Dan Scott
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| Dan Scott | |
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 Paul Johansson as Dan Scott |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) |
| Information | |
| Occupation | car salesman and owns a garage |
| Title | mayor |
| Family | Keith Scott (brother; deseased) Royal Scott (father) May Scott (Mother) |
| Relationships | Deborah Lee (Ex-wife) Karen Roe (Ex-girlfriend) |
| Children | Lucas Scott Nathan Scott |
| Episode count | 78 |
| Portrayed by | Paul Johansson |
| Created by | Mark Schwahn |
Dan Scott is a fictional character on the television show One Tree Hill played by Paul Johansson.
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[edit] Biography
He is the father of Lucas Scott (by Karen Roe) and Nathan Scott (by Deborah Lee) and a former basketball player. When Karen got pregnant he had already received a scholarship for college. After talking with Whitey he broke up with her and went to college, where he met Deb. The night he decided to give up basketball and go back to Karen, Deb told him she was pregnant and he decided to stay with her.
Although he became a successful businessman thanks to his wife's money his life was full of regrets. Since he didn't want Nathan to become the same, he pushed him to become a basketball player but in some way destroyed the lives of all the people around him.
[edit] Season One
In season one he starts up as the man everybody hates and the man who left Karen to follow his personal goals and dreams. But it is revealed that he was going to leave college after he had injured his knee to go back to Karen, only to be told that Deb was pregnant and so he had to make a choice, and that choice was Deb. But he didn't entirely abandon Lucas, as it is revelaed that he tried get involved in Lucas's life but Karen wouldn't let him. The reason being she knew that Dan would have a say in how Lucas was being raised, and she didn't want that. Also she justifies her decision by reminding Lucas of what Dan has become and what Dan's bullying and over pressurizing has done to Nathan. Dan's family in Season One begins spiralling downwards, with Lucas joining the team, it had a resounding effect on everyone's lives. Dan more so than anyone because the son he supposedly never claimed was now in direct contact with his life, and it pushed his families limits. Resulting in the divorce of Deb and Dan, and because of Dan's over powering nature and bullying, Nathan's emancipated from him. But relations with Lucas took a turn when Lucas discovered pictures of himself in Dan's draw at the dealership. Even though he is still an "ass" as Keith and Karen comically call him, it turns out that all the reasons why Lucas hated him at the beginning were a lie. As lucas realises that Dan didn't abandon him and did want to be in his life. At the end of the season he had a heart attack, after he caught Deb sleeping with his brother Keith.
[edit] Season Two
Because of this he spent most of season 2 plotting against Deb and Keith, using Deb's guilt to keep her in his life and by paying "Jules" to break his brother's heart. However he does try and get closer to Lucas, motives for this are unknown, maybe he was just generally being nice and was trying to make for the years when he wasn't there for Lucas, or he was trying to replace the void left by Nathan. He asks Lucas to move in with him, Lucas agrees to but on one condition, Dan leaves Keith alone and lets Keith be happy with "Jules". Dan fulfills his promise but Karen finds out that "Jules" isn't who she says she is, and tells Keith. Keith goes to Dan and asks him if he set him up and Dan admits it causing a massive bust up which puts an almighty rift between the brothers. Motives behind Lucas wanting to live with Dan also become clearer, when we discover that Lucas wants to bring down Dan once and for all, Lucas discovers that Dan had been taking money illegally from his car dealership. Any sale above 10 thousand is supposed to be reported to the IRS, but Dan was changing the amounts on the bills and pocketing the extra cash. But Dan was very clever as he had made Deb the co-owner of the dealership, which meant that she would go down with him. Dan also reveals that everything had been a test of Lucas's loyalty, which Lucas had gravely failed, and so tells Lucas that he has severed all ties to him, meaning Lucas won't get any of the study fund that Dan had saved up for him. His relationship with Nathan never fully heals, as Nathan never fully trusts Lucas. Dan is strongly against the marriage of his son to Haley James as he believes it could damage Nathan's chances of a real future in life and in basketball. So when Nathan's marriage is going through its troubles Dan is the one who is quick to pounce, and at the end of the season gets Nathan to sign the divorce papers and to move back in with him and Deb. But At the end of season 2 he was once again caught in a near death situation as someone had drugged him and set fire to his dealerhsip.
[edit] Season Three
He first thought it was Lucas who started the fire, when he remembered seeing him in the fire but it was revealed that Lucas saved him. He then thought it was Keith when he saw that he was the one who had bought the whiskey used to drug him, and because of Keith's re-emergence he beings strongly to suspect Keith of foulplay. He was also elected mayor of Tree Hill thanks to his family-based campaign and many deceptions (including having Deb pretend to love him in exchange for a final divorce). As mayor he had Keith arrested on suspicion of his attempted murder, but the police let him go as they have no evidence to suggest that Keith had done anything. Dan still believes that Keith was the perpetrator, and things are made worse when Keith announces that he is going to marry Karen, and adopt Lucas. One day at Tree Hill High, Jimmy Edwards brings a gun to school and fires it, causing a lockdown. Keith went in to talk him out of the hostage situation, but Jimmy committed suicide in front of Keith. Dan went in picked up the gun and shot Keith, in cold blood. Dan afterwards showed no remorse strongly believing that Keith deserved what he had got, as Keith tried to kill him. But Dan became haunted by Keith's ghost and this had a profound effect on him. Realising he had to change his ways he tried to get closer to Nathan, and in one touching moment where he was totally sincere he told Nathan that he was proud of him and that he loved him. Dan was totally broken when it was finally revealed to be Deb who had tried to kill him when she told Dan at Nathan and Haley's second wedding. Dan, devastated by the fact that he had killed his brother for no reason and still haunted by Keith's ghost as a child, threatened to kill Deb. He apoligised to Karen for what he did to her and Lucas and that he would be there for her now, she then revealed that she was pregant with Keith's child. They then embraced as she sought comfort in Dan's arms. He then went home and on the wall someone had written "MURDERER" to Dan's horror.
[edit] Season Four
Dan tries to make amends for the cause of Keith's death. He is taking care of pregnant Karen and even went as her date to a basketball banquet. They become close friends! Nathan was in deep debt and had to ask Dan to help him. He refused but when Nathan opened up to him about his deal with Daunte, Dan agrees to help. He confronts Daunte but they may have been bitter enemies in their early years. After the State Championship basketball game, Daunte runs Haley over and crashes in a construction site. Nathan proceeds to beat him up, thinking it killed him, Dan takes the fall and goes to jail. Keith visits him as a ghost and forgives him. He is then set free but someone continues to haunt him.
| One Tree Hill | ||
| Episode list | Official site | ||
| General | Mark Schwahn | I Don't Want to Be (Theme) | episode titles | |
| Current Main Characters | Lucas Scott | Nathan Scott | Peyton Sawyer | Haley James Scott Dan Scott | Brooke Davis | Deborah Lee | Mouth McFadden Skills Taylor | Rachel Gatina | Whitey Durham | Karen Roe |
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| Former Main Characters |
Keith Scott (S1-S3) |
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| Recurring Characters |
Bevin Mirskey | Tim Smith | Jake Jagielski | Nicki | Cooper Lee |
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| Places | Wilmington, North Carolina | |
