After last week's disappointing episode, I am happy to report that One Tree Hill is once again back to its core and I thought tonight's episode was rather enjoyable. There were quite a few memorable scenes and character interactions, as well as some witty dialogue. Here is a recap, which will start with an explanation about the title of this post.
- At the end of last week's episode Dan's pager for a new heart buzzed. While at the hospital in the waiting room, Dan watches the man transporting the heart trip, fall and drop the case carrying the heart onto the floor. The heart then rolls out of the container and a dog that happened to also be in the waiting room walked up to the heart and ate it! It was quite a funny scene. Before this happened, Lucas and Peyton were also at the hospital and they run into Dan. Dan says, "I'm getting a heart," to which Lucas replies, "It's about time." After this second failed attempt to get a heart, Dan is starting to believe that he is being punished for his past sins. Dan then realizes that Jamie is truly the only person he has left who cares for him. He asks Deb for permission to take Jamie for a few hours to "say goodbye." While saying goodbye Jamie asks Dan to tell him who killed Keith and when Dan tells the truth and admits he did, Jamie immediately responds by saying, "I want to go home." At the very end of the episode, Dan shows up at the River Court, where Lucas and Nathan are playing basketball, and he apologizes to them for failing as a father, but he also tells them he thinks they are great men and should not change.
- Deb had a strong presence in this episode. After last week where Dan blamed her for Keith's death, in this episode she stands up for herself and tells him it was not her who pulled the trigger, but him. Also, Deb finally admits to herself that her relationship with Skills cannot possibly work since there is too much of an age difference. She breaks up with Skills, even after he tries to tell her that having children is not important to him if he is only with her.
- In a rather cute, small storyline, Skills is coaching Jamie's basketball team. After the team loses a game, Skills is the perfect children's coach and tells them that winning doesn't matter.
- There wasn't much mention about Peyton's medical problem in this episode, though while at her mother's gravestone, Peyton did admit that she is really scared.
- A few weeks ago Hailey went against the principal's wishes and printed Sam's essay in the school newspaper. It lead to her being suspended as a teacher. In this episode, Hailey meets with the principal who says she can have her job back if Hailey publishes an apology in the next issue of the newspaper and also apologies to her class. Hailey, at first, agrees because the alternative is being fired. Nathan helps her make the decision because he reminds her that she has to keep her students in mind and they are much better off if she is their teacher. But in the end Hailey realizes that though taking the high road and apologizing would solve the problem, she would not be telling the truth because truthfully she stands behind running the essay. So, instead, Hailey walks out of class and in turn is fired.
- Sam is at the store, sees Jack and tries to get his attention. He ignores her, walks out of the story and sets off a detector. He had stolen some food. Sam tells him to give her the food so that he can get away. She is caught with the food, but in the end the store did not end up pressing charges. Regardless, Brooke gets very angry with her, even saying things she in the end regrets. She calls Sam "unfixable," which really hurts Sam. Sam finds out that Brooke and Julian are fighting (because of the unreturned I love you utterance) and Sam realizes that Brooke is really mad at Julian and is taking her frustration out on her. Sam even goes to Julian to try to get him to realize how important Brooke is to him. Brooke, before the end of the episode, apologizes to Sam saying she is not unfixable. And to make it up to her, Brooke found Jack and he spends the night with them.
- James van der Beek is again in Tree Hill. At least, he is until Julian gets a phonecall from his father saying the father has been fired as head of the movie studio. This means the movie is "put on hold," which in non-movie lingo means it is now unlikely the movie will be made. As always, the character of Dixon, the director, is humorous. He is raw and vulger, but that only makes his scenes more enjoyable. I am sad that he will no longer be on the show.
- Nathan is not really in the episode except to stand as the voice of reason with Hailey and then later to comment to Lucas about how he leaves to play basketball and everything in Tree Hill falls apart, which is pretty true.
There is a great scene where Brooke, Hailey, Mia, Skills and Lucas are all sitting at the bar at Tric. At first, the audience does not realize how many of the stars are sitting there and starting with Brooke they all complain about the problem currently plaguing them and the camera slowly pans the length of the bar. Brooke is mad at Sam and about Julian; Hailey hates the principal; Mia does not want to listen to the music producers who want her to change a song she loves; Skills is sad he got dumped; and Lucas is upset he lost $300,000 because the movie was never made.
Also, Jamie throughout the episode was making a Sims version of Tree Hill. In it, everything is perfect - Q is still alive; Lucas and Peyton live next door to Hailey, Jamie and Nathan; Julian lives with Brooke and Sam; and, most importantly, Dan got a heart and Keith is visiting him in the hospital because in this world they love one another. If only things were as simple in the real world as they are in this computer game world.
Here are some of the memorable quotes from the episode:
- Lucas says, the cemetery "is way too full of people I love."
- "Sometimes you have to play the game," which was said multiple times and by multiple characters
- "Stand up for what you believe in. The truth matters, so tell it," is the farewell advice Hailey gives to her class before she storms out
- "Sometimes the beauty is in the attempt," which was first said by Dixon about the movie never being made and is then repeated by Julian about his relationship with Brooke
So what did you think of the episode? Leave comments below.
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