PaceyI don't want to say goodbye. I just want to look at you... I wish I had some eloquent parting words for you but... all I could think of was this. Thank you. Thank you for everything you've given to me. Thank you for forcing me be the man you made me. Just thank you. I am so grateful to you, Andie.
Oh, I don't want to let you go, Pacey.
Pacey
Just remember your promise okay? You and me, together again, happy, healthy and more in love than ever
Pacey
Go get better McPhee, and then you hurry back to me.
[about Joey's father] That bastard was lying to me. He's in it up to his neck and he knows it.
Pacey
Come on, you don't even know if this has anything to do with him.
A random arson incident in the middle of Capeside? Let's consider the chances of that, Pacey. If God hadn't blessed ya with my good looks, I wouldn't know whose son you were. Why don't you drive yourself home before you make another embarrassing comment?
Pacey
I think I'll walk.
Pacey
Nobody assumed you did, Pop.
You'll have to excuse my son, boys. His girlfriend moves away and all of a sudden it's his time of the month.
Pacey
Screw you, okay?
[Mr. Witter grabs his arm and Pacey quickly removes it]
Pacey
Get your hands off me, you don't touch me again, ever!
Finally my boy gets a pair, and all it took was getting his heart broke by some little girl with a few screws loose.
[Pacey throws a punch at Mr. Witter]
Pacey
Andie did more for my life in six months than you did in sixteen years you rotten son of a bitch. So If you wanna make fun of me? You wanna bust on me? That's fine. But you so much as make one more even slightly disparaging comment about the women I love, and I swear to God, you're gonna be policing this town from a hospital bed. You understand me? And one more thing, even if Mr. Potter was involved in all this, he's still 10 times the father you ever were!
Pacey
Ahoy there, anyone ashore?
Pacey
It's the damnedest thing, I just got into to Dawson's row boat and it magically drifted toward your dock.
Yeah, well magically drift any closer and I'll kill you.
Pacey
You know, I almost believed that. [Jumps up to join her on the dock]
[After a pause between the two as they looked at each other] He told you didn't he? Didn't he?
Pacey
Well, what do you think?
Pacey
Well, then you're really going to hate me when you hear what I have to say....he did the right thing. The two of you need to be apart right now.
How would you know what I need?
Pacey
Yeah...you know you're probably right. How could I possibly know what it's like to let somebody go, right? How hard it is to let someone go. The pain of knowing that even though the two of you are right for each other, that doesn't necessarily mean that you're right for each other right now. What would I know about that, right? How could I possibly know that sometimes it just makes you want to scream, hit somebody, or sit out at the end of a dock and cry...
Of all the people to see me like this, it had to be you.
Pacey
Well, you know it's a new year and who knows...[leans in close to her] you and I might even become friends
Pacey...[Looks at him] I'm upset enough as it is. [Pacey laughs]
Pacey
[Puts arm around her] Come here, Potter .
[Pacey kisses Joey's forehead]
Pacey, you probably don't want to hear this right now, and I'm sure you don't want to hear it from me, but you have to talk to her.
Pacey
No, not right now. I couldn't even look at her right now.
You have to, Pacey. You have to hear her out.
Pacey
Why? What's the difference, Joey, huh? No matter what she says the ending's still the same. She slept with somebody else.
You think that just because the two of you were together what she did hurts more? It doesn't. There's no difference, Pacey, I mean... Look, she's sixteen years old and so are you. We talk like we know what's going on, but we don't. We don't have any idea. Look, we're really young and we're gonna screw up a lot! You know, we're going to keep changing our minds and … and sometimes even our hearts. And through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness. And I couldn't do that. Or at least I did it too late. Don't let yourself get so angry that you stop loving because one day you wake up from that anger and the person you love will be gone
A certain someone with blond locks and a name that rimes with Steve?
Pacey
[Laughs] She's good, I like that girl, she's good. [Nudges Dawson with his elbow]
Once again, Dawson Leery proves the groin is mightier than the brain.
No, I wanted to consult the people I thought I trusted to determine what the best thing was to do. I never thought anyone would be so weak or so self motivated to actually swipe it.
Pacey
Weak and self motivated, huh? Now which one of those two colorful adjectives would i be?
You are who you are, Pacey.
Pacey
Yes I am, Dawson. And so are you. [Pokes him in the chest] You, Dawson Leery are a self-righteous, son of a bitch who cares more about his rose colored defunct 1950s belief system then the people who fail to live up to it, huh?!
Interesting choice of words coming from a smug, cold-hearted son of a bitch who just dumped his girlfriend after she begged and pleaded for an ounce of sympathy.
Pacey
At least I didn't send her father to prison.
No, you just made her go crazy. [Pacey punches him in the eye. Dawson turns around punches Pacey on the lip, sending Pacey to the ground]
Pacey
Ah...[Joey comes out from the building to see what's going on]
What happened? Dawson, what are you doing? [She goes to Pacey, leaning down and holding his arm]
Pacey
It's my fault, I'm sorry.
Dawson, this has got to stop! [to Pacey] Are you okay?
Hey, brought you a Pepsi.
Pacey
No thanks, I'm not thirsty.
It's for your lip, moron. I'm out of ice.
Pacey
I can't believe he thought I'd take that-
Pacey
I thought if I'd earned anyone's respect, it was his. I mean, if the guy who knows you better than anybody on earth thinks you're a loser, then maybe...
Then maybe you are one? Come on, I mean I thought you were a loser for years but you never believed me. [They smile at each other]
Pacey
It's just...you know when does a person start believing the general consensus about themselves?
When it's right. [They pause and look at each other]
Pacey
Do me a favor?
Pacey
Can you tell your friend Dawson that I'm innocent? I mean, he'll believe you.
No, my friend? Look he's your friend too. And you know as well as I do that he's somewhere right now sulking over the gravity of his wrongful accusation.
Pacey
Well good, let him stew in his own pride for a while.
Now we're all guilty of that.
Pacey
Hey, I'd never accuse him of cheating.
Yeah, well I'm pretty sure he'd never take the first swing at you.
Pacey
He started that whole thing!
I'm not getting into this.
Pacey
Okay, so tell me.
Pacey
What do you think happened to that test?
I don't know. And to be honest, I don't want to know. I mean there are certain things in life you're just...better off not knowing. And things that you wish you never knew, never asked and...never saw.
Pacey
Okay, so tell me honestly...does it look that bad?
On your face, any reconstructive surgery whatsoever, is a definite improvement. [Pacey gives her a look, she smiles and laughs]
Why didn't we just drive?
Pacey
Because, Potter, on occasion my pop actually likes to use his car.
So I risk my future to cut class so I could stand in line at the post office and then traipse five miles through the wilderness carrying some stupid package?
Pacey
Oh, God. You know, did you ever stop to think about how much hormonally charged energy you waste on these quick quips and the biting banter? Your life would be considerably more productive if you would just take some more, ah… oh, what is that? More, ah… action! If you took more action.
Oh, what, like voluntary manslaughter?
Pacey
Well how 'bout sticking out your thumb, huh?
Oh yeah? And what else? Maybe hike up my skirt, pout my lips, strike some sexy pose for some horndog trucker? Stick out your own thumb you sexist toad.
Pacey
I am not a sexist, I am a pragmatist. OK? You ever seen The Sure Thing? That movie elegantly portrays one of life's simple truths-that a female standing on the side of a road, even one with a perpetual scowl like yourself, has a better chance of flagging down a car than a guy.
Since I'm the only one here with an opposable thumb, I guess it's up to me to use it.
Pacey
[a car approaches] And here's your chance. [He jumps over some bushes]
[Joey sticks her thumb out as a car approaches. It slows down and comes to a stop, to Joey's surprise]
[leaning into the window] Hi...
PGPrincipal Green
Today is your lucky day Miss Potter, need a ride back to school?
Pacey
[showing her an old boat] Isn't she beautiful?
Yeah, in a Titanic, post-iceberg sort of way. Where did you get this?
Pacey
A friend of my brother's, he works down at the marina. He rescued her after the last hurricane. The guy who owned it didn't want her any more, so I convinced him to sell it to me for like, two hundred bucks. When I finish with this boat it is going to be sheer perfection. Look at that.
Pacey, do you know how much money and time it will take to even get this boat to float?
Pacey
Yeah. Not a minute more or less than as long as it takes me. You watch, Potter, in a couple of months I'll be sailing this baby around the world.
I hate to break it to you Captain Stubing, but you can't sail around the world in a twenty foot boat.
Pacey
Sure I can.
Where are you going to put the supplies?
Pacey
Hey, the USS Minnow was no bigger than this, and they found room for all of Mr. Howell's money, all the professor's tools, all of Ginger's clothes...(Joey starts to go up the ladder) And where do you think you're going?
(She smiles and steps down to the ground, then holds up her hand) Permission to come aboard?
Pacey
(Smiles and holds out his hand) Permission granted. (He takes her hand and helps her up the ladder to the boat)
I slept with another guy six months ago! I knew it was wrong when I did it. I keep trying to tell you this and make you understand it. How many times do I have to say it?
Pacey
Andie, If you wanted to sleep with him, if even just for a second, then maybe it wasn't wrong.
Pacey
Maybe. Maybe that was just your heart's way of telling you that I'm not the one. 'Cause that's what my heart's telling me right now... it's telling me that you're not the one.
Pacey
[about having sex] Well, alright then. Okay. [pause] Did you want to do it right now?
Pacey
I'm kinda tired, actually.
Oh, fine. Roswell's on in five minutes anyway. You just let me know when you want to do it and I'll do it.
I've got to say, Blair Witch didn't do it for me. I wasn't remotely scared, that girl was irritating beyond measure and i had to run to the snack bar in dire need of dramamine.
Pacey
That's no surprise there, Potter, after all you are quite the skittish kitten.
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