One Tree Hill Season 2 Episode 23: The Leavers Dance
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Original Air Date—24 May 2005
Brooke claims she’s not upset Lucas kept amorous mementos of Peyton, as she wants friendship, not romance, with him, but he considers declaring she’s his true love. Nathan justly mistrusts whether Lucas is finished trapping Dan when he sees him in the office.
Deb is welcomed home by Dan announcing they’re a family again now Nathan moves back in, but later she tells Nathan she wants him to go to Highflyers as coach advises, she didn’t get on pills because he moved out, and they decide to walk out together, for good. Lucas tells Karen she shouldn’t mind him and go to Andy in New Zealand alone.
Peyton discovers she was interviewed by a phony reporter Ellie. Lucas shows Deb he has enough on his black money to bring Dan down, but when she announces Dan she’s leaving, he points out the business is in her name, so she would risk the same jail term; she gets back on pills and asks Nathan to wait, he shows Lucas it was all faked as a test which he failed and is therefore thrown out, without the college fund -which was real- and stops paying his heart medication. Searching for Lucas’ proof on Dan, Nathan finds proof of his trip to Haley, and cancels their friendship. Peyton and Dan get major surprises, and Nathan…
One Tree Hill Season 2 Episode 22: The Tide That Left and Never Came Back
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Original Air Date—24 May 2005
The class’s last essay assignment is about what they lost during the year, which sets some thinking. Karen attacks Dan when she learns he tries to get Andy deported; Andy cleverly trick him to check the black books hiding place.
Jake has high hopes to get Jenny back now his attorney found Nikki lied under oath about attending college; but the day before, Nikki visits him to show she found Jenny already… Coach encourages Nathan to go to Highflyers, as he has grown in character enough, but Dan claims his ma Deb will collapse again if he leaves after her return. Karens club TRIC fills for Jimmy Eat World. Lucas and Brooke visit New York for an overnight stay with Haley; Chris says they never had sex, but she refuses to give up her musical life. Jake tells Peyton to forget him as his quest for Jenny looks desperate.
One Tree Hill Season 2 Episode 21: What Could Have Been
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Original Air Date—17 May 2005
Nathan is recovering and back home, but won’t tell Lucas what drove him. Brooke pieced together a shredded invoice Lucas sneaked home, so she learns about his investigation for Dans car dealership scam, and Andy makes sense of it but feels Lucas should stop taking risks. Nathan was relieved to hear his hospital bills are all paid, when Dan bursts in; he refuses to move back home even during revalidation, but keeps annulment forms.
The kids planned a benefit film night for Nathan’s medical bills, and go on just for the fun; to their surprise he appreciates an accidental films switch showing car accidents. After talking to Peyton he wants to forgive his ma for fleeing into pills, as she begs in a letter, but understands his insurance wasn’t paid, so he sees Dan who confirms he paid, the rent too, and ends up believing he could be on the road to becoming a bitter bastard like him if he makes the wrong choices; he even asks Lucas to back off his investigation and decides to return home; Haley got her annulment petition offered by Dan too. Andy shows Lucas the profits went largely in a college fund for him; he moves back to Karen when Nathan returns.
One Tree Hill Season 2 Episode 20: Lifetime Piling Up
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Original Air Date—10 May 2005
Now Nathan in unconscious in hospital, he dreams a nightmare alternative version of his life, in which Dan married Karen and lives with her and Lucas, while Keith is the successful car dealer, Dan is assistant coach and trains Lucas as the Ravens star. Nathan is the poor underdog living with Deb -who runs the café- but may still be recommended for Highflyers by coach Whitey if he wins a duel; Haley is his girlfriend, Brooke makes a pass at him.
Karen cheats Dan with Keith. Peyton goes steady with Lucas but tells Haley to warn Nathan about Lucas’ dirty plans; Dan’s attempt to bribe Nathan off actually motivates him to fight, so he is abducted, bound and dumped by Lucas’s Ravens hardcore. Peyton dumps Lucas, who looses the duel after she picked Nathan up.