One Tree Hill 9X5: The Killing Moon

Yes! This is the One Tree Hill I want! (You know, excluding all the Chase, Chris, Chuck stuff that I don't care about).

So, Nathan is literally missing. He never came home. Haley has left him more than a dozen messages and we've heard nothing. She goes to the police, but they claim that isn't really anything they can do until he's been missing for 24 hours (and suggests that it's not uncommon for a professional athlete to leave his wife- fuck you cop- you don't know Naley). After that, she goes to the airport to see if he was on the plane. The desk agent tells her he was on the flight and landed in Tree Hill. Haley leaves the airport and finds the pink moose discarded in the street.

When she gets back home, she starts to search the house and finds a bunch of money, Jamie's baseball, and Lydia's pictures in Dan's stuff. He catches her and she confronts him about it. She accuses him of getting rid of Nathan so he doesn't have to leave. (That was my assumption too, which means it's probably too on the nose and not Dan, but we're still going with it for now). He tells her he didn't do anything, and she agrees with him and says she's being silly and needs sleep. She goes to her bedroom and calls 9-1-1 telling them there's a murderer in her house.

Meanwhile, Julian cannot get over the fact that he forgot Davis in the car. He's sick with guilt and shame. He's supposed to take the babies to the sitter's, but instead brings Davis back to the doctor. He's fine, but the doctor prescribes him a day of rest. He goes to the cafe to talk to Brooke about it, but when he leaves, he finds a note on his car that says: Fry burgers, not babies. He's distraught and brings it to Brooke telling her he shouldn't be forgiven.

Brooke recognizes the handwriting as the bitch who owns the cafe across the street (and they girl who is sleeping with both Chase and Chris), and goes over there in a murderous rage. She destroys the entire cafe. It's a thing of beauty to watch. (This is also the scene from episode one where I thought she was destroying Karen's Cafe, but this is so much better). Don't fuck with Brooke's family. She and Haley have that in common.

Julian ends up going to a bar, and lets some guy just beat the ever loving shit out of him because he believes he needs to be punished. It hurts my heart.

Clay is diagnosed with a type of fugue disorder. And the treatment is just talk therapy, but he's resistant since he's afraid of what he might find out when he unburies all the stuff he's been repressing.

And finally, we know that Nathan's phone is somewhere. After we see Haley's 17th (I think) missed call, someone picks up the phone and tosses it at the wall, shattering it. I'm almost certain that's not Dan's hand. And Chris is at the police station with Haley so it's not him either. So, either Dan is working with someone (I don't know who), it's not Dan at all, or it's someone else entirely. For fun, I'm gonna call a long shot on it being Nathan himself. I can sort of see a situation where he 'kidnaps himself' in order frame Dan for something, but I can't see him upsetting Haley and the kids like that. But I have no idea.

Dan admitted to burning down the diner, so who knows what else he's capable of. That's bullshit, Dana. We all know exactly what he's capable of.