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Nathan losing his job
Who It's About
Nathan and Haley. How much would it suck to go from a potential multi-million dollar contract to unemployed -- and to learn about it from a TV sportscast? And now whatever job he gets -- if he gets one at all -- will be much farther from home.

Clay. His only client just lost his job -- which means Clay screwed up big-time and pissed off said only client. Oops. His motives were pure, but the outcome was not so good.

Who It's Not About
Quinn. She insists that Nate fired Clay because of her, but... come on, girl. Did you get the bit above about him losing his job and any other job being not so great? Get over yourself!

Clay getting fired
Who it's About
Clay -- since he's, you know, fired. That's gotta suck.

Who it's not about
Quinn. No, taking him to the community center to meet the preternaturally wise kids didn't get him fired. Nor did their relationship. Clay got fired because he didn't delvier. It's not about you!

Dan. Although we loved his crazed drowning/baptism/fashion critique, Nate getting canned -- and Clay's part in it -- had nothing to do with Dan -- especially since Nathan has been quite clear that he wants nothing to do with his father.

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We had a great One Tree Hill podcast last week -- but our computer ate it. Doh! We hope we make it up to you this week as we discuss Dan's return, Rachel's bitchtasticness, when Jamie goes for precocious to annoying, and what depraved thing we expect to see Millie doing next. Plus, hear the theories on why Brooke ditched her birth control, find out what we think of Alex's neediness, and discover what we'd pay money to see on an upcoming episode.

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Trouble Nexus #1: Dan and Rachel
Oh, how we love Dan and Rachel, the deliciously dubious duo. It doesn't matter how many door are slammed in his face, Dan is determined to weasel his way back into his family -- and it looks like Jamie supports that plan. But we were most in love with Rachel again this week -- she's just so deliciously bitchy! Our favorite Rachel quote was this line to Jamie: "I remember you when you were a rumor in third period!" Hah!

Of course, things don't go as planned for the couple -- Nathan won't let Dan back in, Brooke won't forgive Rachel, and no one is impressed by their LA-based success (except Jamie.) But Dan won't give up -- he's staying until he gets redemption -- even if he has to beat up the entire town to get it.

Trouble Nexus #2: Brooke and Julian and Alex and Millie and Mouth
First the bad news: Brooke isn't pregnant. Then the worse news: Alex is completely unequipped to deal with life when she's not spending all her time with Julian. She finds a vial of coke and calls Julian in tears -- save me from myself! Julian abandons Brooke to talk her down. He convinces her to dump the coke, but when she tries, there's nothing there. Julian is livid -- this was all just a game to get to to spend time with you and stay away from Brooke! Alex protests her innocence, saying someone must have stolen the drugs. But who could have done such a thing?

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We're thrilled that two of our favorite CW hotties, Supernatural's Jensen Ackles and One Tree Hill's Danneel Harris, have announced that they're engaged. The couple has been dating since they worked together on the indie film Ten Inch Hero, and they're both such sweethearts that we couldn't be happier. According to The Hollywood Gossip, Danneel flashed her ring when the couple attended the Breeders Cup horse race this weekend.

Now, of course, we're wondering if they'll appear on each other's shows. Can you imagine Danneel as a warrior angel, or Jensen as a rival basketball player who takes on Nate? Or maybe Danneel can be a fellow Hunter, while Jensen is the sportscaster who takes Mouth's spot on the air. So many possibilities!

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If I Only Had A Brain... on Drugs
OK, we'll admit it -- we love whacked-out Haley. After consuming a few too many "special" brownies, Hales is all about the random observations, but still utterly herself. Our favorite High Haley quotes:

"Now when they say they represent the lollipop guild, do you think that's a trade union? And if it is, why did they unionize? Did they need shorter hours or longer sticks or different flavors?"

"Is your career path pretty much just laid out for you when your parents name you Zelda? Zzzzzzzzzzelda. It's kind of like if they call you Bambi or Oprah."

If I Only Had a Heart....oh, wait
Because, yes, Dan does have a heart -- one that was apparently harvested from a South American kid after Rachel paid his family to take him off life support, and then implanted in his chest at a cut-rate transplant clinic. (Dan really can survive anything...) Now Dan is having visions of his heart donor, and he wants to tell his audience that he's not really living on borrowed time. Rachel, in the role of the Wicked Witch, tells him that would kill the show. The audience will forgive a murderer, but they won't take kindly to being conned.

If I Only Had the Nerve...or not
Jamie's none too excited about a zipline on the hiking trail, but he doesn't want to tell his dad, because Nathan's not afraid of anything. But Julian engineers a situation that lets Jamie prove his mettle -- convincing Nathan that he needs to let Jamie be the brave one for once. Nicely done!

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The truth comes out on One Tree Hill -- to no one's surprise, Renee is exposed as a lying skank. Dan milks the moment by strapping her into a lie-detector, which says all of her answers are true. Then he reveals that the lie detector is faked. And at the end, he reveals a big old scar on his chest, suggesting he may not be on borrowed time like we think. Intriguing.... Meanwhile, Naley angsts, Brooke pouts, and Clay and Quinn get a little flashback love, showing us how they got to where they are now.

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Biggest Props
To James Lafferty for directing this episode. Go, James!

Biggest Shock
Dan whipping out the lie detector test -- and Renee passing it! Of course, it was all a fake-out -- Dan strapped himself in to machines and told a bunch of LIES! (possibly even including "I love my wife.") All of this was in service of getting Renee to admit the truth -- that she'd never had sexual relations with that man, and that she made it all up. Finally, Naley's nightmare is over. (We still think this could have been avoided with an in-vitro paternity test.)

Biggest Non-Shock
We called it! Sara, Clay's comely companion, was a delusion. She's his dead wife, haunting his memories even as she urges him to move on. As far as we can tell, Clay wasn't at all responsible for her death -- if we had to guess, we'd say she suffered an aneurysm -- but he still is living in its shadow. He even sent Quinn away when she came over to "talk."

There's more -- read on!

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The hits just keep coming on One Tree Hill -- Mouth and Nathan get to make a couple of heartfelt speeches, with varying degrees of success. We get intimations that Clay might be off his gourd, and wonder when we're going to get more scoop on him. And Millie seems to be on a rapid downward spiral -- now she's stealing Alex's diet pills. Plus, we come up with plausible reasons to keep Julian barely clad for every episode, we wonder about the one-note nature of recent episodes, we ponder Dan's plans, and Darcel invents various scenarios for knocking off characters she doesn't like. She's starting to worry me, folks...

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Nathan vs. the world
Poor Nathan just keeps taking hits. His endorsements get pulled, his team is taking way to long to figure out if they want to re-sign him, and his dad has decided to ally with his ho-bag nemesis and give her a platform to tell her story. (then Rachel goes out of her way to make sure Renee agrees to do the show. Eeeevil....) Haley decides she'll just pay Renee to make her go away, but Nathan makes a stirring speech about how if she does that, then a part of her believes he did it, and that makes him no better than Dan Scott. Ouch! When he puts it that way, Haley's GOT to agree with him.

Brooke vs. Alex
Brooke is not a happy camper regarding Alex -- what's this manipulative ho-bag doing hanging around her man? It doesn't help that Alex seems completely oblivious to the fact that no, really, Julian is not interested, and that Julian neglected to mention the getting-naked thing. After one too many people compares Alex to high-school Brooke, Brooke makes the only sensible decision: Alex is out on her ass. Who wants to take bets that we've seen the last of her?

There's more -- read on!

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Things are looking bad for Nate on One Tree Hill -- why is Renee's number on his cell phone bill? And for that matter, why did he call his agent when Haley got taken to jail, instead of, you know, a lawyer? Plus, more questions: When did Mouth decide to be Debbie Downer? How stupid is Alex? Does Julian need an image makeover? Are Clay and Quinn the new Leyton? And just what does Dan have to do with this whole situation? We don't have any answers, but we do have a hell of a lot to say about the episode -- so check it out!

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The Big Question: Did Nathan do it?
Renee is certainly working overtime to convince Haley that she and Nathan did the deed. She even visits Hales in jail to plead her case -- giving Haley her phone number and telling her to check Nathan's phone bills. And it's enough to start making Haley wonder... why is this woman targeting Nathan, if there's not some truth to it? Nathan gets pissy, then heartfelt at a press conference... but that doesn't explain why Renee's number is, indeed, on his bill. Uh-oh.

Question 2: What was Nathan thinking?
So Haley gets dragged off to jail, and Nathan calls....his agent? What's Clay supposed to do? Get a lawyer! And who cares if Quinn isn't there to look after Jamie -- you've got other friends, Nathan! Heck, drop him off at the neighbors and hie your butt down to the police station to bail out your wife! Don't just wait around until Clay and Quinn show up so you can be pissy at them!

Question 3: Seriously? Clay and Quinn didn't get busy?
OK, so we've established that Clay's a bit of a slut. We've also established that Quinn is trying to destroy her marriage. So it makes sense when she tells David that yes, she and Clay knocked boots. But then Clay tells Nathan they just talked.... what's going on?

There's more -- read on!

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Fashion shows! Ambush interviews! A solid right hook! All this and more was ours on One Tree Hill this week... now if only the characters would listen to us every once in a while... This week, we plan Mouth's career, give Nathan and Haley yet more unsolicited advice (The words of the week are "Restraining Order"!), ponder the career path for blackmailing bee-yotches, celebrate the return of Victoria (speaking of bee-yotches...) and throw up our hands at Quinn. Check it out!

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Seriously, guys, two words: Paternity test. It would solve so many problems on One Tree Hill! Granted, it wouldn't deal with Alex getting her bitch on, or the Mouth/Skills/Reptile standoff, or Quinn refusing to answer her phone, or Clay being "that guy".... but it would make blackmail babe go away. Plus, we see Dan and Rachel's romantic meeting -- strip club style. And you get a little insight into our viewing habits when we're not watching OTH...

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Not even trying to be bad-ass
Brooke and Millie both get a little snippy at Alex, but it's hardly bad-ass. And they're so busy fawning over the pictures that they don't seem to realize that Alex is trouble a-brewin'. Quinn is similarly broken-down rather than bad-ass -- yeah, she launches some sass at Clay, but she's too wimpy to take her husband's calls. Sigh. Poor Nathan was too beaten-down to be bad-ass, which we found disappointing.

Bad-ass wannabes
Mouth and Skills get into a battle of the reptiles -- Mouth leaves a lizard in the bathtub to freak naked Skills out, and Skills retaliates by putting a snake in Mouth's bedroom. Funny, but hardly bad-ass.

Alex tries for bad-ass as she circles around Julian, but come on -- once Brooke gets her bitch back, she will snap Alex in two. And both Clay and Renee try for bad-ass, but it's just not working for us -- Clay's moment at the end was too little, too late for us, since he seemed to advocate caving. And Renee? Beware the wrath of Haley.

They bad-ass, we know it
Haley got her mama-bear bad-ass on when she confronted Clay about the whole blackmail situation -- and Clay's sort-of role in making Nathan vulnerable. We do NOT want to make her angry!

Flashback Dan was still bad-ass to us, even though he was drunk, defeated and hanging in strip clubs. What can we say? He'll be bad-ass from beyond the grave (assuming Death ever works up the nerve to take him.)

Queen of all Bad-Ass
And then there's Rachel, who completely ruled the bad-ass boards this week. She went from stripper and prostitute to the mastermind manipulating Dan Scott -- and even throwing him off his game by hiring someone to bring up Dan's murderous past. She's cold, she's unrepentant, she's reveling in her own eeeeeeevil -- that's just the way we like her.

We have plenty of other questions beyond the bad-assery, of course -- why didn't Nate and Clay immediately demand a paternity test? Wouldn't that make Renee go away? Or hey, they could have her arrested for blackmail! Why didn't they do that? Sigh. We're also wondering if Julian will fall for Alex's script -- or Alex herself -- and we're pondering whether Mouth will be caught in the middle of the whole Nathan fracas. Plus, where did Mouth get the lizard, and did Skills hire Jamie as snake-wrangler? Reptiles aren't cheap!

What's your take on the ep? Talk about it in the comments!

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After this week's episode of One Tree Hill, we're concerned: Has someone been dissolving stupid pills in Tree Hill's water supply? How else to explain why Brooke and Millie fell for Alex's transparent acting, why Nathan and Clay caved at the sight of an ultrasound, and why Julian's dad recognized the error of his ways after one pissy conversation? At least Dan's back -- and he's married to Rachel! Poing!

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Villain number 1: Renee
That would be the woman who's threatening Nate. She's got a tale of a wild party three months ago, and she's got pictures to prove her involvement with Nate. THose pics? An ultrasound of her three-month fetus. Nate and Clay immediately cave, which makes us wonder what the hell is going on: OK, fine, she's preggers, but who's to say the baby is his? Did fetus have Nate's abs or something? Whatever the reasoning, Nate decides to tell Haley what's going on. Hey, Nate? You want to tell us, too?

Villain number 2: Alex DuPres
This "hot" "talented" "actor" will be the new face of Clothes Over Bros -- and turns out to be an airhead drunk with verbal diarrhea. The problem? Millie signed a half-million contract with her without bothering to meet her first. Argh! What IS it with these folks and contracts and not talking to lawyers? Brooke is all for cutting ties, but then Alex pulls out a speech about how one of Brooke's dresses got her through rehab and makes her feel dandy, and Brooke caves. Unfortunately, it's a line from one of Alex's unproduced movies. Brooke just got played.

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One Tree Hill returns, but not everyone returns with it. We all knew that Lucas and Peyton would be gone, but we were sure how it would affect the show. The answer? Well, you'll have to listen to find out!

Check it out as Mia, Darcel (a faithful Tree-Hiller) and I discuss how Dan continues to cheat death (and not everyone feels the same about that), whether Naley or Brulian can ever be happy, whether we approve of all the new folks, and who won the male shirtless pose-off in this ep -- it's not who you think!

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It was Dan!

He was speaking to an audience who received him well. We just saw bits of what was going on, but he is alive and well and it’s all very mysterious.

Gone but not forgotten
Julian can make the trek from New Zealand to Tree Hill for Jamie’s birthday, but Uncle Lucas and Aunt Peyton can’t make it from wherever they are these days. The title of the eppy, "Apparently They Were Traveling Abroad," should give us some insight, but it doesn’t. Hey! Maybe they hooked up with Karen and Andy at some exotic port of call?

Where’s Kate?
Kate Voegele's only appearance in the episode was in a commercial. Bummer.

There's plenty more after the jump!

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One Tree Hill is back tonight, and we couldn't be more excited! We caught up with Sophia Bush on the set and pumped her for information on the time jump (check out her answer on why they've jumped ahead), new characters, old characters, long-distance relationships, her first shot at directing the show, and more!

What's your take? Talk about it in the comments!

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Continuing our march through One Tree Hill's season two, we've got this tale of a returning sister, relationship lies, misplace rage, friendship forgiveness, a jump out of the closet, and more. Plus, Jake's back! Squeeeee!

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