Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | 2 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Indian Summer
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.26.1999
In the cinema, the lights have gone down. Andie tiptoes in and sits down next to Rob, who says he was getting worried. Joey comes in and sits down on Andie's other side with a huge box full of concession items. Andie tells her to leave. Joey tells her that in the light of day, Andie can psychoanalyze Joey all she wants, but that Joey isn't leaving Andie alone with Rob. He leans across Andie and asks Joey what she's doing. Joey hands him some nachos. Andie apologizes for Joey. Joey leans toward Rob proffering another box of candy and says, "Goober?" Ha!
At Grams's house, Jack is rifling through the refrigerator. Grams tells him there's ice cream in the freezer. Jack observes that since he's started playing football, he's been eating her out of house and home, and says he wishes he was earning his keep a little more. Grams says he is: "You are making my granddaughter happy -- happier than I've seen her in quite a long while." Right on cue, a door slams and Jen stomps into the kitchen. Grams says Jen scared her, and Jen apologizes curtly, adding, "Getting surprised really sucks, doesn't it, Jack?" Jack freezes with a spoonful of ice cream halfway to his mouth. Jen asks him if he takes cash or credit cards, and whether it's just Henry, or will she have to service the entire football team? Jack tells her she's overreacting, and explains to Grams that he was just doing a favour for a friend, and he thought it would be romantic. Jen says it was about as romantic as a carjacking. Jack says Henry's a nice kid. Jen says he looks at her like she's a pornographic fantasy come to life. Jack says that Henry's infatuated with Jen. She tells Jack that she's not infatuated with Henry, that she told Jack as much "a thousand times," and that Jack ignored her and took Henry's side. Jack protests that he didn't take anyone's side. Jen tells him that he wanted to get his "little football buddy lucky," and stomps off. I know Sars disagrees, but I have to take Jen's side on this. Jack did tell Jen that Henry liked her, Jen did say that she wasn't interested, Henry's "infatuation" with Jen is a little creepy, and Jack did trick her into being alone with him. I agree that Jen's extrapolation that Jack would expect to pimp her to the whole football team was an overreaction, but I would still feel pretty betrayed if my friend kept trying to set me up with some guy I barely knew over all my polite, yet firm, objections. Back off, Jack.
Dawson opens the door to the Sanctum Dawsonorum to see Skeeve sitting in the window in her skanky tube dress. He demands to know what she's doing there. She says she wants her picture back. He says he wants some answers. She and her very uneven breasts slide into the room and offer to tell Dawson anything he wants to know. He essentially asks why she's been lying all this time, and what she's doing in Capeside. She says he has a right to ask, and that the answers are forthcoming. He says he's "sick of being toyed with [sic]," and that his life has been a disaster since she came into it, citing the wreck of his father's boat as evidence. She says that was worth every penny, and he knows it, and adds that she turned a dork into a stud in a matter of weeks (uh, not from where I sit, dude), and he isn't even grateful. He says that her "hip and amoral" routine is getting old. She asks if he really thinks she's amoral. He says she's either that or a criminal (uh, she could well be both). She says, "Sticks and stones, Dawson," and asks, again, for the return of her picture. He asks again what she was doing in Grams's house. She says that she was looking for something to steal and sell to get bus money out of Capeside (woohoo!). Dawson asks how a picture could mean so much to someone as "cold and detached" as she is. She manages to look hurt, backs away, and admits that she wasn't a student, the yacht wasn't hers, and that the girl in the picture is the mother she's never met and is trying to find. It seems the picture is her only clue to finding her. Yawn.