1. The Bostonians

Complete story — includes the ending

Dawson is a freshman film student in Los Angeles and about to begin an internship at a studio under director Todd Carr ( Hal Ozsan ), while Joey is settling in at Worthington College in Boston. Instead of focusing on their new lives, they find themselves distracted by the distance between them and their unsettling last kiss. Joey is out of her depth, dealing with promiscuous roommate Audrey Liddell and a demanding creative writing professor, David Wilder ( Ken Marino ), who gives her story -- based on her kiss with Dawson -- a C. Jen and Jack try to settle in at (the fictional) Boston Bay College, with Jack taking the chance to tease Jen about her lack of love life: he points out that in the last year, both of them have only kissed one man, and the man Jen kissed was him. Jen visits the harbor, where Pacey has moved in secret, a caretaker to Kubelik's yacht. Joey, Jack and Jen, with Audrey tagging along, attend a frat party; there, Audrey admits to Joey that she too has a romantic attachment from high school she left behind; Jack begins to bond with the members of the fraternity; and Jen finds a romantic spark with Charlie Todd ( Chad Michael Murray ), whose band was hired for the party. Joey leaves an emotional voicemail message to Dawson that it's time for them to go their separate ways; the next morning, he arrives at her dorm room, having been fired from his internship, and doubting his future in LA.