So we open with Joey & Dawson, all hot and heavy, laying down on a blanket, when all of a sudden, Joey sits up and asks what the hell they are doing. Alarmed, Dawson asks what she means. She replies that with all the bugs and coldness, it's not very much fun for her. Dawson asks where her sense of romance is -- there's moonlight and stars and a pond, and she has him to keep her warm. She giggles that Dawson's getting cheesy on her. He gets alarmed again, and asks, "You don't like it?" to which she replies, "Are you kidding? I find it unbearably sexy!" She pushes him down on the blanket, climbs on top of him (go Joey!!) and they pick up where they left off.
The next morning, Mitch and Dawson are walking downtown Capeside. Mitch tells Dawson he is meeting someone who wants to sell him a property for the ubiquitous restaurant he wants to build. (Where he's getting the money for this, I do not know ... Mitch hasn't had a real job since the series began! Guess he's independently wealthy ...) Anyway, the "someone" he has to meet turns out to be none other than one Ms. Tamara Jacobs. Dawson is a little flabbergasted to see her, to say the least. She insists he can call her Tamara now that they aren't in school anymore. He dashes off to school, leaving Mitch and Tamara together on the street.
At school, Dawson runs up to Pacey at Pacey's locker and urgently tells him he has to speak to him. In typical Pacey fashion, he replies that if it's about another Joey & Dawson lover's tiff, he can already give Dawson the answer he's looking for -- Joey's being overly-sarcastic and insensitive, and Dawson's being self-absorbed and suffocating, as usual. No, Dawson replies, that isn't it. Pacey then asks if he owes Dawson money. No, Dawson replies, and is about tell him, when Andie strolls up to a locker near Pacey and starts getting books out. "Well, well," Pacey says, "Look what the cat dragged in." " Nice to see you too," says Andie. Pacey then turns his attention to Dawson and asks him what he was about to say. Dawson hesitates, and says that they should talk in private. Pacey says fine, but it will have to wait until later, because he's got to get to first period, or Mr. Maddock is going to kill him, and dashes off down the hall. Poor Dawson. Can't blame a guy for trying, right? (Pacey does anyway, though!) One little continuity problem spotted by yours truly: Mr. Maddock is the Economics teacher the whole gang had for first period in the last episode. So why isn't Dawson dashing off down the hall after Pacey this episode, shouldn't he be in that first period class too?
Joey and Jack are in a class together (either Jack's a dummy and taking a sophormore course, or Joey is brainy and taking a junior course, cause they're supposed to be in two different grades ... I'd go with the latter of the two, but I don't know anything about the American education system, so ...). Joey tells Jack that he doesn't have to come to work that afternoon after school, because she's going to an Art Lecture and Bessie will be home with Alex, so there's no one to open up the Icehouse (again, WHERE'S BODIE?!?!). (What does she mean "open up" the Icehouse, doesn't the place open during the day?!?) Jack tells her he could open up by himself, if she wants. She snorts and says that he's been a slapstick comedy ever since they hired him, and that he couldn't handle it (again, I don't understand why Jack likes her -- other than the physical attraction, of course -- from his point of view, she's been nothing but horrible to him!). He gets a bit sad then, and says if he's that incompetent, why don't they just fire him. She feels a bit sorry for him, and says "Okay, Inspector Clouseau, go for it ... just don't set the kitchen on fire."
Cut to Jen, who is picking at her food in the caf, feeling sorry for herself. Her new best friend comes along, waving money in her face. Abby's just received her allowance for the month, and wants to go shopping, and wants Jen to come with. Jen doesn't feel like it, much to Abby's disgust -- how can you call yourself a woman if you don't like shopping? she reasons -- but Jen is adamant. Abby wonders a little too loudly if it has anything to do with Dawson, Jen doesn't answer. Oh please, Abby states, why get all bothered about HIM? In her opinion, he's just a motormouth with a limp billy club. Jen should turn over a rock and find herself another guy. Jen doesn't want to. Abby feels that Jen's being an ass, and that she should stop this self-imposed exile and come out of hibernation -- the winter's almost over, time for Jen to come out of her cave. Jen shrugs that she just feels a little left out of the Dawson-Joey-Pacey troika (since when does Jen speak Russian?), but Abby will have none of it. She tells Jen those three are boring anyway, and that she really needs Jen to come shopping with her because as Abby sees it, shopping is like deep sea diving -- if she goes alone, she may never come up for air and will drown in a sea of dresses and hair gel. Jen finally relents.
Back in school, the final bell rings. Pacey and Andie are in class together and he knocks over a pile of her videos (what she's doing with them in school I do not know, but however ...). He picks them up and reads off the titles, "Ghost," "The Way We Were" and ... "Dumbo"? Pacey clearly isn't impressed by the first two, but Dumbo? He just loves that movie, he even cried while watching it as a kid. Andie doesn't believe him, but he insists it's one of his all-time favourites. They walk to their lockers (Pacey's locker magically seems to change locations in practically every episode), and Andie is quiet, which for her is saying something, she's mulling over the "Dumbo bombshell" Pacey just dropped on her. Maybe she won't write him off for good, as she tells him. Pacey, in a moment of pure carpe diem (look it up ... or watch "Dead Poets Society"), asks her if she wants to walk around downtown Capeside with him. What's the joke, she wants to know. No joke, he replies, he just would rather spend the afternoon with a brat like her than fly solo, so she should pinch herself, it's her lucky day! They walk away, but not before she stops to ask if he's planning on throwing her in front of a bus during their excursion. No, he replies, he hadn't thought of that, but it's an interesting idea ...
At the Art Lecture, Joey is intently listening to Laura, her mentor for her Economics project, drone on about Jarvis's Winter Mist painting. Blah blah blah ... exquisite colour ... blah blah blah ... juxtapositioning ... blah blah blah ... visceral intensity ... you get the point. (Personally, I studied a little bit of abstract expressionism in univeristy, and I think Laura is reaching. Jarvis wasn't that good ... his work was kinda flat. For vibrant colour and true juxtaposition of shape and form, she should have talked about Kandinsky, my favourite painter of all time... but that's just my lowly opinion! A-hem, on with the show ...) Reaction to the lecture? Dawson is bored, Joey is fascinated.
Afterwards, Joey and Dawson are discussing the lecture outside the community centre, and as enthusiastic as Joey is, Dawson isn't. Abstract expressionism is just not his thing. He prefers his art to be less ... unresolved, and has problems with blobs of paint that offer up more questions than they do answers (personally, I'm with Joey on this one, that's exactly one of the reasons I LOVE abstract expressionism ... but again, enough about me!). Joey gets a little too defensive here, I thought, and snaps at him, stating that just because a painting doesn't have a beginning, middle and end to it, like a movie, doesn't mean it doesn't have emotion. Whatever, Dawson says, he just likes his art with a point ... like Romanticism, for example. He could get into that, if Joey knows what he means. She does, but before they can get into a little romanticism of their own, Laura comes over and asks how they liked the lecture. Dawson politely says it was great, and Joey more excitedly echoes his sentiments. Laura replies that if they liked it so much, they should come to her beginner art class that she teaches. Dawson declines (he has to work) and so does Joey, saying that her artistic talent peaked in the third grade. Laura insists it's easy and that she should at least try. Joey agrees.
Pacey and Andie are happily walking along the streets, and Andie is relaying a story about how a truck came out of nowhere and bang, now her Saab's in the shop again. Pacey tells her that she is officially the world's worst driver (cute, a line Dawson used on Pacey himself during the Friday The 13th episode when they drove to the store!). All of a sudden, who comes along to deflate the air out of Pacey and Andie's metaphorical tires, but Tamara Jacobs, in the flesh. Pacey goes mute with shock. Tamara introduces herself to Andie and Pacey finally stammers that he was her teacher and she was his ... uh, no, he means, um, well, she was his teacher and he was her student. Yeah, that's it. Tamara leaves, saying it was very nice to see Pacey again. Likewise, he manages to say. Andie is alarmed, even for Pacey he's acting weird. She asks him what's wrong, did Ms. Jacobs flunk you or something? Instead of answering, he apologizes and tells her he has to take a rain check on their walking about, that he suddenly has to go and dashes off after Tamara. Through some weeds and grass, he watches her enter the warehouse that she is trying to sell to Mitch.
The next day, Joey is in the art class with Laura, who thinks Joey really has a gift. They talk a bit, and it is revealed that Joey's mum was an artist. Why did she stop, Laura wonders. Joey explains that her mother died a few years ago, but was self-taught and did art mostly for fun -- she used to draw pictures from Joey's favourite stories and hang them in her room as a little girl (between this and the Dumbo confession, I'm really liking the little glimpses into their childhoods!). Laura tells Joey that if she enjoys art, she should pursue it, and that she really is good. Joey doesn't believe her, but Laura insists. Joey says it fills her with anxiety to hear that, and Laura replies that is because Joey is talented, and she owes it to herself not to let that talent go to waste.
Over at casa Leery, Dawson is doing a domestic turn and starting his laundry (I thought he had to work, that was why he allegedly couldn't go to the art class? A-ha! Another lie! Or, just bad continuity again ...). The doorbell rings, it's Andie, who just happened to be in the neighbourhood and needed their English assignment (okay, wait a minute here ... she's been in the town, what, two weeks? She already knows where Dawson lives? How? And hasn't she ever heard of a phone book or e-mail? (I say that last one because on Dawson's Desktop, she's e-mailed Dawson and Pacey about school stuff before) Wouldn't it make more logical sense for her to call rather than traipse all the way over to his house, especially as she lives all the way over in the ritzy part of town and her car's in the shop? I know, the scene wouldn't have worked as well over the phone, but I just wanted to throw my two cents worth in). Anyway, Dawson tells her the assignment was to read the first chapter of Gullivers' Travels. She nods and blurts out that she's going to go home right now and do that immediately, bye!
Before she can leave, though, Dawson asks her if she's okay and if that's all she wanted. She says then, then hesitates. She tells Dawson that although she doesn't know him, she wants to ask him something that he must swear to keep in the strictest of confidence. Sure, he replies. After some hemming and hawing, she asks if Pacey has said anything to Dawson about liking someone? Clueless as ever, he doesn't catch on. Like who? Like me, she asks. No, not that he recalls, but that doesn't mean it isn't true ... he thinks Pacey could like her and just have not mentioned it to him. Then Dawson asks if she likes Pacey. The answer goes something like this: "Me? Like him? No way! Never! I mean, no! Well ... possibly. Maybe. Um, kind of. Yes." But she pleads, Dawson can't tell Pacey because Pacey is an obnoxious pig. Dawson laughs that he feels like he's in Grade 2 all of a sudden, and that he won't say a word. (she's pretty gullible if she believes this! I know guys who are worse than most girls for keeping secrets, especially those types of secrets!) Dawson also says that the obnoxious pig routine is an attempt at flirtation. Really? Asks Andie, flushed with embarrassment. She gets all giddy and leaves, then realizes she has been twisting a brown plaid something or other in her hands during their conversation. Turns out, it's a pair of Dawson's (dirty ... they must be, cause he's doing laundry, right? Eeeeeew!) boxer shorts! She gives them back to him, then turns and bolts.
Abby and Jen are lunching after their exhausting shopping expedition. Abby marvels that she's set a new personal spending record -- a month's allowance in 20 minutes. Jen wonders what Abby will tell her parents, and Abby replies she'll say the same thing she always tells them -- that she got mugged! As Jen laughs, Abby points out that Jen appears to be doing better, and isn't Jen glad that she met Abby now? Jen agrees that if being the bad girl means not walking around in a perpetual state of loneliness and depression, then it's fine by her. Abby says she is glad to get Jen back to her roots.
Abby then notices a hot-looking guy sitting behind Jen. Jen glances back and agrees with Abby's appraisal, to which Abby tells Jen that the guy is "hers" because she called it first. Jen states that the guy is probably about twice Abby's age, to which Abby purrs that he'll be almost mature enough to handle her then. Abby's tired of Capeside boys, she wants a man with "chest hair, body odour and illegitimate kids scattered all over the nation." (she just gets the BEST lines, doesn't she?!) She actually calls out to the guy (who I must add, is very, very HOT, oh my God, is he ever ... makes Josh and James look like little girly men by comparision!) and bats her eyes and flirts with him. His name is Vincent, and he's a fisherman down on the docks on contract for two months. She asks him to join them, but he has to get back to work, so she tells him if he needs a tour guide or wants to go out drinking one night, to give her a call. Vincent seems a little more interested in Jen, though, who is keeping quiet and appears a little shocked by Abby's brazenness.
At the ruins, which seems to have become Dawson & Joey's new stomping ground, Joey is drawing, when Dawson comes up to her and wants to see her sketches. After some bickering, she shows him the bowl of fruit that she is drawing. He, in typical dramatic Dawson fashion, tells her they're good and that he is a madly enthusiastic fan of her new hobby. Hobby? She asks. Why is it that for him, films are his life's all-consuming passion, but with her, art is just a "hobby"? In a really realistic response, Dawson says that as soon as the word was out of his mouth he knew he shouldn't have said it but it was too late then (don't you hate it when that happens? I know I do). Too late, Joey is miffed and being hyper-sensitive again. (I'd venture a guess that the PMS monster was visiting, but I know how much I hate it when people say that to me, so I'll just say for the record that I don't know what the hell her problem is! She totally overreacts to Dawson this whole episode, he can't do anything right. I actually feel sort of sorry for him, although a couple of his comments are a bit birdbrainded, but then, that's classic Dawson ...) Anyway, Joey tells him he should consider her like an abstract impressionist painting and leave the situation unresolved.
Pacey, in full stalker mode, has decided to drop by Tamara's beach house. Tamara is wearing a pretty black dress and a straw hat with a black brim and is standing away from her house, looking at the ocean. (The way she is standing and the way this scene is framed reminds me of an excerpt from one of the books I had to read in university, called "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf ... very poetic and pure and simple and clean. Nevermind!One of my random tangents again, sorry!). Pacey approaches her and says he was debating whether or not to even come, because of how awkward the day before was. He asks her if this is awkward right now, she says yes. Then he asks if they met a third time, if that would be awkward too, she says yes, that they are having what English teachers refer to as a "Pinter moment" -- where they speak in silence because the emotion behind what they want to say is too overwhelming (Dawson & Joey had lots of those last season, don't you think?). Pacey asks if that's okay, to which Tamara replies that silence is an acquired taste and if things are complicated, then it's easier to say nothing. More silence as Pacey takes all this in (for the record, I'm not one of those teenybopper Josh Jackson lovers at all, but there was just something about the way he looked in this scene at this particular moment ... damn, he looked hot! And he's totally not my type normally! lol!). Pacey walks away, then returns and asks who Pinter is. Tamara laughs and tells him to stay in school. "Yes Ms. Jacobs," he replies mischieviously and walks away. Cute.
Mitch and Dawson bond over juice at breakfast the next day. Mitch asks how Joey is, and Dawson replies that ever since she's had her art obesssion, he can't do anything right. Mitch says the root of the problem probably isn't about art, and that Dawson should talk to her. Dawson grins and asks if this is Mitch's Father Knows Best moment, to which he replies yeah, that he gets one every once in a while.
Pacey enters just then, and tells Dawson he isn't over Tamara yet. Dawson cautions him to stay away, that he hasn't even recovered from the gossip fallout of his LAST illicit encounter with her. Dawson says he wants to be supportive and a friend, but that Pacey just shouldn't go there, and that there are girls Pacey's own age who like him. Like who, Pacey wants to know. Like the one that came to my house yesterday asking after you, Dawson says. Like who, Pacey wants to know. Dawson says he was sworn to secrecy. LIKE WHO, Pacey wants to know ... he isn't in the mood for this. "Andie," Dawson says. (So much for keeping secrets!) No, no, Pacey knows that Andie doesn't like him, she hates him! But according to Dr. Leery, that's just basic kindergarten psychology at work, if a girl acts like she hates him, she really likes him and vice versa. (I must have been more popular with guys than I thought back in grade school, if that's the case!) Pacey says that that's the problem -- Andie's a girl, and Tamara's a woman. Dawson begs him again, to be with the girl, and just not to go there with Tamara.
At the Icehouse, Bessie (who has already had more scenes in the past four episodes than she did all of last season) gives Joey the day off to go to the art exhibit, but asks her to take Jack with her, as Bessie is tired of watching him sitting around looking dopey. (I laughed out loud at that!) Joey looks at Bessie like she's out of her mind, but agrees and asks Jack, who agrees (he must really like her, as I've said before, she's been so horrible to him, if I were him I certainly wouldn't be going anywhere with her any time soon). This should be entertaining, Joey mutters under her breath to Bessie, as she and Jack leave.
On to Mitch and Tamara, who are checking out the warehouse again. (For the record, what possessed Tamara to buy a warehouse in the first place? And how on earth has she been able to afford payments on it AND her beach house while not working and presumably paying rent somewhere else? Enquiring minds want to know!) Tamara tells Mitch she is eager to get rid of it, so she'll give him a good deal. Money problems? He asks. (nosey!) She candidly replies that her problems in Capeside weren't limited to just money. Mitch states that he heard something about her and a student ... yes, something like that, she interjects, adding that he is no stranger to scandal, either. Mitch tightly replies that that is true, if your wife and co-anchor having an affair can be considered a scandal, but that he really doesn't want to talk about it.
Abby is traipsing up and down the docks, Jen in tow, on "hunk patrol" for the elusive Vincent. Jen complains that there must be about a hundred boats, and that there's no way they can find him, and even if they did, hasn't Abby even heard of statutory rape? Abby tellls her to shut up.
At the art exhibit, Joey and Jack are bonding over paintings. To Joey's surprise, Jack is a huge abstract expressionist fan, and guess which painting is his favourite? Winter Mist, by Jarvis. (well, well, how conveeee-eeenient ... Church Lady, Saturday Night Live ... sigh ... nevermind) Jack goes on about how Jarvis was a genius, but also manic-depressive, and Joey interjects that she didn't know he was an art lover. He jokes that he has other talents and interests besides being a great waiter. She laughs that he's a sucky waiter. He insists he's an awesome waiter. She replies that his waitering is like a walking sight gag (not very nice of her!). Jack continues that while some people see art as messy or meaningless (uh ... who could that be?), he sees it as full of passion and power and intelligence. Joey's impressed, and apologizes for jumping to the wrong conclusions about him. He grins and tells her she ain't seen nothing yet.
Back to the docks, where Abby hones in on Vincent (who is topless, no less! Yum!) like a shark moving in for the kill. "Hey there, Mr. Man!" she purrs, "We've been looking for you!" She is delighted when he remembers her name, and invites him out for a joyride to a watering hole down the road in Portsmith, which is all the rage with dock "labourers." Labourers? He isn't pleased with her choice of words, but Abby insists she loves labourers because they're sexy and they know what to do with their hands. (kudos to the DC writers, her dialogue is just so witty this year!) Too late, though, the damage has been done. Vincent doesn't want to play blue-collar pin up for an oversexed, condescending teenybopper (ouch!!). Enraged, Abby stalks off, but Jen tries to smooth things over. She tells him not to mind Abby, that she mostly means well, it just tends to come out wrong. "It's Jen, right?" he asks. She nods. He tells her that because he likes her, he'll give her a break, but that he doesn't like her stuck-up phony of a friend. He tells her that he can see that she is different, and that he'd be happy to take her out some time, but only if she leaves Abby at home. "LET'S GO, JEN!!" Abby demands. Jen gets all giddy and leaves, but Abby is apoplectic by this point. Jen grabs her arm to pull her away down the dock, but she shakes free and storms off in a huff.
Jack continues to lecture Joey on art, but in a nice way. He tells her not to waste her time drawing stuff she is not passionate about, that she should draw what is important to her. Dawson walks up just then. Jack, feeling uncomfortable, leaves but tells her he had a blast. She tells him all three of them could walk back together, but he declines (you know, he REALLY isn't that bad of a guy ... yet). Dawson, ever so happy his competition has vanished, asks Joey to go to the art exhibit, but it's too late now, she's already seen it. Although, she does tell him he scored points just for showing up. Then he apologizes for hurting her feelings and that he didn't mean to, but that she's put him in his place a thousand times regarding movies, why can't he do that to her, just changing the subject to art instead? (He makes a good point here, I think!) Instead of taking a bit of criticism, she flies off the handle and tells him that nothing has changed between the two of them, that it's always the same and she is tired of it. Poor Dawson doesn't know what he's done wrong, yet again.
The one place that Dawson tells Pacey not to go to, he goes to. The warehouse. Tamara is there, and he goes up to her and tells her he looked up Pinter, and that Pinter's basic thing was to have his characters say one thing when they meant another, adding that they are big on that here in Capeside (another pointed reference to Dawson and Joey, you think?). He and Tamara discuss having a moment without subtext together, because words get them into so much trouble. Pacey tells her that he was going to pour out his wounded heart the other day, and that he thought it would have brought back all these old feelings, but it didn't, and that he was fine. He tells her she might think he shouldn't be over it, but he is and he's fine. Sexually, they may have been compatible, but in all other respects, they are on two totally different planets. He's grown up, and he is fine. She says she can see that (yeah, I bet she can!). This is it then, the big goodbye ... he walks away, then he comes back and kisses her.
After they come up for air, there is a moment of silence, after which he kind of jokingly says that Pinter was on to something. She then tells Pacey the buyer (Mitch) is coming in an hour and needs to clean up. He asks if there is subtext to this, and she says no, that it is over between them, it has to be. He agrees, but tells her that before he goes, he has to know, does she miss ... teaching? Yes, she replies, she misses ... teaching very much. He responds that he misses her ... teaching him very much. Satisfied, he leaves.
Back in school, Jen compliments Abby on her dress, who sneers that she's already heard the compliment three times. Jen gets a wounded puppy look on her face, and asks what she did wrong? Abby spews venom at her, telling Jen that there was only one guy that Abby liked and Jen stole him away, by batting her eyes at him with mascara that ABBY bought her (oh, the nerve! The sheer gall of Jen!! How DARE she? ;) ) Jen gets a little ticked and tells Abby not to blame her, that it isn't Jen's fault Abby got rejected. Abby clearly isn't comfortable with hearing the R-word, she spits out at Jen, "That's YOUR specialty, not mine."
Back to our favourite couple, in the ruins. Dawson is scared, because everything he says to Joey winds up making them argue. Joey tries to make him understand -- she tells him he is very important to her, but so is art. He says he is glad she has art, he thinks it is great, he just doesn't want to lose everything that is great about them, too. She says he has been everything to her, that she is his sidekick, and that her entire life is attached to him. She goes on to say that someone told her to draw what she loves and that all she could come up with is a sketch of him (this is the first way, in a backwards kind of way, that the L-word has ever been used between them!). He thinks it's great, but she doesn't think it's okay. She lives in fear of going nowhere and her whole life is so consumed with him that she feels she doesn't have anything else left, and if she loses him, then what else is there for her at this point in her life? She doesn't like that.
Dawson replies that he isn't going anywhere, and that he just wants her to be happy, and that he will do whatever it takes, whether that means getting involved, standing back ... whatever, just as long as they don't fight anymore. (Sigh ... wish I could find a guy like that!) Joey says that when they were fighting, she wasn't really fighting with him, she was fighting with herself. Part of her just wants to push him away and part of her wants to hold him so tight (boy, do I know THAT feeling well ...) In the sweetest little boy voice, he asks, "Which part won?" She doesn't answer right away. He's concerned. She finally says she doesn't mean to sound like a blob of paint, but can they just leave it unresolved for now? And after a moment, they hold each other close. It's the saddest little scene, and the beginning of the end for everyone's favourite couple -- the moment Joey uttered those few words of doubt, the clock started to tick away for those two.
The final scene is one of my favourites this season. Andie is alone, in a caf* downtown Capeside, eating a burger. Pacey spots her and comes in, with this devillish little smile. He wonders how the burgers in this place are, and picks up half of hers and takes a bite, grinning (I just thought that was really cute, when I was 15, I would have loved it if someone did that to me! If that isn't flirting at its finest, I don't know what is!). Andie's no dumb blonde, right away she knows. "DAWSON TOLD YOU!" she shrieks. "What?" says Pacey, in mock-innocence. She gets irritated then, telling him to stop playing dumb, because when dumb people play dumb, it really annoys her. "Really, I have no idea what you are talking about," Pacey continues, with this cute little telling smile. Andie goes into hyper-babble mode: "Okay, I may have once had a brief flash of maybe feeling I didn't hate you, but I think it will pass. It will pass. In fact there it goes now. Gone. It's passed."
Pacey's no dumb brunet (no, that isn't a typo, brunette is for a female!), either, he gushes in a mimic of Jim Carey in (I think?) The Mask, who was actually mimicking Sally Fields at the Oscars about 20 years ago, "You LIKE me! You REALLY like me!" Andie is not impressed, and begs him to stop torturing her. He grins and tells her he can't, it brings out the sadist in him (maybe Joey should enlighten Pacey about the joys of leather straps and Crisco?). Just then, Tamara is seen getting into her red convertible through a reflection in the glass (the way this is filmed is really good). Andie asks if that's the woman that Pacey knows, and he replies he did, but he doesn't anymore, as her convertible zooms down the street. He brushes thoughts of Tamara out of his head, and resumes teasing Andie.
Fade to black ...