During this time, a purity quiz reveals the innermost secrets of all involved, including Pacey's fling with the departed Miss Jacobs, as well as Chris' motives to sleep with Jen, who reverts back to her promiscuous personality. Graphic: Elena Scotti (Photos: Getty Images, Shutterstock) Lauren Pinnington. In the peaceful coastal New England town of Capeside, Massachusetts, Dawson Leery, a 15-year-old film buff, lives a fantasy life of movies and filmmaking with his lifelong friends, tomboy Josephine "Joey" Potter and the outgoing and clownish Pacey Witter. It unsurprisingly still resonates with so many millennial women who grew up watching the series. In 2008, they reunite at Gale's wedding in Capeside and old feelings are stirred. Meanwhile, Jen is asked out by a friendly jock, named Cliff, in which the date ends up at Dawson's house while Dawson, Joey, Pacey bring along a slightly-crazed young woman, named Ursula, who is running away from her psychotic boyfriend. Meanwhile, Pacey and Tamara continue to temp fate with their affair, which was compromised because Dawson accidentally videotaped it. After Dawson gets a $2,500 grant from the Boston Filmmaking Association following his win with his horror film, he asks Joey to help him work on his next film. Pacey confronts his teacher over 'that kiss'. Andie decides to run for student body president and asks a reluctant Joey as her running mate. “You can’t do that!” Season 3 writer Jeffrey Stepakoff recalled in his book “We wouldn’t have expected Dawson’s to even try to reconfigure the triangle, but they did.”
Joey confronts Dawson's mom with what she has seen.
Pacey Witter is a high school sophomore. That evening, Joey's 'semi-date' with Jack for a moonlight picnic prompts a resentful Dawson to join Jen at a bash house party, thrown by Chris Wolfe, where she gets drunk once again and he ends up saving her from doing some things she'll regret. While doing this project, Joey learns that as a single parent, she has a better chance of success in life, but does not see the same for Bessie who begins pressuring her to work harder at the Ice House. Pacey then takes it upon himself to go before a school board hearing to admit to personally fabricating the rumors to clear Tamara. Then later at Capside's formal Homecoming dance, he learns about the kiss between Joey and Jack, setting off a chain of fireworks and events that shatter his lifelong friendship and newfound romance with Joey. Pacey grudgingly agrees and comforts a heartbroken Joey at the end of her dock.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.
Also, tensions between Mitch and Gayle reach the boiling point as they attempt to rebuild their marriage.
Jen, with a little of Abby's help, tries to take advantage of this project to get closer to Dawson, while Pacey gets to know a little more about Andie's background from Jack. Meanwhile, Pacey decides on a new hairstyle look for himself and becomes chummy to the new girl in town: the neurotic, stuttering Andie McPhee, after they accidentally collide with each other in their cars. There was a time when we had come for the angst, but now we were staying for the romance.Sarah D. Bunting, the writer and co-founder of seminal recap website It’s impossible to talk about Pacey and Joey without first acknowledging Dawson and Joey. ❝Everything changes eventually. Dawson brings his feelings about Jen out into the open. Dawson came across as the type of guy who would describe young women like Joey as “beautiful but completely unaware of it” (in fact, this might have been an actual line in the show) as if she was a thing he could guide, not a human girl with agency and feelings.