在夏天，Pacey和Audrey摇摆洛杉矶，和她的隔壁邻居，Osbournes和杰克奥斯本花时间甚至标签与他们在沃辛顿采访。 Jen花了她的时间在纽约，欣喜若狂地学习她的父母分开。杰克被埃里克抛弃了，但已经过去了。 Joey在Capeside度过了她的夏天，做了很多阅读，工作和浪漫。在他们第一周回到波士顿湾学院时，Jen惊讶地发现Grams Ryan决定回学校。在沃辛顿，当她决定参加一个由自由主义，但操纵和愤世嫉俗的教授Greg Heston教授，谁毫不犹豫地嘲笑和尴尬的乔伊在课堂前她缺乏知识的当前书主题。 Pacey和Jack搬出Grams的房子，Pacey试图获得一个完美的公寓，由一个名叫艾玛·琼斯的英国女人命名，她是当地酒吧Hell's Kitchen的服务员。此外，Dawson正在制作一部新电影，一部名为“Wicked Dead”的恐怖电影，作为助理导演和Todd Carr的导演。当他终于和乔伊一起，他是唯一一个想起她20岁生日的人。

  During the summer, Pacey and Audrey rocked Los Angeles and spent time with her next door neighbors, the Osbournes, and Jack Osbourne even tags along with them to interview at Worthington. Jen spent her time in New York and got ecstatic to learn her parents are separating. Jack got dumped by Eric, but got over it. Joey spent her summer in Capeside doing a lot of reading, working and romancing. On their first week back at Boston Bay College, Jen is shocked to run into find that Grams Ryan has decided to go back to school. At Worthington, Joey experiences nothing but bad luck when she decides to enroll in an intermediate writing class taught by the liberal, but manipulative and cynical, Professor Greg Heston who does not hesitate to ridicule and embarrass Joey in front of the class with her lack of knowledge of the current book topic. Pacey and Jack move out of Grams' house and Pacey tries to get the perfect apartment, owned by a feisty, punk rock British woman, named Emma Jones, who works as a waitress in the local bar Hell's Kitchen. Also, Dawson is working on a new movie, a horror film titled "Wicked Dead" with him as the assistant director and the hack Todd Carr as director. When he finally gets together with Joey, he is the only one to have remembered her 20th birthday.