EPISODE

21. Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road

Pacey has to return to Capeside and inform Dawson that their investment in the stock market is gone; Jen's mother makes a visit to Boston where Grams needs to tell her about her cancer.

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Joey returns to Capeside to find Dawson's script on her doorstep and is overwhelmed that he has written a story about three friends. She spends the day with Dawson rebuilding their friendship. Later that evening, Dawson's movie-making dreams are shattered when the broke and unemployed Pacey arrives and comes clean about losing all of Dawson's money. The ensuing verbal fight opens old wounds, and Dawson finally articulates why he has struggled to forgive Pacey all these years for the constant bad luck and the bad choices that Pacey has made. Dawson, Pacey and Joey somberly part ways, believing their friendships will never be the same again. Also, with classes at Worthington over, Joey says goodbye to Audrey, who has to stay behind to attend summer school classes. Wanting to resume her music career, Audrey, with friend Jack Osbourne helping her, takes the stage at Hell's Kitchen, alone and sober to sing a low-key song with only an acoustic guitar. Elsewhere, Jen invites her mother, Helen ( Mimi Rogers ), over to Grams' house where she wants her to tell Helen about her cancer. However C.J.'s Uncle Bill arrives and inadvertently reveals Grams' cancer to everyone. Jen suggests that she, Grams and Jack all move in with Helen in NYC, where Grams can get the best medical care available, and the others agree.

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