Lucas: So, the whole summer and I still can't get used to that hair of yours.
Peyton: What? You did yours last spring and mine actually looks good.
Lucas: Hey!
Haley: Nathan, there wasn't a moment that my heart wasn't in Tree Hill.
Nathan: Unlike you I'm leaving and taking my heart with me.
Lucas: Went to the airport this morning to pick up my mom and poof, there was Brooke.
Peyton: Poof?
Lucas: Poof.
Haley: I understand if you don't love me anymore.
Nathan: Always and forever. That's what sucks, Haley. I still do love you. I always will. I just can't trust you.
Peyton: (voiceover) At this moment there are 6,470,818,671 people in the world. Some are running scared. Some are coming home. Some tell lies to make it through the day. Others are just now facing the truth. Some are evil men, at war with good. And some are good, struggling with evil. Six billion people in the world. Six billion souls. And sometimes - all you need is one.
Nathan: Besides, what's the difference, you turn the lights out, it's all the same darkness.
Lucas: I did something tonight, Peyton and I can't take it back.
Lucas: Peyton, you gotta talk to me. What's going on with you?
Peyton: I've been getting these creepy e-mails lately. And then tonight, this woman shows up and she knew things about me.
Lucas: What kinda things?
Peyton: She said she's my mother! My mom's dead, Luke. I was there in the hospital! I watched her die!
Peyton: OK, so, check it out, Tom Sawyer. If you're lucky, I might let you help me, and if you're really lucky, I might even let you pay to help me.
Haley: I'm really sorry, Nathan.
Nathan: About my dad or about us?
Haley: 'Bout everything.
Nathan: So, what're you doing here anyway? Tour playing Tree Hill?
Haley: No. They wanted me to become a solo artist and record a record or something, but, it didn't matter without you. None of it mattered without you.
Lucas: Look, I know it wasn't fair, how I told you I wanted to be with you when your cab was just parked right outside. I just saw you slipping away and I guess I panicked.
Brooke: It's OK. Really. It is. I actually had the whole summer to think about this and I thought we could totally have a summer-like fling, just in the fall. And non-exclusive.
Lucas: Non-exclusive. How does that work?
Brooke: Well, we hang out, we go to movies, we have fun.
Lucas:Do we kiss?
Brooke:You bet your ass we kiss.
Lucas: Do we do more than kiss?
Brooke: Maybe. But we also date other people.
Haley: Are you OK?
Lucas: Depends; are you home for good?
Haley: Or for bad.
Lucas: Ah, good! Oh!
Priest: May the grace of god be with you.
Dan: Yeah, OK. I gotta tell you, padre, this isn't exactly my home court, you know. I never had much use for religion. I guess what you call kindness, I call weakness. But .. no man is bullet-proof. I know that. After all, they crucified your boy, didn't they?
Priest: What troubles you, my son?
Dan: What troubles me -- is how I've made mistakes. How I lie awake at night, keeping company with regret, fallibility. I've not been the man I intended to be. That troubles me.
Priest: And you've come seeking absolution?
Dan: Yeah, I suppose I have. Let me ask you something; is it possible to grant forgiveness for sinful acts yet to be committed?
Priest: I'm afraid I don't understand.
Lucas: So, when are we gonna get to that kissing part, anyway?
Brooke: Oh, I'd say right about now if you know what's good for ya.
Brooke: Okay, putting aside the fact that I do look pretty good considering I've been on a plane for like a day and a half, you cannot ambush me at the airport with flowers and a nicely tanned end of summer body, considering the way we left things...three months ago.
Lucas: Actually I'm just here to pick up my mom from New Zealand. I didn't think you were coming in until tomorrow.
Brooke: You thought wrong. Oh, look, there's my cab; quick, maybe you can tell me you love me or something!
Haley: Hey, that was your mom on the phone, she said she's gonna spend the night at the hospital with your dad.
Nathan: Unbelievable. We should have a Scott family discount.
Mouth: I felt larger than life when I was with Erica. (Pause) I'd give anything to have that back.
Brooke: You and Erica broke up?!
Mouth: Yeah.
Brooke: Why, what happened?
Mouth: She got popular.
Brooke: This is our new post-game party palace. All it needs is a P. Sawyer makeover, a little paint, couple of those creepy nobody-understands-me drawings that you do and a batch of hot boys.
Deb: As you know from my emails about Dan, I have been one miserable bitch. You?
Nathan: I deleted you.
Haley: Well... Then you deleted this: Um... I was being childish when I walked away from you for the tour. You gave me an ultimatum the night that I left and, uh, I fought back for all the wrong reasons. I was being stubborn... and I can't take that back, I wish that I could. Did I want to go? Yeah. I loved it, I loved every night of it. But I want you to know something Nathan. There was never a night where I loved it more than I loved you.
3.02 || From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea
Lucas: I'm the guy for you Brooke Davis... you'll see.
Lucas: (voiceover) Henry David Thoreau once wrote, "Live each season as it passes. Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, but resign yourself to the influences of each."
3.03 || First Day On A Brand New Planet
Haley: I'm usually one of those people who likes the fist day of school. You know, new pens; new book; new backpack.
Brooke: A nerd.
Haley: Exactly!
Lucas: (voiceover) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: 'All are architects of fate... living in these walls of time.'
Lucas: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: "All are architects of fate... so look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again."
Brooke: You know, sometimes people play hard-to-get because they need to know the other person's feelings are real.
3.04 || An Attempt To Tip The Scales
Dan: Where is all my stuff, Deb?
Deb: I gave it away.
Dan: You what?!
Deb: I had to. It was all wet and smelly.
Dan: And how did that happen?
Deb: The sprinklers came on by accident after I tossed everything out the window. That part was on purpose.
Karen: Haley? Are you Okay?
Haley: Yeah, if okay's, like, heels that are killing me and underwear that's digging into my ribcage and I'm about five minutes from going home and binging on cookie dough.
Lucas: (voiceover) Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, 'There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding.
3.05 || A Multitude Of Casualties
Lucas: If I tell Whitey I have a heart condition, I'm off the team.
Haley: Yeah, and if you don't tell Whitey about your heart condition, you're off the planet.
Lucas: You're the one that wanted to be non-exclusive. I'm just doing what you wanted.
Brooke: What I wanted? I wanted you to fight for me! I wanted you to say that there was no-one else that you could ever be with and that you'd rather be alone than without me. I wanted the Lucas Scott from the beach that night telling the world that he's the one for me.
Lucas: How was I supposed to know that?
Brooke: You just are.
Lucas: Brooke, this isn't what it looks like. Anyways, I don't know why you are so upset.
Brooke: You're kidding, right?
Brooke: Naked in the backseat? That's so last year it's two years ago.
3.06 || Locked Hearts And Hand Grenades
Bevin: You said we could trade.
Brooke: Why is she wearing my necklace?
Bevin: Because that was part of the trade.
Brooke: Okay, why would you trade your third pick and my necklace, for Rachel's fifth pick?
Bevin: Duh! Brooke, five is more than three. Oh, it made total sense when Rachel explained it.
Brooke: Right.
Brooke: Bevin, what the hell was going through your size two brain?!
Haley: Never expected the cheerleading squad to have more drama than the drama club.
Lucas: (voiceover)
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- Invictus, William Ernest Henley
3.07 || Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends
Lucas (voiceover): Blaise Pascal once said: "The heart has reasons that reason cannot know."
Lucas (to Rachel): You know if I ever met the devil, I figured she be hot and holding a basketball.
Haley: OK. You know the moment that I left the tour?...We were playing this club in Illinois... and Chris decides to do a cover of an eighties song called, um, 'Missing You'... and everybody starts singing along, the crowds loving it and they turn the house lights up pause and I could see every face out there... and I... fell apart. On stage, in front of three thousand people; I lost it. I couldn't sing, I couldn't hear the music. Nothing. Because... that was the moment that I knew... that none of it could ever be enough without you. All of the celebrity and all of the applause and all the pretty melodies... couldn't fill your void in my heart. So... yeah, I guess you're right; it's not the life I would've had... 'cuz ever since I met you, it has been so much more.
Brooke: It was a fantasy draft Dim, you know like the fantasies you have about Nathan, not real.
3.08 || The Worst Day Since Yesterday
Nathan: It's hard to get back into the ring, especially with the one who knocked you out in the first place.
Lucas: (voiceover) Robert Louis Stevenson once said, "You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?"
Nathan: Your game sucks. Fix it.
Lucas: Your marriage sucks. Fix it.
3.09 || How A Resurrection Really Feels
Nathan: you know, for most of my life I would have gone through this alone, then I met you and I finally found someone I could depend on when life got like this. So, I guess I called to see if that was still there.
Haley: Nathan, you can always call me. Always and forever... I wanna ask you something. the night of the masquerade party did we... Did you kiss me?
Nathan: Of course I did.
Haley: Oh no you didn't. That kiss wasn't half as good as this one... I love you for lying to me... thanks for calling.
Natahn: Haley.
Haley: Yeah.
Nathan: Stay with me tonight.
Haley: Oh, I was hoping you would say that.
Nathan: Your song is great, Haley. Chris played it for me. It's a long story, but it's really great. I just wanted you to know that.
Haley: Oh, okay.
Nathan: My mom left, for good, I think. Oh and apparently my dads the mayor now. So yeah, today had really sucked ass.
Haley: Oh, Nathan, I'm so sorry.
Nathan: I should've known you can't be honest.
Chris: I can be honest.
Nathan: No, you can't!
Chris: I kissed Haley... at the mascarade party.
Nathan: (hits him)
Chris: Ow, man I was trying to help you!
Nathan: What? (hits him again)
Chris: See that's why I'm never honest! And stop hitting me!
Nathan: Stop kissing my wife!
Chris: I will, when you start kissing her!
Nathan: (hits Chris again)
Lucas: Brooke! I'm sorry! What you did with Chris...it's okay.
Brooke: It's not. It can't be. It's too much to forgive!
Lucas: Well that's too bad because I forgive you.
Brooke: You can't.
Lucas: I just did. So you're gonna just have to deal with it. I'm the guy for you Brooke Davis, and I know I hurt you last time we're together, but...
Brooke: I love you.
Lucas: I love you too... pretty girl.
Brooke: There are 82 letters in here, and they're all addressed to you. I wrote them all this summer. One a day, but I never sent them 'cause I was afraid....I was afraid of getting my heart broken again, like before. 'Cause you hurt me so bad, and I was afraid to be vulnerable. And I was afraid of you and the way that you make me feel. And I know that doesn't matter now after what I did, but I just thought that you should know. This was how I spent my summer Luke, wanting you... I was just too scared to admit it.
Nathan: Where you going?
Chris: Chris Keller's work here is done.
Nathan: You call this breaking even?! You just got me attacked by a munchkin and a transvestite.
Chris Keller: Whoa! You think Emmanuelle is a dude?
Nathan: E-MAN-uelle has an 'Adam's Apple!'
Chris: Oops.
Nathan: Dude we gotta jump!
Chris Keller: No way man, Chris Keller can't swim!
Haley: When did we start letting boys dictate our happiness?
Brooke: I was nine.
Haley: Oh, where did we go so wrong?
Brooke: Well, I slept with Chris Keller and you went on tour with him.
3.10 || Brave New World
Brooke: Here, kids, you can take these CDs... thanks for all your help.
Haley: That was a really nice thing to do Brooke... with my CDs.
Brooke: Mouth, you didn't exactly break any speed records driving over here, you know.
Mouth: You called me 17 minutes ago and I drive a bicycle, Brooke.
Haley: Mr. Scott, can you please leave? You're really creeping me out.
Dan: You know, at least Peyton was pleasant in the morning.
Lucas: (voiceover) Scott Taylor Idus once wrote: Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone. And do not trouble about the future for it is yet to come. Live in the present and make it so beautiful, that it will be worth remembering.
3.11 || Return Of The Future
Lucas (to Karen): If you're always looking for reasons not to be with somebody, well you'll always find them, and I guess at some point you should let go and give your heart what it deserves.
Haley: And if you're so worried, then why didn't you stop us? It's just as much your responsibility as it is mine.
Nathan: You're right. It is my responsibility, let me see the pills.
Haley: I can not believe you still don't believe me. I can't believe it. Here take them. I don't need them anymore.
Nathan: Haley.
Haley: Your future as a basketball player is totally secure. Your future as my husband, not so much.
Nathan: Haley, what if something happened? That would have changed our lives forever!
Haley: Like what, marriage?!
Brooke: Ooh, she's good.
Brooke: What are you doing?
Nathan: Oh, I was just, looking for band-aids.
Brooke: Well buddy, you found my birth control patches. Those fix a whole other problem. Next cabinet.
Lucas: (voiceover) H.L. Mencken wrote, "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands,hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
3.12 || I've Got Dreams To Remember
Peyton: So The Davis loves Lucas huh?
Brooke: I really really do love that big piece of sexy.
Brooke: The truth is, I don't really like to think about college 'cause that means high school's over. After graduation everyone will probably go play basketball, or sing, or start record labels. And I'll have to start all over - alone.
Guidance Counselor: So, you're interested in fashion design.
Brooke: Yes, but I'm interested in a lot of things.
Guidance Counselor: Such as?
Brooke: I'm student council president, captain of the cheerleaders, founder of 'DW not I' and girlfriend of Raven's star shooting guard, Lucas Scott.
Keith: So do me a favor, win tomorrow night. I was gonna say score but I didn't think that was appropriate.
Lucas: Ugh.
Keith: I asked your mom out on a date. Hope that's okay with you.
Lucas: I think it's great. What'd she say?
Keith: Funny. I guess you had to ask the question I mean my track record with your mom is about as bad as the Raven's.
Lucas: Ah.
Dan: You son of a bitch!
Keith: Okay, there's no need to bring mom into this Danny.
3.13 || The Wind That Blew My Heart Away
Mouth: But I'm not that guy, Rachel, and I don't want to be. So maybe the elite girls just aren't for me. But one of these days, I'm gonna meet a girl who really loves me. Maybe she won't be what you call hot, but I'll think she's beautiful and I'll tell her so. I won't be mean to her because I don't have to play games with her. I'll just be the guy she can always count on and that'll be enough. And she'll be elite to me."
Ellie: Every song has a CODA, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music? The truth is, there is nothing to be afraid of. It's just life.
Lucas: The truth is, I care about Peyton.
Brooke: Then what is the difference?
Lucas: The difference? The difference is I love you Brooke. I wanna be with you, not Peyton.
Brooke: But why? I need to know why.
Lucas: Because, you kink your eyebrow when you're trying to be cute. Because you quote Camus even though I've never actually seen you read. Because you miss your parents, but you'll never admit that! And because I've given exactly two of these embarrassing speeches in my life, and they've both been with you. I mean, that's gotta mean something right?! And because we're both gonna get pneumonia, but if you need to hear why I love you, I can go on all night.
Peyton: Say hi to my mom... Mom.
Nathan: I'll show you something. It's in my car.
Haley: Nathan, it's crazy out there! Nathan, what are you doing?!
Nathan: I was hurt Haley. But I was proud of you. Everyday... Wait, they're all getting ruined.
Haley: You don't need all that stuff, you've got me.
Haley: Nathan, when I look back at the tour I'm not like proud of it because I know you weren't proud of me.
Nathan: Is that what you think? That I wasn't proud of you?
3.14 || All Tomorrow's Parties
Nathan: Yeah, very funny Lucas. Your ass is still sleeping on the floor.
Hayley: Surprise. I switched rooms with Lucas, I don't have to sleep on the floor do I?
Nathan: How'd you manage to switch rooms?
Haley: Well believe it or not Bevin "mastermind" Mirskey arranged the whole thing.
Nathan: Come here. You have any room in there for me?
Haley: I thought you'd never ask.
Peyton: You never worked so hard for anything in your life, except your fake ID!
Brooke: (to Haley): We on schedule, navigation girl?
Lucas: Are you drunk?
Peyton: Are you wearing eye-shadow?
Lucas: Most of our lives are a series of images, they pass us by like towns on a highway. But sometimes a moment stuns us as it happens and we know that this instant is more than a fleeting image. We know that this moment, every part of it, will live on forever.
3.15 || Just Watch The Fireworks
Brooke: Ahem.
Peyton: Hey, Brooke
Brooke: Don't 'hey, Brooke' me. What is up with you and Hottie McHottie?
Peyton: Who? McWhat?
Brooke: Don't even try it. Please, the Fall Out Boy? I can spot him hitting - on - you from a mile away, and you were definitely returning fire.
Peyton: We talked for like 10 seconds.
Brooke: So you move fast. You should ask him to check you for lumps.
Peyton: Okay, not funny.
Brooke: What? he's a musician. He's got to have good hands.
Nathan: Do you ever think we can have a function in this town that doesn't end up in a brawl?
Lucas: Why? Getting a little too 'Outsiders' for you?
Nathan: I never saw it.
Lucas: Well, you would have been one of the bad guys.
Nathan: Listen, about the time capsule.
Haley: Ah, you looked beautiful.
Haley: What'd you say to Hooter girl when she made her topless debut?
Lucas: I told her she looked beautiful.
Rachel: Everybody can't be popular, because if they were, nobody would be popular.
Mouth: I've got to find my friend.
Rachel: Why?
Mouth: Because he's my friend.
Rachel: You know Mouth, that guy is either gonna stand on his own two feet or he's gonna fall, but he has to do it on his own. That's the scary truth, Mouth. We're all alone.
Mouth: Not if we have friends.
3.16 || With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
Lucas: (voiceover) Does this darkness have a name? This cruelty, this hatred.How did it find us? Did it steal into our lives or did we seek it out and embrace it? What happened to us? That we now send our children out into the world like we send young men to war, hoping for their safe return but knowing that some will be lost along the way. When did we lose our way? Consumed by the shadows, swallowed whole by the darkness. Does this darkness have a name? Is it your name?
Abby: "What's wrong with you? He's just a kid. We're all just kids and we just have this life and the things you say and do, we feel that. How can you have so much hate in your heart? How can you act like it doesn't matter? It does matter. What happened to us? We're just kids. We can't be like this. It's not possible."
Mouth: It wasn't supposed to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets...none of them fit in at seventeen. You're supposed to get past it. Adults, they see kids killing kids and they know its a tragedy because they used to be those kids. The bullies and the beaten and the loners. You're supposed to get past it. You're supposed to live long enough to take it back. Just take it all back.
Haley: Always.
Nathan: and Forever.
Reporter: I'm here with student council president Brooke Davis. Brooke can you put into words how you might be feeling about this tragedy?
Brooke: You should be ashamed of yourself. There are kids inside our school fearing for their lives right now, terrified that someones gonna put a gun in their face and pull the trigger and you want to know how I'm feeling? Our pain is not a commodity for you. It's not a news bite to boost your ratings because tomorrow or the next day or the next week when we go back to school, changed forever by a day that will never leave us where are you gonna be? At the next tragedy thrusting your microphone in the face of the next fractured person asking them how they feel? Lady that is not journalism. You are not contributing anything to society. You are buzzards circling the carnage but you prey on the living. That is how I'm feeling but something tells me you're not gonna air that.
Jimmy: What's that in your pocket?
Haley: (dialing 911) Nothing.
Jimmy: What is it?!
Nathan: OK just stop pointing the gun at her.
Jimmy: Give me your cell phone. (sees that it's connected to 911) Aws, Haley, I used to like you. Hello, 911? If anyone comes near the school, we start shooting kids.
Jimmy Edwards: You're Abby Brown. What's my name?
Abby: Jim?
Jimmy: My full name.
Abby: I don't know!
Haley: Jimmy Edwards. You're Jimmy Edwards and you're a good guy. Holding 7 kids hostage in a school? That's not you Jimmy.
Peyton: You're always saving me.
Lucas: Somebody has got to.
Peyton: If I say I Love You right now will you hold it against me because I've lost a lot of blood. Come here.
Peyton: Luke, it was your friend. The one from the time capsule. He had the gun. But he didn't look evil, or angry- he just looked scared.
Jimmy Edwards: Everyday that I have to come to this school, is another day I don't have to come back.
3.17 || Who Will Survive, And What Will Be Left Of Them
Lucas: Coach...
Whitey: I know you want some answers, but what is the right answer? Because there is no answer, it's just life.
Lucas: You know before you came in I was thinking about Edwards, and how we could take Keith's life.
Skills: Look he wasn't right dawg, Jimmy was sick.
Lucas: So if that's true, is heaven the kind of place that'll hold that against someone? 'Cause if not Jimmy's a victim and right now, in your world beyond this one, Jimmy and Keith are in the same place, and I can't figure out what kind of place that would be.
Skills: It's a place you and I wouldn't understand.
Lucas: Or a place that doesn't exist.
Lucas: Do you think there's a heaven Skills?
Skills: Do I think there's a heaven?
Lucas: Ya, you know pearly gates, angels..
Skills: I dunno about all that, maybe some chrome gates and some freaky angels. Naw, but I do think there's somethin' else out there, and I do think whatever we do in this world matters in the next.
Rachel: Nobody has all the answers, but we all have our why's. Like, why did this happen? Why didn't we see it coming? And why do people watch American Idol?
Haley: It is not possible to be this in love ...
Haley: You're quite charming. You know that.
Nathan: You haven't even seen my A game.
Haley: Oh, Lord help me if that's true... It's Scott by the way... You called me Haley James. Haley James-Scott. And it always will be.
Nathan: You know how long it took me to realize that? In the amount of time it takes to pull a trigger. I love you, Haley James, and that's all I need know. It doesn't mean its not gonna be hard. It doesn't mean its not going to be confusing. but whatever it is we'll face it together.
Nathan: You know, my mom's coming home, she called
Haley: Well at least now you won't have to live alone in this big, giant house.
Nathan: No, but she will. I want us to live together. I want to be your husband again Haley.
Haley: That sounds so good to me. But I have a roommate named Brooke.
Nathan: That doesn't matter.
Haley: And our dream schools are 3,000 miles away.
Nathan: Doesn't matter.
Haley: And neither of us have jobs.
Nathan: Doesn't matter.
3.18 || When It Isn't Like It Should Be
Peyton: My pen is the barrel of a gun. Remind me which side you should be on.
Brooke: We're all gonna get our hope back Luke. It's just gonna take some of us longer than others, you know?
3.19 || I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
Larry Sawyer (to Peyton): Just promise me one thing, promise me that when you pick the boy you're really going to be with, that he'll be someone who respects you and treats you well. And, it's someone who makes your heart race and that he's someone you love because of what he is, not what he does. Because, that's how I felt about your mother, and that's how I want you to feel one day. Use your head and follow your heart.
Nathan: You can't prove love with a test. I mean, this is just a score on a sheet of paper. Sure, Haley and I have our differences, but this test doesn't show how hard we've worked to keep this relationship together, or that I can't stand it when we're apart, or that every time I look at her I know that I'm gonna be with her for the rest of my life. We love each other father, no test is going to show that.
Nathan: Father, can I ask you a question? When you decided you wanted to be a priest how did you know it was the right thing to do?
Priest: I had a devout believe in God.
Nathan: Can you prove that to us, with some sort of a test I mean?
Priest: Of course not.
Whitey: Karen I know what you're going through. I lost the love of my life too.
Karen: Yea, you had Camilla for a lifetime; I had Keith for a few weeks.
Whitey: Whose fault was that? (Karen slaps him) I'm glad to see you're still in there. Now, you listen to me. I said that because I know the guilt that you're caring around. And you're wrong to feel it. Feeling guilty is not gonna bring Keith back.
Karen: Don't I have a right to feel bad?
Whitey: You know Lucas was so broken up he couldn't play the last game? No, I didn't think so. Look Karen, you gave Keith the thing that he loved most in all the world, Lucas. He was never happier than when he was talking about you and that boy. You gave him a son for a lifetime and you let him matter to Lucas. I know how that feels. Karen, you couldn't have given him much more. Let the guilt fall away, let it go.
Cooper: For the drivers three weeks, for me it doesn't... I lost my ride.
Lucas: What happened?
Cooper: Well, for one thing I let my nephew crash a racecar into a wall. Then things got a little dark from there. You know, when they told me I couldn't drive, I thought my life was over. Racing was all that I had and was who I was. Then the next day, the sun came up and the world kept turning and I was gonna to be okay. It took me a while, but I finally realized that even if I never get to race again, I know I can be happy. Nathan told me about the game.
Lucas: I'll get it back.
Cooper: I hope you do. But, if for some reason you don't, it'll be okay. It's not what you do in life that matters Luke, it's about who you are.
Lucas: Coach, basketball has always been a huge part of who I am, and I've been thinking a lot about it; but, unless somebody can tell me why this game matters right now, I don't think I can play.
Whitey: You know, every time you take this court we come in under that old faded banner up there says, 'Home of the Monarchs.' Anyone know who the Monarchs were?
Ravens player: The Monarchs were the best basketball team in the state, back in the fifties.
Whitey: Yea, some people say they were. But, they were never in the record books because the Monarchs were an all black team. Back in those days, when I was your age, blacks and whites weren't allowed to play this game together. I was on the best team in the state, but we all knew there was another one, the Monarchs. One night both teams snuck in here, locked the doors, and squared off. They were good, oh they were damn good. We played four games. They got their shots, we got ours. Then, something magical happened. Something, that none of us could have anticipated. Something that had never happened in this state before. We decided to mix the teams. Their captain and our captain started picking players. As it turned out I was the next to the last one picked. And, their captain looked me in the eye and said 'I'll take Whitey.'' And, it stuck, that's how I got my nickname. That night changed all our lives. We were no longer black players or white players, we were just players. We shut out the world and played, together. We played a game that we loved and that night, that game changed everything. I haven't been the same sense. You want me to tell you that this game matters. I promise you son, it does matter. Let the game heal you Lucas. Come back to us son.
3.20 || Everyday Is A Sunday Evening
Brooke (to Mouth): Welcome to the dark side my friend, deception for lunch, payback for dinner, and pie for breakfast.
Peyton (to Jake): I spent a lot of time being miserable, Jake. It's like misery is an old friend. And it tricks you sometimes into thinking that it's just always gonna be there and that you can't be happy. But you can, you can walk away from pain. And I think being in love's the best way to do it.
Peyton (to Jake): Every song ends, but is that any reason not to enjoy the music?
Peyton: Someone once told me, Every song has an ending Jake, but is that any reason not to enjoy the music?
Nathan (to Haley): You sure you don't wanna sleep with me until the ceremony? I know I look pretty sexy right now.
Nathan: Stepping up. It's a simple concept. It basically means to rise above yourself; to do a little more, to show you're something special. Something like this.... Lucas is gone but that doesn't mean the season is over. As a matter of fact, I say it's just beginning. You might want to stay out of my way for a while.... Life's funny sometimes; can push pretty hard like when you fall in love with someone but they forget to love you back like when your best friend and your boyfriend leave you alone like when you pull the trigger or light the flame and you can't take it back. Like I said, in sports they call this 'stepping up'. In life, I call it pushing back.
Nathan: You know it's been said that we just don't recognize the significant moments of our lives while they are happening. We grow complacent with ideas, or things or people and we take them for granted and it's usually not until that thing is about to be taken away from you that you've realized how wrong you've been that you realized how much you need it, how much you love it. God, I love this game.
Nathan: (voiceover) Every once in a while people step up, they rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you, and sometimes they fall short. Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough you find hope in the words of children, in the bars of a song and in the eyes of someone you love. And if you're lucky, and if you're the luckiest person on this entire planet, the person you love decides to love you back.
Nathan: (voiceover) Have you ever heard the expression the best things in life are free? Well, that expression's true.
3.21 || Over The Hills And Far Away
Karen: My son, the next great American author.
Lucas: I don't know about that, ma.
Karen: And, UNC would be your dream school?
Lucas: Yea, sure, I mean if we had the money.
Karen: You know, this trip wasn't just about finding you a school. It was about finding a way back.
Lucas: To what?
Karen: To a place where it's okay to dream again. You know, you walked away from basketball so that you could live a long life. What are you gonna do with that life. What's your next dream, Lucas?
Lucas: Literature, you asked me about my future; if I could go to any college it would be to UNC to study literature.
Peyton: I love you Jake, I do, and you know that I love Jenny; so maybe that's enough.
Jake: I think that only in fairy tales that's enough Peyton.
Peyton: You know, someone told me once that there's nothing wrong with fairy tales, because everybody lives happily ever after.
Jake: Okay, listen to me, you can't just fly into Savannah and then get into my head all over again, tell me you want to stay and then ask me to marry you.
Peyton: Well, why not?
Jake: Because, I might just say yes.
Haley (to Dan): Okay, so, so the last time I stood in a doorway giving someone the benefit of the doubt when my instincts were screaming at me not to it was for Nathan and this time, well it's still for Nathan. We would like you to come to the wedding. But God help you if you don't change.
Lucas: I decided to go for a run and I ended up here, boy is it raining out.
Brooke: I'm still mad at you Nathan Scott.
Lucas: Haley please listen to me, I know I'm a porn freak.
Brooke: Nathan, it's okay, I like my porn too. And, I Haley myself from time to time but I still need to know that you love me.
Lucas: Someday I'm gonna marry you Haley James, someday.
Brooke: Before we end the night I just want to say a few words about Nathan and Haley. I told them once, not too long ago to be happy because someday they'd make us all believe in true love. And, they do. In a few days they're going to renew that love for all of us to see. But, in a way we see it every day. The only difference is that Haley will look fabulous in her dress by Clothes over Bros; which is kind of odd seeing as how she's marrying a bro. But, that's not the point, sorry. One rainy day Nathan Scott proposed to Haley James and the rest is a fairy tale...
Brooke: Once upon a time in a kingdom far, far away a girl and a boy fell in love. And then another girl, supposedly a friend, secretly taped how they fell in love and decided use it against them. So tonight I give you an authentic and very unauthorized reenactment of Nathan and Haley, a fairy tale.
Karen: Okay, listen to me. Before we left the lawyer who drew up the adoption papers called. He told me that ever since you were born Keith has been saving a fund for you for college. I didn't know about it myself. He dreamed your dream with you Lucas. And, if this is something that you really want then you have the grades, then you can have it. Because, Keith left it for you.
Lucas: God, I miss him so much.
Karen: He's always with you, always. You make him proud.
Lucas: I will.
3.22 || The Show Must Go On
Brooke (to Peyton): I want you to understand something, as far as I'm concerned this friendship is over. And, if we never speak again for the rest of our lives, that'll be fine. I gave you a second chance Peyton and you blew it.
Nathan: I just got that feeling. The stillness I used to feel before dawn. The feeling that the world could be perfect.
Haley: Yea, I feel it too. (puts the cracker jack bracelet on his wrist) Don't say I never gave you anything.
Haley: We're going to London for a few days.
Lucas: Why, doesn't it always rain there?
Nathan: Oh yea!
Lucas: I need you to trust me and believe me when I tell you that my heart is with you. Part of me feels like ever since we got back together you've been waiting, waiting to push me away.
Brooke: Oh great, so you kiss Peyton, again, and I'm pushing you away!?
Lucas: I love you Brooke, I don't know how else to say it.
Brooke: How about how you show it? I'm not pushing you away Lucas. I am holding on for dear life, but I need you to need me back. Okay, why wouldn't you tell me about the kiss and why didn't you call me while you were away and why won't you ever just let me all the way in? We have to go give our toasts now, about love.
Peyton (to Brooke): And by the way, none of those words were, "Yes Peyton, I Love Him."
Peyton: Fine. So, this is how it ends. A ten year friendship that survived two dead moms, three absentee parents, shoplifting, jail time and we can't survive one boy.
Brooke: Not one boy. My boy!
Brooke: Now I know how this dress looks on a witch.
Peyton: Go Brooke yourself.
Lucas: Wow! You look, whew, really beautiful. So, your parents really aren't coming.
Haley: No, they, I invited them and they said, 'Sorry honey we've been to your wedding once before and it was a little boring.' Anyway, I'll just, I'll just give myself away. It's fine.
Lucas: Or I could do it. If you'll have me.
Haley: Really? Luke that would be perfect. Thank you.
Lucas: But, you know what, I got to be honest with you. Um, I could never officially give you away. You know that? I could never give away my best friend.
Lucas: Oh, I'm sorry Princess, I was looking for my friend Haley. (looks at tables filled with beauty and hair products) Wow, did it really take all this stuff to make you look like this?
Haley: No, everybody got ready in here. Including Rachel and Brooke, for some reason.
Nathan: Hey, it's me, is everything okay.
Haley: Fine, soon to be husband again. Why?
Nathan: I just, I just wanted to hear your voice, that's all. Where are you?
Haley: I'm right here...
Dan: So, how's life without basketball?
Lucas: It's better than life without Keith.
Brooke (to Lucas, about Peyton): We had a fight. And, I'm stressed out about my speech and Haley's dress. And, I'm late, I'm late getting ready. And, I'm sorry.
Haley: I have a question for you. I know you and Keith were engaged and it just, it just breaks my heart.
Karen: I know, I know.
Haley: Okay, um, Brooke, Brooke made me this, this dress and it is out of the material that she ordered for your wedding dress. And, I just wanted to ask you if it was okay if I wore it. And, if it's not it's fine she made another one that I can wear.
Karen: I'm so proud of you Haley. Have I told you that lately? You have got a wonderful soul Haley James Scott and you are going to make a beautiful bride in that dress.
Nathan: I had this messed up dream last night. Haley was drowning and I couldn't save her. Of course, leave it to Haley to insist that we don't see each other till the wedding, even though we're married. Maybe I should just go see her.
Lucas: I'll tell you what, I'll go check on her how's that?
Nathan: Tell her to stay away from the water, no swimming today.
Lucas: Nathan, it's your wedding day, again, it's gonna be a great day.
Nathan: How long you been out here?
Lucas: A couple of hours. Sometimes I come out here when I can't sleep.
Nathan: Do you miss it?
Lucas: Everyday!
