With Carrie locked up, Dan is safe. Haley confronts Sam about her living conditions, Julian tries to get Peyton back and Lucas meets Julian. Also, Peyton and Brooke talk things over.
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Peyton is sitting in her office, Julian opens the door and lets himself in. Peyton sits up, looking annoyed, Julian is smiling.
"Come on Peyton, smile."
"What do you just let yourself in?"
"Well if I would of told you it was me, you would have said go away."
"Oh so your head does have a brain."
"Come on, Peyton."
"Julian,... look, this isn't gonna happen."
Lucas walks in Peyton's office, Julian looks around and smiles, Lucas frowns, Peyton looks relieved.
"Is he bothering you, Peyton?"
"Hey, Luke." Peyton replies.
"Luke?,... Lucas Scott?"
"Yeah, who are you?" Lucas replies, confused.
"I'm Julian,... I was gonna ask you about your first novel."
"What about it?" Lucas replies looking confused.
"I wanna make it into a movie, I have to consult some clients before we can go ahead, but what do you think?"
"Urm. Well,... I don't know." Lucas replies.
"Fair enough. Well,... I'll consult some clients and see if they would like to make it into a movie."
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The class bell rings. Sam stands up with the rest of the class, Haley stands up, away from her desk and walks over to Sam.
"Sam,... can we talk, please?" Haley asks.
"What is it with you?" Sam replied.
"Excuse me?"
"Why are you so interested in me all of a sudden, is it cause I'm new?"
"It's because I know you live by yourself, Sam."
"Wait, what? How the hell do you know that!?" Sam replies, aggressively.
"I saw you crawl into that abandoned building, you must be scared,... there all alone."
"You followed me!? What are you some stalker?"
"Sam,... I know someone who's a foster mom,..."
"Thanks, but no thanks."
Sam grabs her stuff and walks out of the classroom, Haley looks disappointed, she exhales and sits down on Sam's desk.
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Brooke is in the store with Millicent, Mouth walks in and walks up to Millicent, Brooke walks over to the cash register pretends to be doing something.
"Marvin?" Millicent says, confused seeing him here.
"Millicent,... can we talk?"
"Urm. Sure." Millicent replies, nervously.
"Me,... Wait, how can I put this?,... Urm,... This isn't really working,... is it?"
Brooke looks shocked, Millicent's smile turns sad as she begins getting tears in her eyes.
"What?" Millicent replies.
"I can't do this,... Us, anymore."
Millicent begins crying, Mouth looks at her and goes to hug her, "I'm sorry."
Millicent pushes Mouth off of her and walks out back, Brooke is left in the awkward moment, Mouth looks at her. Brooke shakes her head as Mouth leaves.
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Julian is sitting in his new office, Lucas walks in through the door. He takes a seat in front of Julian's desk.
"Lucas, it's nice to see you wanted to find out more about making your novel into a movie."
"Hm. It's just an idea."
"A brilliant idea,... there is so much meaning behind the story, so much passion that could be brought to life onto a big screen,... and the best thing about it is you wrote the novel from the heart, so if you write the script,... the movie will have impact on everyone."
"You make a good point,..." Lucas replies.
"I've spoke to a few people who are interested in making the movie, so if you make a copy of the script, we can start pitching the rest of the ideas."
Julian smiles, raising his eyebrows, Lucas looks at him and gets up and walks out of the office.
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Haley gets out of the car, she walks into the house and sees Nathan getting off of the phone, Jamie looks at Nathan, Haley frowns.
"What's wrong, dad?" Jamie asks.
"It's Grandpa Dan." Nathan replies.
"What's happened?" Haley asks.
"He's in the hospital, Hales."
Jamie looks upset, Nathan doesn't know how to feel and Haley looks shocked.
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Brooke walks into Peyton's office.
"Hey, P. Sawyer, you here?"
Peyton walks out of the studio and goes behind her desk.
"Hey." Peyton replies.
"I know we haven't really spoken,... since, the argument and my birthday,... but,... I was just wondering how things are going?"
"Fine,..."
"Peyton,..."
"Brooke."
"Jake,... what happened with Jake?"
"Nothing." Peyton says, bluntly.
"Why?"
"Brooke,... Julian's back."
"Julian?"
"Remember when Lucas proposed to me, and I said to him not now and that I loved him, and he left?,..."
"Yeah." Brooke replies, looking uncomfortable.
"Well after Lucas,... there was someone else,... who I gave my heart too. That was Julian."
"Then what happened?"
"I realized it wasn't him I wanted."
"That's when you come back to Tree Hill,... for Lucas?" Brooke says, uncomfortably.
"Yeah." Peyton looks uncomfortable.
"Look, Peyton,... Lucas and me are the best we have ever been,... I just need to know that you are not going to fall for him again, or do anything to ruin this for me."
"Brooke, I promise."
Brooke looks away, Peyton looks at her, upset. Brooke walks away towards the office door.
"If you want to move back home,... do." Brooke says to Peyton before she walks out.
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Nathan is playing basketball at the River court. Lucas walks up to the River court and sits down on the bench.
"Haley said you'd be here."
Nathan makes a basket, he the runs after the ball and takes another shot.
"It's about Dan,... he's in the hospital."
Lucas looks surprised, "What?"
"A car knocked into him,... he's been in there the past month."
"Nate,... it's Dan."
"Luke, he's our dad."
Lucas looks uncomfortable, Nathan makes a basket and then lets the ball roll away from him.
"What are we gonna do, Luke?"
Lucas looks away, Nathan turns around.
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Brooke walks out of Peyton's office. Julian is walking up to walk into her office, they meet.
"Oh, excuse me." Julian says.
"What?" Brooke looks at him.
"Is Peyton in there?"
"Yeah,... wait, are you Julian?"
"Who's asking?,... wait,... Brooke Davis, right?"
"How do you?,..."
"Lucas' novel,..."
"That's just creepy."
Brooke looks at Julian in disgust and walks past him, Julian turns to look at her as she continues walking.
"It was nice to meet you."
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Sam is sitting in the abandoned building, she is sitting in an abandoned car. The is a smash of glass and a lot of noise. Sam looks out of the car, she sees there is fire starting to spread around the building, Sam gets out of the car, grabbing her clothes and begins to run out of the abandoned building.
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Dan is laying in hospital, Nathan walks in. Dan looks surprised to see him, Jamie runs in behind Nathan.
"Grandpa Dan!"
Jamie hugs Dan, Dan smiles, Nathan looks at Dan.
"How are you?"
"I've been better."
"When are you being released?"
"In a couple of weeks they said. Just have to do a few more check ups."
Nathan nods and grabs Jamie's hand, Jamie looks at Nathan and frowns.
"Come on, Jamie. We better get home to momma."
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Brooke walks into her house, she sees Peyton is there.
"Welcome home,..." Brooke says, Peyton smiles.
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Lucas is sitting in his room writing the script, he looks at the picture of him and Brooke on his desk and smiles. He walks over to his wardrobe and grabs a box out, he opens it and goes through some old pictures, he finds one from when he was going out with Brooke eight years ago, and when him and Peyton had something going on behind Brooke back. He places it at the side of the laptop and carries on writing.
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"Martin Luther King, Jr. once wrote, 'Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see'."