Dan Scott quotes from One Tree Hill

Dan

You don't wanna be the guy looking back at blue ruffles.

Lucas

Ah, good point. So what'd you wear to prom?

Dan

Blue ruffles.

You need to get out of here!

Dan

I want to talk to you.

I said get out!

Dan

Stop! Just calm down! Shut up! Will you shut up? Just..Okay look, I need you to sit down. Just, just go sit down. Sit down.

Dan

You're Abby Brown. Look I don't know what you think might have seen-

She didn't see anything.

Dan

Shut up! Just, you made a mistake.

Abby

No. I saw you. I saw everything.

Abby. She's not well.

Abby

I know what you did, and so do you.

Dan

My brother Keith was always better than me. He had a bigger heart. People liked him more. Hell, they loved him. Karen loved him. But-

Dan

Karen was mine. She was suppose to be mine.

Abby

I hope you burn in hell.

Dan

So do I.

Karen

Dan..?

Dan

I have done some horrible things, unforgivable things. Lucas didn't need a father, he had one. He had the person who helped him bridge the shame of my cowardness. Everything I've touched has diminished: Deb's life, Nathan's talent.Keith...

Karen Roe

Come here. You're not without redemption. I've seen it, I see it!

Dan Scott

That's not true, it's not true. I just wanna...wanna go back, you know. I just wanna go back. I...I wanna take that little kid that I used to be and just grab him and shake him and say you stop, stop, JUST STOP! I wanna wake up from this nightmare, you know, I wanna breathe again. I wanna, I wanna breathe again, Karen. Can you help me breathe? Can you help me quiet these voices in my head that tell me that I've lost you? 'Cause I know I have... If only I would've stayed with you..(Then the song starts with the words: gonna make a man out of you)

Lucas

Going somewhere, Dan?

Dan

What do you think you're doing, Lucas?

Lucas

I'm protecting my mother. (Karen comes in; Lucas pulls out a gun and points it at Dan)

Dan

What are you gonna do, shoot me?

Lucas

Yes, I am. Just like you shot my uncle Keith.

Karen

Lucas, what are you doing with a gun? Put that down right now.

Lucas

I can't.

Karen

Lucas!

Lucas

You know that text message Dan just got? I sent it. I pretended to be Abby. You know, the girl who watched him murder Keith? You heard him. Abby was just a little problem he thought he'd taken care of.

Dan

Don't listen to him, Karen, he's delusional.

Lucas

Maybe you should tell the truth when I have a gun aimed at your head!

Karen

Lucas, please. Just put the gun down, alright? I can't... I can't...

Dan

Karen?! (leans down to check her)

Lucas

Do not touch her! Mom?! Mom, are you okay?!

Dan

She could be having a miscarriage!

Lucas

You stay right there! Do not touch her!

Dan

Lucas!

Lucas

That is my mother! I swear to God I'll kill you!!

Karen

I have a daughter. Her name is Lily. And someday when she's old enough, she's going to ask me where her daddy is. Who he was and how he died. And on that day, I'm going to look into her beautiful eyes, eyes that don't know of malice and jealousy, and evil, and I'm gonna say, your father loved his younger brother very much, and that brother took him from you for your entire life. (Dan starts to cry) Made sure you would never know your father.

Dan

Karen.. (Karen spits on the glass)

Dan

So that's it..you're just going to make that decision?

Nathan

You made that decision for me, the moment you pulled that trigger.

Carrie

They say we leave this world just the way we came into it - naked and alone.

Lucas

So, if we do leave with nothing, what, then, is the measure of a life? Is it defined by the people we choose to love?

Nathan

Or is life simply measured by our accomplishments?

Brooke

And what if we fail? Or are never truly loved? What then? Can we ever measure up?

Dan

Or will the quiet desperation of a life gone wanting drive us mad?

Carrie

[laughing]You think you can kill me? You can't kill me, I'm still here.

Dan

I already called the police. They're on the way.

Carrie

So? What are they going to do? I'll get out and I'll come back.

Dan

Do you remember what I told you I'd do if you ever came near my family again? I told you I'd kill you.

Carrie

But you didn't. I'm not dead.

Dan

Sure you are.[shoots Carrie]

Nathan

You saved my wife. And you saved my son. But you killed my uncle. Right here where I'm standing. I don't know where that leaves us. At least my son loves you.

Dan

My son hates me.

Nathan

Both of them.

Dan

Cemetery called. Apparently someone gave my tombstone a makeover. Any idea who'd do something like that?

Lucas

What happened in the hallway?

Dan

I assume you mean-

Lucas

Keith. Yeah. I've been asked to adapt my novel for a movie. They want me to write what happened. I can't do it. I can't see it, and I can't understand it.

Dan

Keith was holding Jimmy Edwards in the hallway. He turned and I shot him dead before he could say a word. Keith was a hero. You want to write the truth, you write it that way.

Lucas

Why'd you do it?

Dan

Every good story needs a villain, Lucas. I'm sorry but I'm yours.

Dan

I assume that's loaded.

Whitey

I bought this gun hoping to see your face again. I'll just say you broke in, came at me.

Dan

You'd be doing me a favor.

Whitey

You look like a haunted man. I heard you had a heart problem. It's not surprising, you've always had a heart problem.

Dan

I wish I'd gone back in that game. State championship. When I look back at my life and see where it all went wrong, that's where I always end up. Fourth quarter, time running down and sitting on the bench at the state championship and refusing to play. At night in my dreams I do go back in, and in my dreams I take it back, all of it, and then I wake up. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for that day and every day since. I'm sorry for what I did to Keith and the people who love him.

Whitey

Did you ever love him?

Dan

Not enough.

Dan

I was supposed to be dead months ago.:[grabs the gun] I use to wonder why I was still alive. Then I realized, I'm not. I'm dead and this is my hell.:[cocks gun] Lucas got married and had a baby girl, and Nathan he's got Jamie. And I get to see the happiest moments of their lives, but I don't get to feel those moments, I don't get to be apart of their lives.

Whitey

You created that Danny.

Dan

[Contemplates shooting himself and then rushes towards Whitey ] Pull the trigger. Take the pain away, please! Please!

Whitey

[takes gun away and hugs Dan] Maybe you're still here for redemption.

Dan

Could I hold her?

Peyton

No……why?

Dan

Because she’s the only one in my world that doesn’t know what I’ve done.

Peyton

Just for a second.

Dan

I’d forgotten what it was like. She’s so beautiful. What’s her name?

Peyton

Sawyer.

Dan

Sawyer Scott. And now said Max, let the wild rumpus start.

Peyton

Where the Wild Things Are.

Dan

I used to read it to Nathan. Seems like another lifetime ago.

Peyton

It was.

Dan

I know you’re gonna have to tell her about me someday. I’m sorry for that.

Mouth

Take a look at yourself in a mirror who do you see looking back?

Haley

Is it the person you want to be?

Dan

Or is there someone else you were meant to be, the person you should have been, but fell short of?

Is someone telling you you can’t or won’t? Because you can.

Chase

Believe that love is out there.

Nathan

Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.

Peyton

Sometimes happiness doesn’t come from money or fame or power. Sometimes happiness comes from good friends and family and the quiet nobility of leading a good life.

Julian

Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.

Brooke

Believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.

Peyton

So take a look in that mirror and remind yourself to be happy because you deserve to be. Believe that.

Lucas

And believe that dreams come true every day. Because they do.

Renee

You didn’t tell me that the show was live.

Dan

It’s better this way; better audience, bigger ratings. After today everyone will know your story.