plans for a one-night stand, she asks. "Yeah, then too," he says. Joey furrows her brow and wonders if this is a "recent development." Pacey licks his lips thoughtfully. "Wanting to kiss you? No, it's sort of always there. Like white noise, or the Secret Service or the threat of nuclear war, for that matter. It's just something you get used to." Joey wonders if this doesn't freak him out. Well, the nuclear war part freaks me out, but that's neither here nor there. Well, sadly, it could very well be both here and and there, the way things are going, but at least it's not in this episode. "Well, yes and no," he says. "Which one, Pace?" she asks. He looks at her sideways. "Yes," he admits. "Explain," Joey says, very softly. Pacey wipes at his chin with a towel and looks off behind her shoulder. "I don't know if I can," he finally says. "Try," she pleads. He rubs his now naked chin and sort of laughs. "It would be fair to say that I haven't been feeling all that friendly toward you lately," he finally tells her. Joey nods. "You've been feeling more than friendly?" she asks. "Yes," he says. Joey thinks about this. "And the only way you could express that would be to pick a fight with me?" she asks. Well, yes. Where have you been for the last six years? Pacey confirms this, and says he doesn't know why. "You must know something," Joey tells him. "What I know is that…you and I were one of the few things -- perhaps the only thing -- that made total and complete sense in my life. That's what I know," he says. They stare at each other as a piano plays Schmoopy Reunion Lurve Music in the background. Staring. Staring. "You know, we fought constantly," Joey finally says, telling him that they didn't work for a hundred reasons. He agrees. She covers her face and finally admits that she just doesn't know what to say. "I'm flattered. I'm confused. I'm stunned," she says. "Are you wishing I hadn't said anything?" he asks her. "No," Joey smiles. "I just need to…can I just sleep on this?" she asks. Pacey smiles up at her. "Yeah, I think that can be arranged," he tells her. That scene was nicely done, by both of them. "Sniff," says my Mulder action figure. "I'm just really pulling for these two kids."
Over in the camping gear section, the kids are sacked out on separate air mattresses. Joey asks if he put all the stuff back. "Yeah, but some of it we're going to have to pay for," Pacey tells her. They're silent for a moment. "Pacey, did you…?" Joey begins. "If the next words are 'take out the trash,' then I will officially have a preview of what it would be like to be married to you," Pacey tells her. "And?" Joey asks sharply. "It ain't pretty," he chuckles. Joey explains that she was going to ask "if [he] knew." Pacey furrows his brow. "Did I know what?" he asks. "This was a dream come true," Joey tells him, rolling over to look at him. "Which part?" he asks. "All of it," she smiles. He turns and looks at her. "When you and I were in the boat, I used to dream that we'd be cast away somewhere," Joey tells him. I can't believe they even remembered the boat! I really liked that stupid boat. "Your standard tropical island, with the white sand beach and the giant stars overhead. We'd wear no clothes and we'd splash in the surf all day, and then at night, the moon would be this…this giant thing. It was always full," Joey tells him. Pacey whispers that he likes her fantasy. He could catch fish with his bare hands and make fires without matches. "I'd make the fires," Joey says. "Who paid attention in science class? Besides, it's my fantasy," she says. Pacey will give her that, he says. "I guess I never told you about it before, because it's embarrassing, you know. Not at all original," she says. Pacey tells her that she's right about one thing. "There are about a thousand reasons why you and I would never work." Joey looks over at him. "There's one thing in the pro column," she tells him. "What's that?" he asks. Joey rolls off her air mattress and climbs onto his. She kisses him, and snuggles under his arm. They make out. Aw. I'm such a softie. She smiles up at him. "It doesn't mean what you think it means," she tells him. "Well, then what does it mean?" he asks. Joey smiles. "Well, I'm cold," she begins, and he immediately wraps a sleeping bag around them. "I'm still thinking about it," she tells him, looking at him pretty darn tenderly for someone who hasn't made up her mind. "I miss you, Pace," she says. He kisses her forehead. "I miss you, too," he says, as she snuggles under his arm and they fall asleep.