Dawson's Creek s05e19 Episode Script

Later.
So let me get this straight.
Oh, why do I feel a quasi-feminist rant coming on? Shut up.
So basically, spring break is hunting season.
Florida's the forest.
Girls are the target.
As if the girls don't have a choice.
Oh, sure they do.
They could either hook up with the drunk jock from Arizona State or the date rapist from the nearest community college.
Or they can stay home and study, which, come to think of it - does not sound like a bad idea.
- Would you go already? Have fun.
You deserve it.
Can't you skip that big Hollywood meeting and come with us? It's not a big Hollywood meeting.
We're going to New York to meet an agent who's interested in the movie.
The only agent who is interested.
It's huge.
Everything you've worked for, everything you ever wanted it's happening because you made it happen.
I'm very proud of you.
- Well, thank you- - No! I will not let a self-deprecating word come out of your mouth.
You rule.
You rock.
You are a golden god.
Now, accept it.
Know who would get a kick out of all this? - Who? - Mitch.
Yeah.
Yeah, he would have.
He absolutely would have.
He would have He would have talked my ear off.
He would've had to know the agent.
He'd have to know his client list.
He'd probably make me do a practice run with him.
- It's weird.
- What's that? You've had this year, this completely awful year and yet somehow everything worked out for the best, you know? - That's one way of looking at it.
- You don't think? All I know is I came back from L.
A.
for a reason for a very simple, very specific reason.
I feel bad, sometimes for A lot of times, actually, for how I made you feel after he died.
I've never held it against you, not for a single second.
You did what you had to do to get through it.
- Yeah.
- And What? I don't know.
Sometimes I think it's better when we don't get to touch our dreams.
Do you really believe that? I don't know.
No.
Yes.
I spend half the time wondering what might have been and the other half thinking, "Just as well.
" Do you think we'll ever get it right? - Not in this lifetime.
- How about the next one? Or the one after that, when we're both cats.
Okay, seriously - Good luck.
- Hey.
Thank you.
You too.
Have fun, okay? Remember sunblock and bring me a souvenir.
Preferably something of the, you know " My soul mate went to Florida and all I got was this lousy T-shirt" vibe.
Goodbye.
Are you aware that you haven't said one word in an hour and a half? - I'm listening to the radio.
- I turned it off 20 minutes ago.
So, what are you thinking about? Or shall I say who? Nobody.
Okay, but if you're not gonna talk to me, I may have to sing.
Dawson, we're on the highway We're gonna get A little bit of chicken Joey.
I was thinking about Joey.
Don't ever do that again, please.
- Interesting.
- Yes.
- The doe-eyed brunette? - Yeah.
- So, what's the story on that one? - It's a very long story.
Does it look like I'm going anywhere, sport? All right.
Stop me when you get confused.
I just don't think it's a good idea for me to sleep over anymore, you know? Our emerging hormones are destined to alter our relationship and I'm trying to limit the fallout.
Things change, Dawson.
Evolve.
Joey! Joey! Up here! Joey! Hello! Hey, scrumptious.
I was kind of in the middle of doing something.
My God.
I love this bed.
This bed is bigger than my entire room.
Yeah.
Plus my parents put one of those foamy egg crates underneath.
Your parents are wonderful people.
- Well, I'll tell them you said so.
- You do that.
Do your parents even know who I am? - Do your parents know who I am? - Nope.
- Well, neither do mine.
- I didn't think so.
I mean what would I even tell them about you? You could tell them that I'm good in bed.
That would go over huge.
Really, what would you tell your parents about me? Nothing.
- Right.
- Right.
That's right, right? Yes.
Obviously.
Right.
The last thing parents want to hear about is how much premarital sex their children are having.
Yeah, especially with some guy who's not even my boyfriend.
I mean, officially.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Well, I appreciate you letting me know.
Found him! Okay.
Bye.
- What are you doing up there? - Nothing.
What do you want? We thought we'd " rock, paper, scissors" for the waterbed.
You know what, just Take whatever you want.
All right? I gotta go to the market and get the necessary provisions.
- Oh, can you get some yoghurt? - Yeah.
Hold on.
I said the necessary provisions.
That's beer and that's Jell-O.
That's it.
If I give you money, will you pick up some cold medicine? I feel something coming on.
I'd like to nip it in the bud.
- Yeah, just give me the money.
- Okay.
- Hello? - Hello, gorgeous.
I was worried.
You haven't called for three hours.
Oh, so you do like my calling? - What do you want, exactly? - Nothing, really.
Just your address.
No problem.
I'm at - on Get-Over-It and Main.
- You challenge me, Joey Potter.
We agreed to take a break from these incessant phone calls.
I would be happy to stop calling.
Just tell me where you are.
I'm in your dreams, Charlie Todd.
See, now, wait a second.
That sounded suspiciously like flirting to me.
Maybe.
And this is what a dial tone sounds like.
So this is spring break, huh? - It doesn't look like the brochures.
- Hey, I provided the house.
You people were supposed to bring on the fun.
- Well, We could order some pizzas.
- We could rent some movies.
- We could play strip poker.
- No.
It's not like I haven't seen you all naked.
Okay, okay.
We'll rent movies.
- Bless you! - Thank you.
- Pace.
- Please.
Thank you.
Hey.
Why do I know that guy? Who is he? Oh, my God! Is that Chris Hartford? Oh, my God.
The movie star I ordered from Teen Beat finally got here.
I was so worried.
Audrey! I was hoping you'd be here.
Chris, wow.
Hey.
How are you? - She's hugging a movie star.
- It's weird.
I'm sorry.
You guys, this is my friend Chris.
Chris, these are all my friends from college.
Hey.
How you doing, Chris? Jack.
We're not famous.
How do you guys know each other? Well, we went to high school together.
We went to the same school.
- What are you doing here? - Well, MTV's sponsoring this concert at a hotel a couple of blocks down.
It's this new band, M2M.
You guys know them? Yeah! Marit and Marion from Norway.
Marit's favourite food is chicken soup.
Marion prefers Orange Fanta as her drink of choice.
They gave me tickets if you guys want to go.
Actually, we were just making these plans.
Or we could go to a big MTV concert, because that's cool too.
- Great.
I'll lead the way.
- Great.
Is it true that you're dating Jennifer Love Hewitt? - So - Don't even ask.
Because the answer is no.
- Really? Didn't make the top five? - We were friends.
What do I look like, the Whore of Babylon? Don't answer that question.
- Go.
I'm gonna wait for Joey.
- Okay.
That's Chris.
- Chris, as in? - The one.
The one I think of every time " In Your Eyes" comes on the radio.
My perfect high school boyfriend who every boy gets compared to and who no one's lived up to yet.
That's him.
He's here.
Kill me now.
Why did you say he's just a friend? I had to.
Pacey and I are on the cusp of figuring out our whole thing.
If he knew that Chris was the love of my young life it would just get confusing.
- But lying will make it better? - Mother Teresa take a smoke break and bring back my good friend Joey? Okay, you're right.
I'm sorry.
What do you need? - I need to go throw up.
- Oh, no.
It'll be okay.
- I'm gonna go change.
- Okay.
I'll be here.
- Hello? - Joey Potter.
- You again.
- Yeah, that's right.
I was starting to feel like we were estranged or something.
Well, you know, I'm just doing my best to track you down.
- How'd you make out? - Well, not too bad, actually.
- Really? - No.
I'll call you right back.
I appreciate your offer, but I'm with somebody.
- I don't see her next to you right now.
- I let her mingle.
- I'm good that way.
- Don't leave.
I'll be right back.
I have to do something.
Women, right? They will not take no for an answer.
- Who does that girl think she is? - Hello, Miami! Oh, that's who she is.
So you're a stalker now.
"Stalker.
" That sounds so negative.
I prefer to think of myself as doggedly persistent.
Well, you've got the dog part right.
How did you even find me? That's a good question.
I'm glad you asked.
Hey! You look great.
- Hey.
Come on, now.
- I'm serious.
I've been thinking about you a lot, Audrey.
I'm parched.
Are you thirsty? Because I think I'm, like, dehydrating.
- I'll get you some water.
- No! No.
You stay and you dance to the pretty Norwegians, and I'll be right back.
- Hey! - Hi.
- You okay? - I'm fine.
I'm- Yeah.
And next I 411 'd Beverly Hills and got 10 numbers to match the last name Liddell.
I call and ask if any of these people have a daughter named Audrey.
- One of them does.
- Only one? What a break.
I thought so.
So I asked where I might be able to locate their daughter explaining that I am her lab partner and that she accidentally took my notes.
They give me the number, I 411 again match up the number with the address, and here I am.
- You impressed? - Incredibly.
Especially since Audrey's parents are in Europe right now.
- Okay, Pacey told me.
- You asked Pacey about me? After the road trip from hell? Now, that's impressive.
It is.
Damn it! You know, I put a lot of work into this story.
I even typed it up.
Poor Charlie.
You still haven't learned the merits of honesty.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
Where you going? As flattered as I am with the typing and all it doesn't mean I'm gonna hang out with you.
Hey, man.
Thanks again for getting us in here.
- That was cool of you.
- I'm glad you're having fun.
So do you know Audrey really well? Yeah, you could say that.
She's great, isn't she? Just funny, beautiful You got a question you wanna ask me, or are we just gonna dance around it? Damn, I'm no good at this.
So, what, you had a crush on Audrey in high school or something? We dated for two years.
You dated for two years? Well, I guess that crush worked out for you then.
- Congratulations.
That's great.
- Oh, I thought you knew.
And here I am, trying to figure out if you guys are But it looks like you're not, so cool.
Why cool? I'm just remembering how much I love that girl.
Just seeing her again.
- You know? It's - Yeah.
No, of course, I understand.
- I'm gonna get back to it- - All right.
See you soon.
We did have this A & R guy interested but we're trying to find our voice trying to take the time to develop.
We don't want to get commercialised.
- Yeah.
That's smart.
- He's just being modest.
- Excuse me? - He didn't tell you his name.
Look, I barely even know this girl.
- So if you could just go away.
- I've told you to be honest when you're picking up a girl.
Don't be ashamed of your success.
What success? He grew up to be way hotter than I expected.
You can see it, can't you? Now that I've mentioned it.
No, totally.
Totally, I see it.
Thank God you told me, right? I would've hooked up with him.
How embarrassing would that have been? - Later.
- Keep in touch, Hillary.
So would you mind telling me what you said to that woman to make her flee? I may have said that you were the kid from Hanson the little one, all grown up, which is actually a compliment, really.
I mean, they were much deeper than people realized.
You're hearing what you want.
I'm hearing what you're afraid to tell me.
It hurts to be around you.
- I asked you- Yes! - Yes! I see you across a room, it brings up a thousand memories.
As long as I can remember, everything comes back to you.
No matter what was happening even the thought of you was at least a constant comfort, but I can't go back.
It just hurts.
- Are you actually crying? - A little bit.
It's all very sad.
Very Merchant Ivory.
- How does it end? - That's the thing.
It doesn't.
Okay, in your heart of hearts, how would you want it to end? I don't know.
I don't All I really care about is that she's happy.
Jeez Louise! You are boring! It should end tragically.
Ten years from now, she passes you on the street.
You're penniless and pathetic.
And you run after her, but she thinks you're just some crazy bum.
And then, just as you're crossing the street: You get hit by a bus.
You definitely have a problem with endings.
Come on.
Tell me more.
I live for this junk.
All right.
So next time you're in New York, you give me a call, and I'll hook you up.
Yeah? With what? Concert tickets, backstage passes and maybe even a behind-the-scenes tour.
- Cool! - Yeah.
Excuse me, is this guy bothering you? - No.
- It looks like he is.
So just, you know, go away, dude.
Actually, he used to be a member of- Wait! Don't say it.
Don't even think it.
I'm gonna go mingle.
It was nice meeting you, Joey.
Nice meeting you.
- "Go away, dude"? - Hey, it worked, didn't it? Jen! Jen.
Jen, glad I found you.
I entered us in the hotel raffle.
We could win, like, two weeks in a Miami timeshare! It'd be awesome! Give me a: Come on.
Come on.
You all right? I didn't mean to lie exactly.
Of course not.
You couldn't help yourself.
I didn't want to have this discussion right now.
It would not have been a discussion if you would have just told me.
You never would've let it go that easy.
You would've asked a million questions.
Like always.
Like always? I always do things? You would have wanted to know how long we dated how many times we had sex, if he was better than you.
- It would've ruined our night.
- You're right.
Your way of doing things is better because we're having a great time now.
I am sorry.
Okay? I messed up.
There's more to this, isn't there? God! What more do you wanna know? Yes, Chris and I dated.
Yes, I loved him.
He was like my Dawson, okay? Breaking up with him was the hardest thing I've ever done.
Sometimes I wonder if I made the wrong decision.
- Is that what you wanted to hear? - That's exactly what I wanted to hear.
So, I don't What? - Are you mad at me now? - No, I'm not mad.
Why would I be mad? Okay, well, you're freaking me out.
Why? This was supposed to be fun.
Remember, Audrey? No strings attached.
Lying is for people in serious relationships and you and I were never that serious.
No.
You're absolutely right.
Thanks a lot, Pacey.
I did the right thing.
How did you manage to rationalize that one? Just hear me out.
Back in the day how would the old-school Pacey deal with a complicated love triangle? He would dive in, get bloody and still lose the girl in the end.
- Pacey, that's not even the same- - It's okay, because I learned from it.
I learned to recognize it and I learned to avoid it, thereby not making the same mistake.
And you know what they call that, friend? They call that growth.
How do you know that's the same? Because she said, " He's my Dawson.
" Which is my personal kryptonite.
Okay, so I had a Dawson.
Do you see me with him today? No.
He's part of her past.
I've learned that Dawson is not the past tense of a noun for you ladies.
He is the past, present and future.
What I'm looking for is a woman who has no soul mate to speak of.
No soul mate, and small feet.
That's all I want.
You want Audrey.
- That's not going to happen.
- And she wants you.
If you would open yourselves up to the possibility you could need each other you might actually fall in love.
Right.
So, what about you? Do you follow your own advice, or do I have to dispense it for you? Him? No.
That's different.
- I don't even like him.
- No, of course not.
The blushing, the flirting, the laughing, the singing- Okay.
Maybe I like him a little, but just in that stupid fun way.
It's not like I could see us ever having a serious future.
Who said anything about a serious future? - I'm talking about now.
- What's the point? The point is he came all the way here to see you.
And he called me, a rather intimidating ex-boyfriend, to find you.
- That takes guts.
- Or he could just be an idiot.
He could be, but why don't you go find out? Okay.
I never said it wasn't confusing.
- Tell me one thing you know.
- I know I wanted you there.
At the end of the day when I got back - I wanted you there.
- Why? I don't know why.
I just know that I wanted you there.
Maybe that's the ending we're supposed to have.
Maybe every attraction we feel is fear of moving on and growing up.
- Is that what you really think? - I don't know.
But I know if I get on this plane, I'm never gonna find out.
We're gonna move on, we're gonna grow up and four years from now, we're gonna be complete strangers.
And the only thing that I know for sure is that I don't want that to happen.
- Do you? - No.
So, Dawson, you're thinking about it, aren't you? - What? - Hijacking the car.
Going to Florida.
No.
No.
No.
That'd be completely ridiculous.
It's What, do you think I'm stupid? No.
It's But even if I was, what's left to say at this point? Listen, I don't know what's going through your head, man but that story, the way you told it it sounds like the sun rises and sets with this girl.
- It does.
- So hang your balls out there and tell her that.
I don't have the right.
I pushed her away, and she moved on.
Well, maybe she has.
But until you have that conversation, how will you ever know? - What about the meeting? - Well, we'll reschedule.
It happens all the time.
Meetings come and go, but this This is how you achieve true greatness, my friend.
Which way to Florida? Great Caesar's ghost, let's go! Don't people usually surf in the water? Are you going to question every single thing that I say? Most likely.
Yes.
- Oh, you think that's funny? - Yeah.
- Oh, no, you don't.
Hey! - No! You sure partied hard last night.
Yeah, I know.
I had a blast I think.
Well, I don't know.
You passed out, and I put you to bed.
Yeah, well, thank you for that, Jen.
Will we be arriving at a point anytime soon? - I think maybe you're drinking- - No, no, no.
Don't do that.
You're not gonna turn this into some PSA on the perils of undergrad drinking.
You didn't let me finish.
This isn't about how much you drink.
It's just I've been watching you lately and it seems like you're drinking to forget something.
Is there anything that you wanna talk about with me? That's all I'm asking.
No.
I'm fine.
I don't wanna talk about anything.
Oh, no.
Are you still sick? Don't let the wheezing and sneezing fool you.
I'm fine.
- You look all glowy.
- I surfed.
Well, it wasn't exactly surfing but I managed to stay on the board for five seconds.
- Cool.
Did Audrey teach you? - No.
Charlie, actually.
- You spent the day with Charlie? - Yeah.
Is that okay? Yeah, of course it is.
I just I don't know.
I just don't know why you'd wanna waste your time, Jo.
Well, it is my time and anyway, he makes me laugh sometimes.
Yeah.
Well, that's how he reels you in.
- Trust me, okay? I've been there.
- You know what? I'm gonna go with my instincts on this one, but thanks.
Well, Joey, what are your instincts telling you? They're telling me you're probably not the best person to advise me.
I don't wanna see you get hurt by him.
That's all.
Come on, Jen.
It's not like you've had my feelings in mind before.
What were your instincts telling you when you slept with Dawson? I knew that was gonna be an issue, but- But you went ahead anyway.
And I didn't say anything.
Have the same courtesy for me.
Okay.
Fine.
If he really means that much to- I don't even know what he means to me yet.
- But what does he mean to you? - Nothing.
So why do you care so much? - You left your keys at the beach.
- Thanks.
I'm gonna go back to bed.
I don't feel that good.
You know what? Can we go somewhere? - Sure.
Where? - Anywhere but here.
I missed your freckles.
- How did you get in here? - The sniffly girl let me in.
These ones right here.
I love these.
Okay.
You could have any freckle you wanted in the world Mr.
Movie-Star-in-Training.
Hey.
Don't say that.
I know you probably think it.
Just don't say it, okay? Okay.
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd followed you to Boston.
- Would we still be together? - I don't know.
We're different people now.
I'm different.
You don't seem that different.
Just a little sad, that's all.
I'll be fine.
Sometimes I still wish we were in high school.
Things just seemed a lot easier.
I know what you mean.
There's a trick to this thing.
I just- I can never remember what it is.
I'm surprised you brought a tent.
I didn't think you'd let me sleep with you.
You're right about that one.
You look really beautiful tonight.
- Did I do something wrong? - You know what? - I'm sorry.
I should go home.
- Hey, hey, hey.
Wait, wait.
No, no.
I don't want you to go.
I don't know what I'm doing here.
I don't know who you are, Charlie.
And all the stuff I know for sure is all bad.
You know more than that.
Come on, we had an amazing day.
The only reason you're questioning this is because of what I did to Jen.
Yeah.
That's a big part of it.
All right, I did a terrible thing and And I wish I'd never done it, but it doesn't define me, Joey.
It's not all that I am.
Come on.
Haven't you ever hurt anybody? Let me help you with that tent.
Dawson Leery! - Jack, is that you? - Check me out, dude.
- Hey, man.
Be careful up there.
- Hey, look.
I can fly! Hey, why don't you come down from there? Okay.
I'll be right down.
Jack! Jack! There.
Put that on.
- I messed up, Dawson.
- Don't worry about it, man.
Do you wish you could ever just rewind your life? Pretty much all the time.
I mean just pick it up right after graduation and just do it all over again.
What would you do different? I don't know.
Why? What would you do? I thought I was doing well.
Making new friends, trying different things.
- Just building this whole new life.
- What's wrong with that? It just got too hard, man.
It I didn't think it was gonna be this hard.
You didn't think what would be this hard? My life.
College.
I'm failing out of school, man.
Seriously? Yeah, I gotta ace all my finals, all right? I haven't read half the stuff.
I'm never gonna be able to do it.
Why? Well, don't say that, man.
We'll take it one step at a time.
- We'll help you out in any way we can.
- Oh, yeah.
That's a great line.
Because we say it to each other all the time.
"Your dad died.
But you know what? You're gonna be okay.
You're gonna get through it.
We'll help you.
" Yeah.
And you know what? You guys did.
It made all the difference in the world.
Tobey's got a new boyfriend.
I called him the other day just to say hi.
He seemed so happy.
How am I supposed to fix my life if I don't even know where I went wrong? I just wanna go back.
I just wanna start over.
Why can't I start over? Why? I just want to start over.
Thinking of becoming a roadie? I've got good upper-body strength.
I think I could handle it.
Pacey I have to tell you something.
- You kissed Chris.
- I got- Yeah.
What the hell? I hired a couple of Pls.
They were tracking you, took some photos.
It wasn't pretty.
Well, it doesn't quite figure, does it? - How do you mean? - Well spending all that time tracking me down would kind of mean that you care.
Yeah, it would, wouldn't it? So do you? Because I can't keep going down this road that we've been on.
It's not that it hasn't been great, because it really has- - Audrey- - No.
I need to say this, okay? - Can I-? - Give a girl a minute! I am not so good with this vulnerable thing, okay? Pacey, I want to be your girlfriend, okay? Officially and exclusively and un-casually.
I want you to want the same thing.
But if you don't- I do.
I do.
And I've wanted to tell you that all day.
Well, why didn't you? I guess I was just waiting for my moment.
Well, how's right now for you? Right now's looking pretty good.
Audrey will you be my girlfriend? I would love to.
Dawson? Hey.
I thought that was you.
How long you been here? I don't know.
- You don't seem surprised to see me.
- Want some coffee? No.
Thank you.
I've already had some.
I just wanted to To find Joey.
Yeah.
Look, Dawson, if you're here because you think that you and Joey are Whatever you're thinking, this is a bad idea.
You know, Pace, I'm on no sleep and about 26 hours worth of driving.
I'm serious.
You gotta give that thing up.
That thing that you guys do.
The heroes of bad timing.
You have got to give that up.
It's over.
- No, it's not.
- Come on, Dawson.
How many times are you gonna do this? How many times are you gonna keep on coming back? Until there's nothing to come back for, I guess.
Suppose I was to tell you there's nothing now? Believe me, Pacey, sometimes I wish that was the case.
But it's not.
I can feel it.
I know you don't believe in this.
You're the cynic, I'm the idealist.
That's how we work, I guess.
But when I feel something this strong pulling me I have to act on it.
It's the only thing I know how to do.
So are you gonna just tell me where she is? She's with Charlie, Dawson.
Will you hand me my socks? My feet are freezing.
Yeah.
It's good we moved this tent indoors.
- You might have lost toes on the beach.
- Charming.
So where were we? Seventh grade.
The crimping-iron incident.
That's a good one.
You're gonna like this story.
Do you want a break? What, from you? Never.
You're good with the one-liners.
- Almost too good.
- Too good? You're kidding me.
If I have been lying here right next to you, all night, and I still have not given you a proper kiss then I must have lost my touch.
I don't think so.
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