One Tree Hill 48

An Attempt to Tip the Scales
Season 3 Episode 4

Lucas and Haley try on Halloween costumes, after several costumes Lucas choose a Jack Sparrow, Pirate costume, Then he tells Haley to find out what costume Brooke would like. Dan videotapes the mayor, in a hotel room with drugs and hookers. He tells the mayor that the video will go away if he drops out of the race and endorses Dan for mayor. Larry offers Peyton lunch, and she tells him she is going to the costume party as an angel and Brook is the devil. She also tells Larry about Ellie’s breast cancer, which he did not know about. Dan is at the house lounging, when he blackmails Deborah into helping him run for mayor with a divorce and leaving Nathan alone. At their apartment, Haley has trouble with her music as Brooke shows Haley her devil costume. Haley wants to be sexy not slutty to win back Nathan. Brooke convinces Nathan to come to the costume party at Tric. At the café, Haley tells Lucas that Brooke like Tommy Lee and sees him take money from the register. Larry goes to see Ellie about her breast cancer.

Brooke explains her modification she made to her boss as Lucas comes in to discuss an option free date. Then Brooke has to leave to help a customer. Deb comes home with an entirely new wardrobe on Dan’s tab. Larry comes in to discover Peyton’s costume is the ‘angel of death’ and they discuss how sudden Peyton’s mom died and the things that Larry knew and did not know. He tells Peyton that Ellie can give Peyton the answers to questions she might have. Nathan looks at pictures from ‘High Flyers’ and calls someone that Haley cannot know about.

Brooke shows up as a feathery devil and Haley shows up a Sandy from the end of Grease. Mouth shows up as John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. Dan is walking through the house when he hears Deb moaning passionately. He enters his room to find Deb on the floor being stretched by Hans, in her new exercise room. Dan asks where his stuff is and she tells him that she gave it away after it all got wet from the sprinklers, after she threw it all out to make room for her equipment. At Tric Batman brushes past Brooke and Haley, to talk to Peyton and it turns out to be Nathan. Haley talks to Peyton to find out why she is so upset with her. Peyton tells her that she does not agree with what she did last year and tells her that Nathan said she was hot. Peyton and Mouth see Lucas enters and she explains to Mouth that Brooke hates Motley Crue. Lucas approaches Brooke and she tells him how she set him up. Then a girl approaches dress as Pam Anderson and they go off to dance. The girl and Lucas dance sexy as Brooke watches with Peyton. Dan is in the buff, when Deb comes to bed, she tasers him out of it. At the party, Haley asks Karen about seeing Nathan and Karen asks Haley about the missing money. Haley takes the blame fro the missing money and offers to wait tables as interest when she trips and falls, to everyone laughing at her. Nathan as Batman comes sweeping in and carries her away. Nathan reveals himself to her and their conversation about their relationship makes her cry. Mouth and Peyton take over the dance floor, dancing to Disco Inferno. Karen introduces ‘Fall Out Boy’. They play “Dance, Dance” as Brooke gets jealous of Lucas with Pam Anderson. Haley decides to go home, after to discussing her costume with Brooke. As she is leaving, Batman comes in, kisses her off her feet, and disappears.

At her apartment, Haley answers the knock at her door revealing Lucas. She tells him that she knows about him taking the money and he comes clean about him being positive for HCM. Peyton goes to see Ellie. Peyton tells Ellie that she does not want any regrets and questions, that she is scared of losing her mother’s memory. Ellie tells that she never wants to replace her mother. She tells her that the drug dependency came from her and she got her drawing skills from her mother.

Nathan meets Chris Keller and reveals that he sent the letter to Nathan at “High Flyers”. Nathan tells Chris that he wants Keller to help Haley with her music and that it stays between them. Deb answers the phone; to Dan apologizing for being an ass until his real motive is that he is waiting for the crazy glue to dry on the phone. He blows an air horn into the phone. Brooke comes home upset and Haley tells Brooke to be care with Lucas’s heart it is more fragile than she thinks. Lucas comes home and in voice over quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson…’There is no privacy that can not be penetrated,’ as he places a red feather from Brooke’s costume in a personal box. ’…No secret can be kept in the civilized world,’ as Peyton comes home to find Larry waiting up for her and she apologizes for saying he is not her father and Ellie draws Peyton as an angel of light. ‘…Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character and reveals it by hiding it.’ As Nathan reflects in his arrangement with Chris and Chris comes home and a Batman costume on the couch.