This season in my opinion has to be the turning point. What happens to the characters is no longer teenage drama, but it develops and things become more serious and they begin to realise what matters in life and what matters to them. They try to pursue what they want, and although they make mistakes, which is understandable, they are only human, they try to put them right and make right what they have made wrong.

Lucas and Brooke – Lucas tries to win Brooke over, as at the end of last season you would have seen him tell her how he feels about her. Surprisingly, she feels the same, but doesn’t want to get her heart broken again so she plays games with him, which ends up ruining things between them. They do end up together, but watch as their relationship is tested and how they work at it. How will it all end for the couple?

Keith Scott returns to Tree Hill to face life. He realised the reason why he stayed away so long was because of his feelings for Karen. Karen Roe realises that Keith is the one in her heart and it is time she put her happiness first and gave him a chance, so she does, and they get together. She soon proposes to him, and they are due to get married until a tragic accident, where Keith is killed. He ends up being murdered, shot by his brother Dan Scott.

Dan Scott realises that even after 17 years, Karen is the love of his life and that he made the biggest mistake of his life by leaving her. He runs for mayor of Tree Hill and wins the election. He also shoots his older brother Keith, and gets an AVO to stay away from Nathan and Deb. He is lucky to be invited to Nathan and Haley's second wedding.

Deb’s addiction to drugs and alcohol get worse, and she goes to rehab, though it doesn’t work, because after coming home she lapses. We find out that she was the one that tried to burn Dan in the dealership fire, and confesses this to him at Nathan and Haley's second wedding.

Nathan and Haley get back together and get married again, in front of all their friends and family, but the wedding ends in tragedy. Nathan realises that Haley isn’t going anywhere, and starts to trust her again. He still loves her, but he is hurt and doesn’t trust her and doesn’t want to go through the pain of loosing her again, so avoids her to start with until he feels that she’s here for the long run and he wants to be with her.

Peyton gets to know her birth mum Ellie, who turns out to have cancer. To start with, Peyton sends Ellie away because she feels that she can’t trust her, but then guilt starts playing up on her, the fact that Ellie is dying and she sent her away, so Peyton goes and finds her and they work on a benefit CD together and get to know each other before Ellie eventually dies. During the season, we find that Peyton is missing Jake but when she goes to see him near the end of the Season, we find out that it’s not Jake in her heart, but Lucas, and he is the one she really wants and Loves.

The season is full of surprises and unexpected twist that will have you laughing as well as crying. You will feel mixed emotions as well as the pain that the characters go through during their school year. Watch and be amazed about what can happen in life.

The songs featured in the episodes are fantastic. There are a different range of songs used from R’n’B to Indie. Songs to meet everyone’s taste. I thought that the songs complimented the scenes and the episodes well, and that the right songs were used at the right moments. I liked some of the songs so much that I went out and bought them. Artists featured include: Fall Out Boy, Tyler Hilton, Nada Surf, Bethany Joy Lenz, and many more well known artists.

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Season 3 – in a snapshot
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Episode 1: Like You Like an Arsonist
• Haley returns to be with Nathan.
• Peyton learns she was adopted and her biological mother is Ellie
• Karen returns from New Zealand
• Nathan goes to High Flyers

Episode 2: From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
• Brooke holds an end of summer beach party
• Nathan returns from High Flyers
• Brooke tells Lucas they can be together… non-exclusively

Episode 3: First Day on a Brand New Planet
• Dan tries to have Coach Durham replaced as coach of the Ravens
• Lucas tells Dan that he saved his life by pulling him out of the dealership fire
• Coach Durham announces that this will be his final season, win or lose
• Nathan tells Haley he doesn’t want an annulment, but a divorce instead.

Episode 4: An Attempt to Tip the Scales
• The gang go to a costumed, masked ball at Tric.
• Deb and Dan play games with each other, making life difficult for one another
• Lucas tells Haley about his heart condition.
• Chris Keller returns to Tree Hill to help Haley with her music on the request of Nathan.

Episode 5: A Multitude of Casualties
• Dan presents the opening season of basketball for the Ravens where the Scott brothers end up fighting with each other and the Raven cheerleaders end up fighting with the Raven cheerleaders
• Peyton and Brooke hold auditions for cheerleaders and Rachel gets the place.
• Haley joins the cheerleading team
• Karen decides to run for Mayor, against Dan
• Coach Durham makes Lucas and Nathan co-captains

Episode 6: Locked Hearts and Hand Grenades
• Brooke proposes an idea to the cheerleaders so that they don’t fight over the same guy – Fantasy Boy Draft – where they all pick a guy and he is theirs for the rest of the season
• Lucas tries top keep up with his team mates in training but finds it difficult because of his medication

Episode 7: Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends
• The girls go on dates with their boys drafts
• Nathan and Haley, and Chris Keller and Brook go on a date on the beach and to the mall.
• Brooke finds her clothes designs in a shop window
• Brook sleeps with Chris Keller and Lucas walks in on them in bed together
• Lucas shoots hoops with Rachel at the river court
• Mouth takes Peyton to see his grandfather who has Alzheimer’s and who he visits every week.
• Karen and Deb attempt to destroy Dan’s huge billboard advertisement, btu end up getting stuck

Episode 8: The Worst Day Since Yesterday
• Lucas is broken up after seeing Brooke in bed with Chris Keller
• Coach Durham tells the team that he is going to retire at the end of the season
• Mouth tries to help Karen win the election for mayor
• Brooke and Peyton steal Brookes’ clothes designs from ‘Suburban Filth’

Episode 9: How a Resurrection Really Feels
• Brooke and Peyton’s stolen tops get themselves and Haley looked up
• Chris tries to convince Nathan to drive him to a poker game where he is going to try and win back the $2000 he lost whilst playing poker which was to pay for Haley’s studio time
• Lucas bails the girls out of jail
• Brooke, with the help of Haley, decides to use her talent to create a clothing line for the internet.
• The poker game is a disaster and Nathan and Chris have to run away otherwise they will be beaten up
• The election results are close but Dan ends up winning
• Deb leaves Tree Hill after finding out that Lucas knows that she was the one that tried to kill Dan in the fire and that Dan doesn’t know it was her, but wants revenge on whoever it was

Episode 10: Brave New World
• Haley and Nathan sleep together
• Brooke finds it too difficult to keep up with the amount of orders being placed on her website
• Peyton goes to visit Ellie
• Lucas bumps into an old friend
• Deb tells Nathan that she was the one that tried to kill Dan in the dealership fire and that she will not be returning to Tree Hill

Episode 11: Return of the Future
• Keith returns to Tree Hill
• Brooke gets invited to Rogue Vogue; a fashion talent show in New York
• Coach Durham punishes the players by moving them from their gym to a dump which they must clean up and then play the rest of their games in as well as train in
• Keith tells Karen that he had intended to kill Dan but was beaten to it by Deb
• Keith gets arrested for the attempted murder of Dan

Episode 12: I've Got Dreams to Remember
• Keith is arrested as a suspect for the attempt arson of Dan
• The gang meet the school counsellor about choosing a college
• Nathan and Haley make up, but realise that their dream

colleges are about 3000 miles apart.
• Nathan gets put on the bench during the basketball game for missing class

Episode 13: The Wind That Blew My Heart Away
• During a bad storm, Lucas ends up spending the night with Brooke
• Haley spends the night with Nathan
• Mouth waits out the storm at Rachel’s where they bond
• Keith and Karen share an intimate moment at the Café
• Dan breaks into Keith’s home to try and find evidence that Keith tried to kill him
• Ellie shows Peyton what it is like to really live

Episode 14: All Tomorrow's Parties
• Peyton tries to handle her biological mother, Ellie's death
• Peyton, Haley and Brooke take a road-trip to New York, for Brooke’s fashion contest.
• Karen proposes to Keith
• Brooke decides that the cheerleading contest is more important to her than the fashion contest at the moment, so flies to the cheerleading contest but finds Lucas in bed with Peyton. Lucas explains that nothing happened and that Peyton was drunk and it was Rachel’s fault, and that he slept on the floor.

Episode 15: Just Watch the Fireworks
• The time capsule is opened and shown to everyone, and their secrets are revealed
• Peyton prepares a benefit for Cancer Research at Tric, in the memory Ellie Harp
• Keith and Karen announce their engagement
• Lucas agrees to be adopted by Keith
• Jimmy Edwards gets beaten up for what he said in the time capsule

Episode 16: With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept
• Jimmy Edwards holds some students hostage in the tutor centre
• Nathan goes into the school to save Haley
• Lucas goes into the school to save Peyton
• Peyton has been shot in the leg
• Keith goes into the school to try and convince Jimmy to give up, but Jimmy ends up killing himself and Dan ends up shooting Keith

Episode 17: Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them
• Everyone attends Keith’s funeral
• Dan begins to get haunted by Keith’s spirit
• Nathan and Haley move back into their apartment, together
• Deb returns to Tree Hill
• Rachel and Brooke hold a ‘Detention’ party in the school, to help people get over the school shooting
• Rachel tells Mouth that it was her who lifted the time capsule
• Brooke moves in with Peyton
• Lucas attends Jimmy’s funeral

Episode 18: When It Isn't Like It Should Be
• Rachel invites the gang for a weekend in her parents' cabin in the woods
• Nathan decides to propose to Haley again.
• Haley’s wedding ring goes missing and she freaks
• Pete from Fall Out Boy finally shows up at the cabin
• Mouth forgives Rachel, seeing as she has tried to put her wrongs, right

Episode 19: I Slept with Someone in Fall Out Boy and All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me
• Lucas is unable to play the basketball game after Keith’s funeral, so Nathan decides that the Raven’s should forfeit
• Peyton gets it on with Pete from Fall Out Boy
• Brooke posts pictures of ‘fat and ugly’ Rachel up over school – before Rachel had surgery
• Lucas tells Coach Durham and Nathan about his heart condition
• Lucas tells his mum the truth about his heart condition

Episode 20: Everyday Is a Sunday Evening
• Haley tells Nathan she doesn’t want them to have sex until they get married again
• Peyton goes to visit Jake
• Cooper finds out that Rachel is younger than she told him and that she is in high school

Episode 21: Over the Hills and Far Away
• Brooke and Haley have a disagreement over the wedding dress Brooke made for Haley
• Lucas and Karen return to Tree Hill
• Brooke holds a rehearsal dinner for Nathan and Haley where she shows the comical version of the life of Naley (Nathan and Haley)

Episode 22: The Show Must Go On
• Nathan and Haley renew their wedding vows
• Peyton and Brooke fall out over Lucas
• Dan learns the truth about the fire, that it was Deb that tried to kill him