With Arms Outstretched(Season 1, Episode 9)

Coach Whitey prepares the team for a game against tough rival Cove City. He tells them that he would like to finish just one damn season undefeated, damn it and if it doesn't happen there will be some serious damn repercussions.

Dan uses this opportunity to push and belittle Nathan. It seems that Dan holds the record for shooting points against Cove City, and there's no way in hell Nathan will unseat him. Nathan makes a score of own: amphetamines from his buddy Tim. The pressure of the game combind with the drugs revert Nathan to his pre-Haley state, only now with clammy skin, sunken eyes and a rapid heartbeat. That can't be good.

Lucas stays out all night on a date with Brooke, and Keith is not happy when Lucas comes home totally wasted and sporting a huge tattoo that looks to be infected. He's gonna have some "es-plaining" to do when Karen returns from Italy.

Nathan collapses at the big game. After he overhears his father threaten to sue the doctor for suggesting that Nathan used drugs he leaves the hospital. Debra decides she's had enough of this Dan controlling everything stuff and demands he move out of the house.(That ain't gonna be enough...)

Nathan shows up at Haley's and apologizes for being such an evil clammy skinned sunken-eyed dick lately. He tells her all about how she was the last thing he saw before he collapsed and...oh, Haley's crying again. I CAN"T TAKE IT!

Peyton finally comes to her senses and realizes she's in love with Lucas. She goes to his place to declare her feelings, but Brooke's already there. In fact she walks out of Lucas' bedroom ready for sexytimes. WHOOPS! Bad timing. They all just stand there and stare at each other, waiting for the next episode to begin.

Coach  blames himself for putting so much damn pressure on the team to win, dammit. He cancels damn basketball, maybe forever. Okay maybe not forever. But it's cancelled for a while.

Lucas voice over:  

"What a frightening thing the human is, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately."