Joey Potter

Joey Potter

Infobox character
colour =
name = Josephine Potter


caption = Joey from the episode "None of the Above"
first = 1.01: "Pilot"
last = 6.24: "...Must Come To An End"
cause =
nickname = Joey, Jo, Potter
age =
born = October 1983
death =
occupation = Writer, Junior Editor
title =
family = Lilian Potter (mother)
Mike Potter (father)
Bessie Potter (sister)
Alexander Potter (nephew)
children =
relatives =
episode =
portrayer = Katie Holmes
creator = Kevin Williamson

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

Character biography

Joey has been friends with Dawson Leery since they were very young. She lives with her sister, Bessie, Bessie's son Alexander and (sometimes) boyfriend, Bodie. Her father, Mike, is in and out of prison for drug trafficking. Her mother, Lillian, died of cancer when Joey was thirteen. She was given the name Josephine in honor of Jo March, the heroine from her mother's favorite book, Little Women. She is the only character to appear in every episode of the show.

eason One

In season one, Joey is the girl next door, or in this case, across the creek. She is confused by her growth into a teenager and her developing feelings for Dawson. She immediately becomes jealous when Jen Lindley arrives and steals Dawson away from her. She is intimidated by Jen, who grew up in New York, and doesn't know how to compete. She lives with her pregnant sister Bessie, and she works for her at the Ice House---the Potter family restaurant. She is frustrated with having to deal with work and taking care of her sister along with significant helpings of teenage angst. Nonetheless, Joey manages to be helpful with the birth of Bessie's son, Alexander, as does their critical neighbor, Evelyn Ryan. One day she is convinced to compete in the beauty pageant, which she does so that she can win the cash prize. But instead of winning the contest, she wins Dawson's heart, as he finally sees past his best friend image, and realizes that he has strong romantic feelings towards her. At the end of the season, she finds herself with the opportunity of going to Paris for the summer, but rejects it in favor of staying in Capeside with Dawson.

eason Two

At the start of the season, she and Dawson fall madly in love, but Joey begins to think that she is losing her identity, as she can't see where Dawson ends and she begins. During a full moon, the new guy in town, Jack McPhee, kisses her. Dawson finds out during a school dance. After a huge argument, Joey decides to break up with him, even though for the first time they both say that they love each other. She says that she wants to "find herself", and so she breaks up with him.

Joey and Jack begin dating afterwards, but the relationship ends just as quickly when Jack realizes that he's gay. Joey's father is released from prison and comes back into her life. At first this change is uneasy, but they heal the rift between them and she gets back together with Dawson. However, Dawson finds out that Joey's father is dealing cocaine. After a fire at the restaurant which was started by rivals of Joey's father, Dawson tells Joey. He convinces her to wear a wire, and get a confession from her father so that nothing like the fire will happen again. She gets the confession from her father and shows him the wire. Knowing that she had betrayed her father, she is understandably heartbroken and angry with Dawson. She breaks up with him and tells him she doesn't even want to know him.

eason Three

After Dawson returns from visiting his mom over the summer, Joey offers herself to him but Dawson instantly rejects her. Joey flees out the window crying. Dawson doesn't want to be the person she turns to, as it is too complicated and difficult, so he asks his best friend Pacey Witter to keep an eye on her. As the season progresses, Pacey and Joey develop a close friendship. Joey is asked to paint a mural for the school, but when she unveils her finished piece, it has been vandalized. The perpetrator, Matt Caulfield, is expelled, but after a great deal of pressure from his parents, Principal Green is forced to leave the school, which sparks Joey into action in which she sets up petitions and a rally, etc. She has a brief friendship with a college student, A.J. Muller (Robin Dunne), on whom she develops a crush. But this high school crush does not last once Joey meets A.J.'s best friend Morgan. A.J. is in love with Morgan but hasn't realized it yet. Joey helps him realize that he should be with Morgan and phones Pacey that night to bring her home. She is upset and confides in Pacey as one of the two people that "have ever known her in a way that no one else does." This expression of friendship triggers Pacey's burst of emotion, and he finally confronts her about his recent feelings for her and kisses her. Joey initially rejects the idea of Pacey as anything other than a trusted friend; however, she realizes that she has feelings for him, as well.

During a trip to the home of Dawson's aunt, Gwen (Gail's sister), Pacey kisses Joey twice, forcing her to choose, once and for all, between him and Dawson. The two are caught by Aunt Gwen and Joey is confronted with the truth. After this realization, they begin a secret romantic relationship.

When Dawson finds out all about Joey and Pacey's relationship, he is furious, and the friendship between the three of them never completely heals. Joey breaks up with Pacey to try and make things better with Dawson, and to mend the friendship that she and Dawson once had. Dawson, however, sees Pacey as his enemy and opponent in winning Joey's heart. In the meantime, Gail and Mitch have already agreed to support Pacey in the 2000 Capeside Regatta boat race. To get back at Pacey, Dawson enlists Jack to race against Pacey in the regatta with the support of the Potter B&B. Joey, seeing the Leery's restaurant flag hoisted on Pacey's boat, the "True Love", takes it as a sign that Dawson and Pacey are again on speaking terms; but it couldn't be further from the truth. Endangering the lives of his father, Jack, himself and Pacey, Dawson vows to win the race, leaving Pacey no other choice but to pull out in order to avoid a collision. Joey, realizing what's just happened, becomes even more angry with both boys - Pacey for kissing her and Dawson for putting her in the middle of their complicated love triangle.

In the season finale, Joey feels torn between the two friends but comes to realize that while she's just fearful of losing her oldest friend, Dawson, she has fallen in love with Pacey. Dawson realizes that Joey loves Pacey and that he can't stand in their way. Joey rushes off to tell Pacey that she loves him before he departs for a summer at sea on his boat. She joins Pacey on his boat and tells him that she loves him. The two then sail off into the sunset and spend a glorious summer together.

eason Four

Joey and Pacey return to Capeside in the fourth season, and after a blissful summer are quickly brought back to reality when they must confront the events of the past year and the subsequent fallout. Joey is eager to mend fences, even though Dawson is still hurt by what happened. Pacey's relationship with Dawson never quite recovers, though the two are civil and acknowledge a shared history and group of friends. Dawson soon begins dating Pacey's older sister, Gretchen, who has returned to Capeside after having a miscarriage. Gretchen helps Dawson to find himself once again by helping him get over Joey and back into film making. The gang undergoes the typical senior year rights of passage, including college applications.

Joey needs to secure a scholarship in order to afford college. She is offered a place at the prestigious Worthington College (in Boston), but she cannot afford to attend. On a ski trip with the senior class, Pacey and Joey sleep together for the first time, but when Dawson questions her she lies about losing her virginity. Pacey finds out about the lie from his sister and is disturbed even further when Joey accepts money from Dawson to attend Worthington.

Pacey, feeling insecure about Joey's success and their relationship, believes that he isn't good enough for her, and that their futures are worlds apart. Blaming Joey for all of his failures, Pacey humiliates her during a nasty break-up at their senior prom. Although the breakup is painful for both, each looks to the future: Joey in Boston and Pacey at sea. At the end of the season, as Dawson is preparing to leave Capeside for Los Angeles, in a scene reminiscent of Season One's ending, Dawson and Joey share a kiss.

eason Five

In season five, Joey attends Worthington College in Boston, where she meets and befriends her roommate Audrey Liddell. Joey is studying English Literature, and for a time starts seeing her college professor, David Wilder.

Throwing everyone for a loop, Mitch is killed in a car accident leaving Gail, Dawson and baby Lily behind. Having been a witness to her mother's painful last days, Joey thinks that she can help Dawson through the process of grieving for his father. She attends Mitch's funeral, but is rejected when she tries to help Dawson deal with his whirl of emotions. Upon returning to her dorm room in Boston, a crying Joey is comforted by Audrey. While Jen convinces Dawson to go to counseling, Joey catches Jack in a 'bid' to get one of his frat brothers in bed with Audrey during the fraternity's Winter Formal.

Joey later joins the band, Aggressive Mediocrity, as lead singer with Jen's cheating ex, Charlie Todd (Chad Michael Murray). They embark on a whirlwind romance before she tells him to leave to pursue his dream of being a touring musician. She has an unforgettable run-in with a mugger, who luckily for her, gets hit by a car shortly after robbing her at gunpoint. However, when she is requested to be at his side in the hospital, Joey discovers that the mugger is also a drug addict, and has a young daughter, Sammie, with his wife, Grace. When the mugger dies with Joey at his side, she returns to the waiting room, all of her belongings returned, including the money. Thinking of Sammie, whose situation reminds her of the relationship she has with her own father, Joey leaves all the money hidden in Grace's backpack.

At the end of the season she returns to Capeside, and Dawson confesses to her that he wants to be with her. She rejects him saying that all those feelings were in the past, but in the last episode she rushes to the airport, to declare her true feelings for Dawson. She catches him, and they kiss. Joey tells Dawson to go to Los Angeles as that is his destiny, and that they'll meet up after the summer. As she goes to get a refund, she is offered the chance to go to Paris, and the audience is left hanging.

eason Six

In the beginning of Season Six, it is revealed that Joey didn't end up going to Paris, but went home to Capeside. After not talking all summer, she and Dawson meet up at Hell's Kitchen, a local bar. The two make love, and spend the next day together, until it is revealed that Dawson has a girlfriend in California. Joey is deeply upset and breaks things off with him. She takes a job as a waitress at Hell's Kitchen, with the help of aspiring drummer, Emma Jones. Joey eventually falls for the bartender, Eddie Dooling (Oliver Hudson). They both have a love for writing and literature and seem like the perfect match, but it turns out that he is not officially a student at Worthington, and his family were too poor for him to get in.

After an interesting Christmas spent in Capeside, Eddie disappears without telling Joey, going back to Worcester to live with his parents. In trying to find him, Joey gets some help from Harley Hetson---the 15-year-old, alienated, headstrong daughter of her snobbish and somewhat misogynist English professor, Greg Hetson (Roger Howarth). Harley lies, telling Eddie that Joey was pregnant with his child in order to lure him back to Boston. After being locked overnight in a K-Mart store with Pacey, he admits to Joey that he never stopped loving her. Soon after, Joey is offered a chance to work as a secretary for Pacey in his stock broker firm. They briefly rekindle their romance before Eddie reappears in Joey's life (ironically Pacey and Joey break up at another prom). Pacey and Dawson break off their friendship again after Pacey confesses that he lost all of his and Dawson's money in a high-risk, bio-tech stock that didn't go through. Once again, Joey is stuck in the middle, taking it as a sign to become Capeside's resident peacekeeper.

They all move back to Capeside and Joey brings everyone together to help Dawson make his movie. However, Pacey refuses to take part in the project, telling Joey that he'll just screw up again. Joey doesn't believe him, and eventually, after spending several weeks on his brother's couch, Pacey goes out to look for a job. In the meantime, he gathers what money he can with the help of community members to pay Dawson back at least some of the money he'd lost. He asks Joey to relay the message and give Dawson the money, but Joey refuses, deciding once and for all that what's happening between him and Dawson "is not her fight" and that it never has been, and never will be. Joey finally goes to Paris and the final episode of the season ends with her standing before the famous Eiffel Tower.

eries finale

The final two episodes are set in 2008, and Joey is revealed to be a junior editor living in New York with her writer boyfriend, Christopher. During this double episode, the five friends are reunited in Capeside one last time for Gail Leery's second wedding. Although she had originally planned to spend the weekend vacationing with Christopher, Joey runs scared after finding an engagement ring hidden in the couple's dresser while packing for the trip.

Shortly after arriving in Capeside, she runs into Dawson at the local gas station. During Gail's wedding reception, Joey and the rest of the gang soon learn that Jen has a deadly heart condition; now the single mother of a 1-year-old daughter, Amy, Jen has been taking care of a sickly Grams, who has been battling breast cancer for the last five years (since season 6).

In the meantime, after ending her relationship with Christopher, 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 she can see herself having a romantic, sexual relationship with Pacey.

When Jen dies, Grams kisses her on the forehead and tells her, "see you soon," implying Grams does not have long to live.

In the midst of their romantic entanglements, Joey, Dawson, Jack, and Pacey are all brought together at the Ice House, now owned by Pacey, to say goodbye to Jen, who dies from pulmonary congestion, leaving her young daughter in Jack's care. Jack, who worries about Amy having a repeat of his own childhood, resumes his love relationship with Pacey's brother Doug, now openly gay. After Jen's death, Joey and Pacey watch Dawson's semi-autobiographical TV show "The Creek" in their apartment, before calling up Dawson together where they discover he is going to meet his hero, Steven Spielberg.


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