A pair of childhood friends must cope with their emerging sexuality.
Dawson worries about his first kiss with Jen, especially when she attends a school dance with someone else; Pacey tries to keep his romance with Tamara alive.
As he's forced to work on a rival's film, Dawson plots to record his own first kiss with Jen; Joey misleads a wealthy suitor as Pacey uses his failing grades to get Tamara's attention.
After videotaping Tamara's sexual encounter with an unknown partner and then learning of his mother's own infidelity, Dawson discovers the truth about Jen's past.
Preparations for a big hurricane expose the truth about Mrs. Leery's affair.
As word of Pacey's affair with Tamara gets out, Bessie must seek help from grams to deliver her baby.
The brewing conflicts among Dawson and his friends erupt during their detention.
Jen's old boyfriend arrives unexpectedly and Dawson's parents struggle with their relationship.
Jen's old boyfriend takes Dawson and Pacey to a nightclub; upon finding herself the subject of some nasty rumours, Joey strikes back.
Dawson arranges a double date with Jen and her new boyfriend; an extra credit assignment brings Pacey and Joey together.
While Dawson is preparing to celebrate Friday the 13th, a serial killer is rumoured to be headed to Capeside.
Joey and Pacey both enter a local beauty pageant.
An offer for Joey to study abroad forces her and Dawson to reconsider their feelings for each other; Jen's grandfather suddenly awakes from his coma.
Dawson and Joey embark on a romance as Jennifer tries to cope with the loss of her grandfather.
Dawson's preoccupation with Joey causes him to forget Pacey's sixteenth birthday.
A class assignment gives Jen a chance to win back Dawson as Pacey learns the truth about Andie's wealth.
Tamara's return dredges up unresolved feelings in Pacey as Joey struggles for independence from Dawson.
Dawson confronts his parents about their marriage as Pacey stumbles onto an unsettling truth about Andie.
A homecoming dance brings Pacey and Andie together while driving Dawson and Joey apart.
An all night study session rates friction and unveils some surprises for Dawson and his friends.
As a film festival prize fails to reunite Dawson and Joey, Andie sets out to help Pacey get his life on track.
In their bid for student council, Andie and Joey face a viscous smear campaign; Jen tries to get Dawson to embrace being a teenager.
As Dawson's new film exposes his uncertainty over his relationship with Joey, Pacey and Andie explore the idea of having sex; Jack offers to help Joey salvage an art class assignment by posing in the nude.
When an unsigned letter reveals that someone has been having sex, Abby sets out to expose the guilty couple.
As a fishing tournament provides a chance for some father-son bonding, Gail's report on teenage girls exposes the friction between Jen and Joey.
As Dawson's new film mirrors his failed romance with Joey, the truth about Andie's medication stuns Pacey.
After a harsh teacher forces Jack to read a poem that leads everyone to suspect he's gay, Pacey's principled defence threatens to get him suspended.
As rumours about Jack's sexuality continue unabated, Pacey sets out to stop a teacher's relentless harassment.
Dawson's surprise sixteenth birthday party goes awry when he and Andie show up drunk.
As Dawson courts a teacher's opinion of his film, Joey pursues a date with someone who's actually interested in Jack.
A Capeside wedding forces Joey to face up to her family's reputation.
Just as it forces Joey to confront her own mother's death, Abby's drowning causes Jen to lose her faith in everything.
Dawson and Joey's romantic dinner together is spoiled by his parent's presence; Pacey suspects Andie of seeing someone else.
As Dawson looks for a subject for his film class final, Andie and Jack's father insists on moving them away from Capeside.
As Dawson wrestles with Mr. Potter's drug dealing, Pacey squares off with his dad.
After a summer away, Dawson returns to face a decision about Joey; Jen uses cheerleading try outs to teach someone a lesson.
Dawson's first sexual encounter with Eve produces a big surprise; Pacey discovers that Andie had an affair.
Dawson faces an ethical dilemma when Eve gives him an advance copy of an important college entrance exam.
Dawson's documentary about Jack, Capeside's gay football star.
As Dawson tries to uncover the mystery surrounding Eve, Joey's boss turns his attention to Andie.
Jen hosts a tea for Capeside's former Homecoming Queens; Andie tries to win Pacey back.
Dawson enlists his friends to make a documentary about a local witch legend.
Jen's mom makes an unexpected appearance for Thanksgiving.
Dawson suspects Pacey and Joey of having an affair; Andie encourages Jack to arrange a blind date with another gay teen.
In Boston where Dawson has entered a film festival, Andie and Joey make a college campus visit while Jack explores the city's gay scene.
Jack looks for his first gay experience; Dawson finds that a rival is sympathetic to his parents divorce.
Everyone rallies to make a good impression after Pacey arranges for an influential travel writer to visit the Potter sisters' new inn.
Pacey's stage fright threatens to ruin the school play's opening night; Joey agrees to date a college student.
Pacey persuades Dawson and their friends to attend a wild Valentine's Day party.
Pacey seeks revenge following a vandal's attack on Joey's school mural; Andie's guilt over her cheating intensifies after learning the results of her college entrance exam.
Joey rallies her friends and family in support of Capeside High's embattled principal.
Joey learns there's someone else in A.J.'s life, Dawson tries to help his mother open the new restaurant.
As Pacey sets out to tell Dawson about his feelings for Joey, she looks to avoid another kiss.
A Spring Break trip to see Dawson's aunt brings Pacey and Joey ever closer; Andie falls for Pacey's old friend, while Jen is jealous when another woman pursues Henry.
Joey and Pacey break their news to Dawson.
Dawson and Pacey use a regatta to wage war for Joey's affection.
Dawson organises an alternative junior prom.
Dawson realises he's the one standing in the way of Joey's happiness; Grams insists that Jen and Jack repair their damaged love lives before it's too late.
Uncertainty fills the air as Pacey and Joey return to Capeside following their summer-long voyage.
As a new school year finds Pacey on the verge of flunking out, Henry recruits Jack to break up with Jen; Joey goes to work at the local yacht club.
A hurricane that threatens Pacey and Jen forces Dawson and Joey to try and save their lives.
As the college application process intensifies, Drue organises a fake birthday for Jen.
As Dawson discovers that his mom is pregnant, Joey struggles with deciding when to start having sex with Pacey; Jack's sexual orientation causes a problem with his coaching a youth soccer team.
Andie's effort to celebrate her admission to Harvard ends up endangering her life.
An opportunity for time off before college prompts Andie to try bringing everyone together before she goes.
Dawson, Pacey and Jack are suspected of a senior class prank.
Dawson seeks Mr. Brooks' advice on becoming a director; Joey takes Pacey along to a dinner hosted by an exclusive college.
As Mr. Brooks' revelations about his past inspire Dawson, Pacey is encouraged to push his own relationship with Joey.
Pacey tries to disrupt Dawson's efforts to woo his sister; Drue's mischief ends with him and Joey locked inside a storage closet.
Joey's surprise birthday party for Pacey amplifies long simmering emotional tensions in the Witter family.
Dawson is less than comfortable about meeting Gretchen's friends; Joey and Pacey are enlisted to help Drue get through an important date.
As his friends wrestle with sex during a senior class ski trip, Dawson discovers that he's been given the power over Mr. Brooks' life.
As Pacey and Joey analyse their first sexual experience, Brooks' death brings Dawson and Gretchen's relationship into focus; a psychologist presses Jen about her past, while Dawson asks Joey if she's had sex.
Pacey and Joey's efforts to spend a night together create an opportunity for Dawson and Gretchen; Jen enlists Jack to help spy on her therapist.
The excitement over Joey's college admission is dimmed when she learns how much it's going to cost.
Senior Ditch Day sends Dawson and Gretchen on a road trip to Maine; Jen takes Joey to New York for a showdown with her dad.
As Gail struggles with an overdue baby, Joey worries that she may be pregnant.
While sparking a pair of possible romances, Capeside's senior prom threatens the future of two others.
Gretchen's return to college forces Dawson to make an important decision of his own; Jen balks when Grams wants to sell the house to pay for her college tuition.
Graduation for the Class of 2001 brings friends and family back together as it prepares to drive them apart.
As Dawson prepares to leave for college, he and Joey reunite in order to say goodbye.
Though they have all left Capeside for school and beyond, things between Joey, Dawson, Jen, Jack and Pacey remain unsettled.
Dawson's trip to Boston is undercut by Joey's grim phone message; Jen decides to give romance a chance.
Dawson finds his dad won't support his decision to drop out of film school; Joey learns of Pacey's presence in Boston.
As Dawson takes on the responsibility of holding the family together following his dad's death, his friends all look for ways they can help ease the pain.
Joey anxiously prepares for a visit from Dawson; Jack is forced to choose between his fraternity brothers and Tobey.
While in Boston to see a psychiatrist about his anxiety attacks, Dawson finds that his friend's lives are in turmoil, too.
As Dawson begins therapy, Joey looks for the self-confidence to voice her opinions, while Pacey discovers the truth behind Danny's affair.
As Joey and Audrey join Jack and his friends at a fraternity formal, Dawson invites Jen to join him for a weekend in New Hampshire.
Jen solicits four scary stories during her Halloween night stint as a substitute DJ at the campus radio station.
Dawson and Jen return home to an unexpected dinner party where their new relationship is suddenly unveiled.
Jen tries to convince Dawson to move to Boston, while Joey, Pacey and Audrey team up for a night to celebrate their respective achievements.
As Pacey must choose between a new passion and an old one, Dawson and Jen try to find a balance in their new relationship; Jack discovers that he is not quite as welcome at the fraternity as he once thought.
As Dawson starts film school, Jen's newfound happiness jeopardises her radio show; Joey finds herself with two dinner dates and a difficult choice to make.
As Dawson struggles to direct a classmate's script, Joey confronts her own feelings about Professor Wilder.
Joey helps a mugger who robbed her just before he was hit by a car.
As Joey is forced to face up to her feelings for Professor Wilder, Jen and Pacey get some unexpected advice on romance from a pair of touring musicians.
As Audrey and Pacey join Joey for a road trip to perform with Charlie's band, Dawson's return to Capeside reveals some new information about his mom's life and his own romance with Jen.
Dawson inadvertently insults an influential critic right before she's about to review his new film.
As a Spring Break trip to Florida forces Pacey and Audrey to admit their true feelings for each other, Joey must decide how to handle a very persistent Charlie.
As a tour for Charlie's band leaves Joey facing a big decision, Pacey and Audrey find that the restaurant's new ownership will mean big changes for both of them.
As Pacey tries fighting off the temptations offered by Alex, a study break leads Dawson into the bed with local film critic.
The end of the school year has Dawson and his friends struggling to go their separate ways.
All the best-laid summer vacation plans are thrown into disarray as everyone collides at the airport.
An end-of-summer reunion in Boston reignites Dawson and Joey's long-simmering romance.
Dawson's efforts to woo Joey are upended by the news of his summertime romance in LA.
Joey accidentally sends a heartfelt email to Dawson to the entire Worthington campus; Pacey's first week at work provides a harsh lesson in corporate ambition and greed.
As the arrival of the film's star creates problems for Dawson, Audrey catches Pacey out on the town when he's supposed to be studying.
As Dawson goes all out to keep Natasha in the picture, Audrey is offered a chance to sing with Emma's band.
Already worried that a ghost is haunting the set, Dawson suspects Todd and Natasha of rekindling their affair.
Audrey's drinking forces Joey to see how her roommate's life is spinning out of control; news that Professor Freeman is moving to Chicago presents Jack with some decisions of his own.
Jen's efforts to reunite Pacey and his girlfriend at a No Doubt concert backfire upon learning the truth about C.J. and Audrey.
Spending the night at Eddie's puts Joey at risk of losing her scholarship; Emma agrees to be Pacey's date for an office party, unaware that she's been drawn into a "hot date contest".
An out of control Audrey brings Christmas dinner at the Leery's literally crashing down.
As completion of the film creates an unanticipated opportunity for Dawson, Joey lands back in Boston where she comes face to face with Professor Hetson's unruly teenage daughter.
As Audrey gets a second chance and Pacey is offered an unexpected promotion at work, Joey is reunited with Eddie.
Joey enlists Eddie for a cross-country trek to get Audrey into rehab; Dawson finds that directing in Hollywood is going to be harder than he thought.
Pacey and Jack throw a party that is replete with surprises; a visit to see Audrey in rehab brings Dawson face to face with a moviemaking legend.
In his rush to make a hastily arranged date with a beautiful stranger, Pacey ends up locked inside a store for the night with Joey.
As Dawson returns to Capeside High to discuss his career, Pacey is drawn back home by his father's heart attack.
As Joey is drafted to fill in as Pacey's assistant, Dawson is tempted with an offer to make a film that he doesn't really believe in.
As Eddie's unexpected return throws Joey for a loop, Dawson returns home to complete his script.
A benefit session of Lovelines exposes the problems brewing between Joey and Eddie, Jen and C.J., and Jack and David.
As Eddie surprises Joey with an elaborate end of the school year gift, Pacey's dreams come crashing down on the heels of a favourite stock's meltdown.
As Pacey struggles to tell Dawson about his costly investment debacle, Jen conspires to enlist her mom in helping Grams face her bout with cancer.
With the future of his movie in doubt, Joey rallies their friends to help Dawson finally realise his dream.
Five years into the future, Dawson and his friends reunite for his mother's wedding in Capeside.
As the seriousness of Jen's condition becomes apparent, Dawson and his friends seek to resolve their longstanding differences.