Joey Potter

Josephine "Joey" Potter (played by Katie Holmes) is a fictional character in the American television drama Dawson's Creek.

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Katie Holmes - Dawson's Creek

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Joey has been friends with Dawson Leery since they were young. She lives with her sister, Bessie, Bessie's son Alexander and (sometimes) Bessie's boyfriend Bodie. Her father is in prison for drug offences and her mother died of cancer.

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Dawson Leery - Bessie

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The first two seasons of Dawson's Creek see Joey's initially unrequited love for Dawson develop into a relationship with him which soon turns sour when Joey feels she needs to "find herself." She briefly dates the new guy in town, Jack McPhee, but he discovers he is gay and they break up. At the end of the second season, Joey and Dawson get back together briefly but after Dawson convinces Joey to wear a wire to get evidence to convict her father for drug trafficking again, Joey says she will never be able to forgive him.

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Dawson's Creek - Jack McPhee

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Wanting Joey to have someone she can talk to at the start of the third season, Dawson asks his best friend Pacey Witter to keep an eye on Joey and as the season progresses, Joey and Pacey develop feelings for each other. When Dawson finds out, he is furious and it is a long time before the friendship between the three of them returns to normal. In the season finale, Joey says she cannot choose between the two of them, but after Dawson tells her to go to Pacey, who is leaving to spend the summer sailing down to Florida, she joins Pacey on his boat and they spend a glorious summer together.

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Pacey Witter - Florida

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When Joey and Pacey return to Capeside in the fourth season, harsh realities strike. Joey, now a senior, needs to get a scholarship in order for her to be able to afford to go to college. She is offered a place at the prestigious Worthington College but does not get enough financial aid and so decides to turn down the place until Dawson offers to give her some of the money he received in the will of his friend, Mr Brooks, enabling her to go to Worthington. Pacey, however, feeling insecure about Joey's success and believing that he isn't good enough for her, breaks up with her at the end of the season.

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The fifth and sixth seasons span Joey's first two years at Worthington College. She becomes close friends with Audrey Liddell, her roommate who later dates Pacey. Joey is briefly involved with one of her professors in season five, before getting together with Dawson at the start of season six when they finally sleep together. Then Joey discovers Dawson already had a girlfriend back in Los Angeles and so once again, she and Dawson break up before they really got together. Joey dates Eddie, a guy who attends one of her classes and with whom she works but they break up near the end of the season. Joey also briefly kindles her romance with Pacey but this does not work out.

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The final two episodes are set five years in the future, when Joey and all her friends return to Capeside for the wedding of Dawson's mother Gale (his father died in the fifth season). During this double episode, Joey finally chooses, once and for all, between Dawson and Pacey. She says that while Dawson is her soulmate, the love she has for him is eternally pure and innocent, whereas Pacey is her true love. In the final scene, we see Joey and Pacey watching Dawson's semi-autobiographical TV show "The Creek" in Joey's apartment, before calling up Dawson together when they discover he is to meet his hero, Steven Spielberg.

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