One Tree Hill 49

A Multitude of Casualities
Season 3 Episode 5

Dan is welcoming the fans to Midnight Madness; the cheerleaders come out and dance the crowd into frenzy. Lucas and Nathan are in the locker room with the rest of the team waiting to be introduced when they start discussing Haley turns into a fight. Dan introduces the team and they come out fighting. Mouth does commentary of the fight. It’s two days earlier and Mouth is handing out flyers for a color commentary for the season, everyone he hands a flyer to dismiss him. Haley tries talking to Nathan as they go to class, about the other night at the masquerade party. Peyton and Brooke are talk about cheerleading and Lucas as they wait for the auditioners to show up. Brooke comes up with the idea of forcing Lucas to date someone per their not exclusive agreement. The auditioners show up and it’s like almost like a copy of “Bring It On”. The new girl, Rachel, auditions and her audition is like the “Cherry Pie” girl from “Bring It On” except they accept her as the new cheerleader. Nathan goes to see Coach Durham and he makes Nathan captain. Brooke picks a girl for Lucas to ask out, but when she turns around the girl, she pointed to moves revealing Rachel.

Haley is in the record store when she comes across a Chris Keller album. Chris walks up behind her and asks if she would like an autograph. Then he tries to make another song together. Later Chris recaps the situation to Nathan on the river court. At Karen’s café Deb tells Karen, that Dan’s running for mayor. She also tells Karen that she can make Dan’s campaign as rough as possible. Deb comes into Dan’s campaign meeting half-naked and drunk displaying all her goods. Rachel styles Bevan’s hair then goes to talk to Lucas, who confesses the real reason he asked her out and she still wants to go out with him. When Rachel sees Brooke, she kisses Lucas to make Brooke jealous. The team gets together on the river court and Nathan rags on Lucas when he questions Nathan. Mouth has only one person to show up for tryouts, a shy girl named Gigi. Ellie runs into Peyton at a downtown vendor, Ellie invites Peyton to an out door concert of a musician that plays scar covers of Neil Diamond. Peyton and Ellie return to Ellie’s room, Peyton finds the article, and drawing Ellie was working on. Peyton realizes that drawing is another thing she got from Ellie and storms off telling Ellie to go to hell.

Brooke comes home to ask Haley to be a cheerleader. She convinces Haley by using being close to Nathan as a selling point. Ellie shows up and asks Peyton to read the article; Peyton tells her to stay out of her life and Ellie says ok. Dan takes a photo of Deb as she brushes her teeth. When Deb asks Dan what he is doing, he reveals that he used her toothbrush to Armoraled his tire, cleaned the toilet, brushed the neighbors’ dog’s teeth and stuck it up the dog’s butt. Rachel and Lucas are walking through the mall discuss making Brooke jealous. Rachel wants to go to where Brooke works. She taunts Brooke into overdrive and Lucas has to come between them to stop a fight. Haley is alone playing music when there is a knock at the door, its Nathan. She tells him about Chris and he tells her that she should work with him again.

Peyton is modeling her cheerleading outfit in the mirror. Brooke is finishing her make-up before she goes to the gym and she leaves out a cheerleading uniform for Haley. Rachel models her out fit in the mirror and takes off her cheer panties. Brooke freaks out when the squad is nowhere to be found. They show up with Rachel who took them out for lattes. Haley shows up in the cheerleading uniform and Brooke tries to kick Rachel off the squad. They rest of the girls object and Rachel becomes the unofficial leader of the cheerleader mutiny leaving Brooke, Peyton and Haley in the locker room. Mouth does his commentary with Gigi who doesn’t say a word. Coach Durham introduces Dan for the retirement of his jersey, all through his introduction and Dan acceptance speech Whitey makes snide remarks. Dan announces his run for mayor. Karen tells Whitey that she’s running fro mayor and White announces that Karen is running and she’s the candidate that he’s endorsing.

It’s back to the scene in the teaser where Dan giving his welcome speech to Midnight Madness. There are cuts back and forth between the conflict with Lucas & Nathan and Brooke & Rachel, who dominating the routine. As the guy’s fight comes out into the open, the cheerleaders start to fight. Mouth gives a commentary on both brawls. Gigi says her first words since introducing herself to Mouth… These fights were turning her on.

Whitey yells at Nathan and Lucas, and then makes Lucas co-captain of the basketball team. Lucas sits in his car admiring his C when Rachel shows up from his back seat naked. Brooke shows up and tells Rachel “Naked in the back seat is so last year, it’s like two years ago.” Then walks away and is stopped by Lucas, She explains that she wanted Lucas to fight for her and declare that she was the only one for him. He asks her how was he suppose to know and she tells him he just was. Dan confronts Karen about running for mayor. Peyton goes to see Ellie and only finds Ellie’s cancer survivor bracelet. Peyton does a podcast, we see Ellie getting a MRI as we heard Peyton’s voiceover of her podcast. Haley goes to Chris's place to work together on music as Nathan watches from a far on his daily jog.