Episode Report Card Sars: D | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Secrets And Lies
By Sars | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.09.1999
Over at the Shack, Joey tries to convince Andie to go to the police station and file a report. Andie says she can't. Joey says Andie has to. Andie says that "it's not like [Rob] actually did anything." Yeah, no kidding. Joey then invites Andie to stay over: "I really don't think you should be alone tonight." Andie says thanks, but she can't. Pacey gives Andie a long sideways look before telling Joey he thinks he can take care of it. "You sure?" Joey asks. Pacey nods, "Yeah." Joey nods back.
Over at Miss F's, Henry leads Jen in to see Miss F. Some dialogue regarding Miss F's not-turned-on hearing aid, which aimed for "quaint" but landed square in the middle of "stupid." Finally, Henry gets Miss F's attention and says he ran into Jen outside. Nearly landed on her, more like. Anyway, Jen says she knows they got off on the wrong foot and asks if they can start over. "He is persuasive, isn't he?" Miss F says of Henry. Jen says that she's just getting to know him, and Miss F says that if Henry likes Jen, she "can't be all bad." I suppose that depends on your definition of "bad," but in any case, Jen says she "was just thinkin' the same thing about you." The two sit down on a couch and begin planning the party, starting with the entertainment. Miss F lays down a reasonably amusing list of house rules, including "no mimes, no magicians, no Barry Manilow, no Elvis look-alikes, no motivational speakers, no comedy troupes, no break-dancing, no gangster [sic] rap, no animal tricks," but the writers have to go and ruin it with a "joke" implying that Miss F has never heard of Letterman. Jen asks how a string quartet strikes Miss F, and Miss F chirps, "Perfect!" and Jen offers to "split the difference." She adds that, although "he doesn't know it yet," Henry will go as her date. Jen draws Henry's arm around her shoulders as she speaks; Henry looks delighted.
Pacey's boat. Andie calls the "True Love" nameplate "ironic." Pacey wraps Andie in a blanket and mutters that, since true love doesn't exist, he thought he'd "create it for" himself. Andie asks, in the bitchy tone I usually reserve for "sulking out" the Biscuit in front of other people, "Why did you bring me here?" Pacey thought Andie wanted to go someplace quiet. "There's lots of quiet places, Pacey," Andie says snippily. Pacey says he guesses so. They both sit, and Pacey says he supposes he wanted to show Andie "that I've been okay since we ended things," that he's found a way to turn his pain into "something beautiful." "I haven't, Pacey," Andie quavers. "I'm not over you." Pacey addresses her as "McPhee," and she says she's waited so long just to hear him call her by her last name; Pacey warns her away from the subject, saying she's gone "through a lot tonight." Andie says that "if it took what happened tonight to bring us together, then so be it," but Pacey corrects her, "We're not together. I mean, I'm here for you, but we're not together." Andie tries to parlay a play on the word "together" into a kiss, and kisses him. Pacey looks put off, and he stops her. She apologizes in a cold tone. Pacey says that they can't, "for so many reasons," and he doesn't mention her sawtooth bangs as a reason, but I bet they rank high on the list. Andie tries again to use semantics as bait, saying that she isn't asking what they can do, but what Pacey wants to do. Pacey dodges this attempt also: "I want to know that you're okay. That's all that matters to me now." "That's a shame, because you still matter to me in every way," Andie says sternly. "I want to be with you, Pacey," she goes on, as Pacey looks down and tries not to get emotional, and he says that she might feel that way now, but she'll probably feel differently tomorrow. Andie: "I'm not talking about tomorrow, I'm talking about right now, tonight, you and me together, under the stars, just like it used to be. I'm talking about a kiss. That's all I'm asking. Don't you want to?" Pacey fixes her with a lovelorn gaze and strokes her face, and then they kiss as an ovary wails in the background. Fade to black.