Episode Report Card Wing Chun: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crime And Punishment
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 15 | Aired on 02.08.2000
Matt is, once again, sitting before the disciplinary committee. Principatundé is telling saying that Matt has "consistently flaunted [Principatundé's] authority," when I think what he means to say is "flouted." Matt's also interfered with the teachers' ability to teach, and now has challenged Principatundé's commitment to reshape the school into a community. Matt says, "It was only a mural," and Principatundé passionately asserts that "it was so much more than 'just a mural.'" Hey, I'm as sad as the next guy that Joey's work was ruined, but it really wasn't that much more than a mural. Principatundé tells Matt that he knows exactly who he is: Because Matt has been privileged, he believes himself entitled to break the rules and generally to be a bad, bad little Andy Kaufman. Matt looks unimpressed until Principatundé sentences him to a screening of Man on the Moon, and expulsion. Except for the Man on the Moon part. Matt repeats, "Expelled?" and Principatundé confirms that's what he said. Matt asks, "For the rest of the year?" and Principatundé confirms that too. Matt asks whether Principatundé has any idea what Matt's father's going to say about this. Fearlessly, Principatundé says he has a very good idea what Matt's father will say. Oooooh!
Dawson lurks outside the library, cagily watching the proceedings inside. Joey comes down the hall and asks Dawson what's happening. Dawson says it's hard to tell. Joey peers inside and observes that there's no sign of "birch cane or knuckle rapping." Dawson says that Pacey will be lucky if he gets off without another suspension. Joey says, "The way things are going, you should have just asked me to look out for him." Dawson's nostrils flare a double take, and he asks, "Excuse me?" Joey tells him that she knows "all about the little wife-swapping arrangement." Dawson goes all Bunim-Murray and asks, "Wife-swapping?" and says that's not how it was, and she knows it. She asks how it was different. Dawson says that it was months ago, and that things were very different between himself and Joey then. She agrees: "Back then I felt like you still understood me," whereas now she doesn't, and she never asked for his pity. Dawson claims that it wasn't about pity; but that he wanted someone to be there for her if he couldn't be there himself, and where's the harm in that? Joey says it would have been nice if the "someone" Dawson nominated could have mustered a shred of genuine concern for her. Dawson points out that that same "someone" is in the library right now possibly facing expulsion himself because he has a lot more than a shred of concern. Joey scoffs, and Dawson rolls his head back in frustration, flaps his arms, and asks why she's "doing this." She asks what he thinks she's doing, and he says that she's casting aspersions on people who care about her. She scoffs at that too, and Dawson demands, "You really think that I don't want the best for you?" He adds that whatever else Pacey may be -- stubborn, impulsive, the usual diamond-in-the-rough laundry list -- she can't possibly doubt that he cares about her. This gives Joey pause, and she looks away, thinking hard, I guess.
Andie empties out her locker. For some reason, it contains a pair of fuzzy red dice and a pencil cup. Who keeps a pencil cup in her locker? Anyway, she closes the door and trundles down the hall with her knapsack in hand, and her box of belongings under her arm.