Lucas Scott
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Lucas Eugene Scott is a fictional character on the CW television series One Tree Hill, played by Chad Michael Murray. Lucas is Nathan Scott’s half brother and former rival, and must balance his tumultuous relationships with his father Dan Scott and the two girls in his life, Peyton Sawyer and Brooke Davis.
Lucas Scott is the son of Dan Scott (Paul Johansson) and Karen Roe (Moira Kelly), and the nephew of Keith Scott (Craig Sheffer); he has a younger half brother, Nathan Scott (James Lafferty). He was raised by his mother after his father abandonned them to marry Deb Lee (Barbara Alyn Woods), Nathan’s mother; uncle Keith, who has always had a crush on Karen, took over the father’s figure. Lucas grew up in Tree Hill, a small North Carolina town, along with his best friend Haley James (Bethany Joy Galeotti).
He is interested in literature and basketball. At the beginning of season one, Lucas is recruited by coach Whitey Durham (Barry Corbin) to play in the Ravens basketball team after most of it is fired for drink-driving. He soon has troubles with his half brother Nathan – who is also the Ravens captain – because Nathan wants to remain the star of the team and feels threatened by Lucas's arrival. He is also attracted to Peyton Sawyer (Nathan's girlfriend) and has a fling with her after she breaks up with Nathan, only to have her cut it off because she doesn't want anything serious and she was scared.
Misc. Facts-
- Lucas drives a Chevrolet 50th Anniversary C5 Corvette Convertible, in which was given to him by his Father.
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[edit] Season 1
He then hooks up with Brooke Davis but Peyton after she realises the mistake she has made tries to get back with him. After a night spent in a motel Peyton kisses Lucas and that sparks things up between them, as Lucas realises that he wants to be with Peyton. But for a while they see each other behind Brooke's back and on the day that Peyton is about to tell Brooke about their relationship, Lucas is involved in a car accident, Keith had been drinking as he was nervous about seeing Lucas's mom. Lucas was actually saved by Dan who was present at the scene, and for the first time in the series called Lucas his son. After Lucas wakes up from a short coma he breaks up with Brooke to be with Peyton, but Brooke discovers everything and ends her friendship with Peyton and any sort of relationship with Lucas(she had agreed to be his friend before she knew). They stay at odds until he decides to leave Tree Hill as he is concerned about the person he is becoming, and at the end of the season leaves with Keith because he wants to start over and become a better person. His relationship with Nathan also improves since they both realise that they have much in common, including hatred towards Dan but also their relationships with Haley. She brings them together through her relationship with Nathan and at the end they share a poignant moment, when Nathan calls him his brother and Lucas does the same.
[edit] Season 2
In season 2 he comes back to Tree Hill because of Dan's heart attack and because he wants to see how Nathan is coping. As relationships with Peyton and Brooke are back to being friendships he hooks up with school newbie Anna Taggaro. But soon realises that he still loves Brooke and begins to focus more on building on a relationship with her, eventhough she goes out with Felix. When Haley goes on a tour with the Wreckers, Nathan spirals downward and this slowly builds a new rift between the brothers. He finds out that he inherited Dan's HCM but does not tell anyone.
He is forced by Dan to live in his home because of his sickness and to protect Keith whose girlfriend was actually hired by Dan. This sets him at odds with his mother as she can't believe that after all Dan had done, that Lucas would want to move in with Dan. He reconciles with her towards the end of the season. He discovers Deb's medicament addiction and decides to avenge all of Dan's victims, but ultimately fails. Losing Dan's College fund for him(which Dan had suposedly set up for him when Lucas was younger) and Nathan's friendship, since the latter was trying to rebuild his old family, to make life better for his mom Deb. And Lucas had gone and visited Haley in New York behind Nathan's back. Nathan after being told by Lucas himself of his plans to bring down Dan felt as though he couldn't trust Lucas and he didn't need any more people like that in his life. Lucas does however in the season finale kiss Brooke and confesses that he wants to be with her, but she still leaves for California, to spend the summer with her parents. Ultimately it is just him and Peyton for the summer.
[edit] Season 3
In season 3 he begins a non exclusive relationship with Brooke and uses Rachel to make her jealous but a series of events leads Brooke to sleep with Chris Keller, tearing them apart. He forgives her after she gives him the 82 letters she wrote to him during her holidays and didn't send. The Chris Keller incident also reunites him with Nathan. They had an awkward beginning with Nathan rejecting Lucas's attempts at making peace an getting back to the way they were in Season 2. The issue of Haley caused a big problem which was later resolved.
His mother and Keith finally got together and they were engaged, Keith was also going to adopt him, but keith was killed by Dan who held Keith responsible for the dealership fire (although it was Deb), which Lucas saved him from. Lucas has a hard time to heal from that death as Keith was the primary father figure in his life(but he doesn't know Dan was the murderer) but thanks to Whitey, Deb and Haley he gets over it, and after seeing the effect of Keith's death on his mother he decided to finally tell, whitey, Nathan and his mother about his HCM (which he has from Dan) and quits basketball. He went on a university tour with his mother and realised that he wanted to become a writer.
[edit] Season 4
In season 4, Lucas is trying to get Brooke back but realizes it is not what she wants and maybe it is not what is meant to be. He has recently protected Peyton once more (as she puts it he is always saving her) from an internet stalker. Lucas is helping his mom with her pregnancy and plans on going to the University of North Carolina when he graduates. After breaking up with Nick, her English teacher, Brooke goes back to Lucas and asks him to the basketball banquet, which he accepts. Whitey makes a touching speech about his first love at the banquet, and Brooke and Lucas realized he wasn't describing them and decide to become friends. With Brooke and Lucas finally done, Peyton confesses she's in love with Lucas.
The ravens go to the state championship game and Lucas finds out that his his half brother Nathan is intending to throw the game because of the trouble he was in with Daunte. Lucas tells his friend Skills about the situation and they make a plan to freeze out Nathan and try to win the game themselves. Lucas doesn't take his medication so that he can play better. The Ravens go into halftime down by fifteen and coach Whitey plays them a tape of the last time the Ravens went to the state championship and lost eighteen years ago. The team is inspired by this and Nathan decides not to throw the game. Lucas plays great throughout the game and hits the game winning three pointer.
During the celebration he realizes that he loves Peyton and tells her that she is the one he wants standing next to him when all his dreams come true not Brooke like he originally said. He then kisses her. At the after party he and Peyton become a couple and all is well. Until Haley gets hit by a car driven by Daunte. The paramedics arrive and Lucas tries to tell them what happened only to suffer a Heart Attack. Lucas is then rushed to the hospital along with Haley.
As he is in the hospital Lucas has a dream that he is visited by Keith. Lucas follows Keith from where he had the heart attack into the hospital. Lucas begins to lose faith because so many bad things were happening to good people. He didn't see the point in being a good person anymore. Keith then begins to show him what life would have been like had Lucas been a lesser person. In the end Lucas realizes he has to go back to his life because he never told Peyton that he loves her, Keith is satisfied to hear his answer. He says goodbye to Keith and has a flash back of everything he saw while with Keith. He sees Keith in the school and hears a gunshot then wakes up.
| One Tree Hill |
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| Main Characters |
| Lucas Scott | Nathan Scott | Peyton Sawyer | Haley James Scott | Dan Scott | Brooke Davis | Marvin McFadden | Cedric Taylor | Rachel Gatina | Whitey Durham | Keith Scott | Karen Roe |
| Recurring Characters |
| Tim Smith | Jake Jagielski | Bevin Mirskey | Felix Taggaro | Anna Taggaro | Ellie Harp | Larry Sawyer | Cooper Lee |
| Episodes |
| Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 |
| 'Other |
| Official Website | Quotes | I Don't Want to Be (Theme) |
