"I'm gonna explode, man." "My insides are gurgling." "Who gurgles at 1 6 unless they're gonna explode?" "You're not gonna explode." "Really." "How do you know?" "Some guy in Norway blew up in a supermarket last year." "Nervous anticipation doesn't cause spontaneous combustion." "Who said I was nervous?" "lt's natural that you're nervous." "You see Andie in less than six hours." "Five hours and 20 minutes if the traffic's right." "So I'm a little nervous." "But what do you expect?" "ls her dad letting you pick her up?" "Absolutely." "This train cuts at lunch." "You need some company?" "Actually, Joey's gonna come with me." "Yeah." "She wants to see Andie and per our conversation last week" "Nobody welcomes a Potter-Witter détente more than me." "Glad she has somebody." "It'll only help as Joey and I weave our separate ways through these pathless woods we call life." "Hey." "Speaking of wood, Dawson whatever happened with a certain bus girl?" "Don't ask." "She vanished." "Disappeared." "Jonathan Krakauer-ed into thin air." "You let her get away?" "I had a slightly irate father to answer to." "I'm lucky l got away with my life." "So, what's happened since?" "With Eve?" "l haven't been able to find her." "Did you check the strip joint?" "Embarrassingly, yes." "She doesn't even work there anymore." "Turns out she was a temp." "Strip joints have temps?" "Only information I have is her first name, and who knows if that's for real?" "That is really too bad, because Eve was the ultimate transitional woman." "How do you figure?" "You are coming off of an emotionally traumatic, life-altering relationship." "The last thing you need is to get emotionally involved again." "But being that you are a young, virile, increasingly buff teenage male you have certain wants and desires." "Enter Eve a gift from the gods on rebound high a curvaceous vixen who is meant to be explored in only a sexual manner a femme fatale whose entire genetic coding screams, "Objectify me."" "I'm telling you, if you ever find her, do not let her out of your sight." "Dawson?" "Eve." "Morning, Dawson." "Welcome to school." "What are you doing here?" "At 1 1 , I'm popping out of a cake for Mr. Sax in AP history." "l'm, like, a student." "You are not." "What's the matter, Dawson?" "Never seen a senior girl up-close before?" "I've seen plenty of senior girls, but none of them looked like you." "Plus, you've gotta be at least" "Watch it." "Older than I am." "l thought you'd be more excited..." "...by my sudden appearance." "l'm excited." "It's just that it's usually followed by a sudden disappearance." "I mean who are you, Eve?" "First, you're this stunning passenger on my bus, striking up conversation then you're wearing a wig, serving cocktails in a strip club." "Now you're a senior at my high school." "You've got it all wrong." "I'm none of those things." "I'm just a girl standing in a janitor's closet asking you to kiss her." "Late for bio." "See you." "Hold on." "Can I get your last name this time?" "Hey." "It's Leery, but you can call me Dad." "Listen, we were just talking about you." "We need an honest student opinion." "The pep rally is tomorrow, setting the tone for this football season." "With the Minutemen having bad luck, and in light of me being the new coach" "We thought we'd revolutionize this, set this pep rally apart from the others." "What do you think?" "Good." "I'm gonna need your help." "See you in my office at 3:00." "Very wise of you to help out, son, in light of the fact that you owe me." "It is so not my day." "I can't thank you enough." "After a year with Jennifer, having Jack was like boarding St. Francis." "When does Andie get in?" "Tonight." "Pacey wanted to bring her home early." "She's made a full recovery then?" "That's what the doctors say." "Although they remind you that with mental illness you're never out of the woods." "You've given that girl a chance by moving your business so that she can stay in Capeside." "About that, maybe we could wait till the weekend and move all my stuff back in." "Actually, that's what I've come to talk to you about." "Why don't I give you two a moment." "I was thinking that perhaps it might be better for you to stay here a while as long as it's all right with Mrs. Ryan." "You don't want me home?" "You have a situation that works." "I don't think it's wise to disturb that." "You have a situation that works for you." "The changes that you're going to make in your life now changes you have every right to make would be too difficult with me around." "Why can't you admit that you're afraid?" "You can't deal with a gay son." "Me being around means doing just that." "Must you assume that all my decisions are based upon my lack of character?" "No." "Just the ones that concern me." "Well, since this is still my home, I suggest you leave." "Andie McPhee is scheduled to be released tomorrow, not today." "That's why it's a surprise." "We try to avoid surprises." "The only way she leaves today is with her own written consent." "Which I will get if you'll let me walk in and talk to her." "And that will be tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. when visiting hours resume." "Not a minute earlier." "You gotta be kidding." "Does this look like a face that kids?" "This is ridiculous." "What happened?" "They don't allow visitors after hours." "Subsequently, I can't talk to Andie and subsequently, I can't get her permission to take her home." "What?" "Follow me." "You don't understand." "I have to see a doctor immediately." "This is a private care facility." "Unless it's a medical emergency we do not take walk-ins." "l have psychiatric concerns." "Well, obviously." "If that's the way it is, I guess you'll just have to do." "Excuse me?" "Well, somebody's gotta listen to me." "I've had a tough life, and I have a lot to talk about." "It all started when I fell in love with this boy down the creek." "That was after my mother died but before my father went to prison for the second time." "The boy's name was Dawson and he was your typical over-analytical, adorable teenager who happened to be my best friend." "That's propaganda." "ln a word, yes." "It's the only chance we have of getting people into those seats." "Listen." "All I need right now is somebody to recut this footage into a promotional film for tomorrow." "Your father says you're the man." "Footage of what?" "The Minutemen." "Our fearless champions of the turf." "Ambassadors of sport." "Paragons of athletic prowess." "They're winless three years running." "Listen, I know what the reality is." "The footage wouldn't emphasize what is, but what could be." "The Leni Riefenstahl approach." "You know, the Nazis did this too." "Dawson throughout history, film has been a highly effective medium." "Now, Capra, he used it to recruit American troops to fight World War ll." "Annie Hall inspired countless scores of women to start to wear men's apparel." "l'm telling you" "You know what?" "I'll do it." "Can I go now?" "Slow down, Buster Brown." "I'm warning you, this is the last time I'm gonna chase you." "I spent a year chasing a woman." "It's a bad habit." "l don't plan on getting into it again." "Oh, you're one of those, are you?" "One of whom?" "Those guys who spend their life..." "That isn't" " Not entirely true." "So you're completely over her." "Over who?" "Nice try." "The brunette you brought up when we met on the bus." "Okay, I motion for a change of subject." "Motion denied." "Are you or are you not over your ex-flame?" "Yes. I'm over her." "Sorry." "Don't buy it." "Then why did you even ask?" "To see if you'd be honest." "You weren't. I like that." "You like dishonesty." "What else turns you on?" "Greed and corruption?" "Sex." "Sex turns me on, Dawson." "It tends to do that to people." "And you would know how?" "I will choose to ignore that slight." "Maybe it wasn't a slight." "Maybe it was an invitation." "What are you suggesting?" "Only the obvious." "A night of scorching-hot, unbridled mind-altering sex." "Just like that?" "No first date, no getting to know each other?" "Those are small-town rituals for small-town girls." "Let's face it." "We're hot for each other." "It'd be a lot of fun." "Who knows?" "Maybe it'll even help you get over that certain brunette." "You're on." "Good." "Now, I'll take care of the time and place." "You just take care of being prepared." "How do I find you in the meantime?" "You don't find me, Dawson." "I find you." "It is so my day." "You'll see." "Okay." "Pacey!" "Oh, my God." "What in the world are you doing here?" "l came to surprise you." "Okay." "Oh, God, good to see you." "Yeah!" "Marc." "Pacey, Marc." "Marc, this is..." "Hey, man." "...a big surprise." "I thought my dad said that he was gonna pick me up tomorrow." "Yeah, I know. l" " We thought that-- Well, I thought.... lt's dinnertime for me." "Well, bye, Marc." "We'll talk soon, I hope." "We will." "Andie." "Oh!" "Joey!" "Hi!" "You came too!" "Yeah." "And if we don't leave soon, they're gonna make me stay." "Guess we should get you packed up." "Right." "One, two, three, four We don't care if we don't score" "Five, six, seven, eight A few points would be really great" "That's all right, that's okay You're gonna work for us someday" "Go, Capeside!" "What do you think?" "This is for a pep rally." "Don't you think they should be more--?" "Peppy?" "No, optimistic." "I know, Jack. I've tried." "Believe me, I've tried." "Think I want to be responsible for killing off the last vestiges of Capeside school spirit?" "Ever since they elected me leader of their little junta all they want to do are these nasty, sardonic, self-aware cheers." "They've started to dress like me." "They're genetically predisposed to having no identity." "Yeah, that's the blond gene." "Not funny." "Oh, watch it!" "This isn't fan-appreciation day!" "Nice catch." "We're not giving the balls away!" "Come on, coach, his arm blows." "Power down." "They're killing us out there." "We're running play-action patterns against ourselves." "No one is killing us." "I thought you weren't sure yet whether or not you wanted to go home." "The point is, he should've asked me." "Oh, God!" "Look out!" "What kind of father doesn't want his son to live with him?" "Trust me." "Been there." "At least you have Grams." "So do you." "And me." "Come on, coach!" "You're a second-string freshman who's lucky he's not on JV." "In the instance Falk gets injured, that's when you start." "And in the instance that he sucks?" "Four laps!" "Now!" "Oh, God!" "Look out!" "PowerBars, Advil, Polaroid film." "LifeSavers." "What else?" "What am I forget--?" "Oh." "The condoms." "What was that?" "The condoms." "A pack of condoms?" "You gotta speak up, son." "Condoms." "We don't keep them behind the counter anymore." "Condoms, aisle six!" "This is worse than breakfast cereals." "Big night or you just stocking up?" "Little of both." "Yeah, well your prophylactic purchasing has never been more difficult." "Used to be, they just had two kinds." "Regular and for those of us who needed them the Magnum." "Yeah." "These days you got your ribbed, your nonribbed your lubricated, your nonlubricated your thin, your ultrathin." "Sheepskin, extra sensitive nonoxynol-9 and glow-in-the-dark." "Glow-in-the-darks don't work." "No kidding." "You gotta hold them up to the light for 20 minutes." "Who's got time for that?" "And if you really want to blow her mind try the Brown Betty." "Oh, yes." "This is not happening." "Marc seems like a pretty nice guy." "What's he in here for, anyhow?" "That's private, Pacey." "Come on, Andie, it's just us." "Let's not talk about Marc." "Please?" "That's just it. lt seems a little odd." "You never mentioned him in any of your letters or your e-mails." "Pacey, drop the male-jealousy thing." "It's a long walk home, Potter." "is that what this is about?" "You're jealous?" "How could I not be, Andie?" "I've spent months counting the moments until I could see you." "The thought that some guy got to see you every day and hear your stories and eat dinner with you just kills me." "Well, we're together now, aren't we?" "Finally, the reunion kiss we've all been waiting for." "So let's go." "Listen up!" "We're gonna run a touch game!" "Now, "touch" does not imply half-assed." "I want you to run hard, keep your patterns sharp." "Ready?" "Break!" "Coach." "Yes, Henry." "l'm second-string." "Yes, Henry." "Which means I get to go in." "Yes, Henry." "This is my one shot at impressing you." "I'd like to tip the odds in my favour." "Call in a ringer." "Team's divided, Henry." "There's nobody left." "Sure there is." "Tailback, slant right." "Z-post on one." "Jack, you run 1 0 yards out." "Cut to the right flat." "The ball will be there." "You ready?" "Break!" "Okay." "Hut!" "Hut!" "Hut!" "Nice!" "All right!" "We should make Capeside around 1 0, so place your station requests now." "Alternative." "Classic rock it is." "You all right, Andie?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "I'm just happy to be with you and to be going home." "How's the first day of classes going?" "Very well, I must say." "I missed you so much." "I missed you too." "Hey, hey, hey." "Get your hands off my girlfriend." "Get your hands off my sister." "So about tonight." "What about it?" "I was thinking since it's your first Friday back you and I could catch a movie and stroll down to our spot." "Well, I was thinking we could all grab dinner tonight." "You know, as a group." "Sorry. I promised Jen that I'd go to that pep rally." "Well, that could be fun." "In case you forgot, we're a very nonspirited group and pep rallies are all about spirit." "What about you and me?" "Well, I mean, there's plenty of time for us to be alone." "I just kind of want to be around normal people right now. lt's been a long time." "Well, what am I?" "Well, she said normal people." "You know, McPhee, if I didn't know better I'd think that you were trying to avoid being alone with me." "No. I mean, we can be alone after." "Or tomorrow." "Okay?" "Okay." "Bye." "You wanted to see me?" "Excellent job yesterday." "Thanks, Mr. Leery." "l prefer my players call me "coach."" "No way." "No." "I want you to join the team, Jack." "You and Henry were amazing." "l don't play." "Well, you fooled me." "Look, do I have to spell it out for you?" "l think you do." "Gay kid on the football team." "If that isn't an invitation for ridicule, what is?" "One thing has nothing to do with the other." "Oh, yeah, perfect world, maybe." "That's not Capeside." "Look, I got this job on a lark, Jack." "Nobody wanted to coach a team that had been so bad for so long." "It couldn't be any tougher than the last year of my life, and who knows?" "I might even like it." "But the chance of actually winning?" "That's something I could really use right now." "And, Jack I think you could too." "Not bad for a Sherpa imitation." "What you doing?" "Setting up for tonight." "Or trying to." "Dawson, pray tell." "Condoms?" "I'm sorry. lt's just that on the list of things that I expected to find condoms fall somewhere between nuclear plans and crack cocaine." "Curiosity begs I ask, who is the lucky girl?" "Privacy begs I ignore you." "Ever since Philly, somebody's been whistling a very different tune." "It's a Dawson for the new millennium." "A guy who's not afraid to use the words "good" and "time" in close proximity." "Well, tell me, then, Dawson 2000, are you ready for this good time?" "And I don't mean in a Trojan kind of way." "How do you mean?" "Sex isn't a one-way street, Dawson." "There's gonna be expectations where you're concerned." "Okay, any hot tips?" "I thought that you would never ask." "All right." "It's all about one word, Dawson." "Pacing." "Now, virgins either go too slow or too fast." "Now, which do you think you are?" "How would I know?" "Let's say that you have a sundae right in front of you but no spoon." "Now, it's 1 00 degrees out and you're starving." "Do you lick the ice cream or do you bite right in?" "Bite right in." "Too fast." "See, first, you need to admire the sundae." "Watch the sundae." "And then just before it's about to drip, you gently let your lips lick around the exterior savouring every inch." "You want to make that sundae last a long time." "Not too long, otherwise it ends up all over the table instead of in your mouth." "But, Dawson, if you remember one thing, let it be this:" "If you don't get the whipped cream all over your face you're not doing it right." "You see what I'm saying?" "I don't know But I've been told" "I don't know But I've been told" "Capeside Minutemen break the mould" "Capeside Minutemen break the mould" "We've got style We've got class" "We've got style We've got class" "So what if those other guys Kick our ass" "So what if those other guys Kick our ass" "Go, Capeside." "Go, Capeside." "All right!" "Very nice, very nice." "Thank you, Minutegirls, for your candid enthusiasm." "It is my pleasure to introduce to you the most integral part of this Minuteman team." "He's the new coach, a substitute teacher here at Capeside Mitch Leery!" "Thank you, Principal Green." "Thank you all for coming out tonight!" "We've got a great team this year so I won't waste any time introducing them." "At linebacker are Ben Thomas and John Healy." "Defensive ends, Alex Martin and Todd Frasier." "Defensive tackles are Kenny Reed and Scott Taylor." "Personally, I've seen enough." "What do you say we get out of here?" "Nope." "We're here." "We're staying put." "Do you guys see what I see?" "Wide receiver, Jack McPhee." "When did this happen?" "lt's news to me." "Jen's a cheerleader?" "And Jack's on the football team?" "Okay." "I got sane and everybody else went crazy?" "Offensive tackle, Mike Lupo and Oscar Ramirez." "And now for a big surprise." "A first in Capeside history." "This year's starting quarterback, freshman Henry Parker." "l'm sorry." "lt's okay." "It's cool. lt's cool. lt's cool." "Hey, you got a pompom, you know." "Capeside, meet this year's Minutemen." "Frisky much?" "Well, listening to you holler really does bad things to me." "What do you say we "scramola," huh?" "ln a little bit." "Come on, McPhee." "I said, in a little while." "What are you doing?" "l want to talk to you and I'd really rather not do it in front of the whole school." "And now for something a little different to end tonight's program a closer look at the Capeside Minutemen." "Valour." "Agility." "Determination." "Strength." "In Capeside, we have one word that means all those things.." "Minutemen." ""'The time has come,' the Walrus said."" "You don't mean now?" "I pick the time and place, remember?" "But" " Here?" "Right" " Right now?" "l mean, my video is playing." "Which is the lamest of lamest excuses." "Good point." "Dawson." "Let's go." "They say that girls like you don't exist." "They lie." "What the hell is going on?" "Don't tell me that it's nothing." "You've been acting strange from the second I picked you up and now I have to beg you to spend time with me." "So, what is happening?" "We shouldn't talk about this here." "So I'm right." "Look, this is not the time." "Okay?" "ls it me?" "Are you trying to end things?" "No!" "God, that's the last thing that I want." "Fine." "Then what is so awful you've waited so long to tell me about it, Andie?" "A lot happened to me this summer, Pacey." "A lot." "What are you trying to say?" "If we're gonna talk about this now you have to promise you will not say one word until I'm done!" "Fine." "Go on." "No." "Promise me, Pacey." "Okay. I promise." "Just tell me what's wrong." "When I went to Mayfield to get better I wasn't myself anymore. I wasn't the same person who came to Capeside." "I wasn't the girl you fell in love with." "My first week, I met Marc." "And he had been through everything I had been through and more." "In and out of facilities three times on and off medications since he was 9." "I didn't write you about him because I didn't want you to get jealous." "We were just friends." "You know, we'd spend our free time together, just talking endlessly mostly about our fears." "I was so afraid, Pacey." "Afraid of everything." "Scared they were never gonna let me out or that whatever was broken inside me wouldn't be fixable." "And Marc he understood these things like nobody else because they were his fears too." "He even had a girlfriend that he was anxious to get back to." "You slept with him?" "We knew immediately afterwards that it was wrong for both of us." "You slept with him, Andie." "We decided just to continue to be friends and not tell our significant others, but then when I saw you...." "Pacey, it was the biggest mistake of my life." "All I keep thinking about right now is, what if you can't forgive me?" "I mean...." "Pacey, you have to forgive me." "Please." "You have to forgive me." "Then there was the loss to Harrison High." "Did the 20-point difference discourage our men of blue and yellow?" "There is an audience of people on the other side of the screen." "Isn't it great?" "You sure there's not a closet we could duck into?" "Positive." "What was that?" "What was what?" "That click." "Nothing, Dawson." "Wait." "That was not nothing." "Relax. I'm sure it's...." "Just the right amount of luck and perseverance." "Don't turn around." "Why?" "You ready?" "I think I'm gonna catch a ride home with my father." "You don't wanna hang out?" "Part of me really, really wants to." "But just part of you." "I don't know anything about you." "I don't know where you come from, why you're here. I don't know your last name." "All you are to me is sex, and if I slept with you, that would be the reason." "We all have a reason for sleeping with someone, Dawson." "Whether it's their body their personality, their money or their sense of humour." "What's the difference?" "I guess the difference is, the first time I sleep with someone I don't want it to be for just any reason." "I want it to be for every reason." "Your eyes." "What about them?" "That was my reason." "When I first met you I looked into your eyes and I saw such an old soul." "Thank you, Eve." "Whitman." ""Thank you, Eve Whitman."" "I don't suppose there's any chance you'd give me your phone number?" "That one you'll have to earn." "I don't think we'll be attending any more pep rallies anytime soon." "Probably not." "Thanks for the ride." "No problem." "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." "No. I couldn't even look at her right now." "You have to, Pacey." "You have to hear her out." "Why?" "What's the difference, Joey?" "No matter what, the ending's still the same." "She slept with somebody else." "You think just because you were together, what she did hurts more?" "It doesn't." "There's no difference, Pacey." "I mean, look, she's 1 6 years old and so are you." "We talk like we know what's going on." "We don't." "We don't have any idea." "Look, we're really young and we're gonna screw up a lot." "We're going to keep changing our minds and" "And sometimes, even our hearts." "Through all of that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness." "And I couldn't do that." "At least, I did it too late." "Don't let yourself get so angry that you stop loving because one day, you'll wake up from that anger and the person you love will be gone." "These fishnets itch." "l can't believe you're wearing them." "Dad." "Hi, Jack, Jen." "Jack, I'll see you at home." "Yeah." "Jen's grandmother called." "Said I should make my way down here tonight." "I wasn't sure why till I saw you up there." "Congratulations." "Thanks, I guess." "Seeing you on that stage made me realize I was wrong." "How do you mean?" "Jack I honestly thought I was doing what was best for you." "I thought living under my care would be too hard that there were too many differences between us." "And when I saw you in that jersey for the first time in a while I saw myself in you." "Dad, it shouldn't take a football jersey to make you see that." "You're right." "I would like very much for you to come home." "Sorry, but no." "Well, I figured that would be your response but I needed to ask." "Thanks." "Good night, Jack." "Night, Dad." "Dad?" "Yeah?" "Ask me again sometime." "I was hoping you'd find me here." "To be honest, I told myself a thousand times not to come." "So why did you?" "Because I owe you that much." "But I've already told you how sorry I am." "What else can I say?" "There's nothing else to say." "So you don't think that you can forgive me?" "Whether or not I can forgive you is not going to be what keeps us apart." "What you did...." "Our relationship was, like, this beautiful thing." "And I don't think you ever realized how powerful it was." "You changed my life, Andie." "You were that person for me." "You inspired me to be a man that I had only ever dreamed about being." "When you first started to get sick it dawned on me that I might not be that person for you." "I can never go back to loving you the way I did knowing that my love wasn't strong enough the first time around." "I can always forgive you but I will never forget." "But I still love you, Pacey." "Goodbye, Andie." "Hey." "Hey." "What are you doing here?" "I'm not sure." "Your house is like magnetic north." "Certain nights, it just draws me in." "While you were gone this summer there were days I would just get in my boat and come riding past your dock." "For old times' sake, I guess." "We can't go back, Joey." "I know." "That's the expression, isn't it?" ""You can't go home again."" "I've realized it for a while." "Earlier tonight...." "l'm sorry you had to see that." "Don't be." "I think I was meant to." "In some weird way, it helped me." "I mean, seeing you on that stage something inside of me clicked and for the first time I felt how wrong it would be." "I mean we really do need to move on and meet new people and to have new relationships." "It's weird how that happens, isn't it?" "You still love the person, but you stop needing them like you used to." "Yeah." "It's weird and it's kind of sad." "So we're friends and then we're a couple and then friends again." "Then we're a couple." "So...." "So, what are we now?" "We're Dawson and Joey." "You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?" "I hope so." "For their sake."