Listen, Dawson, anything that's worth anything is scary. Or dangerous in one way or another.
S3Like a Virgin
Do you have a fever or something?
Oh, that's just me. My temperature. I run a few degrees hot.
[to Joey] It's the damndest thing. I just got into Dawson's rowboat and it magically drifted towards your dock.
Ahoy there, anyone ashore?
What are you doing here?
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.
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?
Well, what do you think?
I think I hate you both.
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?
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.
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]
[Puts arm around her] Come here, Potter .
[Pacey kisses Joey's forehead]
S3Homecoming
I'm just a girl, standing in a janitor's closet, asking you to kiss her.
You think every Joey has a Dawson and every Dawson has a Joey?
I hope so...for their sake.
[Dawson is standing in the aisle looking at the wide variety of condoms]
MCMale Customer
Yeah...these days [puts his arm over Dawson's shoulders] you got your ribbed, your non-ribbed, your lubricated, your non-lubricated, your thin, your ultrathin, sheep skin, extra sensitive, nonoxynol-9 and... glow-in-the-dark.
MCMale Customer 2
Glow in the darks don't work.
MCMale Customer 1
No kidding?
MCMale Customer 2
No, you gotta hold 'em up to the light for 20 minutes, who's got time for that?
[woman customer walks up]
WCWoman Customer
And if you really want to blow her mind try the Brown Betty.
[they all grab a pack and walk away]
This is not happening.
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.
No, not right now. 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, 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
Worse. They're even starting to dress like me. It's like they're genetically predisposed to having absolutely no identity.
Yeah, that's the blonde gene.
Not funny.
S3None of the Above
Don't worry, Pacey. This isn't going to be one of those horribly awkward, hope-boy-didn't-mean-all those-hurtful-things-he-said-during-the-break-up-moment.
Well that's a relief 'cuz I sure don't wanna play the guy-feels-guilty-about-breakup-even-though-it-was-girl-who-had-an-affair-with-the-mental-patient-scene.
Someone gave it to me.
A certain someone with blond locks and a name that rimes with Steve?
[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.
I bet when she offered you that test you didn't fire one ethical comment her way, did you?... It's just your friends who have to sit here and... and suffer through the Dawson Leery morality play, bleached blond ho-bags willing to put out need not audition.
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.
Weak and self motivated, huh? Now which one of those two colorful adjectives would i be?
You are who you are, 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.
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]
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]
It's my fault, I'm sorry.
Dawson, this has got to stop! [to Pacey] Are you okay?
Hey, brought you a Pepsi.
No thanks, I'm not thirsty.
It's for your lip, moron. I'm out of ice.
I can't believe he thought I'd take that-
So what, 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]
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]
Do me a favor?
Hmm?
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.
Well good, let him stew in his own pride for a while.
Now we're all guilty of that.
Hey, I'd never accuse him of cheating.
Yeah, well I'm pretty sure he'd never take the first swing at you.
He started that whole thing!
I'm not getting into this.
Okay, so tell me.
What?
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.
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]
S3Home Movies
For a minute, I thought you'd been possessed by these school spirit creatures from the planet Overzealous.
Not quite yet, but I am thinking about making a run for it before the pods hatch. What do you say Scully?
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