Text, Lies and Videotape

Text, Lies and Videotape
Season	5
Episode	7
INFO
Aired	21 November 2001
Written by	Karin Lewicki
Directed by	Marita Grabiak
EPISODES
Previous	High Anxiety
Next	Hotel New Hampshire

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He always believed in you

—Gale to Dawson

Text, Lies and Videotape is the 7th episode of Season 5 of Dawson's Creek.

Synopsis

With support from Jen, Dawson decides to see a doctor in Boston about his anxiety attacks. On the college front, Audrey makes an audition tape for "Real World Ibiza"; Joey works on Prof. Wilder's project; and Pacey cracks a secret at the restaurant.

Starring

James Van Der Beek as Dawson Leery Katie Holmes as Joey Potter Joshua Jackson as Pacey Witter Michelle Williams as Jen Lindley Recurring cast Mary-Margaret Humes as Gale Leery Special Guest Stars Ken Marino as David Wilder Busy Philipps as Audrey Liddell Lourdes Benedicto as Karen Torres Ian Kahn as Danny Brecher

Guest starring Pauley Perrette as Rachel Weir, Ph.D. Gwendolyn Whiteside as Cassandra Co-Starring Pam Hurley as Emily Brecher Chris Childers as Geeky Freshman Gavin Gregory as Mike Jason B. Horgan as Alan Corie Berkemeyer as Whitney Robert Longstreet as Mr. Brezny Daniel Richani as Cook

Quotes

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Most people when they get to college feel really insecure. Seems like everybody around them knows so much more, so they race to catch up, they pretend to know things instead of slowing down to actually learn them, because they don't realize that the discomfort of uncertainty is the most precious part of the experience. If you can feel comfortable not knowing, you can learn anything, and if not, then you've stopped before you've begun

—Professor Wilder

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Dawson, losing someone you love... losing them suddenly, with no logical explanation... the brain isn't set up to cope with something like that. And along the way, a few lies here and there... it's probably par for the course. The only problem is when you start convincing yourself that the lies are true

—Dr. Weir

Locations

• Worthington University
  • Joey and Audrey's Dorm
• Civilization
• Dr. Weir's Office
• Wilder's House
• Grams's Boston House
• WBCW
• Karen's Apartment
• Dawson's House

Trivia

• Dawson and Jen become closer after Jen talks to him about therapy.
• The set of Karen's apartment is the same as Doug Witter's from previous seasons.
• Audrey records an audition tape for a fictional season of The Real World: Ibiza.

BROADCAST

• The episode was watched by 3.41 million people upon its original airing on the WB.

Films

WATCHED

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REFERENCED

Cinderella (1950)

Ordinary People (1980)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Sixteen Candles (1984)

Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)

Good Will Hunting (1997)

The Fast and the Furious (2001)

Music

after all | THE ROSENBERGS

audrey + joey

EZ | PETE YORN

dawson looks for mitch's codicil

ghost | HOWIE DAY

pacey and karen talk about the affair

fall from the night | GRAN TORINO

pacey + karen + danny at the restaurant party

mess around | VANESSA DAOU

pacey + karen at the party

nightswimming | R.E.M.

jen dedicates a song on the radio to dawson

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