Dawson's Creek, Season 6

Dawson:
It's weird, huh? This room used to be the official meeting place where we'd discuss what happened that day. And now it's just a film set, and I don't even know what happened this year.

Joey:
Yeah. I was kind of hoping I could just climb up the ladder and... magically fill in all the lost time.

Dawson:
How's that working for you?

Joey:
Not so easy.

Dawson:
Yeah.

Joey:
Maybe I was gone for too long.

Dawson:
Well, we'll piece it together between the two of us then, right? The lost year of Dawson and Joey.

Joey:
It wasn't easy.

Dawson:
What wasn't?

Joey:
Not talking to you. Maybe it seemed like it was. And I guess it just... became routine, just another thing that I didn't do. Well, like shooting heroin or driving drunk.

Dawson:
Wow, I'm up there with the dangerous activities.

Joey:
Or casual sex. Dawson, for so long, you were the only person in the whole world I wanted to be with. Then somehow you became my only one-night stand.

Dawson:
I never meant for it to be like that.

Joey:
I know. I know. Maybe being in this room makes it easier. Having it set up this way, you know, I'm so familiar, and... seems insane not to talk. And sometimes the hardest things to say are the things that... really matter.

Dawson:
Hmm. Why do you think I've spent years trying to write an entire screenplay about you?

Joey:
I read it in one sitting.

Dawson:
Ok. I hope you don't think that I gave it to you so that you could just say all the obligatory nice things.

Joey:
And why would I feel obligated?

Dawson:
Exactly, because if I can't get an honest opinion from the girl who loathes me more than anyone else in the world, who can I trust, right?

Joey:
You've always been this devilishly clever.

Dawson:
Well... yeah. But... uh, I got--I got-- I wanted you to read it because... well, you're really the only person in the world who can tell me if I got it right this time.

Joey:
You grew up, Dawson. You grew up. I always wanted to think that you were this hopeless dreamer and I was the adult that escaped. But I didn't escape anything, not really.

Dawson:
Sure you did. You got out of Capeside. Wasn't that the original plan?

Joey:
Couldn't escape myself, could I? You were right. So much of what I was fighting was growing up. And I figured out this past year that it's hard for me... to talk about sex, to talk about... getting close with someone. And maybe... I'm not supposed to lose myself. Now it's not part of the plan. But then again, I never thought that losing you was part of the plan, either.

Dawson:
I think sometimes... you have to lose somebody completely before you can figure out what they really mean to you. I missed you, Jo.

Joey:
You got it right this time, Dawson. I missed us.