Episode One
"Emotions in Motion"
    In the pilot of the show, Dawson, Joey, and Pacey are making a movie when Dawson spots the new girl, Jen, who just moves in.  He instantly starts to fall in love with her.  Joey realizes that she is not as comfortable with it as she thought she would be.  Especially when she sees them holding hands at the movies.  Pacey falls for his soon to be teacher, Tamara,  and later gets punched in the face at the movies for showing his appreciation for her!
 
 
Episode Two
"Dirty Dancing"
    Dawson finds a way to let Joey die in his movie, and to let Jen get the staring role.  Dawson finds a way to sit in the film class at school in place of the crowded detention hall.  He is disgusted at the thought of the movie they were going to have to make, and tries to express his feelings, only to be shot down.
    Later, Dawson and Joey go to the dance so that Dawson can look up on Jen and her date, Cliff.  He does a couple of stupid things because of his jealousy.  He and Jen get into a fight and Jen leaves.  Joey realizes her feelings for Dawson are growing stronger.  Jen and Dawson make-up outside the dance, with Joey watching, feeling for him.


Episode Three
"A Prelude To A Kiss"
    Dawson has to help with the film class's movie "Helmets of Glory".  He gets in trouble with the producer for verbally expressing his feelings of disgust.  When they have a problem with running the camera with some actors, Dawson has an idea that works in the end, and shuts up the producer.
    Later, when filming his movie, Dawson tries to film Jen and his first kiss.  Jen gets angry, but later he succeeds, only not to be filming their kiss, but Pacey and Tamara having sex.


Episode Four
"Carnal Knowledge"
    In this episode, Dawson learns three important things...
    1. Pacey and Tamara are sleeping together.  He finds out by watching the tape that was left on and seeing Pacey and Tamara.  Pacey then tries to steal the tape to protect the truth, but confesses to Dawson's curiosity after not succeeding.
    2. His mother is having an affair with someone at work.  Dawson sees his mother and Bob shopping.  Then he sees them kissing at work.  Dawson gets angry at Joey when he tries to talk to her about it and finds out that she already knew.
    3. That Jen is not a virgin.  When Dawson talks to Jen after he and Joey fight, they decide not to keep any secrets from each other, and soon Dawson finds out.


Episode Five
"Blown Away"
    A hurricane hits Capeside and feelings get out in the open.
    At Tamara's house, Pacey gets jealous of his brother flirting with Tamara, so he tells her that his brother is gay.  When his brother tries to ask her out, he finds out that Pacey told her he was gay, and then points a gun at Pacey to make him tell her he's not.  After the hurricane, Pacey and Tamara get intimate when his brother leaves.
    Everyone else is taking shelter at Dawson's house.  Dawson confronts his mother about her affair.  His mother then tells his dad and they get into a big fight.  Dawson and Jen get into a fight when Dawson gets mad about her past experiences after arguing with his mom.  They later make-up.  Dawson and Joey also make-up later, after realizing there is more going on between them then they thought.


Episode Six
"Look Who's Talking"
    Word gets around Capeside about Pacey and Tamara when Dawson and Pacey talk about it in the bathroom, and someone hides in one of the stalls and hears it.  The school board finds out about it and an emergency meeting is called.  It starts to look bad for Tamara when all of a sudden, Pacey enters the meeting and tells everyone that he merely started a rumor to look cool.  Tamara is out of trouble but decides to move away, ending Pacey and Tamara.
    Joey's sister goes into labor at Dawson's house because they are to far away for an ambulance to arrive quickly.  Jen's grandmother has to help out with the situation.  Joey realizes that even though her sister is not her mom, she still needs to be by her sister's side when she needs her.


Episode Seven
"The Breakfast Club"
    The gang has to spend a day in detention together.  Dawson hit Pacey in the nose with a basketball for acting like a lady's man and embarrassing him.  Joey beat up some jerk who was treating her with disrespect.  Jen said "bitch" in class.  Pacey was caught masturbating in the locker room after his flattery from the cheerleaders.
    In detention, they play two games, 'truth or dare', and 'guess who's butt it is'.  With truth or dare, Pacey and Jen have to kiss each other, and Dawson and Joey have to kiss each other.  This creates a lot of tension.  In 'guess who's butt it is', well, you know what happens in that game!
    When they later break out of detention to play some basketball, Dawson and Pacey that is, it turns into a game of who's best.  Jen and Joey realize they both want the same person.


Episode Eight
"Escape From New York"
    Jen's ex-boyfriend, Billy, comes to town and creates some tension between Dawson and Jen.  He finds out that he was the one she was caught having sex with before she was sent to Capeside.  The three of them got into a fight at a party.  Jen leaves after saying she was the third wheel.  Later she tells Billy to leave and breaks up with Dawson.
    Joey doesn't really mind that things between Dawson and Jen are going bad, and after being taken home from the party by Dawson and Pacey she kisses him half asleep.  Dawson is as confused as ever when afterward, Pacey explains that Joey likes him.


Episode Nine
"In The Company Of Men"
    Dawson, Pacey, and Billy take a road trip to a club that is a little bit mature for Dawson and Pacey.  Pacey tries his skills at the ladies and is turned down.  Dawson meets a girl named Nina and they talk for an hour and a half.  He then walks out with her and tells her that he still likes Jen, but he wasn't thinking as much about her that night.
    At Capeside, Joey is picked up by a football player for a ride to school.  She then finds out the he started a rumor that they slept together to show-off to his friends.  Jen and Joey get on better terms when they agree to work together to get back at him.  They spread a rumor that Joey is pregnant, and slip hints to him every now and then that drive him crazy.  She then finds out that he has a little problem when it comes to ladies, and he agrees to deny the whole thing or she would let everyone else know about that.


Episode Ten
"Modern Romance"
    Pacey and Joey become lab partners for an extra credit assignment.  They both have to spend a lot of time with each other to complete the project.  Pacey starts to like Joey a lot more than he thought he would, and makes his move.  He is quickly turned down by Joey, who still has feelings for someone else.
    Dawson sets up a double date at the fair with Jen and Cliff.  After Dawson's date finds out that he only took her out to get closer to Jen, she gets mad and leaves.  Later Dawson catches up with her and finds out that she likes Cliff, and that they are both in the same predicament.


Episode Eleven
"Friday the Thirteenth"
    'Friday the Thirteenth' is all Dawson can think about when he invites everyone to his house to scare them to death, only he isn't the only one doing the scaring.  "The Lady Killer" haunts their minds as well.  Dawson gets everyone pretty good with his pranks, including cutting the power off, but Joey gets back at him by pretending to die.  Pacey meets an older woman at the convenience store and brings her to Dawson's, only to have her boyfriend come by and terrorize their house to get to her.


 Episode Twelve
"Pretty Woman"
    Joey enters a beauty pageant to further her education funds.  She doesn't feel it is her style but does it anyway, with the help of Jen.  Pacey also enters the pageant to get some money so he can get his own place, away from his nagging family.  Dawson is surprised to find that Jen regrets her breaking up with him.  Neither Joey nor Pacey win, and afterwards, Dawson figures out that his feelings for Joey are growing stronger.


Episode Thirteen
"Breaking Away"
    Dawson finds himself coming to terms with his feelings for Joey when he realizes she might move to Paris.  Joey has to visit her father in jail, and ends up spending the night at a hotel with Dawson after getting there after visiting hours.  Dawson tries to tell her in bed, but fails.  Joey leaves her father without accomplishing much.  Meanwhile, Pacey learns that his family believes he's the town clown, and goes to Joey, when she comes back, for advice.  He in turn gives her some, to visit her father.  She does and they work things out.  He tells her that she has to tell Dawson how she feels about him.  She goes back, only to find Dawson and Jen kissing in his bed.  She runs out, and Dawson chases after her.  He searches but can not find her.  He goes home and finds her in his closet.  He assures her that nothing happened between him and Jen, and after a lot of waiting, they finally kiss.