19. Ashes of Dreams You Let Die

Complete story — includes the ending

Lucas bursts in and attacks Dan, saying he shot Keith. Karen denies this. Peyton is offered a summer internship at Sire Records in Los Angeles. Brooke tries to reconnect with Chase through yearbook signatures. Due to Nathan's scandal, Haley's valedictorian speech offer is rescinded. Dan suggests that Lucas get professional help with his 'theories' about Keith's death. Whitey tells Nathan that Duke has rescinded his scholarship. Whitey tells him to fight for a place somewhere. Karen suggests therapy to Lucas, still not believing Lucas' story. Brooke writes her true feelings in Chase's yearbook hoping he will do the same. He does not but later goes to her apartment and kisses her. Haley tells Lucas that Debs keeps a gun in a cookie jar and Lucas steals it. Peyton confronts Lucas about the internship in LA, he tells her to take it. Mouth is upset that Jimmy has been left out of the yearbook. He and Gigi make one to take to Jimmy's mother and Mouth asks everyone to sign it. Principal Turner allows Haley to give her speech and Whitey calls Duke on Nathan's behalf. Dan gets a text from Abby saying she's telling the police. Dan says he has 'a problem to take care of' to Karen and gets up to leave. Lucas enters with the gun saying he sent the text and he is protecting his mother. Karen, stressed by the day's events, experiences pain and collapses. Dan tries to check on her, angering Lucas who threatens to kill him. As Dan tries to tend to Karen, Lucas fires the gun as the screen goes black. This episode is named after a song by B. J. Thomas.