One Tree Hill Season 6 Episode 9 “Sympathy for the Devil”
This week’s One Tree Hill had us in the present, but gave us flashbacks into the past. Lucas is excited for his movie and begins working on his screenplay. He asks Peyton what she thought of Julian and we’re given the first of a few flashbacks that explain Julian’s role in Peyton’s former LA life. It seems that Julian was the first person to make Peyton smile when her relationship with Lucas fell apart.
As for other relationships on the show, Owen decides to bring a gift to Brooke every day as a way of making her see he’s a nice guy and in hopes she’ll take him back. Brooke grows to love the presents, but notices that there’s a fine line between taking the presents as a girl interested or just a girl who’s leading a guy on.
Nathan is still a Slamball player and manages to come out of the games without serious injury. However while watching TV with Jamie, Mouth interviews a player who says he’s out to get Nathan back into a wheelchair. Jamie wants know if his dad will win a trophy, which Nathan says isn’t possible. Jamie is disappointed by this and after Sam shows him how “economics” works, namely by selling candy out of a vending machine for more than he originally paid for it, he decides to go into this venue himself to raise money for his dad’s trophy.
Brooke still hasn’t decided what she’s going to put in the former Clothes over Bros location and while debating Peyton surprises her with a visit. Brooke wants to know when Peyton is going to tell Lucas who Julian is and another flashback begins where Peyton runs into Julian after seeing Lucas and Lindsey kiss at a book signing. Julian invites her to be his date to a party and we see where the relationship began.
Meanwhile, Lucas finishes the screenplay in three weeks and Julian is excited for him. He does however tell Lucas that he wants Keith’s death to be shown in the movie, telling him that he’ll have someone else write it if Lucas can’t. Lucas can’t seem to decide if its something he can write or not. Peyton tells him that he doesn’t have to protect Keith and that Keith would want Lucas to be the one to write the scene. Haley also gives Lucas some advice in a Tree Hill high hallway, telling him to make more of the scene. Lucas is still conflicted, not wanting to make Dan more than just what he sees him as: a bad guy.
Probably one of the most important flashbacks into the Peyton/Julian romance shows the two having a special moment in their apartment where they BOTH utter those three little words: I love you. However a later flashback has the two finishing up packing for the Sundance Film Festival and Julian comes upon Lucas’s book. He decides that the relationship is over because he can no longer compete with a book by Peyton’s ex.
Brooke goes to her car and finds Owen naked in the back seat, reminiscent of her naked backseat scene with him back in season 5. She however does not find it attractive and kicks him out of the car without any clothes. He comes by to her house later, with clothing on, and tells her that he won’t be coming around anymore because he cannot be led on. Brooke finally realizes she needs to make a choice.
Peyton spies Julian at an outside lunch table and approaches him to ask if working on Lucas’s book is a way for him to get closer to her, telling him that there’s no way she’ll get back with him. Julian informs her that he has no intention of getting her back, reminding her he was the one who dumped her, and is merely interested in making Lucas’s book into a movie. He does however ask Peyton the question we are all thinking: why haven’t you informed Lucas of our past relationship?
Lucas is still having problems figuring out how to write Keith’s death scene and so he goes to Keith’s grave. While sitting there, he decides to go to Dan’s grave and smashes a shovel against it. Still not satisfied, he goes to the basketball courts. Dan comes out of nowhere and inquires about the damage to his grave. Lucas asks Dan what happened the day he killed Keith and Dan merely says that Keith was shot in cold blood and that Dan will always be the villain in Lucas’s story. This finally gives Lucas the push to finish the screenplay and give the scene what it deserves.
Nathan plays another Slamball game and gets the final winning basket in the last seconds of the game. He’s managed to stay away from his aggressor on the other team, but as he’s walking along the edge of the court, the opposing player pushes him into the glass wall and Nathan falls off the court. Jamie and Haley run to him and Jamie asks his father not to play Slamball anymore. Nathan agrees, telling the two “if these are the two last trophies I ever get (Haley and Jamie) then I’ll be happy”. For the moment, it looks like Nathan’s basketball career is again on hold.
After the game, Owen finds Brooke in the backseat of his car, clothed, and the two talk about their relationship. Brooke say she cannot get involved because she has an obligation to Sam. However, she does say that she’d like to keep in contact and hopefully down the road get him back. Owen seems to understand and so the relationship is at a stalemate.
Lucas personally drops off the finished script at Julian’s house. Prior to Lucas walking in, Julian was looking at a picture of Peyton and him. When he opens the door, he gets a phone call which he takes in the next room. While waiting for Julian, Lucas looks at the picture and finally discovers what Peyton has not been able to tell him. He comes back to the house and confronts Peyton. Lucas says “so you two were together” and Peyton clarifies, “we were in love”. Is the Leyton romance in trouble? Until next week!
