EPISODE

6. High Anxiety

Dawson is having trouble with anxiety attacks since his father's death, so he tries to escape reality on a night of debauchery with Jack and his fraternity brothers, which ends with Dawson's accusing Joey of causing his father's death. Meanwhile, Jen seeks revenge on Charlie; Audrey's mom visits; and Pacey makes a discovery about Danny.

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Dawson is having trouble with anxiety attacks so his doctor refers him to a grief therapist in Boston. Outside the office Dawson changes his mind and instead embarks on a night of debauchery with Jack and his frat brothers, which ends with a drunken Dawson citing his kiss with Joey as being the reason Dawson dropped out of USC, and therefore of Mitch's death. Jen, conferring with Pacey on the issue of Charlie's cheating, finds a locket; Pacey passes it to Danny for his wife. Jen finds the other woman, Nora (Andrea C. Pearson), hiding in Charlie's wardrobe. Charlie suggests they all continue dating and Jen pretends to go along with this, but conspires with Nora to leave him naked and locked out of his dorm room, and short of several prized possessions. Audrey seeks emotional support from Joey when her critical mother Kay ( Brenda Strong ) visits. And Pacey recognises the lost locket around Karen's neck...

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