At this point Dawson and his parents drive up and they all go to their rooms-completely oblivious to the man tied to their dock. Dawson walks into his room to find Joey lying on his bed. He thought nothing of it, since Joey always slept over, but it was unusual for her to sleep without him there. So, Dawson walks to his closet and opens the door and throws his bag inside, takes off his sweater and changes shirts and quietly climbs onto his side of the bed. He then hears Joey's hard breathing. He leans over her side and sees that her eyes are closed, but that she is no where near sleeping. He calls out her name and she gently raises her head and gives half a smile and then lays back down, a worried look upon her face. Dawson then leaps out of bed and calls to his parents. They all come in Mitch goes to call the police-finds the phone dead-and uses his cell to call the police and hospital-which is sending and ambulance right away, since they had already received a similar call from another citizen and the police department.

Mitch then runs upstairs to find Dawson and Gale around Joey, trying to find out what is wrong. It is then that the police arrive, along with Pacey, and some come upstairs with the paramedic, and others go to the dock to get the man.

Pacey then describes what happened and what Joey had told him before he had left. Joey is taken to the hospital, and Dawson, Pacey and all of the gang waits in the lobby to see what is wrong.