Episode Report Card Jessica: B- | 1 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Cigarette Burns
By Jessica | Season 5 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.09.2002
Outside, Pacey is apologizing to the driver of the car he smacked into. He gets back into his own car and heaves a giant sigh. Audrey peers at him nervously. Is he okay, she asks. He's fine, he says shortly. She clarifies that she's talking about "the sex thing." Pacey lies and tells her that "they're fine." Audrey looks distraught.
Pander meets Dawson at the front of the theatre. "All right, Captain, it's go time," he says. Dawson sputters that Pander invited a critic! Pander wonders why this is a bad thing. He's trying to explain himself when Amy strolls up and wonders if they're planning to "show this thing or just act it out for us?" Pander grins and begins an introduction, but Amy informs him that she and Dawson have "exchanged unpleasantries" already. Pander looks crestfallen, shoots Dawson a dirty look, and tells Amy to take a seat. "We're waiting for a couple of VIPs to arrive," he says, pronouncing it "vips." Amy rolls her eyes. "It's been a slice and all," she says, but she has to go. "Give me a ring when you get your act together, okay?" she asks, and trots off. Pander turns on Dawson like a viper. "What did you do?" he hisses. "Told her she had crappy taste in movies," Dawson whispers. Pander buries his head in his hands. "And I might have called her a drama queen, I don't remember," he adds under his breath. "Why, oh why would you do something like that? Is it because you hate me?" Pander asks. He instructs Dawson to go after Amy and make it up to her. He squeals that, once, Amy gave a bad review to this one guy's thesis film simply because he "said something mean about Point Break," and now that guy is no one! Dawson must go! Go! Go save their budding careers! ["Point Break is mine, by the way. Shout-out? Hmm. No, I guess not." -- Sars] Dawson's like, "Calm down." Pander huffs. "You calm down!" he says, "I'm going to freak out!" He points at the door, and directs Dawson to "get her back!" Dawson looks resigned. "What are you going to do?" he asks. "I'm going to go hit on your ex-girlfriend," Pander says.
So, Dawson runs after Amy, apologizing all the way and yelping that he totally would have kissed her ass if he knew who she was, because he's totally a huge fan. Amy says that film critics don't have fans, but Dawson manages to quote an extremely old review of hers and thus wins her over, because, as you may know, all recappers -- I mean, "reviewers" -- love to have their more artful pieces recited to them by memory by cute boys. Well, in Dawson's case, "cute" boys. I have to say, I don't dislike Amy at all. "You really like my stuff?" she asks. He does. "I don't always agree with you," he says, "but I always want to hear what you think." Amy beams, and invites him to get a cup of coffee with her. "Who knows? You may get lucky. I'm in a strange mood," she says. Dawson smiles shakily.