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One Tree Hill: Sympathy for the Devil

 

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8.9 Great
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Air Date

Monday November 3, 2008

Production Code

3T7559

Episode Summary

Sam teaches Jamie about money. Brooke must decide whether to date Owen again, since he broke her heart the last time. Nathan comes face to face with an old rival. Meanwhile, Lucas' novel forces him to make jeopardizing decisions, and Peyton meets the movie producer, Julian.

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    10 Perfect

    Jamie learns how to make money hide show

    In this episode of One Tree Hill, the following happens. We soon learn how Peyton knows Julian. Lucas writes his screen script in only 3 weeks. Julian tells Lucas that's perfect but it's missing the scene where Dan kills Keith, and if he can't write the scene then he will find a writer who can. From Brooke we learn that Julian was once Peyton's boyfriend. It's been three weeks and Peyton still hasn't told him. Haley asks Sam to look after Jamie for her for a little while. During which Sam teaches Jamie about how to make money. Throughout the episode we see flash backs of Peyton and Julian when they were a couple. We see that Julian basically broke up with Peyton because of Lucas's first book. During a Slam ball game Nathan is pushed through a glass pane, but luckily he is ok. Jamie asks him not to play Slam ball anymore, and Nathan agrees. Lucas goes to see Julian to give him the scene and he finds a photo of Julian and Peyton on the desk. We see Lucas going home, Peyton says that she has to tell him something. He pulls out the photo and she admits to him that she and Julian were in love.

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    Season 6, Episode 9. hide show

    Sam teaches Jamie about money. Brooke must decide whether to date Owen again, since he broke her heart the last time. Nathan comes face-to-face with an old rival. Meanwhile, Lucas' novel forces him to make jeopardizing decisions, and Peyton meets the movie producer, Julian. I love Brooke. The storyline with Sam is so good, and now she and Owen might get back together. I loved when Owen was in the car naked and Brooke kicked him out. Haha. I also loved the scene at the end when Brooke took the free chips and kept saying, "You're a good mom." Haha, Sophia Bush rocks. Great episode.

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    7.5 Good

    I suppose this was better than last weeks...still it can be pretty painful to watch at times, less so here. hide show

    So...One Tree Hill continues. overall this was better than the previous episode because it just seemed more enjoyable. Peyton flashbacks with Julian was strangely alright...though it was a little stupid that she met him twice after something with Lucas. They actually had chemistry but he's turned into a jerk. The end was good, Lucas finding out that she knows him...or was in love with him as she puts it.

    His own storyline was okay but as I always say I don't like his character...so never really fully enjoy them. It was about time he asked Dan why he killed Keith...what is that 5 years in the making? Brooke and Owen are quite enjoyable but the back of the car the has been done to death...so stop with that please creators. Brooke is a much stronger characters than others this season.

    Sam was alright here too which is good since I've found her pointless. The Jamie money thing was barely amusing but again just okay. I'm really happy to see Nathan give up slamball...it was getting so old and boring. Once again Haley only seems to be there to 'help' other characters, Lucas with his book, Nathan with slamballl, Sam with Jamie...

    Mouth is a stupid, annoying character and Gigi is getting on my nerves too. They were barely in it so why did they even bother at all? Good but I've seen SO much better from other shows and even this show itself!

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    peytons "lost" years are revealed. hide show

    i have to say. i loved this episode, but im gonna begin with the bad
    mouth and gigi: i dont like how gigi is this vixen, its totally not the gig we met the first time she auditioned for the sportsannouncer thing back in season 3. and it will be totally out of character if mouth does cheat on millie, but if he does i hope him and gigis skank a$$ are gone, am tired of all this drama that such an insignificant character like mouth is having.
    although sam and jamies storyline is cute, i do believe that they are getting too much screentime. and i dont understand how such a bright kid like jamie can handle all the crap that he has gone through and not understand that what he was doing was wrong....
    the scene in the car with brooke and owen: i know alot of people liked it, but holy crap, how many times are they gonna pull that one off, and get away with it. i mean during the 6 years the show has been going some one got naked in the back of someone elses car at least once a season!!! brooke, rachel, brooke again, now owen(im sure im forgetting someone)and honestly i didnt like it all that much.

    and then too the good stuff
    the peyton/julien flashback were, for me, awsome. i truly believe that she and julien were in love. i mean if lucas can fall in love with lindsey, why cant peyton fall in love with someone else during their years apart? though it didnt look like the epic lovestory that leyton is, i think it was a good way of showing how peyton tried to get over luke, julien was transperantly the rebound guy.however what pissed me off is that peyton didnt say anyrthing too luke, before luke actually confronted her. that was not a good move. i like the way this story is going.and it doesnt hurt that julien is easy on the eyes, i do hope he sticks around.he should hook up with millie!

    naley. was screaming at the top of my lungs(find myself doing alot of that lately) at the screen for nathan to get up after he went through the glass, however how easily did he go through, we've seen several dudes been pushes and smashed up against the glass several times, none of them went through....

    all in all am very happy with this eppi, am now only hoping they tell us more about the others and what they were up too during the lost years, cuz season 6 didnt help much

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    First of all, how cute is Jamie. That kid is to cute and is hard to believe he is only 5. If left alone for two long I could imagine the trouble Sam and him could get into. hide show

    This chapter brought us into the missing four years of Peyton's life. We had seen, Lucas's past, Haley and Nathan's past, and Brook's past, but we never saw Peyton's past unless it was warped into Lucas. It was good that to see that she "had moved" on with her life after Lucas. I DON'T LIKE JULIAN. I think he needs to go before he destroys the perfect love story. I'm glad that Lucas was able to find some closure with Keith's death and hopefully he will be able to move on. I personnally would have taken a stone cutter to Dan's headstone vice a shovel. I forsee Nathan playing in the Championship game. Not sure what will happen. Brook has her hands full with both Sam and Owen (who I like). Gigi has got to go to. I like Milli and Mouth. I did not like Gigi even when she was in high school. I just wish they would have showed us how Jamie got caught with his buisness instead of just switching over to Haley diciplining him.

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  • The posters we can see in the photocopy room where Peyton is having her breakdown are those of artists that have been heard on the show (Group 1 Crew, Jackson Waters...). []
  • International Air Dates:
    Denmark: February 9, 2008 at 8:00pm on TV3+
    Philippines: April 1, 2009 on ETC
    Norway: Saturday, September 5, 2009 on TVNorge []
  • Featured Music:

    Can You Tell By Ra Ra Riot
    Can't Go Back Now By The Weepies
    Deception Loves Company By Juice Monkey
    I Don't Live In A Dream by Jackie Greene
    It is Best To Keep It All Inside by Johnathan Rice
    Leaving You by Corey Crowder
    Love Song for a Schuba's Bartender by Margot & The Nuclear So and So's
    Soul Waver by Malika Ayane
    Ugly by Max Boogle Overdrive
    You Got Growing Up To Do by Joshua Radin featuring Patty Griffin
    It Means Nothing by Stereophonics []
  • Peyton: Do you know what I love about you? The way you're always protecting everybody. But you don't have to protect Keith. I mean, regardless of what the scene becomes, I'm pretty sure he would rather you write his last moments than anybody else.
    Lucas: I just wish I knew the truth. []
  • Dan: (on why he killed Keith) Every good story needs a villain, Lucas. Sorry, but I'm yours. []
  • Peyton: Julian was right; it needed that scene... what made you change your mind about writing it?
    Lucas: I just realized it wasn't about a murder. It's about how your heart breaks when your hero dies. And I'm okay with the world seeing that. []
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  • Episode Title: Sympathy For The Devil



    This is a song by The Rolling Stones from the album Beggars Banquet. []
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