In the nine years One Tree Hill was on the air we laughed, cried, and fell in and out of like much more instances than we can count. We got immersed into the modest town of Tree Hill and had our hearts captured by the characters that populate it. So, by the time the ninth and final season rolled about, and it was time to say goodbye to each the show and these beloved characters, it was naturally not an simple factor to do. But exactly where a lot of shows fumble more than their series finale, One Tree Hill went out as a like letter to its devoted fans, softening the blow of the goodbye.

One Tree Hill

Half-brothers Lucas and Nathan Scott trade in between kinship and rivalry each on the basketball court and in the hearts of their pals in the modest, but not so quiet town of Tree Hill, North Carolina. 

Release Date

September 23, 2003

Main Genre

Drama

Seasons

9

Studio

The CW

Do Nathan and Haley Get Their Happy Ending?

After spending the majority of the season kidnapped, Nathan (James Lafferty) is lastly house secure with his wife and youngsters. For all “Naley” lovers out there, they do certainly get their delighted ending. But much more than that, they have some truly fantastic moments all through the episode. Most notable is a sweet callback to Season 1, in which Nathan gave Haley (Bethany Joy Lenz) a bracelet from a crackerjack box and told her “Don’t say I never gave you anything.” That moment gets a incredibly sweet update when Nathan tends to make Haley her preferred meal of mac and cheese, and gives her a box of crackerjack for dessert. When she opens it up, the prize inside is a diamond bracelet, and when Nathan puts it on her wrist, he says, “Don’t say you never gave me anything, ‘cause you have given me an amazing life.” Um, swoon a lot?

Their son Jamie is practicing to turn out to be just as excellent (or perhaps even greater) than his dad at basketball, which causes Nathan to pull him aside and have a speak with him that his father, Dan (Paul Johansson), by no means had. He tells Jamie that whilst there will be an expectation for him to be fantastic at sports, he does not have a duty to any individual, not even his dad. He tells him to locate what tends to make him delighted and to be a excellent man whilst undertaking it, but what ever he decides to do is up to him. After the hell Nathan went via with Dan, it is satisfying to see him be the sort of man Dan by no means was for Jamie. It’s practically like a possibility for him to heal his inner youngster and give Jamie the sort of like and assistance he and each and every youngster deserves.

Haley also later shows Jamie the hole in the wall on the roof of the café in which she and Lucas would create their hopes and predictions for the future. She passes the box down to Jamie and tells him to only create hopes and predictions that will make him delighted. His very first prediction is that he’s going to a single day break his dad’s scoring title. And as we locate out towards the finish of the episode, he did just that. She then echoes a line spoken by Karen (Moira Kelly) as she and Jamie stand on the roof and appear out more than the town: “There’s only one Tree Hill, Jamie Scott. And it’s your home.”

What Happens With Brooke’s Fashion Businesses?

Throughout the ninth season, Brooke (Sophia Bush) is functioning on her new shop, Baker Man, which would be targeted at child boys, like a single of her preceding lines (Baby Brooke) was targeted toward child girls. With the enable of her father, she effectively sets up the enterprise, and by the finale, the Baker Man site is officially launched. In the mini time jump at the finish of the episode, we see that Baker Man has now opened up a shop correct across from Karen’s café. She tells Haley that “It’ll be our own little corner of the world, you and me.” Haley then asks her if she remembers what she was undertaking when Tric very first opened and tells her that she was raising funds for herself for the reason that her parents had lost all of their funds. Now, she owns two firms and her parents are lastly beginning to act like parents. It’s the sort of ending Brooke has lengthy deserved. Sure, she might have had funds and a seemingly excellent life for the reason that of it, but she was also shallow at instances and relied on other individuals to make her way. Now she’s a badass businesswoman with a wholesome connection with her parents, anything we by no means believed we’d see come about.

To definitely bring issues complete circle, Julian (Austin Nichols) blindfolds Brooke and leads her up to a residence—but not just any residence, her old residence with the iconic red door. He tells her it is their new house, explaining that she stated the residence deserved greater and deserved a family members, and now it’ll have the very best a single. Like Nathan’s conversation with Jamie, this feels like healing Brooke’s inner youngster soon after coming from such a cold and broken house.

Mouth Uses Dan’s Money for a Scholarship

In a surprising turn of events, Mouth (Lee Norris) is offered a verify for $500,000 from the lately deceased Dan Scott. The note attached basically says “What you do matters.” He utilizes the funds to fund a scholarship in Keith’s (Craig Sheffer) and Jimmy’s (Colin Fickes) names. The scholarship is for college-bound students who want to pursue sports-associated majors. He says even though he does not want to make people today overlook about the tragedy, he hopes that a single day this scholarship can eclipse it and teach people today that what you do and how you do it matters. He and Skills (Antwon Tanner) then drop Jimmy’s catchphrase prior to signing off. By the finish of the episode, for the duration of the time jump, we locate out that Mouth and Millicent (Lisa Goldstein Kirsch) have gotten married and that she is pregnant with their youngster.

Clay and Quinn Officially Adopt Logan

After spending the season attempting to try to remember his son and lastly becoming in a position to do so, Clay (Robert Buckley) sets out to officially adopt Logan (Pierce Gagnon). As if that is not adequate to melt your heart, he also calls Quinn (Shantel VanSanten) “mom” for the very first time. As they wait to sign the adoption papers, Quinn suggests they get married and forego her program of a large wedding. She just desires to be his wife prior to they adopt their son, closing their chapter in the sweetest way probable, full with Logan and Bevin throwing confetti at them in celebration.

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How Does ‘One Tree Hill’ End for the Other Characters?

As for everybody else? Season 6 of the series saw the departure of Lucas Scott (Chad Michael Murray) and Peyton Sawyer (Hilarie Burton). And even though neither of them returns for the finale, there are continuous mentions of them because their departure that let us know they’re nonetheless delighted, wholesome, and traveling the globe — and that is all we could ask for.

As thanks for assisting rescue him, Nathan gifts Chris Keller (Tyler Hilton) a guitar. But not just any guitar, the identical a single he sold years ago to spend for Haley’s record. He later performs at the tenth anniversary of Tric, exactly where he sets out to impress a record exec named Frankie Parks (Anna Colwell). She turns him down saying she’s searching for rock acts, not nation acts. So when he performs a rock version of the identical song he performed for her, she requires back her initial turndown. He refuses her give to sign him and alternatively is approached by Haley who says she is searching for new artists beneath her label and she desires that new artist to be him.

Meanwhile, Chase (Stephen Colletti) is the new owner of Tric and is nonetheless looking for like. And, as described earlier, Bevin (Bevin Prince) tends to make a guest look at the courthouse exactly where Clay and Quinn show up to adopt Logan and ultimately marry. And at the finish of the show’s time jump, it appears as even though she and Skills have reunited and gotten back with each other.

Speaking of that time jump, the episode kicked off with a sequence of flashbacks as the final of our original characters looked back on their younger selves. Present-day Nathan watches as his younger self shoots hoops on the river court. Brooke watches herself stroll via the halls of Tree Hill higher college exactly where Julian is now filming his film. Haley appears back on herself producing her senior year predictions in which she wishes she and Nathan get back with each other once again. It then flashes to her and Nathan lying in bed with each other. It’s specially sweet soon after the trauma they went via this season.

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That’s not the finish of flashbacks even though. As the episode’s final minutes show the complete group gathering at a Ravens game, we see a young Nathan at the totally free throw line, seemingly smiling at his present self, with a young Haley watching from the stands. There’s also a young Brooke cheerleading and winking at the camera/her present-day self. It’s revealed to be Jamie’s (Jackson Brundage) higher college basketball game that everybody has gathered for. We verify in a single final time on each and every character, with even Bevin producing a return. It’s the best closing scene, as every little thing has come complete circle for our Tree Hill gang and every little thing they’ve been via more than the previous 9 seasons was properly worth it.

But the very best moment of the complete finale comes for the duration of the 10th-anniversary celebration of Tric. Performances from each Haley and Chris occurred are excellent, but the final musical guest is probably the most fitting. Gavin Degraw stops by to execute a setlist, full with some of his most well-known hits (and ones that have been featured all through the show’s run). But the finale of One Tree Hill wouldn’t be full without the need of a functionality of its iconic theme song “I Don’t Wanna Be.” As Degraw reaches the final chorus, he pauses to let the crowd take more than, and the camera pans more than all of our major characters, singing the words loud and proud. If you somehow managed to make it via the episode with dry eyes, that’ll most likely alter soon after this scene. One Tree Hill might have completed more than 10 years ago now, but its charm and legacy reside on. It had its flaws and its ups and downs like any other show, but it generally stayed correct to itself and in the finish, gave fans the best closure to say goodbye to Tree Hill and its residents.

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