EPISODE

3. Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Lucas and Brooke, now broken up, clash at a post-game party and Haley realizes that Rachel is plotting to seduce Nathan. Meanwhile, Peyton connects with her half-brother, Rachel reveals that she knows who is pregnant and Skills takes the court with the Ravens basketball team.

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Peyton's brother, Derek, shows up at her house but she sends him away, due to him blowing her off. After some thought, she decides to get to know him and invites him to a party that night after the game. Skills helps the Ravens win the area championship and they qualify for state. At the party, Lucas stops pursuing Brooke, telling her he was wrong: he is not the guy for her. Nathan is disturbed by bad dreams and the belief that he saw Keith in the water during the accident.

Rachel pursues Nathan, ostensibly because she wants to thank him for saving her life. She also says she saw Keith as well. Derek, a photographer, gives Peyton a picture he took of her at the party. Rachel tells Brooke she knows she's pregnant, but will keep her secret, which Mouth overhears. Lucas and Mouth question if they should have ever left the River Court. After the party, Brooke lies awake in tears, Dan lies awake watching Keith, struggling to get rid of him, as Peyton hangs her picture from Derek up.

As Derek does the same, he hangs it up on a wall covered in thousands of pictures that he has taken of her over time, without her even knowing. This episode is named after an album by Modest Mouse.

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