Doug Witter
| Doug Witter | |
|---|---|
| Dawson's Creek character | |
| First appearance | "Hurricane" (episode 1.05) |
| Last appearance | "...Must Come to an End" (episode 6.24) |
| Created by | Kevin Williamson |
| Portrayed by | Dylan Neal |
| Information | |
| Nickname(s) | Doug, Dougy |
| Occupation | Police officer |
| Family | John Witter (father) Mrs. Witter (mother) Gretchen Witter (sister) Kerry Witter (sister) Pacey Witter (brother) |
| Spouse(s) |
Jack McPhee (domestic partner) |
| Children | Amy Lindley (adopted daughter) |
| Relatives | Joseph McPhee (father-in-law) Andrea McPhee (mother-in-law) Andie McPhee (sister-in-law) Timothy "Tim" McPhee (brother-in-law; deceased) 1 unnamed niece 2 unnamed nephews |
| Residence | Capeside, Massachusetts |
Douglas "Doug" Witter is a fictional character from the WB television drama Dawson's Creek, portrayed by Dylan Neal. The character appears in all six seasons, but less frequently in seasons five and six.
Doug Witter is the older brother of main character Pacey Witter. He is a local police officer, and was introduced in the first season of the show. Doug became a police officer to be close to their father, who is the town's police chief and does everything he can to get on his father's good side. Doug is judgmental of Pacey's laid-back and care-free attitude, sometimes belittling his younger brother who is mistreated and neglected by their alcoholic and frequently abusive father who favors Doug more because Doug is subservient and often follows their stern father's orders and abrasive comments without question as well as calmly takes any of Mr. Witter's verbal and physical abuse. Pacey, believing Doug to be a homosexual in denial, spends most of the series persuading Doug to "come out of the closet", which Doug strongly denies being in. During the run of the show, he progresses professionally, and eventually becomes the Chief of Police in Capeside. He lives on his own in a small apartment, but occasionally allows family members to stay with him. He is obsessively neat, and expects that the people in his life follow his lead.
During season one, Doug's main interactions are with Pacey. Doug is seen to form a crush on a Capeside High School English teacher, Tamara Jacobs, who, unbeknownst to Doug, is already involved in a sexual relationship with Pacey. As Pacey is only 15 and one of Miss Jacobs students, the relationship is kept quiet. Later in the season, when the affair is exposed, Doug immediately assumes Pacey has made up a rumour and is lying about any association that he has with his teacher, who Doug describes as "poor, sweet Tamara". When Pacey tells the board of governors that he was lying, Doug apologises to Tamara for his brother's behaviour. Tamara in turn chastises Doug for his words, and defends Pacey, leaving Doug perplexed. During the season, Pacey makes jokes about Doug's sexuality, even briefly duping Miss Jacobs into believing he is openly gay, an act for which Doug threatens Pacey with his gun.
Doug is mentioned but he does not appear at all in season two, since the actor was committed to another series at the time.
During season three, Doug becomes marginally involved in the storyline involving the seductive but manipulative Eve Whitman. Firstly, Dawson Leery calls him to the scene of a burglary at Evelyn Ryan's house, but fails to tell Doug that the perpetrator is Eve (after she had threatened Dawson that she will implicate him in the break-in if he ratted her out). During the same episode, Dawson solicits Doug's advice about tracking Eve down after she has disappeared. Dawson and Pacey trail Eve onto a yacht that she has been illegally living on, but being slick and devious, Eve gives them both the slip and makes an anonymous phone call to the police where Doug arrives and catches both Dawson and Pacey on board the boat, threatening to arrest them for trespassing.
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