One Tree Hill 47

First Day On A Brand New Planet
Season 3 Episode 3

Lucas and Haley read last years prediction and question why they still do it. Lucas’s prediction was that Keith and Karen would finally get married. Haley’s was that she would date a musician. They discuss going to the first day of school first before writing their prediction. Next day at school they find out their lockers are in alphabetical and that Nathan’s locker is between them. Nathan is at his locker and tells her she should have used her stage name.

Lucas walks Brooke to her locker, when she tells him that a boyfriend would have picked her up on the first day and he tells her that he had things to do. She opens her locker and Lucas has decorated it. Brooke and Haley walk together as Haley discusses her academic progress she needs to make to graduate. Peyton walks up behind them and makes a backhanded comment about Haley leaving for the tour. Brooke apologizes for Peyton, walks to catch-up with Peyton. As Haley walks alone, a bunch of girls make fun of Haley as Nathan watches. Mouth comes up to him and asks for an interview; Mouth resentment and heart break over Erica Marsh through his questioning. Dan comes to see Coach Durham to tell him about the board meeting to get him fired. Ellie goes to see Lucas about her buying drugs for her cancer and help with getting to know Peyton. Lucas struggles at basketball at the river court when Dan comes looking for a confrontation. It reaches a boiling point, when the river court guys show up and Dan leaves.

Peyton and Nathan walk to class; he asks her how she dealt with seeing around school after they broke up. Haley and Brook discuss finding rent money because Brooke spent this month’s and Peyton, when they reach each other face-to-face. Mouth pops in with a commentary on the tension, the bell rings and everyone goes their separate ways leaving Mouth standing alone. Haley goes to see Coach Durham about Nathan and he gives her detention for being in the boys’ locker room. Haley and Nathan end up in detention together alone, monitored by Whitey.

Haley and Lucas discuss how detention went, passing each other during a class change. The girls from earlier continue their hazing with Haley and one other the girl are about to get into a fight that Coach Durham brings up. Haley calls him Whitey while thanking him and he gives her detention. Nathan and Haley end up in detention alone again, monitored by Whitey. Nathan asks her about the fight and when Hale approaches the subject of them, he shut her down. Nathan comes home to find Dan playing basketball. Dan tells Nathan about trying to get Whitey fired. Lucas discusses Ellie with Peyton on their way to her room and when they arrive, they find Larry and Ellie looking through her drawings. Peyton gets upset and storms off. At their apartment, Brooke tells Haley that she got a job at “Suburban Filth”, and the scruchie system. Brooke tells Haley that some people play hard to get to know the other person’s feelings are real. Nathan goes to Karen’s Café looking for Lucas; Karen remind him that he told her that he would give anything to have Haley back. Peyton is sitting at the intersection of her mother’s death, when Larry shows up apologizing for letting Ellie in to her room. He tells her that she should talk to someone about her feelings.

Mouth is walking outside the board meeting, reporting for his when site when his commentary moves into his feeling about Erica dumping him. Lucas tries to advise Mouth to get over it. Mouth tells him he takes comfort in his hurt about Erica. In the meeting, Dan is giving a speech about how the boys need a coach that can give them a Championship. Karen gets a speech about how Coach Durham has taught the boys he coach more than basket, how to be men. Lucas and Nathan discuss coach Durham and it being Nathan’s team. Peyton comes to Lucas and apologizes for earlier. Whitey comes out and tells everyone waiting that he is still the head coach. Later Lucas and Peyton are talking in the gym, when Dan comes in to finish their confrontation. Peyton tries to lead Lucas out but Dan stops her. The confrontation leads to Dan coughing Lucas and Peyton telling Dan that Lucas was saving him not trying to burn him. When Dan remembers he releases Lucas and tells them not to discuss what just happen to anyone.

At home going through a box of stuff, Nathan finds a bottle of sand from the beach from his wedding day. Lucas is at Brooke and Haley, when Haley asks him what happen to him and he tells her that a pick up game got rough. Nathan comes to talk to Haley and they go for a walk. He tells her that he does not want an annulment because it means they were never married, but wants a divorce. After the mandatory year separation if things are better, he wants a divorce. Brooke gives him an offer that he refuses. At the school, Mouth goes to see Coach Durham for and interview. He gives Mouth and exclusive that he is retiring after this year, he tells Mouth not to report it until after the first game. As Mouth is about to leave he asks Coach how do you get over losing someone and Whitey tells him to sit down. Lucas and Haley write their prediction. Lucas wants to be with… and the camera cuts to Haley writing she want to be back with Nathan. Dan gets the police report from a cop friend. The next day at school Nathan walks with Haley to protect her from the picking.