Again With This

Dawson's Creek, Melrose Place & Beverly Hills, 90210

Dawson's Creek  \\  S03.E02

Homecoming

Football fever starts spreading just in time for Andie's return to Capeside.

Mitch is, as we learned in the premiere, Capeside High’s football coach, and both he and Principal Green are very focused on turning around the team’s years-long losing streak. (This contradicts what we were told about now long-gone football star Cliff, but never mind; he’s in a better place.) Mitch and the principal thus enlist Dawson to create a promotional film for the team, and somehow he finds the time around condom shopping, because Eve is still around — now as a Capeside senior — and still very openly coming on to Dawson whenever she sees him. It’s too bad Dawson can’t use footage of the current team, because freshman quarterback Henry Parker (Michael Pitt) is actually good, and by chance finds the wide receiver of his dreams in Jack, whom Mitch soon drafts to join the team; this should provide a nice break for Jack from worrying about why his dad, who has moved his business to Capeside so that Andie can resume her studies there, doesn’t want Jack to join them. Speaking of Andie: she’s inconveniently released from her residential treatment center days in to the school year. Pacey is overwhelmed with excitement about getting to pick her up — after having apparently only written emails and letters the whole time she was gone — but when he gets there, he finds her with a boy, and then seems to be avoiding Pacey whenever he tries to get some time alone with her. HMMMMM. Come home to our latest episode on “Homecoming”!

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