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One árbol Hill
Season 3
Episode 15
"Just watch the fireworks"
SUMMARY:
When someone unleashes the students' time capsule upon árbol colina High,
Lucas and Mouth must confront a person from their past. Brooke has to deal
with the revelation that secrets aren't the only things she exposed in the time
capsule. Dan learns to forgive Keith. Haley is forced to reconcile the man Nathan
was before with the man he has become, and Peyton's Breast Cancer Benefit
concierto at Tric features performances por Haley, Jack's Mannequin and the
return of Fall Out Boy.
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FADE IN:
LUCAS: (v.o) Previously on One árbol Hill.
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CLASSROOM – DAY]
(Whitey opens the blinds as he speaks to the class.)
WHITEY: In nineteen fifty-five, students at árbol colina High school,-
(Brooke, Nathan, Lucas, Peyton and Jake are listening to Whitey.)
WHITEY: -created a time capsule which was to be opened in fifty years.
(Nathan’s looking at Whitey, bored. Cut to Peyton with her old, curly, hair – looking interested.)
WHITEY: Within the siguiente week, each of tu will video tape your thoughts.
CUT TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CONVERTED SUPPLY CLOSET – EVENING]
(Mouth has rigged up his laptop to the A/V system and is playing Brooke’s recording.)
BROOKE: (on the screen) Ten years, I’ll probably be married to someone like Marvin McFadden.
(Mouth watches her and smiles.)
BROOKE: (grins) tu all probably call him senator McFadden.
CUT TO:
[EXT. GO KARTING – RACE TRACK – EVENING]
(Mouth and Peyton are standing on a balcony, talking.)
PEYTON: I bet you’re gonna have it all, someday.
MOUTH: (nods) Yeah, I’m thinking of running for senator.
(Peyton frowns at him.)
CUT TO:
[INT. SCOTT RESIDENCE – LIVING ROOM – EVENING]
(Nathan and Haley are sitting siguiente to the fireplace, talking.)
HALEY: When I look back on the tour, I’m not, like, proud of it coz I know that tu weren’t proud of me.
NATHAN: (dumbfounded) Is that what tu think?
CUT TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CORRIDOR – DAY]
(Mouth and Jimmy Edwards round the corner of the corridor to the gym. Mouth is holding a microphone and
they are both smiling.)
MOUTH: Luke! (holds out the mic) Do tu mind if we get a few words before your first game?
JIMMY EDWARDS: Yeah, we’re sports announcers. (points to his parte superior, arriba which shows the logo ‘ravenshoops.com’)
CUT TO:
[EXT. THE RIVERCOURT – BENCHES – EVENING]
(Mouth and Jimmy Edwards are sitting on the bench in suits.)
MOUTH: (into the mic) Jimmy Edwards – my partner and friend.
CUT TO:
[INT. SPARKLE CLASSIC – THE CROWD – EVENING]
(Karen smiles at Keith.)
KAREN: … Marry me.
(They kiss.)
CUT TO:
[INT. BANK – SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX ROOM – DAY]
(Dan opens Keith’s safety deposit box and finds his own ledger of illegal dealings which should have burned
down with his dealership. He flips through it to make sure it’s actually his.)
CUT TO:
[INT. KAREN’S CAFÉ – DINING AREA – DAY]
(Ellie has confronted Lucas as he is cleaning up.)
ELLIE: I have cancer.
CUT TO:
[INT. SAWYER RESIDENCE – PEYTON’S BEDROOM – DAY]
(Peyton is lying on her stomach on her bed. She’s clearly upset. Ellie is lying beside her.)
PEYTON: I want tu to be here when the album comes out.
ELLIE: (touching Peyton’s head) I will be here, Peyton.
CUT TO:
[INT. ELLIE’S HOUSE – HALLWAY – DAY]
(Peyton is standing in the hallway nervously. She’s holding the CDs.)
PEYTON: (uncertainly) Ellie?!
(She walks into the room and sees Ellie’s hand hanging off her bed. She’s not moving.)
(Peyton cries hard as she realises Ellie’s dead.)
FADE TO BLACK:
END OF PREVIOUSLY ON:
OPENING CREDITS ROLL:
FADE IN:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CONVERTED SUPPLY CLOSET – DAY]
(Pan left to Nathan who is sitting alone in a room in front of a black backdrop. He is looking straight at the camera.)
NATHAN: (sighs) So, tu want me to tell tu something about myself? (shakes his head slightly and shrugs)
I don’t have anything to say. And, even if I did,… you’d be wrong to believe me. (pause) Trust is a lie. Nobody ever
knows anyone.
(A locker door slams off-screen.)
CUT TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CORRIDOR – DAY]
(A whole group of students are walking around the corridor, looking up in confusion at the monitors hanging off the ceiling.)
NATHAN: (o.s) (on the monitor) tu know, people think that if you-
(The shot pans up to one of the monitors where Nathan’s recording is playing for everyone to see.)
NATHAN: -love somebody hard enough, then everything’s just gonna work out.
(Cut to Haley who is looking up at the monitor, hurt.)
NATHAN: (o.s) (on the monitor) People are wrong.
(Cut back to the screen.)
NATHAN: (on the monitor) Fifty years from now, I hope tu got what tu wanted, Haley.
(Cut back to Haley who raises her eyebrows.)
NATHAN: (on the monitor) But getting married to tu was the worst mistake of my life(!) (glares)
(The shot pans back down to Haley. She turns around, looking for her husband.)
NATHAN: (on the monitor) Here’s a little advice:
(The shot focuses on Nathan who’s standing at the other end of the corridor siguiente to the lockers. He’s standing with a
few of the baloncesto players and looking at her nervously.)
NATHAN: (on the monitor) Never get married.
(Haley looks at him, open-mouthed.)
NATHAN: (on the monitor) In the end, you’ll only be miserable.
(Haley’s had enough. Wordlessly, she walks away. Nathan doesn’t mover to stop her. He just sighs sadly.)
CUT TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – COMPUTER LAB – DAY]
(The capsule is playing on all of the computer monitors too. Tim’s recording is playing.)
TIM: (on the screen) Pretty much dated all the hot girls.
(Students are just milling around and watching it.)
TIM: (on the screen) Freshmen, seniors. (nods) Yeah, it’s good times. Currently, I’m, uh,… (nods) dating Brooke Davis.
FAST PAN TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CORRIDOR – DAY]
(Brooke is looking at the monitor, mouth open in shock.)
TIM: (on the monitor) Let’s see, what else? Um,…-
(Camera zooms out to mostrar Peyton standing with Brooke; looking at her.)
TIM: (o.s) (on the monitor) -there’s this new girl, Anna who’s into me.
(The playback continues as Rachel comes up behind Brooke and stops to gloat.)
RACHEL: Hmmm, and to think; I was this close to cutting school today.
(Everybody is standing around, laughing at the monitors. Brooke has her arms crossed and is glaring at the monitor.)
RACHEL: Tim Smith, huh? Score(!) (walks away)
(Brooke Looks sideways at Rachel as she passes. Tim’s recording continues to play.)
CUT TO:
[EXT. árbol colina HIGH – PILLAR – DAY]
(Close-up of the pillar with a plaque that reads: ‘Tree colina High School TIME CAPSULE. Sealed: April 2005, Open: 2055’.)
(Principle Turner and Whitey march down the cement.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: You’re sure it’s the time capsule from last year?
WHITEY: Damn sure.
(They stop at the pillar.)
WHITEY: Somebody uncorked it early.
(Principle Turner looks at the plaque closely.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: I don’t know, Coach. Looks fine here.
(Whitey touches the side of the pillar where Peyton’s friends With Benefit poster is hanging. He pulls it off to mostrar a
huge hole in the side. Whitey glares at the principle.)
FAST PAN TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CORRIDOR – DAY]
(Principle Turner and Whitey rush through the crowd thronging the corridor. Lucas’ recording is now playing.)
LUCAS: (o.s) (on the monitor) Just getting along… is kinda new to us. (pause) But I guess that’s how brothers are.
(They both stride to the A/V room and principle Turner reaches for his keys.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: Just shut down the feed.
(Principle Turner tries to open the door but can’t. The A/V room’s key has been broken off in the lock.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: Once we remove the door because whoever did this broke the key off in the damn lock!
WHITEY: I’ll call the locksmith. Maybe tu better call out the SWAT team.
(He frowns and turns to the monitor.)
WHITEY: This could turn ugly.
LUCAS: (on the monitor) But that doesn’t change the fact that I need to get closer to my father. (pause) Because
if I can get closer to him,-
(Cut to Lucas who is looking up at the monitor and shaking his head.)
(Cut back to the monitor.)
LUCAS: (on the monitor) -maybe I can find a way to beat him. (pause) Once and for all.
(Nathan is also looking at the monitors mutely.)
LUCAS: (on the monitor) And set the people that I amor free(!)
(Nathan looks at the monitor with shielded irritation.)
LUCAS: (on the monitor) I just hope I have the strength to tear him down for good.
(Nathan shakes his head before looking over his shoulder. Lucas is standing por the lockers, a hand to his mouth. Lucas
looks at his brother but can’t find the words. Nathan turns and walks away. Lucas makes to follow him.)
(Lucas stops when Brooke comes onto the screen.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) Let’s see, in ten years, I’ll probably be married to someone like Marvin McFadden.
(People pat Mouth on the back.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) tu guys probably call him senator McFadden. We just call him Mouth.
(Mouth looks over his shoulder at Brooke. She’s smiling while looking at the monitor, proud of herself for that.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) So, if you’re watching this in twenty fifty-five,-
(Peyton laughs and Brooke waves at him.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) -there really needs to be some (the camera zooms in fast on her) sort of record of my
body at it’s peak!
(Brooke gapes as she realises what’s coming next.)
BROOKE: Oh no, wait(!) (looks at Peyton) We have to turn this off right now!
(Brooke, on screen, shrugs and lifts her top.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) What the hell.
(There’s cheering as she takes her parte superior, arriba off, leaving her in only her bra.)
(Pan to Principle Turner and Whitey.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: (scandalised) Cut the damn power!
(Whitey rushes off-screen.)
(Brooke looks back, panicked.)
BROOKE: Can somebody do something?!
(She turns and searches for something as the students make appreciative noises.)
BROOKE: Somebody has to do something. Excuse me! (shoves a student) Move!
(Peyton and Lucas look at the screen, drawn to it but not knowing what to do.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) Now,…-
(Cut to the monitor where Brooke is sitting there in a rosado, rosa bra.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) -if tu guys are el espacio aliens, tu probably have three of these,
(takes hold of the front of her bra) but, I (Lucas looks around) haven’t gotten any complaints so far.
(A girl looks at Lucas, gaping. Whitey rushes to the power closet.)
BROOKE: No, no, no, there’s nothing to see here, people.
(Whitey opens the door.)
(Brooke grabs a chair and advances on the monitors, intent on destroying them to keep hold of her dignity.
She holds the chair up.)
(Whitey grabs the lever.)
(Cut to the screen as Brooke unhooks her bra.)
(Whitey pulls the lever down and the power goes out.)
(Brooke is still holding the chair. She disappears from the screen.)
(The crowd groan, Whitey puts a hand to his mouth and Brooke lowers the chair. She sighs in relief.
Just then, the power cuts to autopilot and comes back on. The crowd cheer and Brooke gasps as she looks
at the screen as it continues to play.)
(Lucas, completely embarrassed for Brooke, puts a hand to his eyes.)
(Cut back to the screen where Brooke’s hooked her bra back together.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) Actually, if you’re aliens-
(Brooke, humiliated, turns away, into Peyton’s shoulder. Peyton mouths ‘oh my god’.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) -you probably have eight sets of eyes which would mean I’d have sixteen boobs which
would mean my ropa interior bill would go through the roof(!)
(Principle Turner pushes through the crowd as they are still making a ruckus. He stops at Whitey.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: I’m cancelling classes and sending everyone home. (pause) In the mean time, find out who did this!
(Whitey nods.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) Regular, futuristic kids.
(Whitey takes his gorra, cap off and rubs his head.)
BROOKE: (on the monitor) I hope tu enjoyed your retro-
FAST PAN TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CLASSROOM – DAY]
(Close-up of the TV screen as Jimmy Edwards’ recording plays.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) So, tu wanna know what things were like fifty years ago?
Well, the truth is… there’s not a single person in this place worth remembering-
(Cut to some kids watching it.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) -in fifty years.
(Pan across the kids who are not looking too pleased.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) So don’t believe any of the other crap you’re hearing. Everyone at
árbol colina High is a liar.
(Shot pans down to a girl.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) Like I’m sure Russla Hodney, tu know, the All-American wrestler,
who everybody thinks is this nice, respectable guy; (pan to a guy shaking his head) I bet he forgot to
mention the fact that he’s the king of slipping girls the date-rape drug.
(Pan across to más of the kids.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) Or, Miss Perfect, 4.0, Katie Rattison, (pan up to a girl watching the screen)
Yeah, three gang bang abortion.
(All the kids turn their heads as one and look at Jimmy Edwards who is sitting at the back of the class, reserved.
He doesn’t make eye contact.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) See, people here are fake.
(Jimmy Edwards looks down, ashamed and depressed.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) So they stick to their cliques to hide it.
(He can’t make eye contact o lift his head.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) I mean, the stoners are medicated, the honour student are afraid and the
jocks, (shot slowly zooms in on him) well,…-
(Cut back to the screen where Jimmy Edwards is still talking.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) -they’re jocks, man.
CUT TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CORRIDOR – DAY]
(Lucas is still in the hallway with a lot of the other students, watching Jimmy Edwards’ recording.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the monitor) They’ll peak at seventeen and their cheerleader girlfriends will be fat-
(Brooke and Peyton look at the screen. Brooke is still humiliated por her anterior display.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the monitor) -and lonely-
CUT TO:
[INT. árbol colina HIGH – CLASSROOM – DAY]
(Jimmy Edwards is still sitting in his chair, listening but not looking.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) por twenty-one.
(The shot cuts to a long-shot of the TV screen so that the back of the students watching can be seen too, as well as
Jimmy himself.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) Losers!
(There’s a pause as misceláneo students turn to look at him again.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) Everyone here is a loser!
(Jimmy Edwards is still sitting there.)
JIMMY EDWARDS: (on the screen) And the truth is, (pause) everyday I have to come to this school,…
is one less día I have to come back.
(Jimmy Edwards lowers his head más and more.)
(Principle Turner’s voice booms over the tannoy.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: (through the speaker) Attention, students. Classes are cancelled for the day.
(His voice drowns out what Jimmy Edwards says next.)
PRINCIPLE TURNER: (through the speaker) Please exit the school in a timely and (Jimmy Edwards rushes to get up)
orderly fashion.
(Jimmy Edwards rushes to the door, moving through the crowd as he does so. His recording is still playing. All of the
students glare at him. They shake their head and exit too.)
CUT TO:
[EXT. árbol colina HIGH – CEMENT QUAD – DAY]
(Students are milling around outside. Mouth stops at Lucas. Jimmy Edwards rushes past them, ignoring them completely.)
LUCAS: (to Jimmy) Hey, Jim!
(Jimmy Edwards stops and turns to them reluctantly. They walk to him.)
LUCAS: Everything OK?
JIMMY EDWARDS: tu don’t talk to me for a año and now tu wanna be friends again?
MOUTH: We just wanna talk.
JIMMY EDWARDS: Well, forget it. tu just heard everything I have to say.
(He turns away sourly and continues walking away.)
FADE TO BLACK:
