One Tree Hill Season 1 Episode 8

The Search For Something More

Original Air Date: 11/11/2003
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Writer: Mark Schwahn

Brooke wakes up in Peyton's bed and Peyton points out that it's the second weekend in a row where Brooke can't remember what happened the night before.  Not good.  Brooke seems to realize that it's a problem and says she wants to change her karma.  Not sure what that means, but it's a start.  Then, they go shopping.  Brooke tells Peyton about a big college party at Duke and they talk about how Brooke is going to have fun with boys without alcohol.  Again, it's a start.  Peyton talks about wanting to have fun, which is dumb because one episode ago, she was all about Lucas, could have had him, but turned him down. 

Nathan again tries to apologize to Haley and tells her he didn't even know about the note, but Haley is still against him.  Later on, Brooke goes to Nathan to apologize for messing up his relationship.  She decides to plan a date for them and is somehow going to make Haley go.
Karen gets accepted to cooking school in Italy and agrees to go on a date with Keith.  Brooke shows up at the diner to convince Haley to go on a date with Lucas.  During this time, Lucas gives his mom, Karen, a pep talk, encouraging her to go to the cooking school since it's always been her dream.
At the big college party, Brooke quickly finds a boy to flirt with and Peyton wanders off into some guys dorm room.  The guy, Gabe, plays a bunch of music for her and she acts all impressed because his music is on vinyl.  She flirts with him a lot and he pushes her to have a drink.  Then he TOTALLY puts some kind of pill in her drink, probably a date rape drug.  Gosh, why is she drinking with some gross random guy?!  This girl clearly knows very little about personal safety!

Brooke is busy making out with another random guy while her friend is about to get raped!  She finds out her guy is still in high school and flips out.  Lucky for Peyton though because now Brooke starts looking for her.  Lucky also, Brooke finds her and saves her!
I think Brooke just earned some karma points!

While Lucas is playing basketball at the River Court with his old buddies, Brooke calls him and tells him what happened.  He tells her, rightly, to call the campus police, but she can't because Peyton was drinking despite being underage.  Some med student college girl shows up and helps with Peyton.  The girl tells them it would be better to know what Gabe gave Peyton.  She stays with her while Brooke takes Lucas to Gabe's dorm room.  Lucas plays the tough guy and beats up Gabe and takes all his other Roofies!  Yes!

During all of this, Nathan and Haley are out on their date that Brooke planned for them.  Brooke has them go to a lingerie store and pick stuff out for each other.  Haley picks out socks for Nathan- LOL!  Nathan picks out a cute camisole for Haley.  Go Nathan!  I totally was expecting him to get her something skanky.  Then they go to dinner. 

Brooke and Lucas take Peyton home and hang out to watch her and make sure she's okay.  I expected Brooke to view it as a bonding session and be a little flirty, but I was not expecting Lucas to flirt too.  I mean, it's nothing overt, but it's there.  Really, I'm not sure why they need to watch her so closely while she sleeps.  It's kind of creepy really and they shouldn't be talking right next to her.  She's trying to sleep after all. 

When Peyton wakes up, Lucas and Brooke go get her car from the college parking lot.  Peyton apologizes for 'all sorts of things' and it seems like she's telling Lucas she's sorry, but not interested.  So, Lucas moves on to Brooke. 

While Nathan and Haley have dinner, his friends from the team come up and tease him about being on a date.  Nathan explicitly says that it is not a date and Haley is, naturally, pissed off!  She calls him out for only being nice to her when they're alone and when you think about it, it's true.  They do always only hang out alone.   

Karen and Keith flirt at the cafe while Deb tells Dan to give Haley a chance.  Apparently, Dan thinks Haley is beneath Nathan.  Really?  How is she beneath him?  Later on, Deb shows up at the cafe and offers to run the cafe for Karen while she's away at cooking school.  Dan is pretty upset by this and quite frankly, she should've talked with him about before she offered.  They are a married couple after all.

Nathan shows up the next morning at Haley's house and apologizes.  They kiss and it's finally official!  Naley Day 1!!!!...That's Haley combined with Nathan by the way- Naley lol.  So cute!
Karen leaves for Italy and at the airport, she kisses Keith! 


Quotes

Haley    "Dude, macaroni and cheese is food of the Gods."
Haley    "You should buy them in bulk if you're going to hand apologies out that often."
Dan    "I'm looking for the hidden cameras because you cannot be serious."


Literature Mentions ---


Soundtrack

This episode is named for a song by Antifreeze.

Dare You To Move  -Switchfoot
Filter Factory  -Dee
Street Survivor  -The Flaming Sideburns
Untold  -Pete Francis
Time  -Runaway Cab
No Exit  -Runaway Cab
Did It For The Drugs  -Supafuzz
Sparks  -The Man
Bad Circulation  -Witchy Poo

One Tree Hill Season 1 Episode 7

Life In A Glass House

Original Air Date: 11/4/2003
Director: Robert Duncan McNeill
Writers: Mark Schwahn and Mike Kelley

     Brooke informs Peyton her curtesy hold on Lucas is expired and Peyton tells Lucas, in vague terms, that she likes him.  Brooke then decides to pull a little manipulation and tells Nathan that Peyton might be interested in getting back together with him.  This, of course, is a lie.  Brooke just wants to clear her path to Lucas and she knows that Peyton is in her way, even if Peyton won't admit it.  This is low for Brooke, but in her defense, Peyton is being so vague about her feelings for Lucas!
     Keith and Karen talk about the other night at the fancy dinner party.  When Keith says that some pretty crazy things were said (referring to his telling her he loved her), Karen just tells him nothing 'crazy' was said.  It's like she's telling him it's okay that he loves her and I wonder if she's not hinting that she loves him too.
When Brooke and Peyton are getting ready for Dan Scott's big party for the team, they talk about Nathan.  Peyton makes it clear that she's over Nathan but she doesn't make her feelings for Lucas clear at all.  Haley however finally comes clean about her feelings for Nathan.  She tells Lucas she likes him and Lucas, while not happy about it, isn't super upset. 

     Deb tells Dan she personally invited Karen and Keith to the team party.  Dan is upset but Deb lets him know that he better be nice.  I can already tell he won't be.
Brooke puts the moves on Lucas and tells him that Peyton is getting back with Nathan.  At the same time, Nathan and Peyton talk.  It's not clear whether or not Nathan wants to get back together with Peyton.  I think he was about to say he was into Haley before Brooke walked in.  At least, that's what I hope he was going to say. 
                    Brooke goes into Nathans drawers to find vodka and comes across a little kit Haley gave to Nathan to help him study.  In it, there is a sweet note with encouraging words. 
     As all the kids are outside, Brooke comes out and starts a game of truth or dare.  She dares Peyton to 'show us how she really feels' and to kiss Lucas.  So, she does but then storms out for some reason.  Lucas follows her.  As they start to kiss again, Haley shows up.  The caterers Deb hired made a mistake with the desserts so Karen has Haley bring some cakes.  After she gives them to Deb, Karen tells her she's off the clock and that she should go hang out with her friends.  Ironically, Nathan specifically didn't invite her saying it was more of team thing.  Nathan and Haley start to hang out, but Brooke shows up and tells her that Nathan passed around her note from the study kit.  Brooke is pretty awful for making this up and making so much fun of her because Nathan didn't actually show anyone the study kit at all. 
     Deb and Karen have a heart to heart about Dan.  Deb seems like she's being really honest and kind.  She's growing on me a lot.

     Meanwhile, Lucas and Peyton go to a bedroom to make out.  Lucas makes a wildly romantic speech about 'wanting everything' with her and being in her heart.  Peyton freaks out saying 'this isn't supposed to be that' and storms off.  Why did Peyton freak out?  Why?  She says she likes him, but all she wants is a random hookup?  Really?

   Dan tries to give Lucas some advice, but Lucas tells him off and leaves the party.  Brooke makes one more feeble attempt to get with Lucas but is turned down.  She then hits on the next guy she sees, Jake.  He also turns her down.  Nice!  The guys are being totally cool, but I feel like in real life if some drunk chick was hitting on anything that moved, most guys would take her up on the offer. 
    When Lucas gets back to the diner, he finds Haley crying over Nathan.  Lucas is such a good friend that he doesn't tell her 'I told you so' or anything like that.  He just comforts her. 

     Nathan realizes what happened and tries to go apologize to Haley, but she's not having any of it. 
Jake's secret reason for being late all the time is finally revealed.  He has a little baby!  Cute, but sad.  Brooke passes out in Nathan's room n the floor- real classy!  And Peyton draws sad pictures while Lucas watches her on her webcam.  Weirdos.   


Quotes

Deb   "She's young enough to be your daughter, and in this town, she might just be."

Haley   "Once again, the smart girl is really stupid."

Literature Mentions

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Soundtrack

This episode was named for a song by Radiohead.

Calling All Angels  -Train
Say Yes  -Bryan Greenberg
Pacific Ocean Blues  -Gigolo Aunts
Beautiful One  -Jonny Lang
Kennedy (Album Version)  -Kill Hannah
She Will Be Loved  -Maroon 5

Season 1 Episode 6

Every Night Is Another Story

Original Air Date: 10/28/2003
Director: Jason Moore
Writers: Mark Schwahn and Mike Kelley

This episode starts out kind of weird, but it all becomes clear after awhile...a long while. 
So Deb and Dan are going downtown for a fancy dinner and they're going to enjoy a romantic night away.  The second Dan complains about the dinner being on a game night, I knew problems would arise.  When Deb talks about how he should just forget about basketball for one night, I already knew
that it would be the cause of a fight later on.  Oh and guess what?  Karen is going to the same dinner!  With Keith as her date!  Oh wait, Karen says it is definitely not a date.  Nevermind. 
So the basketball team is heading out to an away game!  The number of Nathan's jersey is painted on a rock outside Tree Hill High, showing how important he is.  Once they arrive at the other school, Brooke tells Peyton she will give her a one week hold on Lucas.  LOL!  Brooke is telling Peyton she's into Lucas, but Peyton isn't saying anything!  Peyton should be normal and tell Brooke she's into Lucas.
During the game, Nathan and Lucas exchange words.  Nathan makes a crack about hooking up with Haley and Lucas continues until Nathan straight up throws the ball at Lucas.  Hah!  So they both get thrown out of the game.  Whitey decides to handle this by making Nathan and Lucas walk home, about 30 miles, together.  Unrealistic, but funny! 

During Nathan and Lucas's little fight, Brooke was injured.  As a sports med guy is wrapping her ankle, Brooke totally convinces him to give her a few pain pills!  She asks for an extra for later then pops them all at once!  Hah! She's hilarious!  One of my favorites now!  So Brooke, all messed up, invites Haley to drive back with she and Peyton since Haley missed the last bus.  In the meantime, Nathan and Lucas are
kidnapped by their rival team the Pickeringtons, who force them to do silly things. 
Peyton, Haley and Brooke, in Brooke's car, talk until the car runs out of gas!  In the middle of nowhere on a dark night...not a good sign.  Haley and Peyton start walking to get more gas and leave Brooke locked in her own car.  I don't think this was a good idea.  I mean, Brooke is all messed up on pills and they just leave her?!  Really?  But, it's TV so it's okay.  By the time they get back, she's safely passed out in the backseat.  While they are looking for gas, the gas station is closed.  So Haley siphons gas out of a parked vehicle with her mouth.  This is so gross and dangerous!  Ew.  The worst part is that Haley even says 'We are
about to find out' if it even works.  She's never even done it before!  Let me just say, this is NOT as easy as they make it look. 
The Pickeringtons try to make Lucas and Nathan play a game called Gladiators where they beat each other up and the winner gets a ride home.  This is kind of weird in my opinion.  But Nathan is clever and gets
their keys!  The boys talk and bond.
The adults' fancy downtown dinner isn't going so smoothly.  Dan continuously gives Keith a hard time.  Keith gets a few jabs in, but nothing great.  This all eventually leads to Keith punching Dan.  I would've liked to have seen a prolonged fight between them, but Karen gets Keith away.  Keith at least has the excuse that he was slightly buzzed.  Dan was sober. 
Later a very drunk Keith tells Karen he loves her and always has.  Karen does not respond.
Oddly enough, the girls start driving again and run into Lucas and Nathan.  They give them a ride back.  Haley and Peyton do not become friends, but who really expected them to be best buds after one night?

Quotes

Lucas  "As happens sometimes a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment.  And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.  And then the moment was gone."

Soundtrack

This episode is named for a song by Early November.
7 x 8 -Anjali
Headlights  -Dispatch
Holiday  -The Get Up Kids
Hypocrites  -Jibe
Blueside  -Rooney
Cool Kids  -Screeching Weasel
Time Running (Album Version)  -Tegan and Sara

Season 1 Episode 5

Where I End and You Begin aka All That You Can't Leave Behind
Original Air Date: 10/21/2003
Director: Duane Clark
Writers: Mark Schwahn and Ann Lewis Hamilton

Okay, why is Peyton running red lights and not driving when it's green?  That girl just loves calling attention to herself!  It's odd too because Peyton has never done anything like this before.  Why is she being so reckless all of a sudden? 

Lucas apologizes to Haley for freaking out on her.  Once they make up, Lucas tells her she can quit tutoring Nathan.  Not only does Haley refuse to quit, but she defends Nathan as well.  Weird.  It's so obviuous Haley is developing a little crush on Nathan, but she doesn't want to act on it because Nathan is a jerk.
Apparently, some news reporter wrote an article about Dan Scott and his TWO sons, Nathan and Lucas.  Hah!  Dan will be playing with Nathan at the Father-Son Basketball game.  The funny part is that Nathan and Dan are the people most upset by the article.  They should feel ashamed.  Seriously though, what school has father-son games?  None that I've ever heard of.

Peyton freaks out on Brooke about how cheerleading is shallow.  Peyton may be right, but she looks ridiculous!  She better apologize to Brooke.  Lucas asks his uncle, Keith, to play in the father-son game with him and Keith agrees.  Lucas then proclaims he wants to change his last name and the music in the background is so overly dramatic!  I laughed!  Karen points out to Lucas that Keith is a Scott too, so he should keep his last name.

Peyton goes to the cemetary to visit her mother's grave and Whitey joins her there.  They talk.  It's a little sappy and boring, but I guess it explains some of Peyton's moodiness.  Peyton's craziness is further displayed when Lucas hops in her car and she runs red lights while speeding.  Not cool or safe! 
Dan tries to threaten Keith to not play in the father-son game.  Dan clearly just doesn't want Lucas to play.  Keith tells him off though!

Lucas and Haley make up.  Haley tries to play it as if she is only tutoring Nathan for Lucas, but in reality she totally has a crush on him.  And Nathan kind of likes her too.  I think Lucas knows what's up though.
 
Deb and Dan discuss Nathan and basketball.  Deb wants Dan to ease up on Nathan and quit taking basketball so seriously.  Dan doesn't think he's doing anything wrong.  It's sad really.  It's difficult to think poorly of someone when that someone thinks they're fine.  It adds some depth to the villany of Dan Scott. 
So the Father-Son basketball game starts and, naturally, the kids are beating the dads fairly easily.  Dan Scott, however, becomes upset and starts calling Nathan out in front of the rest of the team.  Luckily Keith steps in and diffuses the situation.  Man!  Dan is one hot head!  He doesn't want to accept the fact he's old.  Plus, he doesn't want to accept the fact that Nathan is a better player than him.  Wow. 

During the game, Peyton continues driving around speeding, running red lights, and crying. 
Lucas confronts Haley about seeing her hug Nathan.  She tells him how she only hugged him because he got a good test score, but Lucas intuitively doesn't believe her.  It doesn't help that Haley is STILL wearing the bracelet Nathan gave her. 

Back in the heat of the game, Nathan runs up to make a shot and Dan blocks him in such a way as to knock Nathan over hard.  Nathan is, rightly, pissed off and Lucas just watches the exchange. 
After the game, Nathan tries to talk to Peyton.  He is STILL trying to get back together with Peyton, despite his somewhat flirty attitude with Haley.  Peyton, however, flat out rejects Nathan and hopefully he realizes it's over.

Quotes

Brooke: "Look, I'm sorry things didn't work out with you and Nathan, but don't go all Mariah on me, okay?"

Lucas: "John Steinbeck once wrote, 'It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."


Literature Mentions
John Steinbeck


Soundtrack

This episode is named for a song by U2.
Remedy  -Hot Water Music
Hard to Find  -American Analog Set
I Was On A Mountain  -Hot Water Music
Want To Be Bad (Album Version)  -Tegan and Sara
I Don't Want To Be  -Gavin DeGraw
Glad To Be Alive  -Low Flying Owls
Many Rivers To Cross  -Jimmy Cliff
First Times  -The Squirts

Season 1 Epsiode 4

Crash Into You

Original Air Date: 10/14/2003
Director: David Carson
Writers: Mark Schwahn and Mark B. Perry

This episode opens with Lucas showering!  His hot water goes out and isn't it so sad that he doesn't have much money?  Nathan's mother finally enters the picture and even goes to Nathan's game.  At the game, Lucas steals the spotlight again by scoring a lot of points.  Dan Scott is upset and so is Nathan.  This leads Nathan to invite Lucas to his parents beach house for a big party.  Lucas decides to go to the party and he takes Haley. 

Back at Nathan's regular house, Deb and Dan have a talk about Nathan and it truly shows how little she knows about her son. 

In a game of 'I Never' Nathan says he never had a father who wished he was a stain on the bedsheet.  Lucas becomes very angry, but restrains himself from hitting him.  Instead, he chats up Peyton.  Nathan sees this and decides to put on a video tape of Karen and Dan, back in high school.  I can't believe Nathan even thought to do this, honestly.  In the tape, Karen gushes about how Dan is her 'dream guy' and how she hopes they will be married soon.  Furious, Lucas takes off, but leaves Haley at the party.  Needing a ride home, Haley accepts a ride from Nathan in Peyton's car. 

Though he delivers her home safely, he later crashes Peyton's car into a parked car!  Lucas, luckily nearby, sees it all, but Nathan walks away from the car and the accident as if nothing happened.  Lucas takes Peyton's car to his uncle's repair shop and promises Keith he will do the labor and pay for the parts.  Wow!  That's awfully sweet of Lucas, but it seems like Nathan won't get in trouble at all for what he did!

Back at the party, Peyton wants to go home, but her car is missing.  Nathan tries to lie and say Tim took it to take Brooke home, but Peyton knows he is lying.  It surprises me Nathan is still lying.  Is he ever going to learn?

When Deb said that Keith had called and told her about what Nathan did, I was so happy!  That kid needs to be told on.  They should've made him do the actual work on the car! 

And GO PEYTON! I love her in this episode!  She finally breaks up with Nathan.  Good riddance!  Maybe all this will finally give Nathan a noisy wake up call!

Lucas needs to chill out though!  He should SO not be giving Haley crap for not telling him...wait not telling him what?!  When Lucas puts that hat on the counter, what is he even getting at?  He knows that Haley left her hat in Peyton's car.  Big deal!  In fact, Haley should be pissed at Lucas for ditching her at that party!  If he hadn't, she wouldn't have been forced to seek a ride with someone else.  Arrgh!


Quotes
Peyton: "I guess I'm just a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a bitch."
Peyton: "If that's the case then you're an ass.  And even if she does mean something, you're still an ass and what's really sad, Nathan, is that you're too stupid to get that."


Soundtrack

This episode is named for a song by Dave Matthews Band.

Taken For A Ride  -AM Radio
freetime  -Kenna
Hopes and Dreams  -Buva
Return To Me  -Matthew Ryan
Whatcha Gonna Do  -Sprung Monkey
Shake It Down  -Bosshouse
Empty Apartment -Yellowcard

Season 1 Episode 3

Are You True?

Original Air Date: 10/7/2003
Director: Michael Grossman
Writer: Mark Schwahn

With the start of this episode, Lucas scores the game-winning shot!  Looks like he can play pretty well.  He receives congratulations from his mom, his uncle Keith, and Haley.  Peyton is her moody self, as she sketches and puts herself on that notorious webcam.  Is she mad that Nathan didn't realize she had taken her sketches off her bedroom wall?  Or is it something else? 
It turns out Thug Magazine, the people Lucas submitted Peytons' sketches to, liked them!  Typical Peyton, instead of being happy, is moody again.  What's she going to do?  She's going to yell at Lucas.  Then probe Brooke for information on what happened when Brooke was in Lucas's car naked!  It's so obvious Peyton likes him, but it looks like there is some competition from Brooke now!
I can't believe the team took Lucas's clothes!  How embarrassing.  When Lucas walks out with a basketball covering his front and one covering his back, I think everyone watching hoped he would drop one.  LOL!

Later, the team fills his locker with water.  Hazing sucks!  At least Jake is nice to him.  They also trash the River Court where Lucas plays with his friends.
Nathan is being a bit evil!  And now he's going after Haley?  He hasn't quite verbalized how he plans to use Haley to get back at Lucas.  I can only assume he is going to FAKE liking her.  Haley doesn't know what's in store for her.

Peyton, despite being angry with Lucas, goes to a meeting at Thug Magazine.  Why would she go if she wasn't interested in having her work submitted there?  Clearly she is happy to have the meeting and instead of yelling at Lucas, she should have been thanking him.  Thank goodness, at the River Court, she does thank him.  Lucas asks her why she stays with Nathan and Peyton says, 'Sometimes it's good. Sometimes there's no one else.'  Wow!  It's so bad, but so true for someone in high school.  Sometimes the dialogue in this show surprises me.

Nathan calls Haley to ask for her help- again.  Haley hangs up on him! Hah!  The look on Nathan's face is priceless.  It's funny too that it is Karen who encourages Haley to help him.  Of course, she doesn't know Haley is talking about Nathan Scott and I think that if she did, her advice may have been different.
So the team has turned hazing into kidnapping?  Did they seriously just put a bag over Lucas's head and stuff him in a car?  Really?  Nathan gives him a speech about not being part of the team and then they just leave him stranded somewhere.  If I were Karen, I would've been furious!  Stern phone calls would have been made!  It is this incident that pushes Haley to go to Nathan and offer to help Nathan in exchange for Nathan to leave Lucas alone.

Nathan and Haley meet up in the morning at the dock, instead of the tutor center at school.  Nathan brings coffee and breakfast, and in the Cracker Jack box, the surprise is a bracelet.  Nathan gives the bracelet to Haley, who despite her griping, does not take it off...ever. 

The Burning Boat festival in Tree Hill is strange.  I think the townspeople are supposed to throw things on the boat that they want to let go of.  Weird and personal, but an interesting concept.  Karen makes headway in winning over the mothers of the boys on the basketball team.  Brooke hits on Lucas and I can tell she is already my favorite character...behind Haley.

Quotes

Brooke   "How many moments in life can you point to and say, 'That's when it all changed."

Dan Scott   "Happiness doesn't come cheap. Hell if it did we would all be smiling."

Karen   "If this boy came for tutoring, maybe he's trying to change.  There might be something in there worth saving."

Nathan   "Don't say I never gave you anything."

Lucas   "E.E. Cummings once wrote 'To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else...means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight...and never stop fighting."

Literature Mentions

E.E. Cummings

Soundtrack

This episode is named for a song by The New Amsterdams.
You Own Me   -Sense Field
Glad To Be Alive   -Low Flying Owls
Apologies   -Bosshouse
How Good It Can Be (Album Version)   -The 88
Shoulder   -Cactus Groove
Hang   -Mojo Monkeys
Silence Is Easy   -Starsailor
Multiply   -Forty Foot Echo
Stones   -Pete Francis
You Dance   -Eastmountainsouth

Season 1 Episode 2

The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most

Original Air Date: 9/30/2003
Director: Bryan Gordon
Writer: Mark Schwahn

Two minutes in and Karen is already refusing to go see Lucas play in his first Ravens game.  So mean!  Dan is already counseling Nathan on how to make Lucas look bad.  So much drama in so little time! 

With the start of the game, Lucas is clearly astounded by the skill level of the other team and Whitey pulls him out of the game.  Uh-oh, I can already see where this going...

Peyton catches a ride with Lucas after Nathan tosses her out of his car.  I think everyone wonders again 'why is she with him?'  Nathan heads home only to be reprimanded by his father for not playing quite right, despite the fact that Nathan actually played well.  When Lucas drops Peyton off at her house, they have a heart-to-heart that shows Peyton's depressing moodiness. Karen half-heartedly apologizes for missing the game, but Lucas is upset in a passive aggressive kind of way. 

Nathan half-heartedly apologizes to Peyton.  I still firmly believe Peyton is an idiot and an attention-getter for having a webcam set up in her bedroom for no particular reason, other than to put herself on the net.
The exercise in class is totally unrealistic.  A kid would not get away with calling another kid a bastard in the middle of class.  Lucas attacks Nathan and somehow only gets a lecture.  Point for Lucas! Brooke and

Peyton talk about popularity and it is amazing how shallow Brooke's dreams are.  Yet, it is characteristically true of some teenagers.  Sophia Bush is pitch perfect here. 

After Keith finishes fixing Peyton's car, Lucas spots Peyton's sketchbook and starts looking through it.  Peyton naturally freaks out, yells at him and storms off, without her car oddly enough.  Later, as Karen talks to Lucas about the fight, Lucas sasses her back!  Then he sees Peyton standing outside a shop across the street.  What's she doing there?  Karen tells Lucas about why she felt uncomfortable going to the gym. 

Apparently, that's where Dan told Karen he was leaving her and their baby to go play college basketball. 

Meanwhile, Dan gives Nathan a lecture about not backing off Lucas and how he should try to get him off the team.  Dan also talks about when he played for Whitey in high school.  He claims it was him who lead the team to wins, not Whitey.  He tells Nathan that Whitey is just using Lucas as a way to get back at him.  Dan displays his childish perception of past events.  Even though, I wasn't there, I can tell Dan is delusional.

Nathan confronts Lucas at the River Court and Lucas, for the second time this episode, displays his aggression.  He throws the basketball at Nathan's car like a child.  It was laughable, especially when Nathan

says, "You missed again."  Point for Nathan!

Peyton comes back to Keith's shop and talks to Lucas about why she hasn't shown her drawings to anyone.  She gives a very emo speech about how her drawings don't mean anything to anyone.  Very emo, but it does sound like something an idealistic high schooler would think.  Not say, but think- lol.  Peyton then proceeds to destroy her room, ripping down posters in a very emo-like manner.  It really makes me wonder why her character is supposed to be a cheerleader and how she even got started doing it. 

When Nathan visits her in her bedroom, Peyton encourages him to leave the team if he wants to.  She even says "we" could walk away.  She is clearly willing to leave cheerleading and the popularity contest- if someone will do it with her. Hah!  Also, do these kids parents just not exist?  My parents didn't let

me have a boy in my room through ALL of high school.  Man, I'm jealous of these kids! LOL.

Oddly enough, Lucas walked away from it all.  He didn't show up to practice and attempts to take himself off the team.  After a talk about it with his best friend Haley and a heart-to-heart with his mom, Lucas

decides to play.  He drops off some of Peyton's drawings with someone and rushes off to play!

Dan, playing a little mind game, calls Lucas 'son', but he is foiled by Jake's kind words.  Jake, another player on the team, tells Lucas not to let him take his talent.  Jake is also the guy who gave Lucas the conservative 'Atlas Shrugged' earlier.  Lucas goes on to play and in the top emo-move of the episode, he blacks out his name on his jersey.  Victory for Lucas' sensitivity!  Now, can he actually play?

This show seems difficult, as someone no longer in high school, to watch with a straight face.  The thing is, while I laugh, I also remember times I said or thought something similar.  I guess that's why this show has

been on so long!  Nine years is definitely a long time for a television show!

Quotes:

• Peyton: "If I say that I like it, then I'm just another cheerleader, but if I say that I hate it, then I'm either a liar or a fraud.  Either way I lose."
• Brooke: "I think about the future sometimes and it scares me, but then I think, I'll go to college, I'll join the right sorority, I'll marry a rich guy...unless I get fat."
• Whitey: "I have had 35 winning seasons, but you know what keeps me up at night?  The college jobs I never took.  Could-have-beens have a way of doing that."
• Lucas: "You ever wake up from a really good dream and try really hard to get back to sleep or you've got the flu and promise yourself you'll appreciate normal so much more if you could just get back to it."
• Peyton: "I want to draw something that means something to someone.  You know, I want to draw blind faith, or a fading summer or just a moment of clarity.  It's like when you go and see a really great band, live for the first time and, you know, and nobody's saying it, but everybody's thinking it, we have something to believe in again.  I want to draw that feeling, but I can't.  And if I can't be great at it, then I don't want to ruin it.  It's too important to me."
• Lucas: "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark.  In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all.  Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but never been able to reach.  The world you desire can be won.  It exists.  It is real.  It is possible.  It is yours." (Ayn Rand)

Literature Mentions:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Soundtrack:

This episode is named for a song by Dashboard Confessional.
I Don't Want To Be -Gavin DeGraw
 Overdue -The Get Up Kids
Switchback  -Celldweller
Hard to Find  -American Analog Set
Beside Me  -Forty Foot Echo
To Hell With Good Intentions  -McLusky
She's Got It So Phat  -Bosshouse
"Echo" Vertical Horizon
Further  -Longview
Belief  -Gavin DeGraw

Season 1 Episode 1

The Pilot

Original Air Date: 9/23/2003
Director: Bryan Gordon
Writer: Mark Schwahn

Before watching One Tree Hill, the basic plot is pretty obvious.  Lucas and Nathan Scott are brothers who share the same father, Dan Scott.  In his high school years, Dan knocked up Lucas' mom and left her.  Not too long later, Dan impregnates another woman, Deb, but decides to marry her and they produce Nathan.  Lucas is clearly the kid from "the other side of the tracks" and Nathan is clearly the rich kid who seems to have it all.  When they both excel at basketball in high school, drama ensues.  I gathered all this from previews alone- I'm so smart, hah!

In the first five minutes of the first episode, Nathan almost crashes a stolen school bus full of kids into an oncoming train.  Why was Nathan not paying attention to the road?  Because some random chick was kissing him- a random chick who was not Peyton, Nathan's girlfriend.  At the same time, Peyton almost hits Lucas with her car because she was looking for a CD.  Does she apologize? No.  She gestures for him to get out of her way.  Really?! 

So, right away we know Nathan is a cheater without morals and Peyton likes music- maybe a little too much. 
Keith, the uncle of Lucas and Nathan, is apparently friends with the coach of Tree Hill's basketball team, Whitey Durham.  They're such good friends that Keith asks Coach Durham to put Lucas on the basketball team.  When they are sitting in the car watching Lucas play at the river court, Durham doesn't look very impressed.  Following this scene, we see Nathan act like an ass towards Peyton.  I think everyone wonders here: Why is she with him?

After Lucas rejects Durham's offer to join the team, Durham leaves a jersey at Lucas's door?  Really?  Why would he do that?  Then, Lucas goes outside to sit with his mother, who happens to be looking through a photo album.  Who sits outside, close to the sidewalk, to look through a photo album?  Couldn't she at least
have been sitting on the porch?  Or, even better, a porch swing?

Next, Dan Scott tells his son Nathan to "go to this kid and talk to him" which Nathan intreprets as a go-ahead to harass Lucas.  Nathan goes to the river court and challenges Lucas to a one-on-one match.  His terms are that if he wins, Lucas can't join the team, but if Lucas wins, Nathan will quit the team.  Already
we see the love/hate feeling Nathan has towards the game.  Nathan would quit the team before risking not being the star player.  Guess what?!  Lucas secretly bets him that if he wins, Nathan stays on the team!  Clever Lucas! 

When Dan Scott tells Nathan not to challenge Lucas in the one-on-one match, we clearly see his lack of parenting skills.  When Peyton walks out of the bathroom behind Nathan, in a towel, I laughed so hard!  What high schooler is allowed to freely have sex in their parents house, with their parents' knowledge?!  Weird.  And skanky. 

During the big one-on-one match, Nathan not only elbows Lucas right in the face, but also has the nerve to tell him that his father, Dan Scott, has not mentioned him once.  Lucas keeps his cool though, and wins!  Victory for the underdog! But will Lucas get the girl?  Not tonight apparently.  Peyton leaves with Nathan.  It appears, however, that she goes home alone and gets on her webcam.  Lucas watches her on it.  Really?! 
Creepy.  And Peyton should be way more cautious about having her webcam on all the time.  It's the INTERNET after all.  She doesn't know who's watching her...maybe that's why she does it?

Qoutes:

• Coach Durham: "The inmates will not run the asylum." 
• Skills: "C'mon dawg, you know I be readin' vicariously through you."
• Lucas: "God doesn't watch sports."
• Lucas: "There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose the ventures before us." (Shakespeare)

Literature Mentions:
Steinbeck "The Winter Of Our Discontent"
Shakespeares "Julius Caesar"

             

Soundtrack:
Drift -Forty Foot Echo
24's (Explicit Album Version) -T.I.
Hands Down -Dashboard Confessional
Farewell Transmission -Ohia
Never Enough -Bosshouse
Your Boyfriend Sucks -The Ataris
Money Bags -Runaway Cab
The Aftertaste -Ben Lee
Are You Gonna Be My Girl -Jet
                                  What It Is To Burn -Finch
                                  Rest In Pieces -Saliva
                                  EZ -Pete Yorn