After spending the summer with his mother in Philadelphia, Dawson returns to Capeside and meets a beautiful, outgoing, young woman, named Eve Whitman, on the bus from Philadelphia Eve soon brings trouble to Dawson#39;s hohum life when he accidentally wrecks his father#39;s boat during an outing with her and tries to come up with 3,000 to repair it before Mitch finds out So, Eve helps out by throwing a rave party at the Leery house with strippers from the club she works at Meanwhile, Joey, who has frozen Dawson out all summer for forcing her to rat out her father, realizes that she still has feelings for him again when they meet during the first day back at Capeside High as juniors While working at the Capeside Marina, Joey deals with the comeons from her sexist boss Rob Logan Jen gets more than she bargained for when she tries out for Capeside High#39;s cheer leading squad and faces off in a warofwits against the meanspirited head cheerleader, and acquires her position Also, Mitch gets a new job as Capeside High#39;s varsity football coach, and a new charismatic, but very stern, principal, named Howard Green, arrives to administrate the school
Dr Brewster#39s suicide takes a particular twist when the pathologist determines that he had also been bound and gagged The Brewsters, both medical doctors, ran a private clinic and their son John, who lived at home, is doctoral candidate in philosophy One possible suspect is Michael Steppings who threatened the Brewsters and their nurse after his daughter suffered severe sideeffects and is now in a vegetative state from a botched operation two years previously The forensics lab determines that one of Steppings#39s threatening letters was altered and Morse learns that Brewster may at one time been having an affair, so he must consider another possible motive for murder
