TEXT: [PLAYGROUND COURT. A boat passes by] MOUTH: Be Nice, be nice, put it in there. There you go. [Cut to LUCAS] SKILLS: Luke, Luke, what up dawg? Check this out. You shoot this one. See what you got. [LUCAS shoots and the ball goes in] SKILLS: Ahh! MOUTH: Come on, lets move! SKILLS: Time to go, baby. JIMMY: Six-thirty, Luke! LUCAS: Oh, come on guys, you don't gotta come. It's just a game. SKILLS: Right. Whitey asked you to play on the team. JUNK: And Nathan threatens you. MOUTH: You beat him right here one on one, you join the team. SKILLS: And now it's the first game and we aint gotta come? Um-um. We goin'. This game is for all of us. [SKILLS tosses LUCAS the ball. LUCAS catches it and looks at his friends] JIMMY: Go Luke! [A truck goes by KAREN'S CAFÉ. Everyone in it is chanting 'Ravens.' KAREN'S behind the counter and KEITH walks over] KEITH: Karen! You ready to go? KAREN: Oh. I'm not going. I decided to stay open. I could use the business. KEITH: You talk to Luke about this? KAREN: No. But he'll understand. KEITH: Karen- HALEY: [Interrupting, at the door] She doesn't want to go. She doesn't want to see her high school sweetheart slash your brother Dan slash the jerk who abandoned Lucas slash the father of Nathan, the team's star player slash my wrists if I hear this story again. Lets go. [KEITH looks at Karen as he steps backward toward HALEY] KEITH: I think you're making a mistake. [KEITH
SUMMARY:
Lucas blows his first varsity game and decides to quit the team. The wedge between Nathan and Peyton continues to grow after Peyton tires of Nathan's jabs at Lucas. Meanwhile, Keith forces Karen to deal with her feelings for Dan after she refuses to set foot in the high school gym to support her son. This episode is named after a song by Dashboard Confessional .