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