Pilot (One Tree Hill episode)

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“Pilot”
One Tree Hill episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 1
Guest stars	Brett Claywell Melissa Claire Egan Colin Flickes Bryan Greenberg John Keenan Cullen Moss Lee Norris Shawn Shepard Antwon Tanner
Written by	Mark Schwahn
Directed by	Bryan Gordon
Original airdate	September 23, 2003
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"Pilot" is episode 1 of season 1 of the television show One Tree Hill.

1 Plot
2 Important Facts
3 Music
4 See also

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

An important basketball match is going on at Tree Hill High School. The Ravens team eventually wins, thanks to Nathan Scott's final shot. Elsewhere - a park down by the river, exactly - another Scott is performing his sporty gift: Lucas Scott is playing basketball with three friends and he's clearly talented at it. Nathan and Lucas do share the same father, Dan Scott, but they live apart: it turns out that Dan abandoned Lucas and his mother, Karen, when Lucas was born, preferring to marry Deb, who had another son, Nathan, with. Speaking of which, he and his team stole a school bus and they got busted. Even though Nathan was driving, his father Dan manages to bail him out of troubles, as usual, while a lot of other players get suspended. Meanwhile, Peyton, Nathan’s girlfriend (and Ravens’ cheerleader, as well) is driving and listening hard rock music; and she ends up almost running over Lucas, who’s coming back home. Nothing bad happens, because Peyton stops the car just in time, before driving quickly away. Lucas heads for Karen’s cafè, where he has dinner with his mother and his best friend, a witty girl named Haley.

The next day, Keith Scott, Dan’s brother, who is really friend with Karen (and maybe, also, something more – at least in his heart), asks Whitey, the Ravens coach, to let Lucas be part of the team. Keith is positive that the kid deserves it. Anyway, as soon as the coach tells Lucas he can join the team, the kid turns the offer down. He doesn’t want to stay near Nathan - and considering the way Nathan treats his half-brother, everybody can get why. Actually Nathan doesn’t want to accept Lucas might be part of his team, so he challenges him: a simple basketball match. If Lucas wins, Nathan will quit the team. Otherwise, if Nathan wins, Lucas won’t join the team. Later, Peyton’s car breaks up and Lucas helps her out, since Nathan is too busy. Firstly Peyton acts in a snotty way, and Lucas can’t help but point out: “Why are you a cheerleader? No offense or anything, but you're about the least cheery person I know”. Anyway, they start to talk, and Lucas ends up telling her the way he found out Dan was his father.

Lucas shows up at Keith’s shop by the time Dan is talking to Keith about Karen. After that, Lucas makes up his mind and accepts Nathan’s challenge. Karen isn’t that thrilled about the whole thing, and neither is Dan, but that’s it. Scott brothers’ match can get started, and it’s a tough match because they’re both good players and they both want to win. In the end, Lucas’ final shot makes him the winner. Afterwards, Lucas catches up with Peyton and he lets her know that, even though he won, Nathan has to stay on the team because “it's the last thing he wants”. Anyway, Lucas remarks that the whole situation is not only about Nathan. It seems Peyton has gotten his point but Nathan calls her and she drives back home with him.

In the last scene, Lucas enters the school’s gym while everyone is staring at him. A last close-up to the park where Lucas used to play: it’s finally empty.