As Dawson,
Joey, and Jen finish watching an old black and white movie in his bedroom,
the situation begins to get awkward. Jen, feeling that she has somehow
intruded on an old ritual between the other two, offers to leave them alone.
Joey then offers to leave herself, but Jen worries that her grandmother
would get the wrong idea about her and Dawson alone in the room. The only
solution is for both of them to go home, leaving Dawson to complete the
rest of movie night alone.
The regular confrontations between Jen and her grandmother continue as they
butt heads over a calendar containing the photo of a nude man. Again the
religion issue enters the discussion. The true controversy of the episode
doesn't surface until Pacey is giving Dawson details about his relationship
with Tamara. As the two are talking, a student in one of the restroom stalls
overhears them. The student then proceeds to spread the rumor of Pacey
and Tamara's relationship. By the end of the day, the hot topic has spread
throughout the entire town. The scandal has led to an emergency school
board hearing as well as Tamara hiring a lawyer to defend her. Later in
the episode the controversy is finally resolved when Pacey enters the school
board meeting and testifies that he made the entire relationship up.
The tension we have witnessed between Bessie and Jen's grandmother, in previous
episodes, is slowly building and will soon come to head. Bessie goes into
labor and there is no available ambulance to take her to the hospital.
Joey is forced to row her sister to Dawson's house, where the only adult
available to assist is Jen's grandmother. Bessie is torn, does she allow
a woman who has voiced her disapproval of her relationship with Bodie to
deliver her child, or risk it by letting three high school students give
it a shot. After a brief discussion, Jen's grandmother, with her medical
training, is deemed to be the best candidate. Dawson's instinct as a filmmaker
is to film the birth, and he begins to roll tape. In the end the delivery
is successful, and Bessie gives birth to a beautiful baby.
As the episode nears its conclusion, the inevitable outcome of Pacey and Tamara's
relationship plays out. During the course of their discussion she reveals
to him that she will soon leave Capeside and will not be coming back. Pacey
requests a goodbye kiss, but she refuses. It has become obvious that she
truly has feelings for him, and the kiss may serve to create even more
complications. Tamara then proceeds to make it clear that their relationship
is over for good. The episode closes with Pacey strolling along the beach
behind Tamara's house. The dejected look on his face is evidence of just
how much he cared for her.
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