8. Hotel New Hampshire

Complete story — includes the ending

Nora approaches Jen at the radio station and asks if Charlie has also been writing Jen lovesick letters begging her to take him back (he hasn't). To break her out of her funk, Dawson takes her on a road trip to a small film festival in Hooksett, New Hampshire, where his documentary about Mr. Brooks, submitted by Mitch on Dawson's behalf, has won the grand prize. His main competition is Oliver Chirchick ( Jordan Bridges ), who has won the festival three years running and who starts off assuming Dawson a "Hollywood slickster;" however, over the course of the festival, the two come to appreciate each other's work, and Oliver informs Dawson of a Visual Arts College in Boston which he (Oliver) attends and which Dawson could enroll in. Jack brings Joey and Audrey to a frat party under false pretenses, believing Audrey promiscuous enough to help his brother get laid; he apologizes the next day. Pacey takes Karen on a non-romantic date, but it culminates in the two of them having sex — which Pacey realizes was actually Karen's way of getting back at Danny for "abandoning" her for his wife. Karen quits her job at the restaurant and heads off for a new start. Finally, Dawson and Jen are amused to have been assigned the honeymoon suite at the Hooksett hotel, but Dawson ends up losing his virginity to Jen, and they decide to continue seeing one another.