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Channel: The CW (locally shown
on ETC, Star World and RPN)
Genre: Teen drama
Creator: Mark Schwahn
Running time: 42 minutes approx.
Started: September 23, 2003
Status: Running (currently season 4)
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One Tree Hill is an American teen
television drama. It premiered on September 23,
2003 and aired on The WB in the United States until
May 3, 2006. On September 18, 2006, The WB merged
with UPN and formed the The CW, so One Tree Hill
kicked off its fourth season on the The CW on September
27, 2006 at 9/8C, and now airs weekly. One Tree
Hill is filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.
As stated on Disc Three of the Season One DVD,
Mark Schwahn originally planned for One Tree Hill
to be a feature length film, under the name of Ravens.
He pitched the idea around town but at the advisory
of a WB front man, he revised the movie into an
hour long teen drama series. Tree Hill is a fictional
town, named from the song One Tree Hill by U2. Schwahn
had named the town "Tree Hill" because
while he was writing the idea for the show he had
been listening to the album The Joshua Tree by U2.
The show was going to be called Ravens until the
network asked Schwahn to change it. The reason was
that Ravens made the show seem more sports-centred
and seeing as their lead-in was Gilmore Girls and
TV is watched predominantly by females it would
be better to change the name to appeal to a larger
audience. So Schwahn renamed the show One Tree Hill,
appropriately so. At the start of One Tree Hill
fans often asked Schwahn why the show was named
One Tree Hill when the town was just called Tree
Hill. The question is answered when Karen tells
Lucas in Episode 1.21 that "There is only one
Tree Hill - and it's your home." The irony
in this is that there is actually more than one
"One Tree Hill", with it sharing the name
of suburban town in Australia and a volcanic peak
in New Zealand.
[ PLOT
]
Aside from a love for hoops, it seemed that Lucas
and Nathan were two young men with little in common,
but they were bound by the fact that they share
the same father. The star of the high school basketball
team, Nathan was raised to inherit is father's throne
amidst popularity and wealth, while his half-brother
Lucas was raised amidst modest surroundings, the
only child of a single mom.
When Lucas joined the Ravens team, his transition
into Nathan's world created a love triangle with
Peyton Sawyer. Although she was Nathan's girlfriend
at the time, Peyton felt an instant connection to
Lucas. Complicating things even more, Peyton's feisty
best friend, Brooke Davis , quickly set her sights
on Lucas. It didn't take Nathan long to notice Lucas's
best friend, Haley, an intriguing girl who helped
bad-boy Nathan become a kinder person.
While the teenagers struggled to find their places
in the world, the adults in Tree Hill were left
to deal with the consequences of decisions they
made years ago. Lucas's father Dan and mother Karen
were high school sweethearts. When Karen became
pregnant during their senior year, she was devastated
by Dan's decision to put his own life and career
first. He went off to college on a basketball scholarship,
leaving Karen behind to raise Lucas alone. When
Dan's dream of a basketball career didn't work out,
he returned to town with Deb, the wife he met in
college, and his newborn son, Nathan. There he found
his older brother Keith serving as Lucas's surrogate
father and would-be suitor to Karen.
Lucas and Nathan's rivalry on and off the court
even brought back old emotions for the grizzled
basketball coach, Whitey Durham. Whitey coached
Dan when he was the school's star player, and now
he would coach both of Dan's sons.
In season three, the teenagers' relationships grew
deeper and took unexpected turns. Lucas fought for
and won Brooke's heart, only to lose her when she
learned of a kiss he and Peyton shared during a
moment of crisis. A friend of Lucas' brought a handgun
to school, shot Peyton and ultimately took his own
life. Meanwhile, still dealing with the death of
Ellie, her biological mother, Peyton suffered the
loss of Brooke's friendship when she admitted she
harbored feelings for Lucas. Haley and Nathan overcame
old wounds and mended their broken marriage, ultimately
renewing their vows in a fairytale wedding.
The lives of the adults were no less turbulent.
Keith returned to Tree Hill, intending to be a husband
to Karen and a father to Lucas -- only to be murdered
by Dan, who believed Keith had tried to kill him
in a fire. After learning from Deb that she was
the one who tried to kill him, Dan was left only
with his guilt and a terrible discovery that someone
might know what he did. Karen, alone and struggling
with the loss of Keith, discovered that she was
pregnant with his child.
Season three ended in a harrowing climax when Nathan's
Uncle Cooper tried to end his dysfunctional relationship
with high school bad-girl Rachel. In the resulting
argument, they crashed off a bridge, plunging into
the river below. Nathan, despite Haley's pleas,
dove in to save them. In the last moments, Rachel
and Cooper were unconscious and Nathan was trapped
in the submerged limousine, struggling for air,
unable to save them or himself. Above them on the
bridge, Haley was left alone screaming desperately
for help.
As season four unfolds, everyone deals with the
immediate aftermath of the accident, and the many
questions to be answered. Who will survive the accident
and how will it affect their lives? In whose purse
did Lucas find a pregnancy test at the wedding &
could Peyton, Rachel, Brooke or Haley be hiding
a secret? And with graduation around the corner,
will the end of high school also mean an end to
the relationships forged over the last few years,
or the beginning of new alliances?
Sidelined by his heart condition, Lucas has to
choose between his future and his sense of duty:
to go to college or to stay and help his mother
raise Keith's baby. Will he be able to repair his
relationship with Brooke, or will he find comfort
by returning to Peyton?
Having moved out of Peyton's house, Brooke must
first find a place to live in order to finish her
senior year in Tree Hill. She also must decide the
future of her relationship with Lucas. Can she see
past his kiss with Peyton and Peyton's feelings
for him? She will form a surprising friendship with
her former archenemy, party-girl Rachel, a relationship
that might spell the end of her lifelong friendship
with Peyton.
Will Peyton respect Brooke's relationship with
Lucas, or will she grow tired of being "just
friends" with Lucas and tell him how she really
feels? Or, after discovering a letter from Ellie
that contains a stunning revelation, will Peyton
find herself consumed by a new relationship that
could take her away from Lucas forever?
Meanwhile, Karen must consider her future without
Keith, and the responsibility of being a single
parent for the second time. Although Dan says that
he wants to be there for Karen and her baby, can
she ever forgive him or trust him enough to accept
his help? Dan's guilt over murdering his brother
is overwhelming and while he will try to atone for
his sins, he also must deal with taunting clues
left by someone who knows his secret. Finally, terrified
that Dan will retaliate against her, Deb will struggle
with her sobriety, the terrible residual silence
of her divorce from Dan, and the absence of Nathan.
For Deb, the devil makes work for idle hands.
The journeys of the people who inhabit Tree Hill
have been vast, from Lucas's tentative steps off
the river court into high school popularity, from
Nathan and Haley's first kiss to marriage, from
Peyton and Brooke's deep friendship to their estrangement.
But in other ways, the journey has only just begun.
Where will the roads lead them? And who will they
be when they reach their destination? The answers
lie in a place called Tree Hill.
There were 22 episodes in Season One, 23 episodes
in Season Two, and 22 episodes in Season Three.
For Season Four, The CW has ordered 21 episodes.
Mark Schwahn has revealed that if there is a fifth
season, it will be based on the characters' lives
after college, meaning the show will fast-forward
four years into the future. The CW will confirm
whether or not One Tree Hill will be having a fifth
season on May 17, 2007.
[ SYNOPSES
]
Season 1: 2003-2004
Tree Hill is a small town in North Carolina, home
to the famous High School basketball team "The
Tree Hill Ravens" and to half-brothers Lucas
Scott (played by Chad Michael Murray) and Nathan
Scott (played by James Lafferty). The two brothers
have grown up in the same town, but have had little
or no contact with each other due to the influence
of their mutual father, Dan Scott (Paul Johansson).
Dan dated Lucas' mother Karen Roe (Moira Kelly)
in High School but left her and his unborn child
(Lucas) behind to go to college and pursue a basketball
scholarship. In college, he met Nathan's mother
Deb (Barbara Alyn Woods) who also became pregnant.
Dan married Deb and provided her and Nathan with
a stable home and rich lifestyle. In stark contrast,
he never once tried to become a part of Lucas' life.
Lucas was raised single-handedly by Karen, with
a lot of help from his paternal uncle Keith (Craig
Sheffer), the father figure in his life.
Nathan plays for the Ravens, just as Dan did in
his High School days but Lucas is forced to confine
his talent to the River Court, until an opening
in the lineup gives Keith an idea; he recommends
Lucas to the Ravens' Coach, Whitey Durham (Barry
Corbin) who asks Lucas to play. This adds to the
tension between Lucas and Nathan. Nathan, encouraged
by Dan, tries to make life on the team difficult
for Lucas, especially since Lucas has his eye on
Nathan's girlfriend Peyton Sawyer (Hilarie Burton).
Peyton dumps Nathan when she tires of his attitude
towards her, towards Lucas, and towards the fact
that Nathan uses Haley James (Bethany Joy Lenz-Galeotti)
Lucas' best friend as his 'tutor' to get at Lucas.
To Nathan's surprise, he falls in love with Haley
and she with him, although their relationship puts
a strain on Lucas and Haley's friendship.
Lucas starts dating Peyton's best friend Brooke
Davis (Sophia Bush) but his feelings for Peyton
resurface and they end up being unfaithful to Brooke
with a kiss, who wants nothing more to do with either
of them once she finds out. Brooke has a pregnancy
scare later in the season, putting Lucas in Dan's
position; Lucas understands for the first time why
Dan did what he did and decides that he doesn't
want to do the same thing so he offers to be there
for Brooke and the baby, leading a guilty Brooke
to confess that she lied about being pregnant to
punish Lucas for cheating on her with Peyton. Peyton
gets close to single father Jake Jagielski (guest
star, Bryan Greenberg) and his baby, Jenny, but
the return of Jenny's mother Nicki (guest star,
Emmanuelle Vaugier) and her decision to battle Jake
for sole custody of Jenny drives Jake out of Tree
Hill to hide from Nicki and leaves Peyton on her
own.
Karen heads to Italy for a few weeks to go to cooking
school and leaves Lucas in Keith's care. Lucas almost
dies in a car accident caused by Keith's drinking.
He also sustains a very serious shoulder injury
and Karen's potential romance with Keith is destroyed
as a result. Deb tires of the pressure Dan puts
on Nathan and seeks a divorce from Dan, but things
turn nasty and Nathan is caught in the middle of
his warring parents. After learning that Deb once
had an affair, Nathan emancipates himself and moves
into his own apartment. Karen and Deb become friends
and go into partnership together at Karen's café
while Keith is forced to sell his Auto-Shop to Dan
to pay Lucas' medical bills. Karen is still not
aware Keith is paying for them as Karen cannot afford
it. Keith proposes to Karen but she turns him down
so he decides to leave Tree Hill and move to Charleston.
In the season finale, the Playoffs have arrived
and with Whitey in hospital having eye surgery,
Dan is now coaching the team. Lucas and Nathan form
a united front against their father but end up losing
the Playoffs and their season is over. Lucas decides
to move to Charleston with Keith and he and Nathan
part on good terms. Haley decides that she wants
to sleep with Nathan and is ready to lose her virginity
to him. They make plans to do it after the game.
Dan walks in on Keith and Deb sleeping together
and then suffers a massive heart attack the next
morning as a result. Brooke and Peyton reunite and
concoct a plan to get rid of Nicki; Brooke tells
Nicki that Jake took Jenny to Seattle (he actually
took her to Savannah) and Nicki sets off, leaving
Brooke and Peyton delighted. They vow never to let
another guy come between them again. Lucas comes
to Nathan's apartment to say goodbye to Haley and
discovers that they "slept together".
He confronts Haley about it and is astounded when
she announces that she and Nathan got married the
night before. Following this groundbreaking revelation,
Lucas and Keith leave Tree Hill.
Season 2: 2004-2005
After Lucas and Keith learn of Dan's heart attack,
they return to Tree Hill and Dan decides he wants
to get to know Lucas. Lucas cautiously enters into
a relationship with his father and after Dan learns
that Lucas has contracted HCM, the genetic defect
which caused Dan's own heart attack, he convinces
Lucas to move in with him and pays for his medication,
keeping his condition a secret.This leaves Karen
puzzled and questioning what Dan did for Lucas to
say yes. Dan also agrees to stay away from Keith
and his girlfriend Jules (guest star, Maria Menounos)
as Lucas discovers that Dan hired Jules to make
Keith fall in love with her and then break his heart
to get back at Keith for sleeping with Deb. However,
Jules jilts Keith at the altar and he leaves Tree
Hill with a broken heart.
Nathan and Haley's marriage is soon tested with
the arrival of Chris Keller (guest star, Tyler Hilton),
a musician who convinces Haley to leave Nathan and
Tree Hill to come on tour with him. Nathan is now
in a deep depression and feels that it is his fault
she left. In despair, Nathan attempts to kill himself
by crashing a race-car but a dream makes him realize
that he has to get on with life without Haley and
so he allows papers to be drawn up to annul their
marriage.
Peyton starts an all-ages club named TRIC but at
the same time, finds herself tempted to take drugs
and enters a dark place in her life, which Jake
helps her out of when he returns. Jake and Peyton
fall in love and begin a relationship, but Jake
is forced to leave Peyton and Tree Hill once again
when Nicki kidnaps Jenny and disappears with her.
Brooke begins the season by forming a "Friends
With Benefits" arrangement with her new neighbour,
Felix Taggarro (guest star, Michael Copon), but
after her parents lose all their money, Brooke discovers
an inner strength she never knew she had. She runs
for Student Council President and is elected over
her bitter, experienced, and devoted opponent, Erica
Marsh (guest star, Katherine Bailess). She dumps
Felix after discovering he vandalized Peyton's locker
with a sexual slur which begins to spread rumors.
Felix is sent to Military School by his parents.
Brooke gets close to Lucas and moves into his old
bedroom after her parents move to California.
Lucas dates Felix's sister Anna (guest star, Daniella
Alonso) but ends things with her after realizing
that he still holds a torch for Brooke. Anna's break-up
with Lucas leaves her confused about her sexuality.
After kissing Peyton in a misunderstanding, Anna
starts coming to terms with the fact that she is
bisexual. After coming out to her parents, Anna
returns to her old Boarding School to be with her
girlfriend.
Deb develops an addiction to painkillers which
she tries to overcome by going to rehab. Karen dates
her Business Professor, the much younger Andy Hargrove
(guest star, Kieren Hutchison), who makes an enemy
out of Dan.
In the season finale, Andy is forced to return
to New Zealand and look after his ill mother. Karen
decides to go after him but is concerned that he
hasn't checked into his hotel. Before Karen leaves
Tree Hill, she thinks she sees Keith on the street
opposite the café. Deb is discharged from
rehab and learns that Dan tried to make Nathan feel
guilty for her addiction. Deb tells Nathan that
she wants them to make a fresh start away from Tree
Hill and Lucas gives her the ledger of Dan's illegal
business activities, which Andy uncovered. Dan blackmails
Deb into giving the ledger back to him and disowns
Lucas for betraying him. Nathan also disowns Lucas
because he is angry with him for interfering in
his family. Dan learns that Whitey has been telling
Deb and Nathan a few home truths about him and threatens
to have him fired. Lucas finally tells Brooke how
he feels about her but she leaves for a summer in
California without telling him how she herself feels.
Peyton receives chilling instant-messages from someone
named "WATCHMEWATCHU" and believes that
it is the mysterious reporter, Ellie Harp (guest
star, Sheryl Lee). Ellie comes to Peyton's house
and shocks Peyton by telling her that she is her
mother. Dan finds a white substance on the rim of
a bottle left for him anonymously at the dealership
and discovers he has been poisoned. Before Dan falls
unconscious, a black-clad figure enters his office
and sets it alight. Nathan moves back in with Deb
but gets a surprise when he arrives home to find
Haley on his doorstep. Lucas and Peyton find themselves
alone on the beach together and realize that it's
just the two of them this summer...
Season 3: 2005-2006
Three months later, things pick up where they
left off at the beginning of the summer. Lucas and
Peyton spent their summer together and are hiding
a secret from Brooke when she returns from California
and proposes a non-exclusive relationship with Lucas.
Brooke takes pity on a homeless Haley and takes
her on as her roommate. Haley tries to win back
Nathan; who has spent the summer at "High Flyers",
a basketball camp, however Nathan isn't ready to
trust Haley again. He pays Chris to come back to
Tree Hill and help Haley with her music. Chris causes
even more trouble this time round when he sleeps
with Brooke, almost destroying her relationship
with Lucas. Nathan and Haley get back together as
do Lucas and Brooke and Chris leaves Tree Hill for
good. Peyton tries to come to terms with the fact
that Ellie is her birth mother and the fact that
Ellie is terminally ill with cancer. They make a
benefit album together in aid of breast cancer research
but Ellie dies before the album is finished.
Everyone returns to Tree Hill High to begin their
Senior Year and basketball practice starts up again.
Whitey reveals to the Ravens that win or lose, this
is his last season as coach while Lucas tries to
conceal his HCM from Karen and Whitey, despite the
serious impact it is having on his performance.
Dan survives the fire at the dealership and it
is revealed that Lucas rescued him. Dan decides
to run for Mayor but gets a nasty shock when Karen
announces that she is running against him. However,
Dan wins the election and Deb flees Tree Hill when
Lucas tells her that he knows she tried to kill
Dan. Keith returns and he and Karen start seeing
each other, even getting engaged. Dan is convinced
that Keith tried to kill him and sets about plotting
his revenge.
Newcomer Rachel Gatina (Danneel Harris) tries to
come between Lucas and Brooke before setting her
sights on Mouth Mc Fadden (Lee Norris). Mouth falls
for Rachel only to discover that she is seeing Nathan's
uncle Cooper (guest star, Michael Trucco) who is
oblivious to Rachel's true age, 17. Rachel also
opens the Time Capsule recorded in Season Two and
exposes it to the whole school in an attempt to
cause trouble, but neither Rachel nor anyone else
is prepared for the damage it does cause; Lucas
and Mouth's former friend, Jimmy Edwards (guest
star, Colin Fickes), bullied and tormented for voicing
his contempt towards other students on the Time
Capsule, takes the school hostage with a gun. Peyton
is shot in the leg and Lucas takes care of her in
the library, where Peyton kisses him.. Edwards turns
the gun on himself, despite Keith's attempts at
talking him round. Dan finds Keith kneeling over
the student's dead body and still believing that
Keith tried to kill him, Dan picks up the gun and
shoots his brother.
Keith's death affects everyone; Nathan and Haley
move back in together and get engaged, Peyton has
a brief romance with Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy
before going to find Jake in Savannah, Lucas finally
admits to Karen that he has HCM and can no longer
play basketball and Dan is haunted by visions of
Keith as a child. Peyton proposes to Jake but Jake
discovers Peyton's feelings for Lucas and encourages
her to go back to Tree Hill to deal with them. Brooke
is outraged when she discovers that Peyton still
has feelings for Lucas.
In the season finale, Nathan and Haley renew their
vows in a beautiful ceremony. Deb has by now returned
to Tree Hill and when she discovers that Dan thinks
Keith was responsible for the dealership fire, she
sets the record straight and tells him that she
tried to kill him. Dan realizes he murdered his
brother for no reason and breaks down at his grave.
Later, Karen tells Dan that she is pregnant and
Dan promises her that he will be there for her this
time. Brooke is not speaking to Peyton and when
Lucas lets slip that he and Peyton kissed on the
day of the school shooting, she is devastated and
tells Peyton that as far as she is concerned, their
friendship is over. Rachel is bitter over Cooper's
rejection and drunkenly tells everyone at Nathan
and Haley's wedding reception that Cooper slept
with her even though he knew that she was only seventeen.
Rachel takes off in the wedding limo with Cooper
and his attempts to talk her round eventually work.
As Lucas and Karen leave the reception, he finds
a pregnancy test in someone's purse. Lucas asks
his mother if she is pregnant and she tells him
that she is - but that's not her purse. Rachel asks
Cooper if there is anything that she can say to
keep him. He solemnly tells her that there isn't,
prompting Rachel to reveal that she might be pregant
causing a ferocious argument between them when Cooper
refuses to believe her. Rachel grabs control of
the wheel and after a near-collision with Nathan
and Haley (en route to London for their honeymoon),
the limo veers off the bridge and into the water.
Against Haley's wishes, Nathan dives in to save
them but ends up becoming trapped and stuck for
air himself. And when Dan gets home, he finds the
word "MURDERER" smeared on his wall -
someone knows what he did.
Season 4: 2006-2007
Nathan, Rachel and Cooper all survive the accident
and Cooper makes a low-key exit from Tree Hill after
taking the blame for the accident to protect Rachel.
Nathan is left confused over how they managed to
get out of the water and a series of traumatic images
leaves him believing that he saw Keith in the water.
Rachel sets out to seduce Nathan and pretends that
she also saw Keith in a bid to get close to him.
It later comes out that Nathan had a vision of Keith
in the water and it was this vision that gave him
the strength to get out.
Brooke breaks up with Lucas and Peyton finds a
note from Ellie informing her that her biological
father has a son. Peyton's online stalker, "WATCHMEWATCHU"
(guest star, Matt Barr) impersonates her half-brother
but soon becomes dangerous and attempts to rape
Peyton before she is rescued by Lucas and her real
brother, Derek Sommers (guest star, Ernest Waddell).
The stalker escapes and Derek teaches Peyton self-defense
and how to fight back before returning to the Marines.
Lucas realizes he still cares for Peyton romantically
when she finally confesses her own feelings to him.
As the crowd celebrates the Ravens winning the State
Championship, Lucas and Peyton share a passionate
kiss, and they later reunite as an exclusive couple.
Dan is tormented with guilt for murdering Keith,
especially since someone knows about it and is continuously
writing "MURDERER" on his wall. He tries
to make amends for it by supporting Karen through
her pregnancy and they become close, with Dan coming
to terms with the truth - that he is still in love
with Karen. Karen even wonders if perhaps she could
love Dan again as he appears to have changed. Meanwhile,
Deb starts taking pills again and buys a gun to
protect herself from Dan after he threatens her,
alienating herself from those who care about her,
especially Nathan and Karen. Realizing that she
has hit rock bottom, Deb attempts suicide by taking
an overdose.
Brooke and Rachel develop a friendship and with
Brooke no longer speaking to Peyton, Brooke moves
in with Rachel. Rachel thinks that Brooke is pregnant
and starts a rumour to this effect, but Haley eventually
owns up and admits that she is actually expecting,
leading Rachel to quit her pursuit of Nathan. Nathan,
in severe financial difficulty, turns to loan shark
Daunte Jones (guest star, Rick Fox) who provides
him with money but then puts pressure on Nathan
to throw game and then later the State Championship
to clear his debt.
Skills Taylor (Antwon Tanner) joins the Ravens
and Lucas is granted permission to play for Whitey
as long as it does not exceed 15 minutes per game.
Lucas and Skills unite against Nathan's attempts
to throw the game and after Nathan learns that he
and Haley are having a boy, he is inspired and plays
the game of his life. The Ravens win the State Championship
but Nathan pays the price for it afterwards when
Daunte tries to run him down but Haley pushes Nathan
out of the way and is hit herself. Nathan pulls
Daunte out of his car and in a rage, he proceeds
to beat him. Dan arrives and discovers Daunte is
dead. Believing the beating from Nathan to have
killed Daunte, Dan takes the fall to protect his
son and ends up in jail, but is released when Daunte's
autopsy results show that it was the car accident
and not Nathan that killed him, leaving a guilt-free
Nathan and Haley to get on with their lives. As
Lucas kneels beside Haley, he suddenly suffers a
cardiac arrest as a result of (foolishly) not taking
his heart medication before the game. While his
life hangs in the balance, Lucas receives a visit
from Keith who shows him that it is important to
be the best you can. Keith takes Lucas to the scene
of his murder and tries to show him what really
happened. Given the choice between living and dying
by the ghost of Keith, Lucas decides to live so
that he can tell Peyton he loves her, but as he
wakes up, he achieves a revelation as to the nature
of Keith's death; he tells Karen that Edwards killed
himself first so couldn't have shot Keith but Karen
dismisses this and Dan is worried when Karen tells
him Lucas' theory. He too dismisses it but Lucas
is not convinced.
Rachel discovers that Brooke is failing calculus
and is in danger of not being able to graduate with
her friends so the pair hatch a plot to steal the
tests so that they can cheat and end up becoming
members of the "Clean Teens" after making
up an excuse after being caught on campus at night.
. Brooke meets Chase Adams (guest star, Stephen
Colletti), a "hot virgin" who she begins
seeing.
After breaking up with his girlfriend of five minutes,
GiGi Silveri (Kelsey Chow, co-starring), Mouth also
gets close to a "Clean Teen"; founder,
Shelly Simon (guest star, Elisabeth Harnois) and
loses his virginity to her, only for her to break
up with him afterwards.
Nathan and Haley move into the Scott Mansion to
help Deb recover from her addiction and host a pre-prom
party, where a tape of Nathan's basketball glories
is played but everyone is horrified when it also
reveals footage of Nathan and Brooke having sex
at a time when he was seeing Peyton. This causes
fireworks between Brooke and Peyton who end up in
a physical fight and Peyton declares their friendship
over.It is also over for Chase and her as the real
Brooke is revealed.
Peyton reluctantly agrees to go to prom but when
she answers the door expecting it to be Lucas, she
gets the shock of her life when it turns out to
be her stalker, who she thought had been thrown
in jail. He holds her hostage in her basement until
Brooke shows up and the two girls defeat him together,
restoring their friendship in the process. At prom,
Dan receives text messages from the person who knows
he killed Keith. Lucas is growing more and more
suspicious and thinks that Keith is trying to send
him a sign. A conversation with Dan triggers a flashback
for Lucas; he remembers that, as he carried Peyton
from the school that day, he saw another student,
Abby Brown, through the blinds of a classroom window
and realizes that she witnessed the murder.
Rachel takes the fall for the stolen calculus exam
to protect Brooke, getting herself expelled from
school. The following day, Rachel decides to leave
Tree Hill to go and live with her parents in the
Italian Riviera but crashes the prom before doing
so. When she actually does leave, she convinces
Mouth to come with her.
[ CAST
]
Main Characters
Main characters
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Lucas Scott (played by Chad Michael
Murray) (S1 - present): Lucas is the son that Dan
never claimed, although Keith more than made up
for the lack of a father figure in his life. He
and Nathan start out as enemies but bond as friends
and as brothers as the show progresses. Lucas' best
friend is Haley and he has been a romantic interest
for both Peyton and Brooke. Lucas has a serious
heart condition known as HCM, which he concealed
for a long time. Aside from basketball, his greatest
passion is literature and quotes from the books
he reads are used on the show.
Nathan Scott (played by James
Lafferty) (S1 - present): Nathan, a stereotypical
jock, is the son that Dan did claim, although his
relationships with both his parents are strained
at the best of times. Nathan marries Haley in Season
One and again in Season Three and is about to become
a father to her child. He and Lucas start out as
enemies but bond as friends and as brothers as the
show progresses. Nathan is the star player of the
Ravens and is named "Most Valuable Player"
in Season Four. Basketball has always been his greatest
passion and he sees it as his "way out".
Peyton Sawyer (played by Hilarie
Burton) (S1 - present): Peyton is an interesting
and unusual girl. Her two greatest passions in life
are music and art; she is an expert in the punk-rock
genre and uses her art to express the issues that
play out in her life. Peyton's father Larry works
on a dredging boat and is never at home and her
mother Anna is dead. In Season Two, she discovers
that she is actually adopted. She has never met
her biological father although she has met his son,
her half-brother, Derek. After getting to know her
birth mother Ellie, she loses her to breast cancer.
In Season Four, Lucas and Peyton finally act on
their long-repressed feelings for each other and
begin a relationship.
Haley James Scott (played by Bethany
Joy Galeotti) (S1 - present): Haley is Lucas' best
friend. She marries Nathan in Season One and again
in Season Three and is about to have his son. She
is an extremely intelligent young woman with high
morals. In Season Two, she leaves Nathan to tour
the country as a musician but realizes that her
marriage is worth more than her dream and she returns
to him.
Dan Scott (played by Paul Johansson)
(S1 - present): A once great basketball player,
Dan is father to both Nathan and Lucas, although
he never wanted anything to do with the latter.
After his marriage to Deb crumbles and she and Nathan
try to rid themselves of him, Dan's evil comes to
the forefront. After Dan finds Deb sleeping with
his brother, Keith, a war begins between the two
brothers, culminating with Dan fatally shooting
his brother in Season Three, believing that Keith
had set his car dealership alight. Since discovering
that Deb was actually behind the fire, Dan has tried
to make amends by supporting Karen through her pregnancy
and appears to have turned over a new leaf.
Brooke Davis (played by Sophia
Bush) (S1 - present): Brooke is Peyton's best friend
and captain of the cheerleading squad. Feisty and
flirtatious, she has fallen for Lucas twice but
both times, their relationship didn't work out.
Brooke has recently moved in with Rachel, her one-time
nemesis, having lived in several different places
since her parents moved to California without her.
She creates a clothing line, Clothes Over Bro's
in Season Three - it is accepted by Rogue Vogue
and later by Victoria's Secret.
Deb Scott (played by Barbara Alyn
Woods) (S2 - present, recurring previously): Deb
is Dan's neurotic ex-wife and Nathan's mother. Married
to Dan for seventeen years, she eventually divorces
him in Season Three, her hatred of him driving her
to attempt to kill him at one point. Deb battles
a pill addiction in Season Two and again in Season
Four, but overcomes it for good the second time.
Marvin "Mouth" McFadden
(played by Lee Norris) (S3 - present, recurring
previously): Mouth is one of Lucas' oldest friends,
originating from the River Court. He is somewhat
unlucky in love, being the victim of Brooke's unrequited
love in Season Two, being dumped by Erica when she
becomes popular and falling for Rachel, only to
get sidelined for the older Cooper. GiGi, his co-Sports
announcer, has also broken up with him after only
seeing him for a few weeks and Shelly Simon runs
out on him after he loses his virginity to her.
Mouth hopes to be a Sports Commentator and commentates
at the Ravens' games.
Antoine "Skills" Taylor
(played by Antwon Tanner) (S4, recurring previously):
Skills is one of Lucas' oldest friends, originating
from the River Court. He takes on a more prevalent
role in Season Four when he fills Lucas' vacancy
on the Ravens. He dates Bevin Maskey, a cheerleader.
Rachel Gatina (played by Danneel
Harris) (S4, recurring previously): Rachel moves
to Tree Hill in Season Three. After joining the
cheerleading squad, she instantly clashes with Brooke
as she pursues Lucas, although Brooke and Rachel
later become friends and Brooke moves into Rachel's
house. Rachel gets close to Mouth but sidelines
him for Cooper, who dumps Rachel when he finds out
she lied about her true age. After Nathan and Haley's
wedding, Cooper and Rachel have an altercation in
the limo which causes it to veer off the Mollina
Bridge and into the water. Nathan rescues Rachel
and she develops a crush on him but backs off when
she discovers that Haley is pregnant. After taking
the fall for a calculus exam she stole with Brooke,
Rachel leaves Tree Hill. It is revealed that Rachel
was once overweight and unattractive and has had
major plastic surgery to make herself look the way
she does now.
Coach Brian "Whitey" Durham (played
by Barry Corbin) (S1 - present): Whitey is the Ravens'
coach. He and Dan have never seen eye-to-eye and
often bicker over their differing opinions on the
team. Whitey often laments the death of his wife
Camilla and the fact that he didn't spend more time
with her while she was alive. He retires after the
Ravens finally win him his much-coveted State Championship
title.
Karen Roe (played by Moira Kelly)
(S1 - present): Karen is Lucas' mother. Dan abandoned
her after she became pregnant in High School and
with a lot of help from Dan's brother (and in later
years, Karen's lover) Keith, Karen raised Lucas
alone. She runs a small café in Tree Hill
and along with her business partner and friend,
Deb, she owns an all-ages club named TRIC. Karen
is devastated by Keith's death in Season Three but
has had some happiness in the discovery that she
is pregnant with his child. In Season Four, she
gets close to Dan again.
Former Main Characters
Keith Scott (played by Craig
Sheffer) (S1 - S3): Keith was Dan's older, kinder,
under-achieving brother. After Dan chose Deb over
Karen, Keith helped Karen to raise Lucas (acting
as a surrogate father to him) and fell in love with
her but they only got together in Season Three.
He had a recurring drink problem and an ongoing
rivalry with his brother which involved him sleeping
with Deb and Dan paying Jules to seduce Keith and
then dump him to get back at Keith for this. When
Dan mistook him for the one who tried to kill him
in the dealership fire, he shot him after the siege
at Tree Hill High, killing him instantly. Since
then, Karen has discovered she is pregnant with
Keith's child and Keith has been haunting Dan as
a teen and as an adult ghost and has been guiding
his nephews as a sort of guardian angel.
