The Spelling Bee

One Tree Hill: S06 E05: Choosing My Own Way of Life

Apologies for the late posting this week. I can only blame Championship football.

Previously on One Tree Hill: Nathan is offered a job as a basketball coach; Brooke hands her mother Clothes Over Bros; Lindsey tells Lucas his book wasn’t popular and he tells her he’s getting married; Peyon realises Mick, the Aging Guitarist, is her father and Dan finally finishes off the Nanny Carrie story by putting a bullet in her. This week, Mouth returns!

We start off watching Lucas packing his bag to go on his book tour. His packing includes his book, which makes no sense whatsoever, because firstly it looks ridiculously egotistical to carry around copies of your own book – Jess, do all authors do this? – and secondly, does he think the bookstores where he’ll be signing copies of his book won’t have one? Peyton wakes, hair carefully styled for full bed-head impact, and asks why guys always pack at the last minute. I have no comment to add here as my husband never packs at all. I do it for him and have been since we first started dating. Discussion ensues about the first day of the book tour and how Lucas gets to see Mouth today, which means we do, too! Yay, Mouth! Peyton doesn’t understand why they’re sending him to Omaha for his first stop. Apparently it’s to create a buzz before they hit the bigger markets. I’m not aware that a book signing in Omaha would ever get commented on in the media enough to create a sensation anywhere, but as this storyline is entirely created so we get to have Mouth – yay, Mouth! – back in the show, I’m not complaining.

Lucas and Peyton also talk about how they’d both like to have her go along, but obviously there would be too much tension between her and Lindsey. Also, Peyton is jealous that Lucas will be spending so much time with his ex-fiancée and I swear I’m just yawning because I was out partying last night, nothing to do with this. So while Lucas is off on his book tour, Peyton will be finding out if Aging Rocker is her father and I will be painting my nails. What? Me painting my nails is more interesting than the Peyton/Daddy storyline, surely.

Haley is returning to work, and we find out it’s been too weeks since Nanny Carrie was killed. Nathan walks at her side. She’s wearing a very cute gypsy blouse that sadly makes her look about 12 and not like a teacher in the slightest. A plot contrivance appears in the form of us learning for the first time that Nathan knows of a shortcut through shop, shop being where we last saw New Girl Sam bedding down for the night. She is, of course, still there.

Haley interrogates New Girl Sam about why she is sleeping there and Sam explains that the couch in the teacher’s lounge was too skanky. Haley seems to invoke both good cop and bad cop by first joking about how she never goes near the couch, and immediately follows that with ordering Sam to say where she lives. Poor Sam, she lives in a foster home. Haley is worried there could be a problem at home, but Sam assures her it’s one of the better ones, although it’s crowded. Haley continues that someone must be worried about Poor Sam not returning home, but of course Haley is being naive because nobody cares. Don’t worry, Haley; I’m sure we’ll be able to find a new Mommy who loves Poor Sam soon. I wonder who that could be.

In case we needed a bigger anvil than the last scene gave us, we cut to Brooke. She and Millie are standing in a very empty shop, and Brooke is out of ideas as to what exactly they should be doing. Not to worry, Millie has made a list of ideas and for some reason covered it up with a sheet. The list includes sky-diving, which is confusing to me and Brooke because it’s not the most obvious way to heal the company. Oh wait, of course, before Brooke can heal the company, she has to heal herself first by falling out of a plane or riding a motorcycle. If the next thing on the list wasn’t learning to speak French I would start to worry what Millie’s motives were. They talk about how these are all ideas Brooke had before, but never got a chance to do because she was too busy. Millie says she wrote them down so Brooke would one day fulfil her dreams. While this makes Brooke cry, I’m still stuck on the one that says “Get drunk at Oktoberfest”. Mmmm…beer.

Nathan and Skillz are playing ball at the River Court and working on different aspects of Nathan’s game. We’re meant to see that Nathan is still not getting physical in his game because he’s worried about screwing up his back again. However, they sort that out and Deb cheers them on from the sidelines, yelling out, “You’re doing great honey.” Both Nathan and Skillz say thanks and both Nathan and I squirm. Oh, seriously, ick.