| Dawson Leery | |
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 All the mysteries of the universe, all the answers to life's questions can be found in a Spielberg film | |
First Appearance:
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(1x01) "Pilot"
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Last Appearance:
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(6x24) "...Must Come To An End"
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Family:
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Significant Others:
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Occupation:
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Aspiring Film Director
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Biography
Dawson Leery is the main character of the series. He is a big fan of Stephen Spielberg and wants to become a director himself. Dawson is the oldest child of Gail Leery and Mitch Leery. He was joined with a younger sister called Lilly who was born when he was 18 years old. Dawson's best friends are Joey Potter and Pacey Witter. He later becomes best friends with Jen Lindley, Jack McPhee and Andie McPhee.
Season One
Dawson and Joey Potter watching E.T at the very beginning of the first ever episode.
At the beginning of season one, Dawson believes in good old fashioned values of romance. He also believes that all answers to any life problems can be found in a Stephen Spielburg movie. During season one, he was a very keen film maker and made a film for the Boston Film Festival, along with his friends, Joey and Pacey. Later in the season, Dawson casted Jen to be in his film. Dawson and Joey have known each other for years, and often Joey would climb into Dawson's bedroom window and they would often hang around together for hours. When Jen Lindley arrives in Capeside, Dawson gets very friendly with her, and they end up having a relationship with each other. Later in the season, Jen dumps Dawson, telling him that she needs more time. Near the end of the season, Pacey asks Dawson's permission to ask Joey out, but Dawson responds jealously. Joey then enters a beauty contest, and then Dawson realizes how beautiful Joey is. Dawson also goes with Joey to visit her
Dawson and Joey share their first kiss
father is prison. While Joey gets offered a chance to go to France, Dawson realizes he can no longer hold back his feelings for Joey, and the season ends with Dawson and Joey kissing in front of his bedroom window.
Season Two
Dawson falls into his cake during his 16th birthday party.
While Dawson and Joey's relationship starts off well, new-comers Jack McPhee and his sister, Andie McPhee, befriend them. Jack starts to realize that he has feelings for Joey and he ends up kissing her. The kiss confuses Joey. Joey then decides to dump Dawson, but then she quickly finds that she ends up dating Jack. This sends Dawson back in the arms of Jen. Dawson then makes a movie based on Joey and how he feels about her. Later in the season, Jack reveals to Joey that he is gay. Joey runs back to Dawson, but Dawson neglects her. For his 16th birthday, he goes to a club with Pacey and Andie, only for him and Andie to get drunk.
Near the end of the season, Dawson and Joey get back together, but their relationship is short-lived as Joey's father,Mike Potter, is released from Prison. One day, Dawson catches Mr.Potter in a drug deal. He decides whether or not to tell Joey.
At the end of the season, Dawson tells Joey, and Joey then tells him that she will never forgive him for what he's done.
Season Three
After a summer spent with his mom in Philadelphia, Dawson returns to Capeside still reeling from his split with Joey. On the bus ride home, he meets Eve, a mysterious, blonde femme fatale that seems intent upon luring Dawson with her sex appeal. After make out scenes in the janitor's closet and in front of the entire school at a pep rally, Eve convinces Dawson to go for a ride in his dad's boat. He does, but wrecks it on the way in and is told he must pay $3,000 to repair the damage to the dock he crashed into. Pacey then convinces Dawson to throw a stripper party at his parents' house to earn the money to pay for the dock. Although they successfully gather enough money, Mitch catches everyone leaving the house and Dawson knows he's in trouble. In the meantime, Dawson finds Eve snooping around in Grams's house one night. Before he had realized that it was Eve he had called the police and it is Deputy Doug that turns up on the scene. He brushes it off afterwards, not wanting to get Eve in trouble. He later discovers an old photograph of a blonde lady in the house-boat that Eve has been living in, which he takes. Doug informs Dawson that the boat belongs to an elderly couple. When Eve later comes for the photo he insists that Eve tell the truth. Eve reveals that she is adopted and that the woman in the picture is her biological mother and that she is searching for her. While helping Grams at her house, Dawson notices the same woman in a picture sitting on a nightstand. He asks who the woman is and Grams reveals that it's her daughter, Helen, Jen's mother. Dawson decides against telling Jen of his discovery. However, when Jen's mother visits her mother and her daughter at Thanksgiving Dawson confronts her, pretty much forcing her to tell Jen herself. When Dawson, Pacey and Joey join Jack and his ex-girlfriend Kate at a party hosted by Matt Caufield, the entire group, except Joey, gets drunk. Dawson, fighting to have a life separate from Joey's, nearly kisses Kate. When Pacey's brother, Deputy Doug busts the party after finding Pacey lying in a tree, the group all end up spending the remainder of the evening behind bars. While Dawson tells Joey that she cannot be his keeper, Jack confesses to Kate that he's gay. Meanwhile, Mitch turns from friend to parent, and as a result of having to bail his son out of jail, enlists Dawson to help out at his mother's new restaurant. After meeting a rival film-maker, Dawson realizes that he has let his desire to become a director overtake his life, and he decides to give it up for a period of time. He takes down all the posters in his room, and tries to cultivate other interests. During this tumultuous time, he realizes that the only thing in his life that has ever made sense is Joey, and determines to win her back. Little does he know, however, that Joey and Pacey have been growing closer and eventually embark on a secret romance. When he discovers their relationship, Dawson reacts with anger, and cuts Pacey out of his life. He is more determined than ever to win Joey back. Joey and Dawson go together to the Prom, but when Dawson sees Joey sharing a dance with Pacey, he is enraged and demands Joey choose. Eventually he realizes that Joey wants to be with Pacey, and gives her his blessing. She leaves him on the pier, sobbing.
Season Four
Dawson discovers that his best friend, Pacey has feelings for Joey. After saving Pacey and Jen from a storm at sea, Dawson is forced to white wash a fence for old-time film director A.I. Brooks, as punishment for putting a hole in his boat whom Dawson was forced to take to rescue Pacey and Jen during a storm at sea. Eventually, Mr. Brooks warms to Dawson and lets him film a documentary on him when he tells Dawson that he is dying of cancer. In the meantime, he is confronted with the idea of Pacey and Joey as a couple. While they experiment with sex during the class ski trip, Dawson must make a life-or-death decision about Mr. Brooks when he's admitted to the hospital in a coma involving his terminal illness and has requested that Dawson be the one to take him off life support. Dawson chooses to let him go. When Dawson asks Joey if she slept with Pacey during the ski trip, she lies, telling him that nothing happened. During this season, Dawson strikes up a romance with Gretchen, Pacey's 21-year-old sister, who has arrived back to Capeside to take a break from college, or so everyone thinks, but she later reveals that she is there to recuperate from a miscarriage that took place during her previous semester. The baby's father was her ex-boyfriend, pig-headed Nick, whom Pacey admired at first. During the Leery Christmas Party, Dawson and Gretchen share a kiss, which ignites old feelings from his pre-teen years when he had a crush on her. After his sister Lily's birth in May 2001, Dawson and Gretchen part ways and she returns to college, and he graduates from high school and heads off to USC to pursue his dream of becoming a film maker.
Season Five
After graduating, he studied film at USC, but soon dropped out and moved to Boston to be with his friends and to be with Joey. Before Dawson can even get his parents approval for moving to Boston his father Mitch Leery is tragically killed in a car accident. This changes everything for Dawson. At first he blames himself but then he goes on to blame Joey and that puts all romantic possibilities for them out of the picture. Instead Dawson is reunited with his old girlfriend, Jen Lindley. During their trip to the Hookset Film Festival in New Hampshire, Dawson loses his virginity to Jen. It is at this festival that Dawson wins first prize for his documentary about A.I. Brooks. There, Dawson meets Oliver Churchkirk, an aspiring film director from Boston Bay College who fancies himself the best in the business. After being asked to read his script, Dawson agrees to direct Oliver's first major film. He casts Joey's bubbly roommate Audrey Liddell as the female lead, and Oliver casts himself as heartbreaker, Gage. After several flubbed lines and mistakes, Dawson concludes that Oliver is not the right person for the role. He then asks Jen to bring in her cheating ex-boyfriend, Charlie Todd, to play the part. Charlie agrees when Jen tells him that he gets "to make out with a really hot girl." In the meantime, while Dawson and Oliver journey to New Jersey for a meeting with a film agent, the rest of the gang takes to the beaches of Florida for spring break; Pacey is hit on by Norwegian singer Marion Raven while working on his relationship with Audrey, while as Dawson later discovers, Joey embarks on a spring fling with Charlie Todd. Following his heart, Dawson hijacks the car with Oliver and drives down to Florida to tell Joey that he loves her. To Dawson's disappointment, Pacey tells him that Joey is with Charlie. When their film is finished, Dawson learns that Oliver set up to have the film screened by cast, crew and friends. When Dawson finally agrees, he discovers that Oliver also invited a film critic, Amy Lloyd, who writes for The Boston Weekly. Dawson, not knowing who she is, stumbles upon Amy in the midst of a nasty break-up and tells her that she is a "sentimental drama queen with really crappy taste in movies." Angry, Amy leaves, unwilling to review the movie. In order to get her back to the auditorium, Dawson makes out with Amy at a local coffee shop in order to prevent her ex-boyfriend from seeing her; it turns out the man she was trying to avoid was not her ex-boyfriend. After running into Amy at a movie theatre in Boston, Dawson's spends the night at Amy's house and the two make love. He spends the remainder of the next day with her as well. After a misunderstanding with Joey, Dawson heads to the airport to fly to L.A. Joey confronts him about the way things ended between them just days prior. The two kiss goodbye and Dawson departs for California.
Season Six
After not talking all summer, Dawson has a one night stand with Joey. The next morning Dawson receives a call from his girlfriend in L.A. leading him and Joey to fight. Dawson returns to California. After breaking things off with Joey, Dawson reunites with Hollywood actress, Natasha; she is presumed to be a few years his senior. In the meantime, when Joey shows up to deliver food to the movie set at which Dawson works, Natasha, drunk and angry, explodes on Joey; subsequently, the director, Todd Carr, fires Dawson. Realizing she made a mistake, Natasha helps Dawson get his job back. Dawson pays a visit to Audrey in rehab, earning her dish duty for the night, after stalking one-time film director Toni Stark. He returns to L.A. only to discover that Todd, his new mentor and friend, is in disagreements with the film company that is paying him to make the movie, "Wicked Dead". While Todd quickly decides to discard Natasha from the leading role, Dawson convinces him otherwise. Dawson directs the re-shoots of the movie, but even so, the movie flops, going to straight to cable TV. After realizing they have tickets for the wrong night of a No Doubt Concert in Worcester, Natasha uses her "assets" to get herself and Dawson admittance into the venue. When this fails, Dawson shows off his newly-won $600, hoping someone will trade tickets with him. However, this only attracts an on-duty police officer who takes the duo to a nearby station. They are let go with a warning from the authorities. After a few months and some white lies, Dawson assumes that Natasha is having an affair with Todd. But his worries turn out to be all for nothing when two reveal their affair is a scam, and they were simpling messing with Dawson. Natasha and Dawson reunite and he brings her to Capeside for Christmas. Knowing that she cheated on him with a fellow actor (Max Winter), Dawson questions Natasha's intentions, to which she becomes angry. Realizing that he's not in love with Natasha, he breaks up with her, and the two part on good terms as Natasha returns to Hollywood. Meanwhile, Dawson's relationship with Pacey is better than it has been since the triangle began in the third season. Trusting Pacey to make his film savings grow, Dawson puts all the money he earned into a stock Pacey recommends. However, the stock falls through and both Dawson and Pacey are left with nothing. As a result, the two, once again, vow to no longer be friends. Joey, who is always caught in the middle, tries her best to reunite her friends. Pacey gives Dawson all the money he'd collected (but not all that was owed). Dawson concedes that there may be hope for the two of them. With Audrey playing the role of Ms. Jacobs, Harley as Joey and her boyfriend Patrick as the girl-crazed 15-year-old Pacey, Dawson, with Joey's and Todd's help, begins filming his lifestory, adapted for the big screen.
Series Finale
In 2008, Dawson is the executive producer and chief writer of the television program The Creek, a self-referential coming-of-age teen drama based on his adolescence in Capeside. While a young blonde boy portrays Dawson himself under the name "Colby", his two best friends appear as the neurotic "Sam" and heartbreaker "Petey." Returning to Capeside for his mother's wedding, Dawson learns that Jen is dying. Dawson helps Jen leave a video message for her young daughter Amy, and he and Joey reconcile their past agreeing that they are meant to be best friends and nothing more. However, on the series finale episode, Kevin Williamson discussed the original ending of Dawson's Creek, stating the pairing was meant to be Joey and Dawson, but the two showed to be better as friends. The series ends with Dawson in his office who receives a call from Pacey and Joey, congratulating him on the season finale episode of The Creek. Dawson tells them that he's going to meet with somebody tomorrow, whom Pacey and Joey are able to guess is Steven Spielberg, Dawson's idol.
Relationships
Jen Lindley
- Girlfriend
- First Relationship:
- Beginning:"Kiss" (1.03)
- End:"Boyfriend" (1.08)
- Reason: Jen breaks up with him when her ex-boyfriend comes into town.
- Second Relationship:
- Beginning:"Hotel New Hampshire"(5.08)
- End:"Highway To Hell" (5.17)
- Reason: They both didn't really feel anything romantic for each other anymore.
- Fling
- Beginning:"High Risk Behavior"(2.10)
- End:"Sex, She Wrote"(2.11)
- Reason: They almost had sex, but didn't go through with it.
- First Relationship:
Joey Potter
- Girlfriend
- First Relationship:
- Beginning:"Decisions"(1.13)
- End:"The Dance"(2.06)
- Reason: Joey broke up with him because she wanted to see if she could be her own person without him.
- Second Relationship:
- Beginning:"A Perfect Wedding"(2.18)
- End:"Parental Discretion Advised"(2.22)
- Reason: Dawson made Joey turn in her dad to the police by wearing a wire and Joey broke up with Dawson because of it.
- Almost Third Relationship:
- Beginning:"Coda" (4.23)
- End:"High Anxiety"(5.06)
- Reason: They had thought about getting back together in this time, but after Dawson's dad died, they realized that it wasn't the right time to try for a relationship and being around Joey reminded him too much of his life before his dad died.
- Fourth Relationship: (One Night Stand)
- Beginning:"The Kid's Are Alright"(6.01)
- End:"The Song Remains The Same"(6.02)
- Reason: Joey found out that Dawson had a girlfriend in California that he only broke-up with the morning after they slept together.
- First Relationship:
Eve Whiteman
- Fling
- Beginning:"Like A Virgin"(3.01)
- End:"None Of The Above"(3.03)
- Reason: Dawson realizes how manipulative she is and breaks it off, and she leaves town after that.
Gretchen Witter
- Girlfriend
- Beginning:"The Tao of Dawson"(4.11)
- End:"Promicide"(4.20)
- Reason: Gretchen breaks up with him because she doesn't see a future with him and she believe he's not over Joey.
Natasha
- Girlfriend
- First Relationship:
- Beginning: Between"Swan Song"(5.23) and"The Kids Are Alright"(6.01)
- End:"The Kids Are Alright" (6.01)
- Reason: Dawson breaks up with her over the phone after having slept with Joey the night before.
- Second Relationship:
- Beginning:"Spiderwebs"(6.08)
- End:"Merry Mayhem"(6.10)
- Reason: Natasha broke it off because she never really saw them going far, and it was more of a fling for her.
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