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