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
Fricke enters his room and looks around with an expression of patent disdain. Joey asks brightly if she can get him anything else; Fricke wraps his trenchcoat tighter around him and grunts, "Heat. It's freezing in here." Joey heads for the thermostat, babbling something about environmental friendliness and conserving resources, and turns up the heat, but Fricke has another question: "What, no en suite commode?" Joey doesn't know what that means, so he says very slowly and patronizingly, "Where -- is -- the bathroom?" Joey blushes and says it's down the hall, and that it's communal. "I see," Fricke sniffs, clearly unable to believe his bad luck. Joey tells him to enjoy his stay, and then she goes on for a bit about mealtimes, and as she makes to leave, she tells him again to enjoy his stay. "You said that already," Fricke points out flatly. Joey is embarrassed and makes a hasty retreat, closing the door behind her and leaning her head against it.
In another room, Jack comments, "Is it me, or is it cold in here?" as Andie wonders whether they can "successfully impersonate brother and sister" for the weekend. Jack doesn't see why not. Andie observes transparently that she can never get a good night's sleep if she's not in her own bed. Irritated, Jack tells her he gets the message -- Angry wants him to move home -- so she can quit campaigning. "Who, me?" Andie perks. Jack says he means it, and if she brings it up again, he'll stay in Jen's room. Andie shrugs and continues unpacking. Jack glowers at her for a moment, then smiles in spite of himself.
Bessie and Joey spy on Fricke. "Does he look like he's having a good time?" Bessie whispers. "Does a lemon ever look like it's having a good time?" Joey grumbles. Oh, fine -- heh. Bessie says that Fricke is "just doing his job," and Joey answers, "On which rests our entire future." Bessie wants to know where Pacey got to, because he said he'd help her turn down the beds. Joey says he's in the bathroom, "counting animals two-by-two." Apparently, the toilet overflowed.
Mop-cam. Pacey swabbing; Pacey grumbling under his breath that he plans to strike "hotel management" from his list of career choices.
The dock. Dawson sulks. The Flash walks down and sits beside him, admitting, "You're right. I didn't ask her here for just any reason." He explains that he and Gail have enough of the same friends that he knows what goes on in Gail's life, and he knows that Gail has hit a career wall and can't seem to find a job in TV. Dawson says that Gail hadn't told him that, and The Flash says that Gail didn't tell him, either; Dawson snips, "No offense, Dad, but I'm her son -- you're her divorced husband." You know, my father would have greeted a line like that with, "You're her DEAD SON NOW, pipsqueak," but The Flash for some reason fails to drown Dawson in the creek, saying instead, "I'm her friend. And I want her to know, whatever her history, that I am there for her," and yeah, he probably just could have phoned her up and told her that, but still, it's a nice sentiment. The Flash finishes by saying, "I'm sorry if that threatens you," and Dawson says a bit too quickly, "It doesn't threaten me," and The Flash murmurs, "Well, it does something," and Dawson nearly shouts, "It pisses me off!" The Flash, incredulous: "It pisses you off that your parents have a cordial post-divorce relationship?" Yeah, really, dude. Talk to a few of the kids I grew up with and see if you don't feel lucky that, say, you don't have to testify against one of them in a custody hearing, or that you don't have a stepmother only ten years older than you, or whatever. And also, shut up. Dawson sputters that it pisses him off that he doesn't know "what to believe" anymore and whether his parents are enemies or friends or what. His hair really, really looks like Sam The Eagle's. The Flash tells him that he and Gail are trying very hard to be friends. Dawson asks if it isn't a little late for that, and The Flash says that caring about someone doesn't have a statute of limitations, "especially if they've been so much a part of your life already." Dawson looks away angrily, but he seems to accept The Flash's explanation.