"How a Resurrection Really Feels" is the ninth episode of Season 3 of One Tree Hill and originally aired December 7th, 2005. The episode was written by Mark Schwahn and directed by Greg Prange.
As the race to decide the next mayor of Tree Hill comes to a close, Lucas reveals that he knows the truth about the dealership fire to the culprit. Chris and Nathan try to raise funds to release Haley’s masters, whilst Brooke finds a distraction from her recent woes. Meanwhile, Peyton is haunted by her harshest critic.
Contains examples of the following tropes:
- Badass Boast: "You can't kill Dan Scott!"
- The Big Damn Kiss: Lucas and Brooke's kiss when they get back together at the end of the episode.
- Easily Forgiven: Lucas suddenly forgives Brooke when she reveals the unsent letters she wrote to him over the summer.
- Free-Range Children: When the girls are arrested, they struggle to decide who to call to bail them out as all of their parents are indisposed and not actually in Tree Hill.
- Internal Reveal:
- Nathan finds out that Chris kissed Haley at the masquerade ball whilst pretending to be him.
- Nathan finds out that Dan had paid Chris to seduce Haley in an attempt to sabotage their marriage and force through the annulment.
- Haley finds out that Chris had also rented a Batman costume, and starts to question if her kiss with Nathan at the masquerade ball was really with Chris. She realises this was the case after kissing Nathan again and realising the difference between the two kisses.
- Lucas tells Deb that he knows she started the fire, and Dan knows it wasn’t an accident.
- Meaningful Appearance: Peyton’s subconscious appears to her in her Angel of Death costume from the masquerade ball; the costume is what Peyton wore when she last saw Ellie.
- Pet the Dog: Chris ultimately pawns his guitar to get the money to release Haley’s masters from the studio.
- Product Placement: The episode ends on a plug for Clothes Over Bro's merchandise on the official WB store.
- Punny Name: Brooke named her clothing line "Clothes Over Bro's" - a play on the "Bros before hoes" and "Hoes over bros" phrases.
- Put on a Bus: Chris Keller leaves Tree Hill, having finished helping Haley with her music and not being able to do anything else to help Nathan and Haley.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Deb leaves Dan the moment the election results are in, leaving him to celebrate on his own.
- Ship Tease: Peyton’s subconscious taunts Peyton by reminding her that she questions whether Lucas should be with her instead of Brooke.
- Start My Own: After Suburban Filth exploited Brooke’s employment to steal her designs, Haley reminds her that’s all they took and inspires Brooke to start her own line: Clothes Over Bro's.
- The Reveal: Deb is the one who started the dealership fire.
- Troll: When Lucas pays for the girls bail, he asks the police to hold off on releasing Brooke as payback for the hoops she’d been making him jump through since the end of summer.
- Tyrant Takes the Helm: Dan Scott is the new mayor of Tree Hill.
- Wham Episode: Lucas and Brooke get back together, as do Nathan and Haley; Dan has been elected the new mayor of Tree Hill, and it’s revealed to the viewer that Deb was behind the dealership fire.
- Xtreme Kool Letterz: Brooke names her clothing line "Clothes Over Bro's" - as Haley notes, the apostrophe in "Bro's" is grammatically incorrect.
