TEXT: #506 - Use Your Disillusion [Leery Residence <unk> Gale is folding some blankets when Dawson walks in.] Dawson: (Dawson holds a clumpy, spidery looking thing up.) I got it. (Gale screams) It's a hairball. Sorry. Just thought you wanted to know the tub is fixed. Gale: Thanks honey. But for future reference, I do not need to see the offending clogging object. Dawson: Sorry. Um, so the tub is fixed, I paid all the bills for next month Uhh What else? Oh, I could get Lily a new pacifier. She chewed the last one pretty good. Gale: Sweetie, why don't you take a break? Dawson: I don't need a break. Just tell me what needs to get done. Gale: No, nothing needs to get done. That's just it. I don't need you to do anything right now. So, why about taking Joey up on her offer? She's been calling here almost every day asking her to go see her. Dawson: Yeah, but it's just been so hectic around here. There's something else I've been forgetting to do Gale: Honey? I'm okay. You can go away for a couple of days. I will not fall apart. So go to Boston. See your friends. Lily and I will be right here when you come back. (Gale walks out of the room. Dawson stares at the phone with trepidation.) [Boston <unk> Joey and Audrey are jogging through the park. Audrey is jogging quite spastically and completely out of breathe. Joey jogs along quite normally.] Audrey: So, every morning, when you go out for a job, you're actually Joey: Jogging. Yes. Audrey: You're not just ditching me to go have some Iced Cap frappy thing by yourself? Joey: Nope. Audrey: Because you realize, I never would have signed on for this little bonding session if I thought that real exercise was involved. (She collapses into a park bench as Joey continues.
SUMMARY:
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 accusing Joey of causing his father's death (by way of being the central cause of his decision to stay in Boston, which in turn was the cause of the argument on the night of Mitch's death). Jen seeks revenge on cheating Charlie. Audrey's critical mother visits. And Pacey makes a discovery about Danny and Karen.