Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Barefoot At Capefest
By Wing Chun | Season 3 | Episode 11 | Aired on 01.11.2000
Apparently Capefest is over (I guess they couldn't afford to get the Foo Fighters to appear), and Jen and Jack are packing up their gear. Jack says that he got the gay equivalent of the "let's be friends" speech. Jen twits him a bit about his kicking her out of the tent -- all for naught, as it turned out -- and Jack apologizes for being self-involved. Jen says he's forgiven, and adds, "It's a happy turning point in a girl's life when her gay best friend finally dumps her for another boy." Jack says that he's unnerved by Jen's good attitude, and he asks what he missed. She confesses that while she was wandering around, she "may have inadvertently stumbled upon somebody." He asks her who, but she's vague about the details.
In the suddenly quite Spartan Sanctum Dawsonorum, the man himself lies on the bed contemplating his bare walls. He turns at the sound of a knock at the window, where Joey is asking whether she still has "ladder privileges." She comes in, telling him she comes bearing gifts, and unfurls an "Imagine" poster with John Lennon's self-portraits on it. She reminds him of the summer they found a stash of Dawson's parents' Beatles albums and listened to them on the porch for hours. Dawson recalls that Grams kept yelling at them to turn down that "hippie music." Hee! Joey recalls that Dawson wanted to be John Lennon -- "to write songs and change the world through music." Dawson doesn't seem to remember that, and Joey says that he wasn't limited then, and she just wanted to remind him of that. Dawson takes the proffered poster.
She sits on the bed and says that even though jealousy sometimes gets the best of her, she still hears him; she goes on to say that no matter how much they yell, or how quiet he is, she hears him. Dawson smiles and says he hears her too. She says that she knows that what's going on inside Dawson is huge, and that it's okay if he doesn't share it with her, as long as he keeps trying to share it with someone. He doesn't answer directly, and instead asks her if she wants to help him hang the poster. She looks dismayed, but gets up with him to put it on the wall over his bed. They step back to admire it, and Dawson asks Joey if she thinks "John here" will inspire Dawson to "walk [his] own path." Joey says, "You've always walked your own path, Dawson; you just needed to widen it a little." Yeah -- because the reason no one can walk that path with him is that once Dawson and his head are on it, there's no room. Joey adds, "And be on the lookout for your Yoko." Ha! He wishes.