Ratings: 2.5/4

This episode was originally entitled "Where I End and You Begin".

Haley: Lucas, fine! Yes, I know how you feel about him, but there is something you don’t know. I promised him I’d tutor him if he left you alone.
Lucas: What?!
Haley: I’m doing it for you Luke.

Lucas: I'm an idiot.
Haley: I know.
Lucas: And I'm sorry. I miss hanging out with you Hales.
Haley: Yeah, I miss hanging out with you too.
Lucas: Listen, I appreciate everything you did for me. I do Haley, but how about you let me handle the team from now on, okay?
Haley: Okay.
Lucas: All right, so you can stop tutoring Nathan now.
Haley: Um, no I can't.
Lucas: Haley?
Haley: Lucas, I can't, I promised. If I break that promise, I'm just as bad as you think he is.

Deb: You know, there is a chance that Lucas and Nathan could get along if their father encouraged it.
Dan: True, but there’s also a chance that hell could freeze over.

Peyton: What’s wrong is how pointless all of this is.
Brooke: Stop saying that!
Peyton: No, because it’s true! What difference does it make if you sleep with a popular guy, or you go to the right party, or you know the moves to some moronic cheer to do with some lame ass game I could care less about!

Whitey: There’s a lot of smokers in this place.
Peyton: I don’t really smoke. I just figured since Nathan and I broke up I’ve got room for a new bad habit.

Peyton: (to Whitey at the cemetery) Whatcha doing here? Making a reservation?

Haley: The good news is, you did better. The bad news is, better is a D.
Nathan: Yeah, I guess I didn't really give this one my best shot.
Haley: What's going on with you?
Nathan: You know me and Peyton broke up.
Haley: Peyton and I.
Nathan: What, she broke up with you too? I just, I didn't know she was gonna take it this hard. She went off on Brooke at practice. I'm kinda worried about her.
Haley: Well, maybe you should have worried more about her when you were together. I'm sorry, but come on, it's true.
Nathan: No, you don't know the first thing about Peyton and I.
Haley: Me and Peyton.
Nathan: Whatever!

Lucas: Come on! Slow down, Peyton! Come on! Slow the car down! Peyton slow the car down!
Peyton: She was driving to school to pick me up. She was late, so she ran a red light. It was one light at the wrong split second and it ended for her. My mom ran one red light. I run them all the time and nothing happens. It’s not fair.

Keith: That’s right big brother, and no matter what you did on that basketball court a lifetime ago, and no matter what you do now, I’ll always be your big brother. So guess what Danny boy? It was my name first, it’s Lucas’ name now and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Dan: Okay, Keith.
Keith: You know, you can be ashamed of me, and you can be ashamed of Lucas, but what makes you think we’re not just as ashamed of you? Huh? Now get out of my shop!

Nathan: I treated Peyton pretty bad. She had every right to walk away. Okay, yeah, it was my fault. I screwed up. I just wish I had another chance.
Haley: Nice work.
Nathan: That was the truth.
Haley: No, on your practice exam. 81.
Nathan: Oh. You know it's funny. I think we actually talked more than Peyton and I ever did.
Haley: Peyton and I, good job.
Nathan: Yeah, you too. Hey are you coming to the game?
Haley: Um, that depends on how you do on your English exam. Anything less than an 81 I'm staying home and watching The Office.
Nathan: All right.
Haley: Okay.
Nathan: Haley, I know this hasn’t been easy for you. I just wanted to say thanks.
Haley: Good luck.

Haley: Support me! When I’m tutoring someone, and they get it, and that light goes on, I feel good! I feel worthy! The same way that you feel when you play basketball. Besides, having things gotten better for you? The team’s left you alone, the hazing’s stopped? Yeah, so, that’s worth the risk for me. What’s not worth the risk it us. We’re friends and that is important to me.

Lucas: (voiceover) John Steinbeck once wrote: It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Haley tells Nathan that if he gets above an 81% on his English essay, she'll come tot he game. However, when Haley talks to Lucas about Nathan's tutoring, she mentions that she came to the game because Nathan did well on a math test.

When Lucas and Peyton are walking across the bridge together, Lucas’ earphones change positions around his neck between shots.

Episode Title: All That You Can't Leave Behind

All The You Can't Leave Behind is the title of an album by U2.

Lucas: (voice) John Steinbeck once wrote, "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

Lucas is quoting a line from the Steinbeck novel East of Eden.

Haley: Um ... that depends on how you do on your English exam. I'm staying home and watching The Office.

The Office is a British "mockumentary" series that follows the lives of employees at a paper supply company. The show was later adaped for the U.S. in 2005 (also entitled The Office).

The episode title, "All That You Can't Leave Behind", is an obvious reference to Dan's inability to let go of his past as the star of the Tree Hill Ravens. During the episode, Dan being stuck in the past is greatly contrasted with Keith's ability to see the father-son game as what it's intended to be -- a game. However, Dan deliberately fouls Nathan in order to get a basket and is willing to hurt his son emotionally in order to win, thus reliving his glory days when he was the star of the team.