One Tree Hill:
Pilot
Episode One
Aside from their love for basketball, Nathan Scott and Lucas Scott seem to have little in common. But like it or not, the two young men are bound together - they share the same father. Arrogant and assured, Nathan is the star of the high school basketball team and hails from a wealthy family. Quiet and driven, Lucas is a legendary playground basketball player and the only child of a working single mom. After growing up on opposite sides of the tracks in the same small town of Tree Hill, North Carolina, the half-brothers suddenly find their lives colliding. And squarely in the middle is Nathan's beautiful girlfriend, Peyton Sawyer, an intensely private and sensitive girl who quickly feels a connection to Lucas. At the same time, Nathan becomes intrigued by Lucas' female best friend, Haley James who must deal with this strange new existence of wealth and privilege along with Lucas.
Nathan's father, Dan, and Lucas' mother, Karen Roe, were high school sweethearts. When Karen became pregnant during their senior year, she was devastated by Dan's decision to go to college on a basketball scholarship, leaving Karen behind to raise their son, Lucas, alone. When Dan's dream of a basketball career didn't work out, he returned to town with the wife he met in college and his new son, Nathan. Now a wealthy businessman, Dan lives his basketball dreams through Nathan. While Karen raised Lucas without a father, she remained friends with Dan's older brother, Keith, who has served as Lucas' surrogate father.
It is Keith who persuades the grizzled high school basketball coach, Whitey Durham, to invite Lucas to join the team, sparking a conflict with Nathan. At the same time, Dan and Keith clash over Dan's disowning of Lucas. Nathan challenges Lucas to a nighttime one-on-one basketball game. If Nathan wins, Lucas must not join the team; if Lucas wins, Nathan will quit. During the game, the players are almost equally skilled, but Nathan's cockiness costs him a few early points, and Lucas triumphs. He then reveals to Peyton that he changed his end of the bargain - Lucas bet that if he won, Nathan would not be allowed to quit the team. The two estranged half-brothers are now teammates.
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