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Round 19


1. 1x06 - Baby
Eliminated Round 5

2. 1x10 - Double Date


JOEY: Look around you, Pacey. I mean, look at what my life is. I’m a boarder in my sister’s house, I share my bedroom with the living room, and my social life consists of a part-time job. As far as I can tell there are only two ways to make my life better. And the one that doesn’t involve waking up and discovering it’s all been a dream involves a college scholarship. When I apply I better have the grades that don’t give them a choice because a scholarship is pretty much my only way out of Capeside. And if I don’t get out of here, Pacey, well, it’ll be a sadder story than I care to imagine. Okay?
PACEY: You don’t have to worry, Jo. You’re going to make it out of here. You’re going to go to some great school and send me postcards back here where I’ll be tending bar or pumping gas.
JOEY: Come on, Pacey. You’ll get out too.
PACEY: Yeah, if the circus is hiring. I'll tell you what, though, don't bet against that Potter girl.

3. 1x13 - Decisions
Eliminated Round 13


4. 2x16 - Be Careful What You Wish For
Eliminated Round 1


5. 3x01 - Like A Virgin
Eliminated Round 14


6. 3x02 - Homecoming
Eliminated Round 5

7. 3x03 - None of the Above
Eliminated Round 11

8. 3x09 - Four To Tango
Eliminated Round 7


9. 3x13 - Northern Lights

Pacey*: He kissed you, didn’t he?
Joey*: What makes you say that?
Pacey*: He’d have to be a moron not to. And your lipstick is smeared all over your face.
Joey*: That’s what I get for letting Bessie talk me into Very Berry, I guess.
Pacey*: So are you gonna see this guy again?
Joey*: I don’t know. I mean, what’s the point? I mean, he’s older than me. He’s smarter than me. And he lives far away, a very not-insignificant problem seeing as how I can’t even drive yet. How could I ever feel about him the way that I…?
Pacey*: Feel about Dawson.
Joey*: No, I was actually going to say ‘felt.’
Pacey*: Want to know something, Miss Josephine Potter? I think the world may just surprise you yet. You fall in love and it doesn’t work out and you think it’ll never happen again, but it does. Believe me, it does, in the strangest of places.

10. 3x16 - Crime and Punishment

Joey: You bought me a wall?
Pacey: Not bought, rented. And this thing didn’t come cheap, either. It cost me 100 bucks.
Joey: You bought me a wall?
Pacey: You said that already. Look, it’s a limited time offer, so you should get cracking.
Joey: Pacey, did you fail to notice the size of this thing?
Pacey: I just thought your next endeavor should be bigger and better than your last one. I’m supporting you, you keep on growing both as a person and as an artist. I also got you this, (holding up a can of paint) now I know it’s not going to cover the whole thing, but as the saying goes, ‘The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.’
Joey: Well, I’m gonna need your help on this one.
Pacey: No, no, no, no. Not this time. You’re on your own, sister.
Joey: Pacey, you’re unbelievable. I mean, as soon as I think I’ve got you all figured out, you go and you do something so outrageous that, it completely challenges me in a way that no one else would even think of. In case I don’t say it enough, thank you.
Pacey: It’s about time, Potter. It’s about time.

11. 4x02 - Falling Down

Joey: We spent 3 months on the sea, but we haven’t even come to close to weathering the storm. We ran away. We made our own reality and it was so wonderful but..
Pacey: But it couldn’t last forever.
Joey: Nor should it. Pacey, a relationship isn’t about a romantic 3-month cruise. It’s gonna be the details that define us.. the moments.
Pacey: Okay. Joey, I am really scared. I think that I screwed up and I’m gonna flunk out of high school. So, I need your help. Really badly.
Joey: That’s all you needed to say, Pace.
Pacey: Easy for you to say.
Joey: Whatever it takes, we’re gonna fix it. Everything’s gonna be okay.
Pacey: How can you be sure?
Joey: I’m not going anywhere without you

12. 4x04 - Future Tense

JOEY: Pacey. I’ve been doing some thinking.
PACEY: Yeah. Drunk thinking.
JOEY: Maybe… Maybe that’s not what I really want. Maybe I just wanna stay here. You know? I mean, look it’s- it’s really beautiful here and… and I can just-
PACEY: Just what? Stay here and work as a waitress all your life? Come on. I mean, forgive me if you’re losing me here, Jo, but to be perfectly honest you haven’t made the slightest bit of sense all night even before you were drunk.
JOEY: I wanna be with you, Pacey. I wanna stay and be with you.
PACEY: Well if you wanna be with me then staying here would be a really stupid idea. Considering I don’t plan to be here. I plan to be wherever you are.
JOEY: Really?
PACEY: Yes. Really.

13. 4x07 - You Had Me At Goodbye

Pacey: Jo, I’m sorry for how I reacted to the whole peer rec thing. I think it was just kind of a left-hook to the hot button and I reacted.. like Pacey.
Joey: You know who that guy you reacted like is gonna be in ten years, Pace? The person who knows me best. Dawson knows my past. My future lies with you. If you think about it you know, you didn’t even like me three years ago.
Pacey: Well, you always tease the ones you love.


14. 4x10 - Self-Reliance
Eliminated Round 9



15. 4x14 - A Winter's Tale
Eliminated Round 12


16. 4x17 - Admissions


Pacey: As long as we’re in the season of honesty, there’s something else I probably outta offer up.
Joey: What’s that?
Pacey: Well, as happy as I was for you, I found out you were going to Worthington, I think I was just as happy when I found out you weren’t. It’s not that I don’t want you to be able to go off and realize your dreams, Joey, because I do. But, for the first time I just felt like it was me that was holding you back from them.
Joey: Pacey, you’ve never held me back. You’ve got to stop thinking like that.
Pacey: I could stop thinking like that if you just promise me one thing. If the day ever comes, and it may come much sooner than either one of us think, but if that day ever comes, when you do feel like I was holding you back, just promise me that you’d cut me loose, yeah?
Joey: Pacey!
Pacey: Promise me that.
Joey: I won’t promise you that. You’re asking me to promise to let you go. I can’t do that.


17. 4x21 - Separation Anxiety


Pacey: When we were at that party last night, Jo, I was jealous. I wasn’t jealous of you, but I was certainly jealous of the rest of the kids who were gonna get to experience you next year. ‘Cause they’re gonna get to be with you and I’m not.
Joey: You know, I was so certain that Mr. Kubelik’s offer was the answer to all of our problems. A sign, you know?
Pacey: Yeah, I know. I know. And I think that it was a sign, just not the one that we were hoping for. But at least we got a better ending this time. I am grateful for that.
Joey: Me, too.

18. 5x03 - Capeside Revisited
Eliminated Round 18

19. 5x10 - Appetite For Destruction
Eliminated Round 10


20. 5x11 - Something Wild
Eliminated Round 17

21. 5x17 - Highway To Hell
Eliminated Round 2


22. 5x19 - 100 Light Years From Home
Eliminated Round 3

23. 5x23 - Swan Song
Eliminated Round 8


24. 6x14 - Clean and Sober
Eliminated Round 6


25. 6x14 - Clean and Sober

Joey: Everybody's working it out. Jen and CJ, you know that British girl and that gross guy.. I’m just no good at this, I just.. I push people away.
Pacey: No, that’s not true.
Joey: Oh, no? Then why do they go out to sea or move across country or follow their dreams just because I told them to? There’s always something better out there than me.
Pacey: Woah, I think perhaps you’re looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it’s just that you’re such an amazing woman, you make these guys want to be better men.
Joey: We’re not together.
Pacey: True enough. Yeah.
Joey: Well don’t you look so glum, we’re talking about my sucky life. Yours is a success! Oh.. I forget. You’re still not over me.
Pacey: Really?
Joey: Remember, Christmas dinner from hell, that was one of Audrey’s enlightened comments.
Pacey: Right, of course.
Joey: You’re still not over me. That must suck.
Pacey: Oh, it does. You have no idea the hardships I go through trying to maintain a friendship with a dream girl such as yourself. You have no idea.
Joey: Gets lonely?
Pacey: It does, I cry myself to sleep every night. But Jack and I cuddle, it eases the pain. He’s very loving.
Joey: Oh, Pace. You know what? I am a good catch.

26. 6x15 - Castaways
Eliminated Round 16


27. 6x15 - Castaways

Joey: Did you know?
Pacey: Did I know what?
Joey: This was a dream come true.
Pacey: Which part?
Joey: All of it. When you and I were on the boat, I used to dream that we’d be cast away somewhere. You know, your standard tropical island with the white sand beaches, giant stars overhead. We’d wear no clothes, and we’d splash in the surf all day. And then at night, the moon would be this.. well, this giant thing, and it was always full.
Pacey: I like this fantasy. I could catch fish with my bare hands. Make a fire without matches.
Joey: I’d make the fires. Who paid attention in science class?
Pacey: Ok, good point.
Joey: Besides, it’s my fantasy. And I guess I never told you about it before because it’s.. embarrassing, you know, I mean, not at all original.
Pacey: In any case, you were right about one thing.
Joey: What’s that?
Pacey: There are about a thousand reasons why you and I would never work.
Joey: There is one thing in the pro column.
Pacey: What’s that?
Joey: [kisses him] It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Pacey: Well then, what does it mean?
Joey: Well, it means that.. well, I’m cold. And I’m still thinking about it. And I miss you, Pace.
Pacey: I miss you too.

28. 6x16 - That Was Then

Joey: [Clears throat] Bad timing? You're on your way out.
Pacey: Uh, no. It's... cosmic timing. I was on my way to see you.
Joey: Really?
Pacey: Yeah. Yeah. I was, uh, I was hoping that we could stand awkwardly in the doorway, which, uh, huh, is workin' out perfectly for me.
Joey: It's not awkward, Pacey.
[Long silence]
Joey: [Sighs] How about I come in?
Pacey: Great idea. Come in. Uh...can I get you anything? You want somethin' to drink?
Joey: Uh, no, I'm ok.
Pacey: You, uh, you hungry?
Joey: You know what'd be nice?
Pacey: Pizza? That's funny. I was actually thinkin' pizza myself.
Joey: It would be nice if we could stop being so polite.
Pacey: Oh. You know, actually, I'm really glad that you said that, because I've been meaning to emotionally abuse you for weeks. I just wanted to make sure you're up for it.
Joey: Pacey.
Pacey: Ok, I'll stop. [Chuckles]
Joey: Do you regret it?
Pacey: Which part?
Joey: Do you regret telling me what you told me?
Pacey: I guess it really... depends on whether or not you regretted hearing it.
Joey: It's hard to regret hearing something that's already been in the back of your mind. But... I think I regret reality as...just a general concept.
Pacey: Really?
Joey: Do you remember reading those choose your own adventure books as a kid?
Pacey: Well...[Chuckles]... You and I both know that I was pretty much a functional illiterate until the ninth grade.
Joey: Right. Ok. Well... I did, but... I cheated on them. Whenever a chapter wasn't going the way I wanted, I wouldn't even finish. I would just go back to the beginning until...I got a happy ending.
Pacey: Yeah. Everybody does that.
Joey: Yeah, but it's not exactly the most realistic way to live your life.
Pacey: But--wait, what makes you think that one false move is gonna ruin our entire story?
Joey: History.
Pacey: Yes. That was then. Joey...I'm serious. We're older now. I mean, it's not like I'm just gonna run out the door if I don't like your choice.
Joey: Ok. Well, so... what are you afraid of?
Pacey: 'Cause that--the whole... possibility thing is really just a mean trick.
Joey: I don't like this chapter. It's too negative.
Pacey: Well...I guess maybe I'm just tryin' to play out all the worst case scenarios, because I want to be sure that you have grown enough to be together without always having to replay our history. 'Cause...I'd really like to look into our future. [She sits on the back of the couch and he pulls a chair over and sits down in front of her.]
Joey: You want a clean slate.
Pacey: Well...yes and no. I just don't want my prior offenses being held against me.
Joey: Well...I mean, we agree you and I have...you know, said things- and done things that... we regret, but... we've changed, haven't we? Pacey: Yeah. Yeah.
Joey: [Sighs]
Pacey: [Sighs] So I'm gonna go... think about some things. And... you're gonna think about things. And you should probably go now before I lose my ability to think clearly about things.
Joey: Well...ok. But... Pace, I don't know. I mean, don't you think that... this is a little too delicate to handle without a plan?
Pacey: A plan. Well... uh, you know, I... [Chuckles] I appreciate the fact that you're a slave to structure, but I'm just not sure how to schedule life-changing decisions.
Joey: W-what I meant...
Pacey: [Chuckles]
Joey: Is that... you know... I could call you, or you could call me and see how—
Pacey: Right. Like you've ever needed an excuse. [they have now leaned so close to each other, that Pacey slowly moves in for a kiss, but just before their lips meet, Joey turns her head.]
Joey: I should go.
Pacey: [Coughs] Of course. [Chuckles] [Sighs]
Joey: What about that pizza thing?
Pacey: Well, that would be an entirely different story


29. 6x21 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Eliminated Round 15


30. 6x24 - Must Come To an End

Joey: You have a great life here.
Pacey: I just wish that I could feel that.
Joey: You don’t?
Pacey: Well, I didn’t. Until you came breezing through my door again.
Joey: Uh-oh.
Pacey: There’s no need to bolt, I’m just saying thank you. You reminded me of what I’m capable of feeling. It’s like I was walking around seeing my life through a smudged window, and then I saw you and the smudges were gone, the window was clean.

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Round 20


1. 1x06 - Baby
Eliminated Round 5

2. 1x10 - Double Date


JOEY: Look around you, Pacey. I mean, look at what my life is. I’m a boarder in my sister’s house, I share my bedroom with the living room, and my social life consists of a part-time job. As far as I can tell there are only two ways to make my life better. And the one that doesn’t involve waking up and discovering it’s all been a dream involves a college scholarship. When I apply I better have the grades that don’t give them a choice because a scholarship is pretty much my only way out of Capeside. And if I don’t get out of here, Pacey, well, it’ll be a sadder story than I care to imagine. Okay?
PACEY: You don’t have to worry, Jo. You’re going to make it out of here. You’re going to go to some great school and send me postcards back here where I’ll be tending bar or pumping gas.
JOEY: Come on, Pacey. You’ll get out too.
PACEY: Yeah, if the circus is hiring. I'll tell you what, though, don't bet against that Potter girl.

3. 1x13 - Decisions
Eliminated Round 13


4. 2x16 - Be Careful What You Wish For
Eliminated Round 1


5. 3x01 - Like A Virgin
Eliminated Round 14


6. 3x02 - Homecoming
Eliminated Round 5

7. 3x03 - None of the Above
Eliminated Round 11

8. 3x09 - Four To Tango
Eliminated Round 7


9. 3x13 - Northern Lights

Pacey*: He kissed you, didn’t he?
Joey*: What makes you say that?
Pacey*: He’d have to be a moron not to. And your lipstick is smeared all over your face.
Joey*: That’s what I get for letting Bessie talk me into Very Berry, I guess.
Pacey*: So are you gonna see this guy again?
Joey*: I don’t know. I mean, what’s the point? I mean, he’s older than me. He’s smarter than me. And he lives far away, a very not-insignificant problem seeing as how I can’t even drive yet. How could I ever feel about him the way that I…?
Pacey*: Feel about Dawson.
Joey*: No, I was actually going to say ‘felt.’
Pacey*: Want to know something, Miss Josephine Potter? I think the world may just surprise you yet. You fall in love and it doesn’t work out and you think it’ll never happen again, but it does. Believe me, it does, in the strangest of places.

10. 3x16 - Crime and Punishment

Joey: You bought me a wall?
Pacey: Not bought, rented. And this thing didn’t come cheap, either. It cost me 100 bucks.
Joey: You bought me a wall?
Pacey: You said that already. Look, it’s a limited time offer, so you should get cracking.
Joey: Pacey, did you fail to notice the size of this thing?
Pacey: I just thought your next endeavor should be bigger and better than your last one. I’m supporting you, you keep on growing both as a person and as an artist. I also got you this, (holding up a can of paint) now I know it’s not going to cover the whole thing, but as the saying goes, ‘The journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.’
Joey: Well, I’m gonna need your help on this one.
Pacey: No, no, no, no. Not this time. You’re on your own, sister.
Joey: Pacey, you’re unbelievable. I mean, as soon as I think I’ve got you all figured out, you go and you do something so outrageous that, it completely challenges me in a way that no one else would even think of. In case I don’t say it enough, thank you.
Pacey: It’s about time, Potter. It’s about time.

11. 4x02 - Falling Down

Joey: We spent 3 months on the sea, but we haven’t even come to close to weathering the storm. We ran away. We made our own reality and it was so wonderful but..
Pacey: But it couldn’t last forever.
Joey: Nor should it. Pacey, a relationship isn’t about a romantic 3-month cruise. It’s gonna be the details that define us.. the moments.
Pacey: Okay. Joey, I am really scared. I think that I screwed up and I’m gonna flunk out of high school. So, I need your help. Really badly.
Joey: That’s all you needed to say, Pace.
Pacey: Easy for you to say.
Joey: Whatever it takes, we’re gonna fix it. Everything’s gonna be okay.
Pacey: How can you be sure?
Joey: I’m not going anywhere without you

12. 4x04 - Future Tense

JOEY: Pacey. I’ve been doing some thinking.
PACEY: Yeah. Drunk thinking.
JOEY: Maybe… Maybe that’s not what I really want. Maybe I just wanna stay here. You know? I mean, look it’s- it’s really beautiful here and… and I can just-
PACEY: Just what? Stay here and work as a waitress all your life? Come on. I mean, forgive me if you’re losing me here, Jo, but to be perfectly honest you haven’t made the slightest bit of sense all night even before you were drunk.
JOEY: I wanna be with you, Pacey. I wanna stay and be with you.
PACEY: Well if you wanna be with me then staying here would be a really stupid idea. Considering I don’t plan to be here. I plan to be wherever you are.
JOEY: Really?
PACEY: Yes. Really.

13. 4x07 - You Had Me At Goodbye

Pacey: Jo, I’m sorry for how I reacted to the whole peer rec thing. I think it was just kind of a left-hook to the hot button and I reacted.. like Pacey.
Joey: You know who that guy you reacted like is gonna be in ten years, Pace? The person who knows me best. Dawson knows my past. My future lies with you. If you think about it you know, you didn’t even like me three years ago.
Pacey: Well, you always tease the ones you love.


14. 4x10 - Self-Reliance
Eliminated Round 9



15. 4x14 - A Winter's Tale
Eliminated Round 12


16. 4x17 - Admissions


Pacey: As long as we’re in the season of honesty, there’s something else I probably outta offer up.
Joey: What’s that?
Pacey: Well, as happy as I was for you, I found out you were going to Worthington, I think I was just as happy when I found out you weren’t. It’s not that I don’t want you to be able to go off and realize your dreams, Joey, because I do. But, for the first time I just felt like it was me that was holding you back from them.
Joey: Pacey, you’ve never held me back. You’ve got to stop thinking like that.
Pacey: I could stop thinking like that if you just promise me one thing. If the day ever comes, and it may come much sooner than either one of us think, but if that day ever comes, when you do feel like I was holding you back, just promise me that you’d cut me loose, yeah?
Joey: Pacey!
Pacey: Promise me that.
Joey: I won’t promise you that. You’re asking me to promise to let you go. I can’t do that.


17. 4x21 - Separation Anxiety
Eliminated Round 19


18. 5x03 - Capeside Revisited
Eliminated Round 18

19. 5x10 - Appetite For Destruction
Eliminated Round 10


20. 5x11 - Something Wild
Eliminated Round 17

21. 5x17 - Highway To Hell
Eliminated Round 2


22. 5x19 - 100 Light Years From Home
Eliminated Round 3

23. 5x23 - Swan Song
Eliminated Round 8


24. 6x14 - Clean and Sober
Eliminated Round 6


25. 6x14 - Clean and Sober

Joey: Everybody's working it out. Jen and CJ, you know that British girl and that gross guy.. I’m just no good at this, I just.. I push people away.
Pacey: No, that’s not true.
Joey: Oh, no? Then why do they go out to sea or move across country or follow their dreams just because I told them to? There’s always something better out there than me.
Pacey: Woah, I think perhaps you’re looking at this the wrong way. Maybe it’s just that you’re such an amazing woman, you make these guys want to be better men.
Joey: We’re not together.
Pacey: True enough. Yeah.
Joey: Well don’t you look so glum, we’re talking about my sucky life. Yours is a success! Oh.. I forget. You’re still not over me.
Pacey: Really?
Joey: Remember, Christmas dinner from hell, that was one of Audrey’s enlightened comments.
Pacey: Right, of course.
Joey: You’re still not over me. That must suck.
Pacey: Oh, it does. You have no idea the hardships I go through trying to maintain a friendship with a dream girl such as yourself. You have no idea.
Joey: Gets lonely?
Pacey: It does, I cry myself to sleep every night. But Jack and I cuddle, it eases the pain. He’s very loving.
Joey: Oh, Pace. You know what? I am a good catch.

26. 6x15 - Castaways
Eliminated Round 16


27. 6x15 - Castaways

Joey: Did you know?
Pacey: Did I know what?
Joey: This was a dream come true.
Pacey: Which part?
Joey: All of it. When you and I were on the boat, I used to dream that we’d be cast away somewhere. You know, your standard tropical island with the white sand beaches, giant stars overhead. We’d wear no clothes, and we’d splash in the surf all day. And then at night, the moon would be this.. well, this giant thing, and it was always full.
Pacey: I like this fantasy. I could catch fish with my bare hands. Make a fire without matches.
Joey: I’d make the fires. Who paid attention in science class?
Pacey: Ok, good point.
Joey: Besides, it’s my fantasy. And I guess I never told you about it before because it’s.. embarrassing, you know, I mean, not at all original.
Pacey: In any case, you were right about one thing.
Joey: What’s that?
Pacey: There are about a thousand reasons why you and I would never work.
Joey: There is one thing in the pro column.
Pacey: What’s that?
Joey: [kisses him] It doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Pacey: Well then, what does it mean?
Joey: Well, it means that.. well, I’m cold. And I’m still thinking about it. And I miss you, Pace.
Pacey: I miss you too.

28. 6x16 - That Was Then

Joey: [Clears throat] Bad timing? You're on your way out.
Pacey: Uh, no. It's... cosmic timing. I was on my way to see you.
Joey: Really?
Pacey: Yeah. Yeah. I was, uh, I was hoping that we could stand awkwardly in the doorway, which, uh, huh, is workin' out perfectly for me.
Joey: It's not awkward, Pacey.
[Long silence]
Joey: [Sighs] How about I come in?
Pacey: Great idea. Come in. Uh...can I get you anything? You want somethin' to drink?
Joey: Uh, no, I'm ok.
Pacey: You, uh, you hungry?
Joey: You know what'd be nice?
Pacey: Pizza? That's funny. I was actually thinkin' pizza myself.
Joey: It would be nice if we could stop being so polite.
Pacey: Oh. You know, actually, I'm really glad that you said that, because I've been meaning to emotionally abuse you for weeks. I just wanted to make sure you're up for it.
Joey: Pacey.
Pacey: Ok, I'll stop. [Chuckles]
Joey: Do you regret it?
Pacey: Which part?
Joey: Do you regret telling me what you told me?
Pacey: I guess it really... depends on whether or not you regretted hearing it.
Joey: It's hard to regret hearing something that's already been in the back of your mind. But... I think I regret reality as...just a general concept.
Pacey: Really?
Joey: Do you remember reading those choose your own adventure books as a kid?
Pacey: Well...[Chuckles]... You and I both know that I was pretty much a functional illiterate until the ninth grade.
Joey: Right. Ok. Well... I did, but... I cheated on them. Whenever a chapter wasn't going the way I wanted, I wouldn't even finish. I would just go back to the beginning until...I got a happy ending.
Pacey: Yeah. Everybody does that.
Joey: Yeah, but it's not exactly the most realistic way to live your life.
Pacey: But--wait, what makes you think that one false move is gonna ruin our entire story?
Joey: History.
Pacey: Yes. That was then. Joey...I'm serious. We're older now. I mean, it's not like I'm just gonna run out the door if I don't like your choice.
Joey: Ok. Well, so... what are you afraid of?
Pacey: 'Cause that--the whole... possibility thing is really just a mean trick.
Joey: I don't like this chapter. It's too negative.
Pacey: Well...I guess maybe I'm just tryin' to play out all the worst case scenarios, because I want to be sure that you have grown enough to be together without always having to replay our history. 'Cause...I'd really like to look into our future. [She sits on the back of the couch and he pulls a chair over and sits down in front of her.]
Joey: You want a clean slate.
Pacey: Well...yes and no. I just don't want my prior offenses being held against me.
Joey: Well...I mean, we agree you and I have...you know, said things- and done things that... we regret, but... we've changed, haven't we? Pacey: Yeah. Yeah.
Joey: [Sighs]
Pacey: [Sighs] So I'm gonna go... think about some things. And... you're gonna think about things. And you should probably go now before I lose my ability to think clearly about things.
Joey: Well...ok. But... Pace, I don't know. I mean, don't you think that... this is a little too delicate to handle without a plan?
Pacey: A plan. Well... uh, you know, I... [Chuckles] I appreciate the fact that you're a slave to structure, but I'm just not sure how to schedule life-changing decisions.
Joey: W-what I meant...
Pacey: [Chuckles]
Joey: Is that... you know... I could call you, or you could call me and see how—
Pacey: Right. Like you've ever needed an excuse. [they have now leaned so close to each other, that Pacey slowly moves in for a kiss, but just before their lips meet, Joey turns her head.]
Joey: I should go.
Pacey: [Coughs] Of course. [Chuckles] [Sighs]
Joey: What about that pizza thing?
Pacey: Well, that would be an entirely different story


29. 6x21 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Eliminated Round 15


30. 6x24 - Must Come To an End

Joey: You have a great life here.
Pacey: I just wish that I could feel that.
Joey: You don’t?
Pacey: Well, I didn’t. Until you came breezing through my door again.
Joey: Uh-oh.
Pacey: There’s no need to bolt, I’m just saying thank you. You reminded me of what I’m capable of feeling. It’s like I was walking around seeing my life through a smudged window, and then I saw you and the smudges were gone, the window was clean.

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