Season 1: Episode 4: Crash into You

This episode starts off with Dan telling Nathan to not let Lucas get the ball during the next game that night.  During the game, Nathan's wing man Tim passed the ball to Luke and Nathan got really pissed.  After the game, Nathan invites Luke to the after party at his beach house.  During the party, Brooke invites Luke to play the drinking game "I never."  While playing, Nathan said that he has never had a dad that wished he was a stain on the bed sheets.  Luke played it cool, walked over to him and said, "Then you're welcome to mine."  After a while, Nathan sees Luke talking to his girlfriend Peyton outside and gets jealous.  He puts in the tape of Luke's mom Karen and their dad Dan's Snowball court king and queen speech.  Lucas stormed off right after shoving Nathan into the wall.

Nathan gave Haley a ride home in Peyton's car.  While Nathan was driving back to the party, he crashed the car by sideswiping a parked vehicle and then running into a utility pole.  Lucas was following the car because he thought that Peyton was driving and she had been drinking and was concerned for her safety.  Nathan walked away from the accident and Luke decided to tow the car to Keith's Auto Body Shop to fix it himself.  He did not want Peyton to get in trouble for Nathan's stupidity and carelessness.  Peyton breaks up with Nathan because she was finally able to see the ass he truly was to everybody the night before; including herself.

Luke looked into the car later on and noticed that Haley's hat was on the seat.  He tells Nathan to stay the hell away from Haley.  This finding creates friction between the two best friends at the very end of the episode.  Luke asks if Haley would be completely honest with him and tell him if anything was going on and she responded with yes.  Luke pulled out her hat and told her, "You left this in Peyton's car."  OUCH!

  - XOXO K.C.