Pacey Witter
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Pacey J. Witter is a character on television series Dawson's Creek, played by Joshua Jackson.
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[edit] Biography
Pacey Witter is the son of the local sheriff and is one of several children, including his older policeman brother, Doug Witter, and older sisters Gretchen and Carrie Witter. He is an academic underachiever who uses humor to relate to people. His best friend is Dawson Leery and he appears in a few of Dawson's early films. Pacey is a romantic at heart, but he tends to jump straight into the sack when it comes to women. (Tamara Jacobs (Season 1), Andie McPhee (Season 2), Joey Potter (Season 4), Audrey Liddell, Melanie Shaye Thompson, Karen Torres, Rina (Season 5) Sadia (Season 6.)
[edit] Season One
In season one, Pacey falls in love with and loses his virginity to a teacher, Tamara Jacobs. Unfortunately for Pacey, Dawson had accidentally filmed Pacey's first time with Ms. Jacobs and during a conversation between Dawson and Pacey, a student overheard, and a rumour spread. The ensuing scandal eventually forced Ms. Jacobs to break up with Pacey and leave town. Pacey then had a romantic interest in Joey, when they spent the day with each other. He realised that maybe he could like her, but whenhe asks Dawson if he can ask Joey out, it forces Dawson to assess his own feelings towards Joey. Pacey asks Joey out and kisses her, but Joey swiftly turns him down. Pacey also comically enters a beauty pageant and performs a skit from Braveheart.
[edit] Season Two
In season two, Pacey goes through a radical change when he starts dating Andie McPhee, an academic overachiever who tries to help Pacey reform his study habits. She does and Pacey begins to do well in school, even achieving his first-ever A. But Andie begins to suffer some psychological problems, which are due to the tragic death of her eldest brother Tim, and the effect that it has on her family, and this affects her relationship with Pacey. She suffers a nervous breakdown when she begins to hallucinate that she is seeing her deceased brother, and takes a leave of absence for a stay in a mental health facility. Pacey misses her terribly and when his father makes a snide comment about Andie being crazy, he hits him. In season 2 we see the strained relationship he has with his father and the effect Andie has on that relationship. Near the end of the season, Andie tells his father over the phone to give Pacey a hug for her, and his father does. This ultimately leads to a touching moment — it seems that they have put their past behind them and, for the first time on screen, Pacey looks for some support from his father and actually gets it. Along with loving Andie he feels like he must protect her brother jack. This is highlighted when Jack is forced to read a very personal poem in front of the class which reveals that Jack is possibly a homosexual and it ends up with Pacey spitting in the teachers face. This shows a defiant side to Pacey and we see the lengths he will go to defend a friend or someone who he feels is being mistreated in any way or form.
[edit] Season Three
In season three, Pacey agrees to look out for Joey Potter as a favor to Dawson as Dawson says that he won't be around to look after Joey. He also breaks up with Andie because she cheated on him while in the hospital. He rescues and restores a wrecked boat, busying himself with the project to get over Andie and his growing feelings for Joey — his best friend's soulmate. He acts as a mentor figure for a young boy with a similarly rebellious attitude. As the season progresses, a romantic triangle develops among the two boys and Joey. Pacey's and Dawson's friendship is ruined when Dawson finds out that Pacey and Joey have been going out behind his back, and are in love. With Dawson finding out about their relationship, Joey ends things with Pacey, and this sparks a competition between Pacey and Dawson to win Joey's heart. At the end of the season, believing that he would lose Joey to Dawson, Pacey decides to leave Capside, on his boat the True Love. Realizing that Joey loves Pacey and that his attempts to be with her are fruitless, Dawson tells her to go and be with Pacey. Pacey and Joey then leave Capeside for the summer on his boat the True Love.
[edit] Season Four
In season four, Pacey and Joey continue to date and both are in some way trying to get back their respective friendships with Dawson, Joey proving more successful than Pacey. Pacey's relationship with Dawson was essentially ruined by his pursuit of Joey and Dawson felt that he could never trust Pacey ever again. Pacey's older sister Gretchen comes back to Capeside from College and they move in together. Pacey suffers through the whole season, as he personally thinks that he isn't good enough for Joey. He realises that they maybe are going to have very different futures. In the meantime, Dawson, Pacey, and Jack all fall under investigation when Principal Peskin accusses them of being involved in a senior class prank---his sail boat, along with his dog, were found in the school swimming pool, with the words "Class of 2001" painted on the boat's sail. With Mitch Leery serving as Vice Principal, he secretly vouches for Dawson's whereabouts as Peskin's investigation drags on. Although class trouble-maker and Jen's old friend Dru Valentine is blamed for the prank, it is later revealed that Dawson, Pacey and Jack did indeed pull it off on their own. While his relationship with Dawson is on the mend, Pacey is still having issues with Joey---although she wants to, Joey is afraid to take the next step in their growing relationship. After alot of talk and realization, Joey and Pacey finally consummate their relationship during the Senior class ski trip after nine months of dating. However, their relationship eventually goes sour, when Pacey gets arrested for public drunkedness while Joey takes a trip to New York with Jen. Constantly being reminded of his failures, Pacey loses it, and in the most humiliating way, dumps Joey at Senior Prom. After the break-up, a spokesman from Worthington College---Joey's new school---asks to see Pacey about, what he thinks, is an opportunity to attend the prestigeous school. However, it is a job offer to become a deck hand on the spokesman's yacht for the summer. Disappointed, Pacey decides to take the job and leaves Capeside before graduation, to sail around the Caribbean. However horrible his academic success might have been, Pacey did graduate from high school.
[edit] Season Five
In season five, we see that Pacey is docked at Boston, on the boat he has been working on for the summer and after a while he decides to work as a chef in order to stay with his friends in Boston. He has a relationship with one of the waitresses, Karen Torres. This turns out to be problematic because she is having an affair with the head chef, Danny; a married man that Pacey admires as his mentor. He also tries to help out Dawson, who is in a bad emotional state, as Mitch Leery passed away in the beginning of the season. He and Audrey Liddell (Joey's roommate) get very close and start going out. Pacey's mentor, Danny, leaves Civilization (the restaurant) and a new manager, Alexandra Pearl, takes over. In the process of "re-staffing", Alex fires Audrey, but chooses to keep Pacey around. Alex begins hitting on Pacey and eventually, he gives in. During a Spring Break trip to Florida with Jack and Jen, Pacey and Audrey are in the process of deciding wether or not to become a serious couple. In the meantime, Audrey's high school boyfriend, Chris, an aspiring actor, shows up and Audrey lies about her past with him. Pacey catches the two kissing in the house at which the five friends are staying, and confronts her. Pacey and Audrey eventually decide to go steady. After several months, Audrey decides to break up with Pacey after discovering him making out with his boss, Alex Pearl, at his apartment. At the end of the season, he goes back to Capeside, and picks up a job as a police officer for the summer, but he quits that to go in pursuit of Audrey. At the airport she is about to leave for California, but he makes a touching plea to her through the airport's intercom system and he wins back her heart. They drive cross country to Audrey's home in Los Angeles.
[edit] Season Six
In season six, Pacey finds financial success as a stockbroker. Eventually he breaks up with Audrey as his new job has a dramatic effect in his lifestyle which clashes with Audrey's and has a brief attempt at a reconciliation with Joey, that Joey breaks off. While working as a stockbroker, Pacey clashes several times with his pig-headed boss, Rich Renaldi. Embarking on a romance with reporter Sadia (who later reveals that she's engaged), Pacey ends up helping Joey get a job at his place of work during her spring break. After Rich fires Pacey's assistant, he hires Joey to take over and Pacey falls for his former girlfriend yet again. He loses his job after punching his boss in the face after he loses a lot of money in a stock that went bust. He also almost lost his friendship again with Dawson, as Dawson on Pacey's advice had put all of his money for a new film that he was going to direct, into that stock. After Joey convinces him, Pacey goes out to look for a job, and in the meantime gathers what money he can with the help of community members to pay Dawson back at least some of the money he'd lost. In the process, Pacey is reunited with Christy Livingston---the senior girl he had a crush on and followed around in high school; Pacey considers himself lucky when Christy gives him her phone number before leaving.
In the series finale, Pacey is now the proprietor of the Ice House...with the help of his older brother, Capeside's new Sheriff Witter and the bank. After telling Joey she's "off the hook" for the way they ended their romantic relationship and his inability to get over her, the two end up together after it becomes clear that Dawson and Joey are "soulmates" and that their love is so pure, that it goes past romance. So Joey and Pacey are the couple who re-ignite their relationship and we see Pacey and Joey in their apartment placing a phonecall to Dawson in LA.
| Dawson's Creek |
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| Characters |
| Dawson Leery | Jen Lindley | Joey Potter | Pacey Witter |
| Locations |
| Capeside | Capeside High | Worthington University |
| Other |
| Young Americans | List of Dawson's Creek episodes |
